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.To live 4 christ is the most common desire of many if not most Christians! It's a message preached to many New Believers, and in most Pentecostal / Charistmatic Churches world wide. How the message of Living for Christ is Taught, may vary from the many different denominations. But of recent the Holy Spirit has been revealing to me the Revelation of CHRIST IN ME!
I believe it is important to read carefully and ask the Holy Spirit to open the eyes of our understanding of what Paul was really trying to say in the above Scripture Gal 2:20. Before i continue on, let's read another scripture that Paul writes concerning Christ in You....Galatians 4:19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you.
So what does this all mean? To put it in simple basic terms ( This is How the Holy Spirit Teaches Me ) Paul was acknowledging to the Church in his writings that when Jesus was crucified & Died on the Cross...So did He!. It was as if Paul himself was on that Cross Dying. This is not Blasphemy! Of course it was Jesus on the Cross, but Jesus was Perfect and without Sin up until the point of himself(Jesus) being hung on the cross. (Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,")
Because of this Curse, this gave entry for Your Sin's and all of the worlds Sins to come upon Jesus. This is were you and I were placed on the cross! Our Sin Nature and all of our Sin's commited. Remember! Jesus was perfect in every way up until that Point in time. He should not have been there in the 1st place, but because of his and his Fathers love towards us was so strong He went to the Cross anyway!
So you and I where on the Cross in the form of Jesus as our representative!
Here is where the Blessing comes to pass! When God raised Jesus from the Dead into Life. You and I (Remember, Jesus is our representative) were raised from the Dead into Life. But not just an ordinary same old life that we had before the Cross! But a life in Christ! A Life in Christ gave us the redemption that God our new Father so desired since the begining of the Garden Of Eden.
We were then placed at our Fathers Right Hand to sit next to Him in Christ, which is the Highest place of Honour and Hishgest Place of Dominion and Power.
Of course everything i am writing to some of you may be difficult to understand or comprhend! Dont worry, i understand how you feel. I use to be the same way, until i invited the Holy Spirit into my Life and asked him to reveal the Truths of the scriptures to me.
CHRIST IN ME is more that just a statement that i speak freely amongst others. But i say it with understanding and conviction from deep within me. I feel Christ in me! He is alive in me, and he speaks to me daily. All that he is consumes me more and more so that everything i do or say, becomes a mirror image of Jesus. A True relflection of his Love, Grace and Mercy to others.
I can still make the choice to live my ownlife according to my own will. But if i Truely died on that cross with Jesus. Then the life that i now live, is by Faith of the Son of God.
