Many believers have limited knowledge as to their identification in and
with Christ. For most, the born again experience is the extent of their
spiritual connection with the Savior, meaning that they have eternal
life. (1 John 2:25) However, the Bible reveals some things that stagger
the mind, because they are almost unbelievable. When the Apostle Paul
said, "I have been crucified with Christ" (Galatians 2:20) he
meant that he had been judged, condemned, cast out, stripped naked, and
nailed to the cross with Jesus. In other words, Paul literally
identified himself with Christ in the disgrace and suffering of His
crucifixion. Paul tells us, "that our old man was crucified with Him,
that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer
be slaves of sin." (Romans 6:6) Our spirit, the real person that we
are, that Paul refers to as the old man, which was spiritual dead,
having the satanic nature, was nailed to the cross with Christ. This
means Jesus identified with humanity in sin and suffering, and we
identify with Him in His crucifixion. We were crucified with Christ! We
were nailed to the cross with Christ!
In the Father's great plan of redemption, as soon as Christ was nailed to the cross, with
His crown of thorns, and with the howling mob that surrounded Him,
justice began to do its awful work behind the scenes in the spiritual
realm. The people at the cross could only see Jesus in the physical
realm hanging on the cross, but God saw the real man, His spirit. Angels
and demons could also see His spirit, the real man, hidden within His
body. Isaiah records for us the Father's plan, "Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses) and carried our sorrows (pains), yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all." (Isaiah 53:4-6) On that
awful instrument of death, the cross, Jesus not only became sin with
our sin, sick with our sicknesses, but He also became a curse.
(Galatians 3:13)
Sin and sickness are both a spiritual condition that manifest in the
physical body. They both come from the same source, Satan. As we see,
Jesus was made sin. Therefore, because He took our sin we need not be ruled by it ever again (Romans 6:14) Because He was made
sick with our sickness, we need not be ruled by sickness and disease
ever again. It was all nailed to the cross with Christ. When we recognize this, we will no longer struggle for faith, righteousness, and holiness, because we will know that we were nailed to the cross and died with Christ. PTL...
The Holy Spirits revelation to Paul concerning this is an unveiling of
what happened from the time that Jesus was made sin on the cross, until
He sat down at the right hand of God. Jesus was our Substitute and we
are to identify ourselves with Him in this truth. He poured out His life
unto death. Through that death we were made alive. It was our sin that slew Him and
it is His righteousness that gives us life. He drank the cup of death,
that we might drink the cup of life. In that mighty ministry before He
arose from the dead, He destroyed death. In fact when death slew Him, it
slew itself. The reality of Christ's death is, He conquered sin when He
allowed it to overcome Him. He conquered sickness and disease when He
let them take possession of Him for a most wonderful purpose, "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." (2 Corinthians 5:21)
Think about His wonderful, perfect work of redemption from the cross
to the right hand of the Majesty on high. He became one with us in
weakness, in sin, in disease, and spiritual death that He might make us
one with Himself in righteousness, in perfect health, and fellowship
with the Father. (John 17:20-26) He became death's prisoner in order to
set us free. In the mind of Justice, we died to sin and its dominion
when we died with Christ. The believer now has a perfect oneness with
Christ (John 15:5) We have become New Creations in Christ. (2
Corinthians 5:17) Therefore, sin, sickness and disease do not belong to
the New Creation. It is an abnormal thing in the mind of the Father for
a child of God to be sick and although many seem to carry the burden of
sickness and disease, we simply need to remind ourselves, we died with
Him; We died to the dominion of sin; We died to the dominion of sickness
and disease; We died to the dominion of circumstances and habits. We
must let 1 Peter 2:24 become a reality in our lives, "Jesus, Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died
to sins, might live for righteousness, by whose stripes you were healed," because these things are so...
Monday, March 25, 2024
New Life In Christ
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