Email from Abiding Place Daily Bread – March 25, 2025 (The Third Day – Genesis 1:9-13) 1 Corinthians 15:46 – Now the spiritual was not first, but the natural, then afterwards the spiritual. Living The Spiritual Life Of Christ Jesus Through the resurrection life in Christ Jesus, we can now bear the image of the heavenly in our conduct and behavior just as we will one day outwardly when we shall see Him as He is (1 John 3:2). Although we have not received the spiritual body, we have received the spiritual (or heavenly) life. The natural body is completely compatible with the spiritual and heavenly life as modeled for us by Jesus, Who condemned sin in the flesh (Romans 8:2; 1 Timothy 3:16; 1 John 4:3; John 1:14). We are not of this world, we are of Heaven even though our tabernacle is an earthly body of clay (John 15:19, 17:14,16; 2 Corinthians 4:7). Adam does not represent the ideal human being. The ideal is only found in the Person, Christ Jesus. Each one of us began our life in a purely natural existence, but are now changed into the same image of Christ Jesus and are commanded to be conformed to that image (Romans 8:29; 2 Corinthians 3:18). Through the new birth, we live a spiritual life by our new nature like that of the Man from Heaven, Christ Jesus (Galatians 2:20; Romans 6:4; John 17:21-23; 2 Corinthians 13:5). Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
Daily Bread 3/25/2025
