I am Crucified with Christ
COLOSSIANS 2:11-12 " 11 IN WHOM ALSO YE ARE CIRCUMCISED WITH THE CIRCUMCISION MADE WITHOUT HANDS, IN PUTTING OFF THE BODY OF THE SINS OF THE FLESH BY THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST: 12 BURIED WITH HIM IN BAPTISM, WHEREIN ALSO YE ARE RISEN WITH [HIM] THROUGH THE FAITH OF THE OPERATION OF GOD, WHO HATH RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD. "
GALATIANS 5:24-25 " 24 AND THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S HAVE CRUCIFIED THE FLESH WITH THE AFFECTIONS AND LUSTS. 25 IF WE LIVE IN THE SPIRIT, LET US ALSO WALK IN THE SPIRIT. "
I crucify my sinful nature... I crucify my flesh... yet... I LIVE! In Christianity, dying you live. To save your life, you have to give it. It makes no sense to the carnal mind that wants to rely on its own fleshly strength. But this is how God operates... through faith.
I live... yet not I... but Christ lives in me! Here is the source of new life. It isn't myself, but Christ.
The source of life is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is my source, and as long as I am connected into Him, I have life... new life... in fact, abundant life.
JOHN 10:10 " THE THIEF COMETH NOT, BUT FOR TO STEAL, AND TO KILL, AND TO DESTROY: I AM COME THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE LIFE, AND THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE [IT] MORE ABUNDANTLY. "
JOHN 15:1-5 " 1 I AM THE TRUE VINE, AND MY FATHER IS THE HUSBANDMAN. 2 EVERY BRANCH IN ME THAT BEARETH NOT FRUIT HE TAKETH AWAY: AND EVERY [BRANCH] THAT BEARETH FRUIT, HE PURGETH IT, THAT IT MAY BRING FORTH MORE FRUIT. 3 NOW YE ARE CLEAN THROUGH THE WORD WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO YOU. 4 ABIDE IN ME, AND I IN YOU. AS THE BRANCH CANNOT BEAR FRUIT OF ITSELF, EXCEPT IT ABIDE IN THE VINE; NO MORE CAN YE, EXCEPT YE ABIDE IN ME. 5 I AM THE VINE, YE [ARE] THE BRANCHES: HE THAT ABIDETH IN ME, AND I IN HIM, THE SAME BRINGETH FORTH MUCH FRUIT: FOR WITHOUT ME YE CAN DO NOTHING. "
This is the problem. When we try and go back to the law, we try to do it on our own. We start glorying in our flesh, which the Bible declares is not good. It isn't that we have done these good things for God... if good has come out of your life, then give God the glory for it... for it came through Christ.
1 CORINTHIANS 1:27-30 " 27 BUT GOD HATH CHOSEN THE FOOLISH THINGS OF THE WORLD TO CONFOUND THE WISE; AND GOD HATH CHOSEN THE WEAK THINGS OF THE WORLD TO CONFOUND THE THINGS WHICH ARE MIGHTY; 28 AND BASE THINGS OF THE WORLD, AND THINGS WHICH ARE DESPISED, HATH GOD CHOSEN, [YEA], AND THINGS WHICH ARE NOT, TO BRING TO NOUGHT THINGS THAT ARE: 29 THAT NO FLESH SHOULD GLORY IN HIS PRESENCE. 30 BUT OF HIM ARE YE IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO OF GOD IS MADE UNTO US WISDOM, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND SANCTIFICATION, AND REDEMPTION: "
GALATIANS 6:13-14 " 13 FOR NEITHER THEY THEMSELVES WHO ARE CIRCUMCISED KEEP THE LAW; BUT DESIRE TO HAVE YOU CIRCUMCISED, THAT THEY MAY GLORY IN YOUR FLESH. 14 BUT GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD GLORY, SAVE IN THE CROSS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, BY WHOM THE WORLD IS CRUCIFIED UNTO ME, AND I UNTO THE WORLD. "
That is why so many people get frustrated. They try to live righteously under their own power, and they can't do it. It is impossible to do. It is the power of God bringing Jesus through us that brings those good works through our lives.
