My goal dear readers in this blog is to put forth the positional relationship we have with our Saviour and His death upon the Cross. But let me say first that all that we are discussing in these pages apply spiritually. Perhaps I have touched on the need for a deeper understanding of this most important and vital, to all our understanding, of identification/position with our Lord in heaven. Let us take again a brief side trip to this important place so that we might have a better view of Him as our Representative before God in the Spirit.
I remember in the beginning of my positional studies struggling with the word spirit. It is batted around much in all religions it seems, and the meaning of just what a spirit is I believe, is much misunderstood . Let us first seek a understanding of the Spirit of God. The Bible tell us He is a Spirit and "all who worship Him must worship in spirit". So there you go, God is the definition of Spirit. But what does that mean? And how do we see that in our minds eye? It helped me to see the definition of God as, "A unembodied Devine Mind." Now since we are made in His image, we to have a spirit except ours is embodied. So our spirit ,whether alive our dead depending on our faith in Christ, is found in the mind. Life being defined as knowing the true and living God and and having been accepted by the father through faith in Christ. So in this definition of spirit,we realize it [or do not] in our conscious mind.Now lets endeavour to see ourselves in what the Bible teaches,finding ourselves in a spiritual attitude of death by, applying this concept to, Jesus Christ's death on the Cross.
"We are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord". 2 Cor. 3:18. The believer is never told to overcome sin, but to reckon[count as true] on the ground of his positional Representative death with Christ. On the basis of this death, he is told to not' let' sin reign in his life. This does not mean to not sin[although that is good] it means to have a understanding of Christs death expressly UNTO sin and the flesh! In other words a spiritual attitude of our death, to sin, in our mind. "We are free from the Law of sin and death.". The believer is not to spend his whole life trying to get victory over sin, but understanding his position to it. If you can get this in your head you will be well on your way to finding life in death.
'But God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ ,by whom the world is crucified UNTO me,and I UNTO the world" Gal 6:. Unless a believer receives the doctrine of the cross intelligently in his spirit{mind} and applies it to his position as represented by Christ on the cross he is still under the law and does not understand he is standing on new grounds represented by the new man in heaven, Christ. In Gal 5 Paul shows the application of the positional doctrine of the cross to the flesh and shows that they that are Christs are crucified to the flesh with its affections and lists, Here we will see our flesh is a thing I am entitled to regard as DONE WITH BEFORE GOD! No longer must we pick up our cross all; that we could be as to sin is finished. We are free by the representative blood and suffering of Jesus.
As we go into Gal 6 we will find as to the world, you are free from the Law, it is no longer our efforts of works. You by His death on the cross are free from any anxiety as to your flesh its lust and sins for we all have been judged in the Cross. Therefore by His Sons death representing us, the Father in His recking has pronounced the sentence of Adam which fell upon all flesh [humans] as carried out. Now you are entitled by faith not feelings, to know that "they that are Christs have crucified the flesh, with its affections and lusts". It does not say being done , no conditions here, it is done when we received the crucified Saviour. We have a ways to go on the foundational facts of the road to the Cross and God willing our journey to the depth of the all encompassing truth of His and our Cross will continue. Stay with me dear reader.
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