John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
You either get your identity from what you have done in life, or you get your identity from Christ in you. You either identify with all the things that made you a you, or you see through it to Christ now. Such as; Christ as the doer, so to speak, using your background, your training, your ways become his ways when nessarry. It is nolonger just a you you, it is now a you joined unto another new life that is shared life. Shared by the knowledge of the Christ in you you have. Simple way to look at it is, "it is nolonger you that lives, but Christ lives in you, yet you live Paul said but the life you now live is the life of another. So you nolonger have an old life to live is what he is saying, all you have is a new life. You can only think (mind issue) you have an old life to live.
How do we get a new life? by accepting the finished work of the cross. Do you know what the finished work of the cross is? It is Christ crucifying the old man on the cross (no wonder Paul was determined to know nothing but Christ crucified). The old man is dead as Christ was when he died on the cross. What a message of hope, the gospel is the greatest news that can come to hopeless humanity. Sometimes we get caught up in our own situations in life and forget the world, the world needs Jesus, the world needs to hear the gospel.
They dont need corrected in their mess they need to hear hope, they are already living in misery and need a life-line. They need to know that thing that drives their sin and deep inhibitions is dead in Christ. The nature that caused all their pain and suffering is dead and gone, destroyed by Christ on the cross, never to be resurrected. They dont have to live for sins pleasure for a moment, that causes a lifetime of pain. They don't have to be addicted to every body pull imaginable, and therapists taking them back to relive it over and over again. There is hope for the vicious cycle of humanities debauchery. That hope comes one way and one way only, by the cross of Calvary and the delivering power of Jesus Christ to set a captive free. It comes by that one life that changed all life, Christ in you the hope of glory. No other way, nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
You either get your identity from what you have done in life, or you get your identity from Christ in you. You either identify with all the things that made you a you, or you see through it to Christ now. Such as; Christ as the doer, so to speak, using your background, your training, your ways become his ways when nessarry. It is nolonger just a you you, it is now a you joined unto another new life that is shared life. Shared by the knowledge of the Christ in you you have. Simple way to look at it is, "it is nolonger you that lives, but Christ lives in you, yet you live Paul said but the life you now live is the life of another. So you nolonger have an old life to live is what he is saying, all you have is a new life. You can only think (mind issue) you have an old life to live.
How do we get a new life? by accepting the finished work of the cross. Do you know what the finished work of the cross is? It is Christ crucifying the old man on the cross (no wonder Paul was determined to know nothing but Christ crucified). The old man is dead as Christ was when he died on the cross. What a message of hope, the gospel is the greatest news that can come to hopeless humanity. Sometimes we get caught up in our own situations in life and forget the world, the world needs Jesus, the world needs to hear the gospel.
They dont need corrected in their mess they need to hear hope, they are already living in misery and need a life-line. They need to know that thing that drives their sin and deep inhibitions is dead in Christ. The nature that caused all their pain and suffering is dead and gone, destroyed by Christ on the cross, never to be resurrected. They dont have to live for sins pleasure for a moment, that causes a lifetime of pain. They don't have to be addicted to every body pull imaginable, and therapists taking them back to relive it over and over again. There is hope for the vicious cycle of humanities debauchery. That hope comes one way and one way only, by the cross of Calvary and the delivering power of Jesus Christ to set a captive free. It comes by that one life that changed all life, Christ in you the hope of glory. No other way, nothing but the blood of Jesus.
