Being planted in the likeness of Christ's death means we are identified with His burial and therefore guaranteed resurrection in His likeness.
Les Feldick explains that just as a seed must be placed in the ground to bring new life, a believer must be planted or buried with Christ to share in His resurrection. Romans 6:5 states that if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection. This gives the believer the blessed hope that death is not the end.
Romans 6:5 — This is the verse where Paul uses the word 'planted' and directly connects Christ's death with the believer's promised resurrection.
Romans 6:5 says, 'For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.' The verse plainly ties our death with Christ to our resurrection with Him. The preceding verse, Romans 6:4, says, '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.' Scripture presents burial with Christ as the step between His death and resurrection, and Romans 6:5 calls that burial being planted.
Les Feldick emphasizes Paul's word 'planted.' When you plant something, you put it in the ground; you bury it. A seed left on top of the ground or in a seed packet never reproduces, but once it is buried in the soil, new life comes. Paul uses that analogy in Romans 6: unless we have been planted in the likeness of Christ's death, we cannot have new life. Les teaches that if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection. Believers were identified with Christ on the cross, in the grave, and in His resurrection. Just as Christ rose from the dead, we who are in Christ will rise. We never become God, but we become the manifestation of His resurrection power. This gives the believer the hope that death is not an eternal doom—the best is yet to come.
Les explains that planting is what you do with a seed: you put it in the ground and bury it. A seed must be placed in the soil before it can reproduce. Likewise, unless we have been planted in the likeness of Christ's death, we cannot have new life. The word 'planted' points to burial and the expectation of resurrection life.
Being planted together means being identified with Christ in His death and burial. Les teaches that when Christ was on the cross, we were there in His death. When His body was placed in the grave, believers were in the grave with Him. Because Christ did not stay in the grave, we also will not stay in the grave—we will rise in resurrection power together.
Out of death comes new life. If we have been planted in the likeness of His death, we shall be in the likeness of His resurrection. This is the believer's blessed hope. We can live and die with the prospect that the best is yet to come. Death is not an end without hope, because resurrection follows planting.
Romans 6 & The Old Man Crucified With Christ — Finally Explained
Therefore, if any man—now, that includes the female gender as well, of course. See, I don't need a politically correct Scripture. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. It's a better word than creature. Because our salvation is a work of creation, it's a work of the power of God.
Planted to Resurrection
Les teaches that if we are planted in the likeness of Christ's death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection; as we are planted together, we come up in resurrection power together, without becoming God.
Seed Must Be Planted
Les uses the seed analogy: when you plant something, you bury it; unless we have been planted in the likeness of His death, we cannot have new life.
Old Adam Crucified
Les teaches that if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be identified in His resurrection; the old Adam must die by crucifixion before resurrection life.
With Christ in Tomb
Les teaches that believers were with Christ in the grave; because Christ rose from the dead, we also will rise.
Blessed Hope
Les teaches that being planted with Christ in death means we shall also be with Him in resurrection; this is our blessed hope that the best is yet to come.
Planting Means Putting in the Ground
Les explains that planting means putting a seed into the soil, and applies it to Romans 6:5 where Paul uses 'planted' for being identified with Christ's death.
Seed Buried Brings New Life
Les teaches that a seed must be buried in the ground to reproduce; Christ's death, burial, and resurrection are the basis for our identification with Him in burial.
Romans 6:5: For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Key verse using 'planted' to connect Christ's death and the believer's resurrection.
Romans 6:4: 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.
Shows that burial with Christ is the step between His death and resurrection, which Paul later calls being planted.
No. Les Feldick stresses that even though believers are planted together with Christ and will come up in resurrection power, they will never become God. Instead, they become the manifestation of His resurrection power.
Les explains that planting is what you do with a seed: you place it in the ground and bury it. Unless a seed is planted in the soil, it will never reproduce. In the same way, unless a believer is planted in the likeness of Christ's death, there can be no new life.
After death and burial comes resurrection. If believers are planted together in the likeness of His death, they shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection. This is the believer's blessed hope—the best is yet to come.
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