The Lessons of Lent: It was for us!

The Lessons of Lent: It was for us!

[My Offline Bible] John 18
38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.

[My Offline Bible] John 19
4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.

6 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.

Thrice in the course of the trial of Jesus Christ, Pilate made the open confession that he found no fault in Him.

That was enough to release Him but the politics of the Jews prevailed as pilate himself wanted to be in the good books of both the Jews and his Roman superiors.

The Jews got on to a very important information that though unknown to them was the exact explanation of what they were doing...

Caiaphas had told them how it was expedient that someone should die for the people...

[My Offline Bible] John 18
14 Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.

That means He couldn't be released even if He wasn't found guilty. They had made up their mind to do evil and they were ready to back their wicked injustice up by some spirituality or religiosity. That remains a tactic for getting ones way even till date!

Jesus had, at the supper spoken to the disciples how His blood was shed and His body was broken for us. It is being justified here that He didn't suffer neither died because of His own errors but as an atonement for our sins and for our eternal redemption.

It is judged that if one person died for all, it is agreed that all have died.
[My Offline Bible] 2 Corinthians 5
14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

Which means God was seeing us in Him and with Him as He suffered, was crucified buried, raised and enthroned on the right hand of majesty. God was seeing beyond Him, He was seeing our perfect identification with Him and so could take the payment as we paying it!

So we were crucified with Christ...every believer must see self on the cross, crucified with Him. Meaning we are dead to sin, to sickness and to every other satanic influence and now Christ lives from within us. Every time we identify with His crucifixion and death, we give way for Christ to live His life through us in grace...and the output of our lives becomes the result of His character and charisma and no more of our dead selves again.

[My Offline Bible] Galatians 2
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. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

We were also buried with Him as His body was kept in the sepulchre good Friday to resurrection Sunday. This is the spiritual baptism we encounter as we come into Christ.
[My Offline Bible] Romans 6
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

[My Offline Bible] Colossians 2
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. 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;

We are buried with Him and also raised with Him into the newness of life. What was raised would be different from what was buried. Buried in corruption but raised in incorruption unto a life limitless like the risen Christ powered by the glory of God, sin not having dominion over us again....we live in the newness of the new creation by partaking of the divine nature.

We were raised together and enthroned together at the right hand of God with all things under our feet. We are raised in universe's authority hierarchy to share the position of Christ. God puts us there, Satan and his cohorts see us there, and obey the authority in our words, nature waits upon us to receive directions by the authority of Jesus title and name and they obey as we issue them...'go' and they go, 'come' and they can't say 'No'

[My Offline Bible] Ephesians 2
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

We share authority with Christ because God sees us in Him as He travelled through death to the throne. It was for us He did all that and we can't allow that go without enjoying the dividends.

The believer must begin to see self in Christ at every point of that journey because it was for us He did all that. As we see ourselves in all that He did we must begin to live like it, speak like it and walk in confidence in line with our identification with Christ.

Now we can differentiate between the old man, that is, who we were, and the new man, that is, who we are now...we must see the difference in us between the old and the new creature....and we shouldn't and don't have to allow the old man with its weaknesses, lack of authority, hypocrisies, insincerity and inability to walk in faith, in love and in holiness to take over.... it is dead and buried and we are risen without it!

Think on these and enjoy the fullness of Christ's redemption and our identification with Him!

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