Indelible Truth of Easter

Galatians 2:20 NIV

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Paul tells us that “he died WITH Christ,” that “he was buried WITH Christ.”

Christ became one with us in sin, that we might become one with Him in Righteousness.

He became as we were, so that we might be as He is now.

He became one with us in death, that we might be one with Him in life.

This means His uuion with our sin on the cross; second, our oneness with Him in His glory on the throne.

Ephesians 2:6 NIV

And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

He was cast out from the presence of God in to make us welcome there

He died to make us live

He was made sin to make us Righteous

He became weak to make us strong

He suffered shame to give us glory.

He went to Hell in order to take us to Heaven

He was condemned in order to Justify us

He was made sick in order that healing might be ours

Romans 6:6 NIV

For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—

We were nailed to the cross with Christ.

Indeed we were crucified with him. The reason of the crucifixion, in the mind of the people, was to get rid of this Man whom they hated.

In the mind of God it meant His Identification with humanity in its sin and suffering, and our Identification with Him in His crucifixion.

Christ went there, not for Himself, but as a Substitute.

We were nailed to the cross with Christ.

We were crucified with him. The reason of the crucifixion, in the mind of the people, was to get rid of this Man whom they hated.

In the mind of God it meant His Identification with humanity in its sin and suffering, and our Identification with Him in His crucifixion.

2 Corinthians 5:21 NIV

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

The Jews and the Romans who surrounded the cross could only see the physical man, Jesus, hanging there.

But God could see His spirit.

Angels could see His spirit.

Demons could see the real man, hidden in that body.

Isaiah 53:5 NIV

But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

On that awful cross, He not only became sin, but He became a curse

Galatians 3:13 NIV

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”

Philippians 3:10 NIV

I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

But Paul could not do that.

No one could do it.

No angel could do it.

This was the work of God

When He surrendered His Son to death, he was showing love that is difficult to discribe with human words.

Isaiah 53:3–5 NIV

He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

Isaiah 53:10 NIV

Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.

Isaiah 52:14 NIV

Just as there were many who were appalled at him— his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness—

This was spiritual suffering

This was when the hidden man of the heart became not only sin, but sickness.

This was the spiritual side of the agony of the cross.

This was when our sin and diseases were laid upon His spirit.

His spirit was made sin.

His spirit was made sick.

He not only laid our sin on Him, but He laid us on Him.

The whole man was involved in this sacrifice—His spirit, Soul, and His body.

We were nailed to the cross with Him and in Him. Our diseases were part of Him.

For if He was made sick with our sickness, Satan has no legal right to put diseases upon us, and in the Name of Jesus we can free ourselves from Satan’s power.

Yes, we have mortal bodies, but filled with the life of God

2 Corinthians 5:4 NIV

For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

You know sickness is spiritual.

It is manifested in our physical bodies as a disease.

Our doctors sees sickness in our bodies, but God sees sickness in our spirits.

God heals us through the Word.

It is the Word that heals our spirits.

It is the Word that created us.

It is the Word that produces faith.

It is the Word that unveils to us what we really are in Christ—New Creations.

It is the Word, then, that brings healing to these sick spirits of ours.

Sickness is a spiritual condition manifested in the physical body.

If He was made sin, and if He put our sin away, we need not be ruled by it.

If He was made sick with our sickness, and if He put our diseases away, we need not be ruled by sickness and disease.

We, with our diseases and sicknesses, were nailed to the cross in Christ.

1 John 5:13 NKJV

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

2 Peter 1:4 NKJV

by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

WE HAVE THE WORD OF GOD ABIDING IN US

Acts 20:32 NKJV

“So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

It is the Word that makes us know our rights and privileges in Christ.

WE HAVE THE NAME OF JESUS TO USE

John 14:13–14 NKJV

And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.

This is not praying to the Father, nor making a request of Jesus.

It is using the Name as Peter used it at the beautiful gate when he set that man free the paralised man

WE HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT IN US

1 John 4:4 NKJV

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

The God in us is the same God who spoke a universe into being.

The same God is in us who walked the sea in Galilee.

The same God is in us who arose from the dead.

WE HAVE GOD'S WISDOM

1 Corinthians 1:30 NKJV

But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—

Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge.

You have the knowledge of the life of God that is in you.

You have the knowledge of the power and authority of the Word.

You have the knowledge of your legal right to use the Name of Jesus

You have the knowledge of the fact that God is actually in your body.