31 DEAD WITH CHRIST – RAISED WITH CHRIST

 

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DEAD WITH CHRIST – RAISED WITH CHRIST

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Today's chapter is. 2 Corinthians 5

Christ means. God's anointed Son, Jesus is His name.

CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST
One of the strongest truths the apostle Paul emphasizes is that he is crucified with Christ – dead, buried and resurrected with Christ.

The reason why many Christians still fight a desperate battle to experience security and safety in salvation is probably because they have never grasped the truth, which is mentioned in Galatians 2:19-20, among other things:

I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST. I NO LONGER LIVE MYSELF, BUT CHRIST LIVES IN ME, AND THE LIFE I LIVE IN THE WORLD I LIVE BY FAITH IN THE SON OF GOD,

WHO LOVED ME AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME.

You must personally experience your death with Jesus before you can live the land of origin in Jesus.

Jesus did not die “just” for our sins, however great they may be. We died with him. The first part gives us forgiveness and boldness, the second part helps us overcome the problems we have with the “old man.”

Paul understood his participation in the finished work on the cross. It is not a question of emotion, but of faith in what Jesus did. The faith that we, who have accepted Jesus as our Savior, were included in all that happened to him in connection with his death and resurrection.
I am afraid that we will not truly benefit fully from the new life God has given us in Christ until we come to an agreement with God that our crucifixion and death happened when Jesus went through all of this.

First, we must realize that God, before the foundation of the world, determined to save, redeem, justify, and sanctify those who would believe in Christ and His atoning work. God saw us in Christ from the beginning. That is, we are partakers of all that Jesus went through and all that He won for us on the cross.

If this is difficult to understand, ask God to reveal it to you by the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:10)

Ephesians 1:4:
For God chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love. 1 Peter 1:18-20:

For you know that it was not with perishable things like silver or gold that you were redeemed from your futile way of life handed down to you from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish or blemish; for he was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was first revealed in these last times for you,
Romans 6:6

Knowing that our old self is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin;

The belief that we were included in Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection causes us to be convinced of what happened to us when we accepted Jesus.

From this it follows that – to the extent that we believe and understand that we are crucified with Christ – we experience that the sinful nature is rendered powerless and no longer dominates our lives and our thoughts as before.

When we put our trust solely in Christ and what he did on the cross – and in nothing else – sin loses its dominion over us.

V 7 HE WHO IS DEAD IS FREED FROM SIN.

When a person dies, all claims on him lose their effect, and the things by which he was bound no longer have the same influence on him.

If he was a slave, his master could no longer exploit him or force him to obey his master’s commands.

The temptations that once caused this person to stumble and fall no longer have that effect when he is dead.

Sin loses its power over the one who is crucified and dead with Christ. All this happens by faith in what Jesus did on the cross and our participation in it.

This does not mean that we are not capable of sin, but we are not dominated by the sinful nature as long as we count ourselves crucified with Christ and put our trust in Him alone.

2 Corinthians 5:14:

FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST COMPELLS US, BECAUSE WE HAVE CONCLUDED THIS, THAT IF ONE DID FOR ALL, THEN ALL WERE DEAD.

Again we meet this attitude: When Jesus died for us, we died with Him. So we have surrendered our will, our life, yes, everything to Christ, who did all this for us.
amen