I am crucified with Christ
"I am crucified with Christ: it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me." (Gal. 2:19-20).
A soul is a warped deformed character. This produces the sad figure of a Christian whose life is dominated by the enemy. Such a person, being negative emotions in their lives blaming others.
If angry at everything and everyone, if you change a little, and just did not care about their own mistakes. And finally, she retreats to a corner offended, angry laughs ... and hell, because that was one more that could have been used by the Lord wonderfully, but was stopped by the enemy.
People often have so many gifts and would be able to be something wonderful to the praise of the glorious grace of God.But in their hearts there is more room for others.
The more character driven by emotions that are deformed, the smaller its radius of spiritual action. So back to the starting point!In other words, go back to the position of being crucified with Jesus.
He who came inside to square one has room within it for the full and complete victory of Jesus. He who takes it seriously until the last consequences, the words of Jesus: "Behold I have given you authority ... over all the power of the enemy," has also won in all other areas.
The apostle Paul, called by decree of the Most High (Acts 9:16), in Galatians 2:20, expressed all his feelings for the Savior, saying: I am crucified with Christ and live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life I live in the flesh, and faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
The will of Jesus Christ has always been and always will be in perfect harmony with the will of the Holy Spirit and the Father's will (Matthew 6:10, John 4:34, John 10:30, 1 John 5:7). Thus, Paul tells us that the fact of Christ live in it implies the truth of living to do the will of Christ.
The crucial question now is this: Have you been crucified with Christ?If the answer is yes, then you can be pretty sure that will go the same way that Christ and will be in the same fate as him
If the answer is no, then you have to think about, and is having the time to make their decision. You can make a prayer for that Jesus Christ comes to dwell in your heart, and then the Holy Spirit will do the work in your life.
The second crucial question is to you that has been crucified with Christ. For you who have invited Jesus into his heart, Christ is really living in you?
You have a prayer life, always seeking the will of the Father, always seeking to please the Holy Spirit who dwells in you, giving him freedom to act and direct their actions? Or do you have the Holy Spirit kept imprisoned in his body of sin, enclosing him in a prison, holding him in a dungeon, preventing it to manifest in your life, grieve Him with their sins, forget it completely in their day-days, and putting a black veil over the light that should shine in your life?
Remember the security and confidence that the apostle Paul showed when he said: "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain." (Philippians 1:21). Paul states with absolute certainty that her death would be making a profit, would the advantage. But why would die profit? Because he knew where to go.
He had full confidence in the promises of God. He wanted Jesus to come at any time, and this desire was ardent and continuous.So I knew that would be awarded (2 Tm 4:8). Paul knew that if he left this earth he did not just receive awards, but I'd be face to face with his Savior.
Finally would embrace Jesus, Jesus would touch, kiss would Jesus be with Jesus for eternity. Paul wanted so badly, why let the Holy Spirit had full freedom to act in your life.
What had been ratified in Chapter 5.24 of the same letter, where the word reveals that those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires, as is support in Romans 6:4-6, where the word asks: So then we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
If we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, so that the body of sin might be destroyed, so that should not serve more to sin. And in the Gospel of Mark 8:34, Jesus called to him the multitude with his disciples and said to them: If anyone would come after me must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
And those who bear the label of Christian ordinance need to wake up the Lord Jesus, which provides: Deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. This is the ordinance of the Lord, refusing to meet yourself and in your mortal body the rest of their afflictions, because he encouraged us saying: Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and falsely say all evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets who were before you (Matthew 5.11,12).
And the first letter of Peter 4:13 says: So, you ought to rejoice in the fact partakers of the sufferings of Christ, so that at the revelation of His glory you may rejoice, and rejoice with Him
And Philippians 4:6-7 says: Do not be anxious about anything, but your requests be made known to God everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, and the peace of God which passeth all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ.
The legacy of holy men of GodThe holy men of God left us examples and real testimonies of faith, courage and love of the Holy Name of Jesus, because truly were under the cross of Christ, doing the rest of the sufferings of our Saviour, so also, we may imitate any good way of life in Christ Jesus, who for the sake of man, though a sinner, gave himself a living sacrifice, to free him from sin and death.
Stephen, servant of the Most High, full of faith and anointing of the Holy Spirit, he saw heaven opened, and the Son to the Father's right, why did not fear nor suffering fell to death, because he brought with him the certainty of salvation and the reward of future glory.
