I never sent this out a year ago.. found it in my email draft folder
Co-Resurrection. The proof that I have experienced
crucifixion with Jesus is that I have a definite likeness to Him. The Spirit of
Jesus entering me rearranges my personal life before God. The resurrection of
Jesus has given Him the authority to give the life of God to me, and the
experiences of my life must now be built on the foundation of His life. I can
have the resurrection life of Jesus here and now, and it will exhibit itself
through holiness.
The idea all through the apostle Paul’s writings
is that after the decision to be identified with Jesus in His death has been
made, the resurrection life of Jesus penetrates every bit of my human nature.
It takes the omnipotence of God— His complete and effective divinity— to live
the life of the Son of God in human flesh. The Holy Spirit cannot be accepted
as a guest in merely one room of the house— He invades all of it. And once I
decide that my “old man” (that is, my heredity of sin) should be identified
with the death of Jesus, the Holy Spirit invades me. He takes charge of
everything. My part is to walk in the light and to obey all that He reveals to
me. Once I have made that important decision about sin, it is easy to “reckon”
that I am actually “dead indeed to sin,” because I find the life of Jesus in me
all the time (Romans 6:11). Just as there is only one kind of humanity, there
is only one kind of holiness— the holiness of Jesus. And it is His holiness
that has been given to me. God puts the holiness of His Son into me, and I
belong to a new spiritual order.
Bondye Beni Ou (God
Bless You)
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