Crucify Me

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Sometimes life as a Christian can be hard. The narrow
path can seem endless and at times unforgivening. It can
seem to be a cycle at many times. A cycle as if one is
caught in a wheel of never ending sorrow. As I was
reflecting on this writing I begin to remember the
greatness of the Lord and what has been done for us
the believer who has been baptizes into Christ Jesus.

The teaching of Romans is not that we are sinners because we
commit sins, but that we sin because we are sinners. We are
sinners by constitution rather than by action.
Rom 5:19 when God`s light shines in our hearts we realize that
we need forgiveness; but once we have know forgiveness of sins
we make a new discovery-the discovery of sin, and we realize
that we have the nature of a sinner. There is a power within
that draws us to sin, and when that power breaks out we commit
sins. Life then goes on sinning and being forgiven, but we want
something more to be of this vicious cycle of life. We needed
to be delivered from what we are, and that is SELF. The blood
delivers us from the power of the enemy, while subjectively
the cross delivers us by dealing with the flesh, which is the
ground of the enemy`s activity in us. The blood can wash away
my sins, but it cannot wash away SELF. We need the cross to
crucify us{the sinner}. Before God we are a sinner apart from
sinful acts. The root trouble is the sin and must be dealt with:
Our sins are dealt with by the blood; and we are dealt with by
the cross. The blood procures our pardon; the cross procures
our deliverance from what we are in Adam. Rom.5:12-21 reveals
that we are in Adam. We are sinners, not by the sins we commit
but simply by being in Adam. We are sinners because we have the
nature of Adam. We came in by birth and we can get out by death.
God has provided a way to escape. "All we who were baptized into
Christ Jesus were baptized into his death." Rom.6:3.

To be "in Christ" is to have been identified with Him in His
death and resurrection. The cross is the power of God which
translates us from Adam into Christ Jesus. 1Cor.15:45,47 does
not refer to Him as the second Adam, or as the last man; for
as the last Adam He is the sum total for humanity, and as the
second man He is the head of a new race of man. As the last
Adam He gathers up into Himself all that was in Adam; as the
second man, having by His cross done away with the first man
in whom God`s purpose was frustrated, He brings in another man
in whom that purpose is fully realized. "Therefore if any man
be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away;
behold, all things are become new. 2Cor.5:17.

By the cross, God wiped out the whole of the old creation,
and out of death a new creation is brought in, in Christ,
the second man. If we are "in Adam; all that is in Adam
necessarily devolves upon us." Likewise if we are "in Christ"
all that is in Him comes to us by free grace without effort
on our part, on the ground of simple faith. The Christian
life is nothing short of the life of Christ. It is Christ`s
own life reproduced in us....But of him are ye in Christ
Jesus;1Cor.1:30

Love in Christ Jesus the Lord.
frank

"The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the
righteous runneth into it, and is safe." Pro 18:10
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