Sermon Tone Analysis

I have been crucified with Christ…

think about that...

how many Christians have you ever heard say that about themselves?

Sure we say Jesus Christ died for our sins and we say things like Jesus Christ was Crucified…but what about you being crucified with Christ...

What does it all mean to be crucified with Christ?

I have been crucified with Christ...

Well it doesn't mean that you become non existent.

It means that your old sin nature is dead, it was that old you, that was nailed to Christ’s cross.

You know alot of people will say that when they became a christian that they gave their life to Christ…have you ever heard that expression of salvation, sure you have, you may have even used those very words yourself, and it is a very nice way to express it but when we give our life to Christ He kills that life, He has to because He cant use that life instead He has to give us a new life...

My nature has been changed...

To be crucified with Christ means that our sin has been subdued and our old nature has been conquered...

What it means is this, a person who has been crucified with Christ, the old man, their old nature should not even be recognized as living and reigning in that person anymore...

This is an inner crucifixion...

Crucifixion is the agony of God of what it takes to rid humanity of themselves...

Before the Spirit of Christ can live within me, I myself must be dead.

This is what Paul was writing about in Galatians 2:20

Our old selves all that we were...

before the union with Christ…that old man, that sin nature that we inherited from Adam and Eve’s fall is DEAD...

Ask yourself, “Have I been united together in the likeness of His death?”

Well do you see the likeness of His resurrection in you?

It’s important for you to know who you are in Christ.

So, So, important.

So many Christians today don’t know who they are in Christ.

They just don’t know.

You need to know.

So you can be able to say,

All that could be accused of me before the living God..

From the first time I lied, to every act of injustice, to every angry lash out to the creator of the universe, every sin imaginable that an accuser could bring up against me before God, Jesus with his right hand would say, “NO!

I Paid for that, This is my adopted child, perfect, pure, spotless, holy, mine.”

In the cross of Christ…all that made me an enemy of God was poured out on Him… Absorbed completely by Him.

So that I am no longer under wrath but under mercy...

So I’ve come here this morning to celebrate my own funeral… I’ve come to except my own death… I’ve come in to sing and to celebrate that “I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me, and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave His life for me.”

So that is what I want to celebrate…”That I no longer live, but Christ lives with me.”

And that Cross was my death too.