If you are dead to sin and Christ is alive within, then why do you keep blowing life into dead bones, calling them back into your land(life).  If they are dead, then it ought to stay buried.

Romans 6:1-13 states: What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.  For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.  For he that is dead is freed from sin.  Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.  For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.  Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.  Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Paul wants us to understand in this passage of scripture that when we continue in sin, we are denying our own identity in Christ.  A believer should not live in sin because once we accept Christ as our Lord and Savior and have been baptized with water and the Holy Spirit, we have died to sin.  When we trust Christ, we have been united to Him.  This union enables us to become partakers of His death and resurrection.  Our old man was crucified with Christ.  We are now a new creature (2 Corinthians 5:17).  We are no longer subject to that slave mentality.  We have been set free.  Now even though we as believers in Christ we have died to sin, sin is still a problem, it still is present around us.  But it doesn't reign in our lives. We don't have to obey it.

When God has taken those dead bones from us, we have to stop making excuses to bring back that which God has delivered us from.  God removed that hindrance from our lives so that we can grow closer to Him and no longer be enslaved or tangled up in that which He has delivered us from.  We don't want to be like the children of Israel.  God heard their cries to be set free from Pharaoh when they were enslaved in Egypt.  He showed them mighty wonders on their journey.  But once He delivered them out of their mess they fell back into that slave mentality(Exodus 32:1-8).

God has delivered us from our dead bones so that He could bring us into a land flowing with milk and honey.  Why would we want these old dead bones back when we can feast on fresh manna from heaven.  What does it profit at man to gain the world and lose his soul(Matthew 16:26)?
Anything dead ought to stay buried.

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