presented as an instrument of righteousness; that means that from you proceeds righteousness as you are the righteousness of God having been begotten by His grace. We realize that since Christ overcame death, you also overcame it and therefore you cannot die again having died to sin the root cause of death, therefore to you [the believer in Christ] you sleep in the Lord, having been resurrected into a new life in Christ the Resurrection and Alpha and Omega of everything. We see that in Scripture, when Christ was informed that Lazarus His friend was dead, He called it “sleep” and not death, we realize that He was 110
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