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  FOR YE ARE DEAD
  by A.B. Simpson
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Summary: To truly live, we must die with Christ, letting His death be
applied to our nature and depend on Him for every breath of our new
life.

Topics: "Death To Self", "New Life in Christ"
Scripture References: Luke 9:23, John 12:24, Romans 6:6, Romans 8:13, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 2:20, Ephesians 2:5-6, Philippians 3:10, Colossians 3:3, 1 Peter 2:24

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A.B. Simpson emphasizes the necessity of dying to self through the cross
of Christ, highlighting that true transformation cannot be achieved
through self-effort but through surrendering to Jesus. He points out
that many in the church struggle with their old selves, attempting to
overcome their sins without fully embracing the death that Christ
offers. By placing ourselves at Jesus' feet and allowing His death to be
applied to our nature, we can find rest and accomplishment. Simpson
encourages believers to consider their old selves as dead and to depend
on Christ for their new life, much like a newborn relies on its mother.

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This definite, absolute and final putting off of ourselves in an act of
death is something we cannot do ourselves. It is not self-mortifying,
but it is dying with Christ. Nothing can do it but the cross of Christ
and the Spirit of God. The church is full of half-dead people who have
been trying to slay themselves for years and have not had the courage to
strike the fatal blow. Yet if they would just put themselves at Jesus'
feet and let Him do it, there would be accomplishment and rest. On the
cross He provided for our death as well as our life, and our part is
just to let His death be applied to our nature as it has been to our old
sins.

When we have done this we must leave it all with Him, think no more
about it and count it dead.

Recognizing it as no longer ourselves, but another, we must refuse to
obey it, or fear it, to be identified with it, or even try to cleanse
it. We must consider it utterly in His hands-and dead to us forever-and
depend on Him for every breath of our new life as a newborn baby depends
upon the life of its mother.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/ab-simpson/for-ye-are-dead/
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