My friend, listen. The devil has convinced us that you are what you feel, you are what you experience but our Christian life is we walk by faith and not by sight. “Sight” there represents experience, just like it represents all the five senses. So we say: “Unless I see it or unless I touch it,” “I will not believe it.” Just like Thomas.
“Unless I touch Him, I will not believe.” And Jesus says: “Blessed are those who have not seen” “and yet believe.” Why? Because we limit ourselves to a world of the five senses. It’s very limited and we think that we have the truth because we can see it or touch it. No, it could just be a temporary reality.
Our world is so small because we are depending on our five senses but my friend, faith is not saying: “Oh the thing is not there but if you have faith,” “it will become real, it will be so. It will then exist.” No, faith is saying, like the word “imputation.” The word “reckon” is the word “logizomai” in Greek.
It means to count it so because it is so. Now, watch this. I’m going to give you this verse right now. In Romans 6:9, “knowing that Christ, having been raised” “from the dead dies no more” How many can say amen? “Having been raised from the dead,” “He dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him” “for the death that He died” Watch this now.
“for the death that He died, He died to sin once for all” “but the life that He lives, He lives to God.” “Likewise.” What is likewise? “Likewise” means “in the same manner.” “you also reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin” “but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” And yet, we are teaching that you’re supposed to reckon yourself dead to sin progressively every day.
But my friend, this is not a progressive death to sin. This is once and for all! Why? “In the same manner, reckon yourself to be” “dead indeed and to sin.” The same manner as what? As the way our Lord Jesus died to sin. “For the death that He died” In verse 10, it says: “He died to sin once and for all.” In other words, you have died to sin once for all.
