Daily Devotion

 With Pastor Ancel Presnell

“THE HOLY SPIRIT GENERATES LIFE”

There is an immutable law that comes with sin. This immutable law cannot be overcome by human will or intellect. This immutable law is sin always results in death. Death is always the end result of sin. There is no amount of effort on man’s part, nor is there any means by which man can reverse the law of sin and death. We sin; we die! Our inability to stop sinning leads to inevitable death. This is tragic and the worse news that we could ever learn!

“Picture a coin falling to the ground under the influence of the law of gravity. In itself, that coin is powerless to overcome the downward pull of this earth. It is in its very nature to fall. But before it has gone far, someone reaches out an arm, holds the coin firmly in his hand, and then lifts it higher and higher in defiance of the law of gravity. The law of the spirit of life in that person’s arm overcomes the law of gravity. This does not mean the original law has ceased to operate, but it does mean that a higher law has come into force.” (Phillips, 2002)

The coin that Dr. Phillips referenced is a picture of us. The law of sin and death is as inevitable to us as is the coin falling to the ground from the pull of gravity. Unless there is a hand that reaches out and stops that coin from falling to the ground, it is going to fall. It cannot catch itself. There was a nail-scarred hand that reached out to us and kept us from plunging into Hell from the law of sin and death.

The Lord Jesus saved us from our sins and the law of sin and death that is derivative of our sin. The Holy Spirit is gifted to us and with Him comes everlasting life. We all long for abundant life; Sin robs us of that. We all long for good health; Sin robs us of that. We long to be with friends and family forever; Sin robs us of that! We long to have a life with joy and peace; Sin robs us of that too! God set His standard in His written Law and His Law was made weak through our inability to keep it! The result in our weakness of the flesh is death!

Praise God! The Lord provided a greater law than the law of sin and death when He provided the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. God has not cancelled out His Law, nor has the Law of sin and death been cancelled out for everyone. It is only cancelled out for those who are in Christ Jesus! Praise the Lord, He conquered sin and death in His flesh. The Law of God condemns us as sinners, but Christ condemned sin in His flesh!  The same Christ that condemned sin in His flesh lives inside of us through His Holy Spirit!

Romans 8:3, 4—”³ For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: ⁴ That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”