The book of Acts 5:40, 41, tells the apostles, after arrests and beatings, rejoicing in Christ, having been made by counted worthy to suffer for his name.
Paul and Silas being beaten with many stripes, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely, thrust them into the inner prison, and also they chained their feet on the trunk.Near midnight, praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners heard them.
A pause to reflect on the depth of faith of these men of God. After the beatings, and in prison, their feet shackled, not knowing what there was of them succeed, not be defeated before rejoiced, singing and glorifying the name of the Lord.
And suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and bands were loosed from all.
And Jesus announced the jailer and his family, and his belief in God, he rejoiced with all his household (Acts 16.22-34).
The Word tells yet been revealed to Paul that when he arrived in Jerusalem would be arrested and handed over to the Gentiles, his followers began to beg for it were not for that city, but Paul, filled with the Spirit of God said to them: What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? Because I am ready not only to be arrested, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus (Acts 21.10-14).
And Chapter 12 of the book of Acts says that at that time, Herod the king stretched forth his hands on some of the church to abuse them, the sword and killed James the brother of John, and, seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also.
And having him arrested, he put in prison, delivering him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending to bring it to the people after Passover.
And that same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and the keepers before the door kept the prison. And behold, an angel of the Lord, and saved him from prison, because the church was continuous prayer for him, to God, while he was kept in prison.
These were just some of the many episodes involving holy men of God, and the word registers these events not to lose heart in affliction, and to confirm that the word of the Lord Jesus, who said: I have told you this, that in me ye might have peace In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world (John 16:31).
And you my beloved brother, who is also committed to the Gospel of Christ, is prepared to do the work of the Lord as the legacy of the Apostles and the ordinance of the word to imitate them (I Corinthians 11:1, Ephesians 5:1), or is one of advertising only the prosperity gospel, which ruins the biblical truth, however, gives priority to material prosperity, preaching that Jesus came to earth for the believer to be faithful in tithes and offerings is right before God to live a life of watered stewardship, with good jobs, housing a high standard, new cars, immune diseases, safeguarding the social misfits and family finally live heaven on earth even confronting the word of the Lord Jesus who said: In the world ye shall have tribulation ( Jn 16:33).
Because we advise the brothers not to believe the word of man, but to examine everything and seek confirmation in the word of the Lord in the New Testament, which was written with the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 26:28), because those who are crucified with Christ, keep His commandments, and seek to do His will, and do not go around looking for the alien and falsifying the word of God.
Because the greatest treasure to those who wait the coming of Christ is not in this world (the world has nothing to offer to the people of God), but in the days ahead, hoping to live eternally with Jesus Christ and his holy angels in the New Jerusalem, a city built of gold and taking all the glory of God the Father, in a place where there will be no more death, neither sorrow, nor pain, nor crying, for the former things have passed.
TRUST IN GOD AND MATERIALS renounces things Paul said: Be imitators of me as I am of Christ: And if we imitate Paul, we are imitating Christ, because he was a true imitator of our Saviour, in all its good way to live, which left his testimony, described as follows:
I've learned to be content with what I have. I know to be abased and I know how to abound: every way and in all things I am instructed both as to have plenty to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. And my God, according to his riches, shall supply all your needs in glory by Christ Jesus (Phil. 4:11-13, 19).
For if God be for us, who can be against us? Who will bring any charge against God's elect? Who is to condemn? It is Christ that died, who rose from the dead, which is on the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? But in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom. 8.31-39).
Jesus said, For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).
And this done, by the Father and the Son, there is no reason to despair in the face of tribulation.
Jesus, by his own blood has overcome the world on Calvary's cross, He bore our sorrows, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him and by His stripes we are healed.
He also encourages us to trust him, and calls upon himself the responsibility to give us peace, saying, Come unto me all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28).
So beloved, there is nothing to fear because the Lord's words in First Corinthians 10:13 spiritually strengthens us that we may be confident, because it is written: No temptation has seized you except man: but God is faithful, that he will not to be tempted above that ye are able, but that with the temptation also to escape, that ye bear.
But those are Christ, renounce sin and the work of the flesh because they are crucified with Him, and bring upon themselves the witness of faith, humility and love of the Father above all things, and also love the neighbor as himself.
Walk as He walked, and made itself the greatest testimony of humility, goodness and holiness, that we imitate in their perfection.
May God bless us and keep us in Jesus' name, amen!
