Buried With Christ.

Christ Jesus was brutally tortured and nailed to the cross. Upon the cross His life left Him, He died. No spirit other than that of His breath returned to God the Father when He took that last breath and released it to breathe no more. All of His thoughts ended, complete and utter unconsciousness, darkness descended upon God in the flesh. There was nothing but death's sleep embracing our Lord and Savior. His lifeless body was taken down from the cross and as those who loved Him looked on their sorrow was deep. The very Son of God was dead. Something they thought impossible, even though they were forewarned, had happened to their leader, the Messiah. The devastation was heart breaking, soul crushing, life altering, their grief overwhelming. They weren't happily awaiting the resurrection of Christ, they were filled with doubt, with sorrow, with that very awful pain that only death can give, the anguish of loss filled their every thought. That lost feeling you get when you aren't quite sure how life will go on without your loved one being in it, was in all of them. Things didn't seem right, their whole world had tilted off kilter and they let that grief fill them to its fullest. The Sabbath day they entered into after Christ was laid in His tomb, was  heart wrenching. They kept the Sabbath, not a single one of them was accused of breaking that Sabbath, they kept the seventh day holy as God commanded and Jesus Himself kept the Sabbath every week of His entire life. This Sabbath, Jesus was sleeping death's complete sleep of utter darkness. Jesus was truly resting in the peace of nothingness. Jesus no longer felt the horrific pain of his tortured flesh. Jesus no longer felt the anguish of the lost people all around Him, people who refused to believe God's truth. Jesus rested in that grave and the world was without God the Son for the very first time ever. The void caused by His absence was huge. God the Spirit lived on, God the Father lived on, God the Son was dead.

We were a part of His death. Our sins warranted His death. We were crucified with Him, we died with Him IF we accept Him as our Savior.  Think about that for a while. We died with Him, we choose to die with Him. We choose to let our flesh tendencies, our lusts, our sinful selves, our world loving beings die.

Are they dead? The old us must remain dead. We are given newness of life because the old us is now dead. The love of the world in us is now dead.

More on this tomorrow by the grace of God, may His will be done! All through Jesus Christ always and forever and right now!!!!!!!

Baptized into Jesus Christ-Baptized into His death.

We are crucified with Christ.

We who are Christ's have crucified the flesh - our affections and lusts.

We glory in the Lord Jesus Christ's cross. The world is crucified to us and we to the world.

Buried with Christ through baptism, we are raise with Him. We are forgiven. Christ nailed the ceremonial sacrificial system to the cross as He became our ultimate sacrifice.

Rom 6:3  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 

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. 

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. 

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

Gal 6:14  But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. 

Col 2:12  Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. 

Col 2:13  And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 

Col 2:14  Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;