Everyday.

 Crucified With Christ.

Joh 14:19  Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. 

Because Jesus lives, we will live. This is our HOPE!  We have NO HOPE in ourselves. It's because JESUS lives that we will live! It isn't because we live, it isn't because we are good, it isn't because we are special in some way of our own making. We live BECAUSE He lives!

If Jesus hadn't lived then we wouldn't have any hope whatsoever.

Each of us is given the hope of eternal life. It is Satan's position to take this hope from all he can. Satan will stop at absolutely nothing at all to take the hope of eternal life from each and every one of us. Satan will deploy tactics so deceptive that people will never even realize who is the evil source of their eternal end.  

What I don't comprehend is the belief not to believe simply because of arrogance great or small that gives a person a tiny bit of self-satisfaction to say they won't be fooled into believing a fairy tale.  Believing in Christ as our Savior gives us a hope, but what hope does one have who chooses not to believe? They will live and one day realize before they are eternally gone that they made the wrong choice not to believe. The horror of that moment will only be equaled by the horrors of the many who for very various reasons will be lost eternally. Those whose beliefs are fueled by self, not Christ. Those who say they know Christ and do all sorts of wonderful things in His name, but their hearts are not known by Christ at all. Those who have never made a personal commitment to know Christ, accepting His death and living for Him.  So many will be lost, many more than those who will be saved all because Satan uses great deception and man chooses self over God!

We've got to stop choosing self over God! And we have to do this by the power of God. Everyday yielding ourselves to HIM! Regardless of what our day contains, each and every day we yield! We seek forgiveness every day as we pick up our cross daily. EVERYDAY!

God help us! Please, God help us! Keep us from the evil that would keep us from You!

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Crucifixion with Him. 

As Christ was crucified, therefore, being baptized into his death means that we are crucified with him. So we read, "I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me."  Galatians 2:20. Crucified, yet living, because crucified with Christ, and yet he lives. Christ said, "Because I live,  ye shall live also." John 14:19. How can we live a new life? We have no power at all of ourselves; but Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father; and in his prayer to the Father he said, "The glory which thou gavest me I have given them." John 17:22. Therefore, the power that raised Jesus from the dead is exercised to raise us from the death of sin. If we are willing to allow the old life to be crucified, we may be sure of the new.

"Our Old Man" Crucified. We shall be in the likeness of his resurrection. If we are crucified with Christ, our sins must also be crucified with Christ, for they are a part of us. Our sins were on him as he was crucified, so of course our sins are crucified if we are crucified with him.

But here is a difference between us and our sins when crucified. We are crucified in order that we may live again;  our sins are crucified in order that they may be destroyed. Christ is not "the minister of sin" (Gal. 2:17). It was the life of God that raised him from the dead, and in that life there is no sin.

A Separation From Sin. The reader will notice that the separation from sin is in death. That is because death is in sin. "Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death." James 1:15. Therefore nothing less than death will effect a separation. We could not separate ourselves from sin, because sin was our very life. If it had been possible for us to effect the destruction of sin, it could have been only by the giving up of our lives, and that would have been the end of us. That is why there will be no future for the wicked who die in their sins; their life having been given up (or rather, taken from them), they are out of existence. But Christ had the power to lay down his life, and to take it again; and therefore when we lay down our lives in him, we are raised again by his endless life.

Remember that he does not give us our own life back again, but that he gives us his own life. In that life there never was a sin; and so it is that our crucifixion and resurrection with him is the separation of sin from us. This thought must be borne in mind when we come to study the next chapter.