Les Feldick Bible Study

What happens the moment you become a child of God?

The moment a person becomes a child of God, they are literally united with Christ in a spiritual union, pictured like a husband and wife in marriage. This union is possible because the work of the cross made them dead to the law, so they are married to the One raised from the dead.

Les explains that as soon as we become a child of God, we are literally unioned with Christ, just like a husband and wife in the marriage relationship. He connects this to Paul's writings, where believers are become dead to the law by the body of Christ, so they should be married to another, to Him who is raised from the dead. In Ephesians chapter 5, the marriage relationship is likened to our relationship spiritually with Christ. Christ, as the head, had to die and suffer for us as members of the Body, and husbands should likewise be ready to die for their wives if necessary.

Romans 7:4

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.