Galatians 2:20,
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.
This could possibly be the most important verse in all of scripture that allows the believer to fully see what happened at the cross.
Even more importantly it shows what happened to the sinner the moment they believed.
You are taken out of Adam, and placed in Christ or Christ in you, same thing. Crucified with Christ in the twinkling of an eye.
Without the understanding of Galatians 2:20 spiritual growth becomes stagnant. It does not mean your not saved or going to Heaven or that you don't love God.
It does mean you are not growing up into Him, or knowing Christ who is your only life, Galatians 2:20.
From the moment we were born and were able to retain some kind of consciousness we have always felt that we have had a life of our own.
We never realized that we were controlled by another, even the nature of humanity that entered in at the fall, Genesis 3:15
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
The seed is what you should take note of.
Adam was created a living soul, he did not recieve a spirit-nature until he fell. That nature was the sin-nature, Satan-nature, death-nature, death-life.
That nature came about by a father, in this case the father of lies.
Adam was not possessed (demon possessed) as some suppose, but now Adam had a nature.
That nature is what has been passed on through generations of time.
When Jesus came to set humanity free it was the nature he crucified. All in Adam dead now by the cross. Humanity needs to believe in the resurrected Christ as God's ultimate sacrifice to end the rein of the sin-nature.
Our freedom is knowing Adam is dead, can you see the importance of spiritual growth.
Our minds takes time to catch up with facts.
Serveral very keystone points are brought out in Galatians 2:20.
Paul never minces words and is always very clear. He said the life we live is Christ, he also said we no longer live; Christ lives in us.
Because of the Christ life in you the old sin nature is killed out (all in Adam), and you have a new Christ in you nature.
Sins committed by Christians today come from mind only not spirit, hope you can see at this point that it is imperative that you divide soul and spirit, Hebrews 4:12
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Humanity has been dependant on a nature since it entered in. The sin nature unto death and now the God nature unto life, 2 Peter 1:4
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Do you understand the law was primarily introduced because of the sin nature.
The law was what helped humanity keep the sin nature from taking complete control of humanity, or as Paul said, becoming reprobate. We see what happened before the law with Noah's day, tower of Babel and so on.
The law became an obedience relationship with God and those that kept it, had a God to people relationship.
Spiritual growth comes as you are led by the HolySpirit into the understanding that the moment you believed God birthed in you the life of another, Galatians 2:20.
Footnote: their is nothing wrong with humanities creation, being created in the image and likeness of God. The fall distorted that creation, it was mishandled, misused, abused. but glory to God He has restored back to humanity the very image and likeness of God He intended before creation.
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.
This could possibly be the most important verse in all of scripture that allows the believer to fully see what happened at the cross.
Even more importantly it shows what happened to the sinner the moment they believed.
You are taken out of Adam, and placed in Christ or Christ in you, same thing. Crucified with Christ in the twinkling of an eye.
Without the understanding of Galatians 2:20 spiritual growth becomes stagnant. It does not mean your not saved or going to Heaven or that you don't love God.
It does mean you are not growing up into Him, or knowing Christ who is your only life, Galatians 2:20.
From the moment we were born and were able to retain some kind of consciousness we have always felt that we have had a life of our own.
We never realized that we were controlled by another, even the nature of humanity that entered in at the fall, Genesis 3:15
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
The seed is what you should take note of.
Adam was created a living soul, he did not recieve a spirit-nature until he fell. That nature was the sin-nature, Satan-nature, death-nature, death-life.
That nature came about by a father, in this case the father of lies.
Adam was not possessed (demon possessed) as some suppose, but now Adam had a nature.
That nature is what has been passed on through generations of time.
When Jesus came to set humanity free it was the nature he crucified. All in Adam dead now by the cross. Humanity needs to believe in the resurrected Christ as God's ultimate sacrifice to end the rein of the sin-nature.
Our freedom is knowing Adam is dead, can you see the importance of spiritual growth.
Our minds takes time to catch up with facts.
Serveral very keystone points are brought out in Galatians 2:20.
Paul never minces words and is always very clear. He said the life we live is Christ, he also said we no longer live; Christ lives in us.
Because of the Christ life in you the old sin nature is killed out (all in Adam), and you have a new Christ in you nature.
Sins committed by Christians today come from mind only not spirit, hope you can see at this point that it is imperative that you divide soul and spirit, Hebrews 4:12
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Humanity has been dependant on a nature since it entered in. The sin nature unto death and now the God nature unto life, 2 Peter 1:4
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Do you understand the law was primarily introduced because of the sin nature.
The law was what helped humanity keep the sin nature from taking complete control of humanity, or as Paul said, becoming reprobate. We see what happened before the law with Noah's day, tower of Babel and so on.
The law became an obedience relationship with God and those that kept it, had a God to people relationship.
Spiritual growth comes as you are led by the HolySpirit into the understanding that the moment you believed God birthed in you the life of another, Galatians 2:20.
Footnote: their is nothing wrong with humanities creation, being created in the image and likeness of God. The fall distorted that creation, it was mishandled, misused, abused. but glory to God He has restored back to humanity the very image and likeness of God He intended before creation.