EPHESIANS 2:8-10 " 8 FOR BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED THROUGH FAITH; AND THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES: [IT IS] THE GIFT OF GOD: 9 NOT OF WORKS, LEST ANY MAN SHOULD BOAST. 10 FOR WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP, CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS UNTO GOOD WORKS, WHICH GOD HATH BEFORE ORDAINED THAT WE SHOULD WALK IN THEM. "
This is done by faith in Him. You see... its not so much our works, but His that counts. If we have His works in our lives, then it brings good works through us... but the good comes from God.
JAMES 1:17 " EVERY GOOD GIFT AND EVERY PERFECT GIFT IS FROM ABOVE, AND COMETH DOWN FROM THE FATHER OF LIGHTS, WITH WHOM IS NO VARIABLENESS, NEITHER SHADOW OF TURNING. "
HEBREWS 10:38 " NOW THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH: BUT IF [ANY MAN] DRAW BACK, MY SOUL SHALL HAVE NO PLEASURE IN HIM.
This goes back to a covenant relationship. Both parties of a blood covenant have their part, but one party always has a greater responsibility to keep the covenant. God has the greater responsibility to keep us. This is done by the power of God.
This life that comes from Christ comes through faith in Him... He who gave Himself for us!
COLOSSIANS 2:13-14 " 13 AND YOU, BEING DEAD IN YOUR SINS AND THE UNCIRCUMCISION OF YOUR FLESH, HATH HE QUICKENED TOGETHER WITH HIM, HAVING FORGIVEN YOU ALL TRESPASSES; 14 BLOTTING OUT THE HANDWRITING OF ORDINANCES THAT WAS AGAINST US, WHICH WAS CONTRARY TO US, AND TOOK IT OUT OF THE WAY, NAILING IT TO HIS CROSS; "
James Coldiron
GALATIANS 2:20-21 " 20 I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST: NEVERTHELESS I LIVE; YET NOT I, BUT CHRIST LIVETH IN ME: AND THE LIFE WHICH I NOW LIVE IN THE FLESH I LIVE BY THE FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD, WHO LOVED ME, AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME.I am crucified with Christ. Baptism shows this symbolically to the world... the death to sin and the new birth in Christ. We die to our flesh, so that we can have new life. Both the old life and the new life do not exist together. We have to die to the old man of sin, before the new creature can be born.
21 I DO NOT FRUSTRATE THE GRACE OF GOD: FOR IF RIGHTEOUSNESS [COME] BY THE LAW, THEN CHRIST IS DEAD IN VAIN. "
COLOSSIANS 2:11-12 " 11 IN WHOM ALSO YE ARE CIRCUMCISED WITH THE CIRCUMCISION MADE WITHOUT HANDS, IN PUTTING OFF THE BODY OF THE SINS OF THE FLESH BY THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST: 12 BURIED WITH HIM IN BAPTISM, WHEREIN ALSO YE ARE RISEN WITH [HIM] THROUGH THE FAITH OF THE OPERATION OF GOD, WHO HATH RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD. "
GALATIANS 5:24-25 " 24 AND THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S HAVE CRUCIFIED THE FLESH WITH THE AFFECTIONS AND LUSTS. 25 IF WE LIVE IN THE SPIRIT, LET US ALSO WALK IN THE SPIRIT. "
I crucify my sinful nature... I crucify my flesh... yet... I LIVE! In Christianity, dying you live. To save your life, you have to give it. It makes no sense to the carnal mind that wants to rely on its own fleshly strength. But this is how God operates... through faith.
I live... yet not I... but Christ lives in me! Here is the source of new life. It isn't myself, but Christ.
The source of life is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is my source, and as long as I am connected into Him, I have life... new life... in fact, abundant life.
