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No longer I who live....

Posted November 29, 2011 - 1:52pm

I just received an enthusiastic insight from a dear brother (Justin) that I would like to share with you:

Jim I was thinking about how jesus came to kill the self and remove it from the world and raise it into another when it hit me: we in christ are jesus on earth. And I kept remembering pauls scripture no longer I who live but he who lives in me. God lives in me! This changes everything!

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Re: No longer I who live....

by Visitor - Dec 4 2011 - 1:58pm

It is only through that wilderness experience which conditions us for the flash of light and that light fixes itself in us. We realize that our only trouble has been the illusion of our lonely selves, which all of our lives He has been and is the real living Self in us (Gal. 2:20). Once you have "learned" it the hard way then you have really learned it in Spirit. And though we often wander away temporarily, you always know where to go back. My brother, you are in the land of Canaan!! Mr. Shovel, Thank you for showing me how I can be liberated from myself, and [laughing here],and liberated to be that same human self only this time it is He in me.

Re: No longer I who live....

by Visitor - Nov 29 2011 - 9:58pm

Jesus came to reveal the Father and when He was asked for His identity He said "I AM" and to His disciple who said "show us the Father" Jesus said "I have been with you all this time and you say "show us the Father?Seeing Me, you have seen the Father"
They didn't understand Him.

We are here on Earth to reveal Christ and when asked who we are we can assuredly say "it's no onger I who lives, but Christ living in me. How can you say "show us Christ? When you see me, you see Christ".

Yes my brother. When you look in the mirror you can boldly say "this is Christ" and when people ask you for your true identity you can say "Christ".

This is the truth of our new identity in Christ. We no longer point to SELF but to HIM who lives in us, through us and for us. What amazing news.

Re: No longer I who live....

by Visitor - Dec 2 2011 - 3:57am

What a great way to put this! Thanks.

When you look in the mirror you can boldly say "this is Christ" and when people ask you for your true identity you can say "Christ".

And people will smile as they herd their kids away from you :) And who can blame them? It's just an outrageous claim. But He is the vine and we are the branches (as I heard Jim recently quote, making the same point). So, together as one we are. And, it seems to me, it must be in the best way and most real sense since He, the Author of all things, is The One who has been pleased to make it so. Incredible stuff.

Anyway, thanks for reminding me of this - and to Jim who is consistently doing the same. It's quite something to absorb - especially when everything around us tells so differently.

He who has ears to hear, let him hear

Re: No longer I who live....

by theshovel - Nov 30 2011 - 3:02pm

Yes ... amazing news! Tragically, many believers have been intimidated into fearing their amazing heritage in Christ by those who would have them groveling as unworthy sinners rather than standing firm as Christ-ones ... that is, those who are identified by, in, of, and as Christ in this world. Don't concern yourself with the fears fabricated by the fleshly mind, for those Jesus warned against were individuals who claimed to be the Christ in and of themselves. That's right, both their words and their meaning had nothing to do with the shared life of God through the spirit of Christ in them. When we claim Christ as being our life, we honor him and his finished work on our behalf, as well as the ongoing life that expresses itself through all who are in him. The fleshly mind sets itself above others, the mind of Christ in us convinces us that we share equally together in God.

Re: No longer I who live....

by luvin - Dec 1 2011 - 10:55pm

Jim,

I Like what you say here. I have for the longest time suspected that those that made claims to be of Him didn't ever necessarily have to SAY they were 'the Christ' for it to be implied in that time. For Jesus did say something to the order of "they shall come in my name and say Lord, Lord.. and I shall say depart from Me I NEVER knew you".

I mean did/does the spirit of the Antichrist really have to announce itself in an outward way according to Jesus?

Or have WE simply been given ears to hear.

Re: No longer I who live....

by Visitor - Nov 29 2011 - 7:38pm

That is an interesting thought. I have always believed that "As He is in this world, so are you". Nice of you to get that revelation and bringing that here to share with others.

Re: No longer I who live....

by Visitor - Nov 29 2011 - 4:11pm

Heresy!
-justin

Re: No longer I who live....

by theshovel - Nov 29 2011 - 7:11pm

So the religious mind would say, eh? Thanks for your fantastic post to me, my friend. :)

Jim