[Faith-talk] FW: IBGN~NEWSLETTER~ UNION WITH CHRIST, PART 1 of 3 ~GRACE DAILY INSPIRATIONAL~ MARCH 13, 2012

[Eric Calhoun]

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Subject: IBGN~NEWSLETTER~ UNION WITH CHRIST,    PART  1 of  3       
~GRACE DAILY INSPIRATIONAL~ MARCH 13, 2012
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Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:24:55 -0700



*UNION WITH CHRIST*
PART  1 of  3




Our problem always was a spiritual problem: sin. Jesus didn't just 
identify with our problem; He became the problem. "He [God] made Him 
Jesus] who knew no sin to be sin, so that we might become the 
righteousness of God in Him" (2 Corinthians 5:21). The cure was radical. 
Jesus became sin and joined our old man to Himself. Thus, our old man 
died with Him. And when our old man died, sin was eradicated from our 
inmost being. We died to sin.

Jesus didn't just die for us to forgive us. Through our spirit union 
with Him, He did something in us. He completely solved the sin problem. 
He took the sin nature out. As Paul said in Romans 6, he who has died is 
freed from --- cut off, separated from ---- sin. Says who? "I do," God 
says. "And if you ever catch up with Me, you'll see it."

But if I have died to sin, why am I still tempted to sin? Why do I have 
this pull within me toward sin? Paul explained that in Romans 7. Though 
sin has been removed from our deepest inner being, it has not been 
eradicated from our body, our "members," as Paul put it. So we can still 
be pulled by the power of sin that dwells in our body, but not in our 
spirit.

That's why it's so crucial to understand that our old man was crucified 
with Christ and that we died to sin. We are free from sin. That is a 
spirit level truth. Because if we live by our soul's thoughts and 
feelings, we feel sin's temptation and think that's the real us. It 
feels as if the real us wants to sin, so we conclude there must still be 
something wrong with the real us.

To put it in theological terms, it feels like we have both an old nature 
(our old man) and a new nature (our new creation in Christ). Every 
outward appearance seems to verify that. The only thing that doesn't is 
what God says is true: "Knowing this, that our old man was crucified 
with Him ... that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has 
died is freed from sin."

The blood side of the cross labels us FORGIVEN. The body side of the 
cross labels us THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD (2 Corinthians 1:21). You're 
the righteousness of God. You're not just forgiven, but perfect and 
complete. In the unseen and eternal, you are a finished product.

We are: Forgiven  by His Blood

We are: Righteous, Holy, Perfect, Complete By His Body

The old man manifested his nature through us: sins. The new creation in 
Christ -- the new spirit man, born by God's Spirit in righteousness and 
holiness (Ephesians 4:24) - manifests Christ's nature through us: 
righteousness. As we learn to live from the truth of what has happened 
in our  spirit, we will witness externally what God has already made an 
internal reality. We have been separated through death from the power of 
sin. We have become the righteousness of God. We have a total victory 
over sin.

So the first thing we died to when we were crucified with Christ is sin. 
The second thing we died to is the law. The church drowns in confusion 
over the issue of the law. It has misunderstood it since the first 
century. Paul's epistle to the Galatians was written to set the record 
straight on this issue. But most of the church remains confused.

The Scriptures could not be clearer about this. In exactly the same way 
that Paul said in Romans 6 that we died to sin, in Romans 7 he said that 
we died to the law.




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