Homegroup Study - Crucified with Christ

HG Study Guide. Crucified with CHRIST. Reading: Galatians 2:15-21 Involvement: JESUS took our guilt onto Himself – so that our guilty selves have been punished in IN CHRIST. Have you died to the law? 19 “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. HE was the judge that took the penalty on HIMself – and suffered the execution.  The OT Rules for a Jew were meant to be a way of living that was excellent to aim at; but it was not meant to be a way of Salvation. It couldn’t be. Why not? Read Paul’s testimony in Romans 7:7-10 So, let’s accept our death to self-justification – we are dead to the anxious striving to be justified by our own efforts. Accept that JESUS is our righteousness – submit to your ‘death’ and begin to LIVE!  How do we show that we have grasped this in our daily living – and how does it show when we are not grasping this?  What has happened to your old guilty self?  Who lives in you now? Galatians 2:20 What or who does GOD see when HE looks at us now? [And HE sees you all the time!]  Why is that so amazingly wonderful? How does it affect the way we treat ourselves and the way we are to live?  Imagine that you are sharing the Gospel with a religious person – and they clearly believe that salvation is achievable through obeying the rules of their religion. Using Galatians 2:1521, how could you help them? The conviction of Paul’s coveting was the way that the law caused Paul to realise that he was ‘dead’ in sins.  How did that ‘death’ enable Paul to ‘live’; where did he eventually turn for justification? Why was that infinitely better than where he was trusting before? Read Acts 26:12-15 It seems likely that Paul was resisting the conviction that he was spiritually dead and needed to trust in JESUS.  What positive thing might be happening if people get angry with us for being CHRISTians? Crucified with CHRIST: 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but CHRIST lives in me.  As you are very much alive reading this, how can you have been crucified with CHRIST? Think it through: Incarnation: The Son of GOD took on real humanity. Still Divine, but one of us! Identification: JESUS lived as one of us, representing us, but perfectly obeying His own laws. [That enabled Him to be the perfect sacrifice.] Prayer Points: