Self must die, crucified with Christ.

Quote from yesterday- studied more today by God's will--

'God’s purpose cannot be accomplished as long as Satan continues to find opportunity to work through that soul life which remains uncommitted to the death of the cross. Self-pity, self-love, fear of suffering, withdrawal from the cross: these are some of the manifestations of soul life, for its prime motivation is self-preservation. It is exceedingly reluctant to endure any loss. This is precisely why the Lord summons us to deny self and take up our cross so as to crush our natural life. Every cross which passes before us beckons us to forsake ourselves. We should not harbor any self-love but lay down our lives by the power of God. The Lord says to us that this cross is ours, for we each receive from God our own particular cross. That is what we ought to bear. Although it is our cross, it nevertheless is closely connected with the cross of the Lord. '

Are we committed to the death of the cross-

Gal 2:20  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.

Are we crucified with Christ?

We must be.

Yet we live.

BUT

It's NOT us who live it is CHRIST!

This life we live in our flesh…

We have to live by FAITH in the Son of God who loves us, and died for us.

WE must be crucified with Christ.  Truly part of us must be crucified and obviously NOT our body, our flesh.  We couldn't LIVE at all if we took it literally in the physical sense. Some part of us MUST be crucified. There is a part of us that can't live, a very real part of us. What part?!

Gal 5:24  And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

We must crucify the FLESH (no, not hanging ourselves on a cross) the flesh nature - the AFFECTIONS, the LUSTS.

Rom 6:4  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Rom 6:5  For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

Rom 6:6  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

Gal 5:16  This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Gal 5:17  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

We have to WALK IN THE SPIRIT - and only then will we NOT fulfill the lusts of our flesh nature.

Our flesh nature has to die.

We have to DIE DAILY.

1Co_15:31  I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

2Co 4:10  Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

2Co 4:11  For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

Luk_9:23  And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

DENY ourselves - taking up the cross DAILY- Follow CHRIST.

If we are to DIE daily shouldn't this be a goal of ours?  A very serious goal.  Upon waking, shouldn't we seriously think about dying to self?  Awake to die to our flesh nature. Awake to realize that our fleshy desires must die. Awake and know that any selfish, self-centered, self-severing desire we may have are to perish. Submitting ourselves to GOD, submitting ourselves to the Holy Spirit, asking God to live in US, to help us to live for Him, for His will, for His glory and not for our own. 

We have to turn off the SELF focus!!!!!!!

But how.

May we learn how through our God.

More on this tomorrow by HIS WILL!

In Jesus always!