“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
Galatians 2:20 KJV
Paul explains, “My old identity has been co-crucified with Christ and no longer lives. And now the essence of this new life is no longer mine, for the Anointed One lives His life through me—we live in union as one! My new life is empowered by the faith of the Son of God who loves me so much that He gave Himself for me, dispensing His life into mine!” Paul says on behalf of all of us that not only was he crucified with Christ in the past, but he was also existing in the same present condition, the verb being used is the perfect tense. How can any human effort improve on this! We are now fully released from any further association with a life directed by the rule of the law, we are dead to that which once held us captive, free to be slaves to the newness of being Spirit led spontaneity, rather than age old religious rituals! Paul revealed this in another epistle that “now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.” What joy to be led by the Holy Spirit as the new creation we are, rather than by the oldness of the law. Hallelujah!
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