{"id":321973,"date":"2023-01-16T02:42:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T21:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=321973"},"modified":"2023-01-16T02:42:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T21:12:12","slug":"do-you-walk-in-white-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2023\/01\/16\/do-you-walk-in-white-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Walk In White?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\"><strong>We were buried with Him\u2026that just as Christ was raised from the dead\u2026even so we also should walk in newness of life. \u2014Romans 6:4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>No one experiences complete sanctification without going through a \u201cwhite funeral\u201d \u2014 the burial of the old life. If there has never been this crucial moment of change through death, sanctification will never be more than an elusive dream. There must be a \u201cwhite funeral,\u201d a death with only one resurrection\u2014 a resurrection into the life of Jesus Christ. Nothing can defeat a life like this. It has oneness with God for only one purpose\u2014 to be a witness for Him.<br>Have you really come to your last days? You have often come to them in your mind, but have you really experienced them? You cannot die or go to your funeral in a mood of excitement. Death means you stop being. You must agree with God and stop being the intensely striving kind of Christian you have been. We avoid the cemetery and continually refuse our own death. It will not happen by striving, but by yielding to death. It is dying\u2014 being \u201cbaptized into His death\u201d (Romans 6:3).<br>Have you had your \u201cwhite funeral,\u201d or are you piously deceiving your own soul? Has there been a point in your life which you now mark as your last day? Is there a place in your life to which you go back in memory with humility and overwhelming gratitude, so that you can honestly proclaim, \u201cYes, it was then, at my \u2018white funeral,\u2019 that I made an agreement with God.\u201d<br>\u201cThis is the will of God, your sanctification\u2026\u201d (1 Thessalonians 4:3). Once you truly realize this is God\u2019s will, you will enter into the process of sanctification as a natural response. Are you willing to experience that \u201cwhite funeral\u201d now? Will you agree with Him that this is your last day on earth? The moment of agreement depends on you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were buried with Him\u2026that just as Christ was raised from the dead\u2026even so we also should walk in newness of life. \u2014Romans 6:4 No one experiences complete sanctification without going through a \u201cwhite funeral\u201d \u2014 the burial of the old life. If there has never been this crucial moment of change through death, sanctification [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}