Author: Janie Santos de OliveiraVia: www.estudosgospel.com.br
"I am crucified with Christ: it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me." (Gal. 2:19-20).
A soul is a warped deformed character. This produces the sad figure of a Christian whose life is dominated by the enemy. Such a person, being negative emotions in their lives blaming others.
If angry at everything and everyone, if you change a little, and just did not care about their own mistakes. And finally, she retreats to a corner offended, angry laughs ... and hell, because that was one more that could have been used by the Lord wonderfully, but was stopped by the enemy.
People often have so many gifts and would be able to be something wonderful to the praise of the glorious grace of God.But in their hearts there is more room for others.
The more character driven by emotions that are deformed, the smaller its radius of spiritual action. So back to the starting point!In other words, go back to the position of being crucified with Jesus.
He who came inside to square one has room within it for the full and complete victory of Jesus. He who takes it seriously until the last consequences, the words of Jesus: "Behold I have given you authority ... over all the power of the enemy," has also won in all other areas.
The apostle Paul, called by decree of the Most High (Acts 9:16), in Galatians 2:20, expressed all his feelings for the Savior, saying: I am crucified with Christ and live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life I live in the flesh, and faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
The will of Jesus Christ has always been and always will be in perfect harmony with the will of the Holy Spirit and the Father's will (Matthew 6:10, John 4:34, John 10:30, 1 John 5:7). Thus, Paul tells us that the fact of Christ live in it implies the truth of living to do the will of Christ.
The crucial question now is this: Have you been crucified with Christ?If the answer is yes, then you can be pretty sure that will go the same way that Christ and will be in the same fate as him
If the answer is no, then you have to think about, and is having the time to make their decision. You can make a prayer for that Jesus Christ comes to dwell in your heart, and then the Holy Spirit will do the work in your life.
The second crucial question is to you that has been crucified with Christ. For you who have invited Jesus into his heart, Christ is really living in you?
You have a prayer life, always seeking the will of the Father, always seeking to please the Holy Spirit who dwells in you, giving him freedom to act and direct their actions? Or do you have the Holy Spirit kept imprisoned in his body of sin, enclosing him in a prison, holding him in a dungeon, preventing it to manifest in your life, grieve Him with their sins, forget it completely in their day-days, and putting a black veil over the light that should shine in your life?
Remember the security and confidence that the apostle Paul showed when he said: "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain." (Philippians 1:21). Paul states with absolute certainty that her death would be making a profit, would the advantage. But why would die profit? Because he knew where to go.
He had full confidence in the promises of God. He wanted Jesus to come at any time, and this desire was ardent and continuous.So I knew that would be awarded (2 Tm 4:8). Paul knew that if he left this earth he did not just receive awards, but I'd be face to face with his Savior.
Finally would embrace Jesus, Jesus would touch, kiss would Jesus be with Jesus for eternity. Paul wanted so badly, why let the Holy Spirit had full freedom to act in your life.
What had been ratified in Chapter 5.24 of the same letter, where the word reveals that those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires, as is support in Romans 6:4-6, where the word asks: So then we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
If we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, so that the body of sin might be destroyed, so that should not serve more to sin. And in the Gospel of Mark 8:34, Jesus called to him the multitude with his disciples and said to them: If anyone would come after me must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
And those who bear the label of Christian ordinance need to wake up the Lord Jesus, which provides: Deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. This is the ordinance of the Lord, refusing to meet yourself and in your mortal body the rest of their afflictions, because he encouraged us saying: Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and falsely say all evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets who were before you (Matthew 5.11,12).
And the first letter of Peter 4:13 says: So, you ought to rejoice in the fact partakers of the sufferings of Christ, so that at the revelation of His glory you may rejoice, and rejoice with Him
And Philippians 4:6-7 says: Do not be anxious about anything, but your requests be made known to God everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, and the peace of God which passeth all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ.
The legacy of holy men of GodThe holy men of God left us examples and real testimonies of faith, courage and love of the Holy Name of Jesus, because truly were under the cross of Christ, doing the rest of the sufferings of our Saviour, so also, we may imitate any good way of life in Christ Jesus, who for the sake of man, though a sinner, gave himself a living sacrifice, to free him from sin and death.
Stephen, servant of the Most High, full of faith and anointing of the Holy Spirit, he saw heaven opened, and the Son to the Father's right, why did not fear nor suffering fell to death, because he brought with him the certainty of salvation and the reward of future glory.
