The Anastasis Answer To Days Of Death
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When you receive the Seal you will experience death by baptism. You will be baptized by the Holy Spirit too, so you will be resurrected from that death by anastasis.
John the Baptist immersed people in water, and those who were immersed repented of their sins. John ushered in the era of Jesus Christ upon earth, so he called the people to repent in preparation.
John the Baptist promised that you would be baptized by the Holy Spirit. He foretold that Jesus would be able to do this, and Jesus does do it when you are sealed.
But not every Christian is baptized by the Holy Spirit. And not every Christian knows God and is known of God. This is one reason you should become sealed--you will be baptized by the Holy Spirit.
When you are baptized in water you die. Your old person is put to death in the water, just like a wheat seed "dies" when soaked in water. But that death is transformed into Life.
After you soak a wheat seed in water that seed will sprout on its own, without soil and without even much light, since it had enough air and water to grow a little, and it will grow as much as it can support itself.
This is what happens when you are baptized in the Holy Spirit. Your old person of the flesh is put to death, but you rise up out of that death unto new Life. And the Holy Spirit gives you that Life.
It can happen too if you are not baptized a second time. When you are sealed you sacrifice your own life under the feet of Jesus. Under His feet you die and yet are given new Life again by anastasis.
Under the feet of Jesus you are subject to death. But it is only for a moment. When you are sealed you will not die for ete
ity. You have just let your old person die so the new one can come to Life.
Christians are baptized in water to submit to death. That happened when you were immersed in water. You were buried along with Jesus Christ who was buried in His tomb after He died on the Cross.
But baptism is only a ritual you submit to that fulfills prophecy. And you only do it once. Much more important is becoming sealed under the feet of Jesus. And putting your old self to death and experiencing new Life through anastasis every day.
That is why John baptized unto repentance. When you become sealed you repent of the old person you used to be so you can be made new. And you repent every day by putting your old self to death again.
And when anastasis raises you unto new Life you have truly repented. Because living that new Life you have truly changed. Your soul changes, and your heart and your actions change. And you have the Holy Spirit living within your belly then too.
Death and sin will no longer reign in you. When you are sealed the new you will reign as spiritual royalty. You are baptized unto death and the resurrection of anastasis. And you are baptized by the Holy Spirit.
When you are sealed you will know new Life after you have experienced the death of your old self. It happens in baptism and you die every day following Jesus. And the anastasis of new Life happens when you receive the Seal.
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