| | God forbid that I glory in anything else but the Cross of Christ. We must identify ourselves with Christ on His Cross. Paul did, Paul and Christ became united into one dying sinner on a cursed tree. Both Paul and Christ make up Christ crucified, the imputation of our guilt and pollution to Christ, and the imputation of Christ righteousness and the importation of the Spirit of Jesus Christ to us. I am crucified with Christ: with Christ who loves, and gave Himself for me. When the two thieves died on their crosses, after their two bodies were buried, if there still were complaints to the courts of justice and accusations, “ he stole my ox”, “he burned down my barn”, “he robbed my house”, “he murdered my son”. The judge would say to all such too-late accusations that the murderer was dead already.. He has been crucified already. He is beyond your accusations and my jurisdiction. He has paid already with his own life blood. His death has forever blotted out all that can ever be spoken or written against him. A dead man is not easily put to shame., and no jailer carried a corpse to prison. The law has been honored ten thousand time more than if it had never been broken because the law giver Himself has been crucified for our transgressions. As it was with the thieves past, and with Paul’s so it is with ours. Sins of omission and sins of commission. What I should have done and didn’t do. What I hated , and yet did. The trial I had been to other men. The sin and sorrow I has caused. The provocation and offence I had been. The blame I had brought on the ministry, and a thousand such like things. The secret of peace and overcoming is that Paul doesn’t not say that he : “once was” or that he “had been” but that he “is” at present crucified. Not only the is past sin all collected up and laid on Christ crucified but present sinfulness too. If your heart beats up its secret guilt, pollution and sinfulness with every pulse you would go mad unless your conscience and mind were both in the keeping of Christ crucified. As Luthers conscience was. “ The law is not the lord of my conscience” is what his lion like faith declared. Jesus Christ is almighty God, and He is the Lord of my conscience. He keeps the law out of my conscience by keeping my conscience continually sprinkled with His own peace keeping blood. The true believer is “dead” to his past and is a new creation in Christ. A true believers past moral corruption comes up to his conscience not in order to produce a bad conscience, but in order to find ther trusting believer already with Jesus. “I am crucified with Christ” to peace and rest. Nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me. And the life I now live in this flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me. Nothing and noone but God the Son ,and God the Son crucified, could atone for mt sin. The blood of God my Maker, my Lawgiver, and my Redeemer surely is able to speak peace into my heart. He loved me and gave Himself for me. |
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