The book of Acts 5:40, 41, tells the apostles, after arrests and beatings, rejoicing in Christ, having been made by counted worthy to suffer for his name.
Paul and Silas being beaten with many stripes, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely, thrust them into the inner prison, and also they chained their feet on the trunk.Near midnight, praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners heard them.
A pause to reflect on the depth of faith of these men of God. After the beatings, and in prison, their feet shackled, not knowing what there was of them succeed, not be defeated before rejoiced, singing and glorifying the name of the Lord.
And suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and bands were loosed from all.
And Jesus announced the jailer and his family, and his belief in God, he rejoiced with all his household (Acts 16.22-34).
The Word tells yet been revealed to Paul that when he arrived in Jerusalem would be arrested and handed over to the Gentiles, his followers began to beg for it were not for that city, but Paul, filled with the Spirit of God said to them: What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? Because I am ready not only to be arrested, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus (Acts 21.10-14).
And Chapter 12 of the book of Acts says that at that time, Herod the king stretched forth his hands on some of the church to abuse them, the sword and killed James the brother of John, and, seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also.
And having him arrested, he put in prison, delivering him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending to bring it to the people after Passover.
And that same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and the keepers before the door kept the prison. And behold, an angel of the Lord, and saved him from prison, because the church was continuous prayer for him, to God, while he was kept in prison.
These were just some of the many episodes involving holy men of God, and the word registers these events not to lose heart in affliction, and to confirm that the word of the Lord Jesus, who said: I have told you this, that in me ye might have peace In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world (John 16:31).
And you my beloved brother, who is also committed to the Gospel of Christ, is prepared to do the work of the Lord as the legacy of the Apostles and the ordinance of the word to imitate them (I Corinthians 11:1, Ephesians 5:1), or is one of advertising only the prosperity gospel, which ruins the biblical truth, however, gives priority to material prosperity, preaching that Jesus came to earth for the believer to be faithful in tithes and offerings is right before God to live a life of watered stewardship, with good jobs, housing a high standard, new cars, immune diseases, safeguarding the social misfits and family finally live heaven on earth even confronting the word of the Lord Jesus who said: In the world ye shall have tribulation ( Jn 16:33).
Because we advise the brothers not to believe the word of man, but to examine everything and seek confirmation in the word of the Lord in the New Testament, which was written with the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 26:28), because those who are crucified with Christ, keep His commandments, and seek to do His will, and do not go around looking for the alien and falsifying the word of God.
Because the greatest treasure to those who wait the coming of Christ is not in this world (the world has nothing to offer to the people of God), but in the days ahead, hoping to live eternally with Jesus Christ and his holy angels in the New Jerusalem, a city built of gold and taking all the glory of God the Father, in a place where there will be no more death, neither sorrow, nor pain, nor crying, for the former things have passed.
TRUST IN GOD AND MATERIALS renounces things Paul said: Be imitators of me as I am of Christ: And if we imitate Paul, we are imitating Christ, because he was a true imitator of our Saviour, in all its good way to live, which left his testimony, described as follows:
I've learned to be content with what I have. I know to be abased and I know how to abound: every way and in all things I am instructed both as to have plenty to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. And my God, according to his riches, shall supply all your needs in glory by Christ Jesus (Phil. 4:11-13, 19).
For if God be for us, who can be against us? Who will bring any charge against God's elect? Who is to condemn? It is Christ that died, who rose from the dead, which is on the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? But in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom. 8.31-39).
Jesus said, For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).
And this done, by the Father and the Son, there is no reason to despair in the face of tribulation.
Jesus, by his own blood has overcome the world on Calvary's cross, He bore our sorrows, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him and by His stripes we are healed.
He also encourages us to trust him, and calls upon himself the responsibility to give us peace, saying, Come unto me all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28).
So beloved, there is nothing to fear because the Lord's words in First Corinthians 10:13 spiritually strengthens us that we may be confident, because it is written: No temptation has seized you except man: but God is faithful, that he will not to be tempted above that ye are able, but that with the temptation also to escape, that ye bear.
But those are Christ, renounce sin and the work of the flesh because they are crucified with Him, and bring upon themselves the witness of faith, humility and love of the Father above all things, and also love the neighbor as himself.
Walk as He walked, and made itself the greatest testimony of humility, goodness and holiness, that we imitate in their perfection.
May God bless us and keep us in Jesus' name, amen!
Author: Janie Santos de OliveiraVia: www.estudosgospel.com.br
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