Monday, June 24, 2013
Freedom from sin, Life in God
Dear Friends,
A reading from Saint Paul’s Letter to the Romans (6:1-14):
What then shall we say? Shall we persist in sin that grace may abound? Of course not! How can we who died to sin yet live in it? Or are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in newness of life.
For if we have grown into union with him through a death like his, we shall also be united with him in the resurrection. We know that our old self was crucified with him, so that our sinful body might be done away with, that we might no longer be in slavery to sin. For a dead person has been absolved from sin. If, then, we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. We know that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over him. As to his death, he died to sin once and for all; as to his life, he lives for God. Consequently, you too must think of yourselves as being dead to sin and living for God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore, sin must not reign over your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires. And do not present the parts of your bodies to sin as weapons for wickedness, but present yourselves to God as raised from the dead to life and the parts of your bodies to God as weapons for righteousness. For sin is not to have any power over you, since you are not under the law but under grace.
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Again I thank the Lord for the beautiful day we had yesterday. It was sunny all day and the temperature climbed to nearly 25 degrees Celsius.
Below you will find the message of Our Lord and Savior given to Father Melvin. Jesus spoke to him these words,
“Come live with Me, My brother Melvin and all My brothers and sisters who truly believe that I am the Messiah sent by the Father to save you all. If in the past you were a slave to sin, now through baptism you are free by the grace you received from this sacrament. Open your heart to accept all the graces of this sacrament, so that you can no longer live a life of sin but a life with your Savior. You know that sin kills and brings you into darkness. One who lives in sin can never have happiness and joy, but he or she will often be depressed and such a life will not have any meaning for any person. Why are there so many suicides today? The cause of this is that they are far from Me and they are lost. You need to pray for such people that they come out of this terrible hole and return to living with Me and I will give that person great meaning to his or her life. Do not allow sin to have any power over you, but live by the power of grace and ask every day for all the graces you need. I bless you all.”
Father Melvin