JOHN 10:10 " THE THIEF COMETH NOT, BUT FOR TO STEAL, AND TO KILL, AND TO DESTROY: I AM COME THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE LIFE, AND THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE [IT] MORE ABUNDANTLY. "
JOHN 15:1-5 " 1 I AM THE TRUE VINE, AND MY FATHER IS THE HUSBANDMAN. 2 EVERY BRANCH IN ME THAT BEARETH NOT FRUIT HE TAKETH AWAY: AND EVERY [BRANCH] THAT BEARETH FRUIT, HE PURGETH IT, THAT IT MAY BRING FORTH MORE FRUIT. 3 NOW YE ARE CLEAN THROUGH THE WORD WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO YOU. 4 ABIDE IN ME, AND I IN YOU. AS THE BRANCH CANNOT BEAR FRUIT OF ITSELF, EXCEPT IT ABIDE IN THE VINE; NO MORE CAN YE, EXCEPT YE ABIDE IN ME. 5 I AM THE VINE, YE [ARE] THE BRANCHES: HE THAT ABIDETH IN ME, AND I IN HIM, THE SAME BRINGETH FORTH MUCH FRUIT: FOR WITHOUT ME YE CAN DO NOTHING. "
This is the problem. When we try and go back to the law, we try to do it on our own. We start glorying in our flesh, which the Bible declares is not good. It isn't that we have done these good things for God... if good has come out of your life, then give God the glory for it... for it came through Christ.
1 CORINTHIANS 1:27-30 " 27 BUT GOD HATH CHOSEN THE FOOLISH THINGS OF THE WORLD TO CONFOUND THE WISE; AND GOD HATH CHOSEN THE WEAK THINGS OF THE WORLD TO CONFOUND THE THINGS WHICH ARE MIGHTY; 28 AND BASE THINGS OF THE WORLD, AND THINGS WHICH ARE DESPISED, HATH GOD CHOSEN, [YEA], AND THINGS WHICH ARE NOT, TO BRING TO NOUGHT THINGS THAT ARE: 29 THAT NO FLESH SHOULD GLORY IN HIS PRESENCE. 30 BUT OF HIM ARE YE IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO OF GOD IS MADE UNTO US WISDOM, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND SANCTIFICATION, AND REDEMPTION: "
GALATIANS 6:13-14 " 13 FOR NEITHER THEY THEMSELVES WHO ARE CIRCUMCISED KEEP THE LAW; BUT DESIRE TO HAVE YOU CIRCUMCISED, THAT THEY MAY GLORY IN YOUR FLESH. 14 BUT GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD GLORY, SAVE IN THE CROSS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, BY WHOM THE WORLD IS CRUCIFIED UNTO ME, AND I UNTO THE WORLD. "
That is why so many people get frustrated. They try to live righteously under their own power, and they can't do it. It is impossible to do. It is the power of God bringing Jesus through us that brings those good works through our lives.
EPHESIANS 2:8-10 " 8 FOR BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED THROUGH FAITH; AND THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES: [IT IS] THE GIFT OF GOD: 9 NOT OF WORKS, LEST ANY MAN SHOULD BOAST. 10 FOR WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP, CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS UNTO GOOD WORKS, WHICH GOD HATH BEFORE ORDAINED THAT WE SHOULD WALK IN THEM. "
This is done by faith in Him. You see... its not so much our works, but His that counts. If we have His works in our lives, then it brings good works through us... but the good comes from God.
JAMES 1:17 " EVERY GOOD GIFT AND EVERY PERFECT GIFT IS FROM ABOVE, AND COMETH DOWN FROM THE FATHER OF LIGHTS, WITH WHOM IS NO VARIABLENESS, NEITHER SHADOW OF TURNING. "
HEBREWS 10:38 " NOW THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH: BUT IF [ANY MAN] DRAW BACK, MY SOUL SHALL HAVE NO PLEASURE IN HIM.
This goes back to a covenant relationship. Both parties of a blood covenant have their part, but one party always has a greater responsibility to keep the covenant. God has the greater responsibility to keep us. This is done by the power of God.
This life that comes from Christ comes through faith in Him... He who gave Himself for us!
COLOSSIANS 2:13-14 " 13 AND YOU, BEING DEAD IN YOUR SINS AND THE UNCIRCUMCISION OF YOUR FLESH, HATH HE QUICKENED TOGETHER WITH HIM, HAVING FORGIVEN YOU ALL TRESPASSES; 14 BLOTTING OUT THE HANDWRITING OF ORDINANCES THAT WAS AGAINST US, WHICH WAS CONTRARY TO US, AND TOOK IT OUT OF THE WAY, NAILING IT TO HIS CROSS; "
James Coldiron
