“I am crucified with Christ” Then and Now
2016 Nov 27th Streaming
We trust you all had a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving! We enjoyed our time with our children and a few friends. I ate way too much food! So, I went out to the backyard and did few “farmer’s walks” with an of 85 lbs dumbbell in each hand. That kick in my metabolism and I was ready to watch the Cowboys game. Katherine went for a 2 mile walk with some of the kids. All and all it was a blessed day for us all! Let’s take a quick look at the highlights of the message in fellowship tomorrow. We’re going to look at Paul’s statement in the beginning of Gal 2:20 “I am crucified with Christ…” Many of us use the verse and statement as though we know, understand and grasp what this means. Sadly far too many don’t know the power this line carries to our identity. I was recently reading from the new book by our brother Dr. Warren Litzman titled; The Joy of knowing who I Am -The Fundamentals of the Christ-life. He was discussing Galatians 2:20 where the apostle Paul says:
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.
Brother Litzman writes:
“This ought to be the golden text of the bible because in this one verse of scripture we are able to see the whole entity of the now generation. “I am crucified with Christ.” That is something you may not know or it may be something you always say but don’t know anything about. I am certain there are multitudes of believers who run around talking about being crucified with Christ but don’t have the slightest concept of what it is, and they feel like being crucified with Christ is kind of overcoming some little problem they have. They don’t see themselves totally crucified with Christ and totally alive in Christ. They see a little crucifixion for this habit, a little crucifixion of that bad relationship, a little crucifixion for something they shouldn’t have done; but they do not see that they are crucified with Christ.”
His explaining on how many use the words “I am crucified with Christ” hit the nail on the head. Most believers and religious people use those words from an outer or flesh prospective. With little regard or understanding of the true power of this line in the verse. But why? Why don’t so many truly grasp the power of this precious line? Let’s talk about it!
Love in Christ,
David & Katherine