As we continue on the road of the Cross we come upon the word deliverance often. A rich word with deep meaning, defined in the dictionary as , rescue from bondage or danger, and rescue from moral corruption and evil, and also simply the act of delivering. What was our Saviour delivering and for whom? The answer to that question is well know, but our search will start and finish at position/identification so that the meaning of Christ sacrifice can be personalized and brought home to your understanding in our spirit[mind].By the way let me say again my friends most of these thoughts are not mine but taken from studies by men like Newell, Stoney , Darby , Stanford and more. These men have served the Holy Spirit to open the door [at least a little] to my understanding of our new nature found in Christ. I hope you will seek them out. At the end of this study I will recommend some books to you. For this Christ life will only come by effort, to acquire a deeper life in Him.
The Word says "For we, alive though we are, are continually surrendering ourselves to death for the sake of Jesus" 2 Cor. 4:11. This statement is meant to show that in our reckoning[ count it as true] we are to see our life , as found in the death[Cross] of Christ and give over in our conscious mind to the reality that it is Christ suffering and death, that exists in a representative form in the Fathers eyes and that we are to count it so for our experience as Christians, we are now seen by the Father as ones who have received deliverance from the old life to a new life, found in His Son.
The simple facts are, it is the old life that is in the way of the new one, hence the need to see the old as dead, which it is by His action on the cross. The old stands in the way of experiencing the new in its full expression. The natural life of Adam obstructs the life and course of the new. So what has been done for us by Him must be done in us. And as it is done in us, our new life becomes more than a mere deposit,more than even a glorious possession; it will be a ever deepening , growing power which we can fully express in our Christian life.
In the Deliverance found in the cross you will be freed in you conscience from the old man"the body of death" and freed before God, and you can know that you are in Christ and the law of the Spirit of Christ has made you free. It is now not your behaviour our conscience that rules your life but Christ. Thus , in deliverance we find ourselves identified with Christ , as He died for us, as to the flesh, that by faith we may be found in Him.
There is no strength or power in ourselves against" the law of sin which is in our flesh" Rom. 7:23. The Father has left us dependant upon the Lords work upon the Cross for our deliverance and for our forgiveness. It is completely because we died with Him on the Cross, both to sin and the Law, that the power of sin is broken to those found in Christ
Paul was struggling with these concepts when he cried out "Who shall deliver me". And then said" I thank God [for deliverance] ,through Jesus Christ our Lord". This was a new revelation, identification with Christ in His death For Paul. Just as we search in vain to find peace, until we look outside ourselves, to Christ who brought peace by His blood of His Cross. And we who struggle in despair looking for victory over sin by self effort now can look outside ourselves, to a Risen Lord ,In whom we live and in whom we died, with Christ to sin and the law!
All Christians have these great truths in Christ, but many continue to see the cross and the Lord from a distance and have not experienced the freedom of Identification with our Lord. The busy life , the world, and duty, shape their time here. Many have not taken to heart the freedom of realizing our salvation as complete in seeing Jesus death on the Cross as ours in the Fathers eyes. This all important concept comes with prayer study and most important need! I will now refer a few books for your consideration which will help you along the busy road of our modern age and might help you into the quiet meadow of understanding.The Complete Green Letters ,by Miles J. Stanford, Romans Verse By Verse, by William R. Newell. and a new one I just found Romans, by Alva J. McClain. Also you might try a listen on line to thru the Bible with J. Vernon McGee, go directly to his broadcast series on Romans. I promise you will be blessed.
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