CRUCIFIED AS US
“Those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” -GALATIANS 5:24
Scripture
says that those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified (past tense)
the flesh with its passions and desires. No one can commit suicide by
crucifixion. Someone else must nail us to the Cross. The flesh cannot
crucify itself. Jesus has already done what we could not do. The sooner
we stop trying to crucify ourselves, the sooner we can boast in the
finished work of the Cross and actually witness the evidence of it in
our lives.
Notice that Paul does not merely say that Jesus was
crucified for us. That is certainly true in and of itself. But there is
more. Not only was Jesus crucified FOR us, He was crucified AS us. God
considers us to have been crucified as surely as if we were there
receiving the nails in our hands and feet. We have been crucified
together with Him because God placed us in Him the moment He was
crucified.
Source: “Embrace the Cross” by Chip Brogden
http://www.chipbrogden.com/books/embrace-the-cross
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Chip Brogden
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