I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.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.I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
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… able. In Christ, I'm able. I've been joined together with Christ. I'm able. Paul wrote it a different way. And he said, I've been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And let me tell you something today. Christ is able. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I'm not counting on me. I'm counting on Christ. And Christ is able, and Christ is in me, and I am in Christ. And in Christ, I have a brand new identity. identity. The enemy does not want you to get this. He just wants you to keep walking with shame. He wants you to keep hearing about the holy possibility. but to walk in the drudgery of carrying boulders in your pockets because of shame. And he does not want you to know that the shame died on the cross and that you are crucified with Christ. …
… To take up the cross is the most life-giving thing you can do. Because Paul said, I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. Yet not I, but Christ lives in me. Now Jesus continues on. take up your cross daily and follow me. And then he says in Luke 9 24, whoever wants to save their life will lose it. Whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. Ah, how different that is from culture. Culture says, find yourself, love yourself, protect your peace, follow your heart, live your truth. Your happiness comes first. Main character, energy. And one of the big ones, you do you. And to that I say, oh, shut up. Just shut up. Seriously. You do you. You do you. It's not all about you. It's all about him. The very opposite. The world says find yourself. Jesus says love yourself. The world says you do you. Jesus says you follow me. But here's the cool thing. When you lose yourself, you actually find yourself. …
… the Holy Spirit enabling me to live the life that God has called me to live. I can't do it otherwise. And I love how Paul summed it up when he wrote over in Galatians 2.20, I'm crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me. In the life that I now live, I live by the faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. It's Christ living in us. and this phrase, this expression, this term Christian was not adopted by the Christians initially. It was a name given to them. They were actually identified in the book of Acts as people of the way. Isn't that interesting? They were called people of the way. Saul, later to become the apostle Paul, talked about how he persecuted those who were of the way. Why do they call them people of the way? Well, it's pretty obvious. Jesus said in John 14, 6, I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man comes to the Father but by me. …
… I don't think I'd ever thought of a life verse until that moment. And I remember that out of my mouth came Galatians 2.20. I am crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. Later, I went back and I looked in my old Bible that my folks had given me when I was 15, onion skin paper, King James Version, leather cover with my name on it. And Galatians 2.20 was really heavily marked up, though I couldn't even remember that. And to this day, that verse, which is not the text of the morning, by the way, it's just kind of moving toward the text. That verse has been extraordinarily precious to me. And the reason is this, it probably is to many of you. It's the only verse in the New Testament in which a writer says, he loved me. …
… Chapter 2, verse 20, Paul says, I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. I want to preach to you from this message, from this verse, a message that I'm calling, this could be the death of me. This could be the death of me. Have you ever got hurt so bad it surprised you? Like just the stupidity of it especially, you know what I'm talking about? I was on a plane a while back, and I was sitting in the very back of the plane, and at the last minute, they said, you've been upgraded to comfort plus, which is right just shy of where you want to be when you get an upgrade. But I was grateful until I got to my upgraded seat and found out it was a middle seat. I had at least an aisle seat in the back. I might not have been able to recline back there. I might have been next to the bathroom, but at least I was in control of my own destiny. …
And God can simply point to the cross of Jesus, and we can see that it is more than enough. We've been purchased and won by him, and therefore, as Paul says in Galatians 2.20, I've been crucified with Christ. It's no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. Therefore, honor him who has purchased you, body and soul, by the life of his Son. Amen. And we pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for redeeming us by the single life, death, and resurrection of your Son. Remind us that he has made the full payment for us and that we are therefore his, body and soul. Keep us as your own in this life and unto eternal life. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. our mobile app and more go to lutheranhour.org The world to me with all its haunted pleasure When you and you alone Lord Jesus, are my treasure You only, dearest Lord My soul's delight shall be You are my peace, my rest What is the world to me? …
One verse, Galatians chapter 2, verse 20. And in this one verse, I want to show you what I've called at the top of your notes, the secret to the Christian life. And I say it's a secret, not because I've come up with something new that nobody's ever heard. The truth that we're about to look at is all over the Bible. In many ways, it is the core of Christianity. But I believe many Christians, many true followers of Jesus have missed this or are missing this on a daily basis. So I wanna show it to you, and I wanna do two things. First, like I mentioned, I wanna call many people today in this room and other campuses to start a Christian life. Like to put your faith in Christ and for some to be baptized if you've never been baptized as a follower of Christ. And then I want to lead us and other campus pastors at other campuses to pray based on this verse. …
I've got a decrease so he can increase. Galatians 2 20. It says it says I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live. But the life I live is is of Christ, which means I need more Jesus on the inside to help me to obey him on the outside. I cannot do his will without him. I need him to help me work for him. I need him to help me. I need him to help me serve him. Help me obey him. Help me honor him. That's why we got to pray every single day. Because we can't obey God without God. We can't serve God without God. We can't talk like God without God. We can't treat people like God would without God. We can't bless God, praise God without God. Can I talk to some real people? We we need anybody else other than me needs God. You need him like I need him. We we need him to be for him and to be like him. …
… 15. He talks about it in 2 Corinthians 5, excuse me, and we'll talk about that one. But if you want to see a great example of it, in Galatians 2.20, Paul says, I have been crucified together with Christ. Sin. I've been crucified with Christ. and I live, yet not I, but Christ lives within me. We referred to this a couple of weeks ago. That's one of the neatest verses to me. Paul says, I live, yet not I, Christ lives within me. That's exactly how every Christian feels. After you've gone from death to life, after a while, you look at yourself and you say, who is this? Sometimes you say, it's me, Paul. Paul of Tarsus. And then other times you say, but it's not me. This isn't the Paul of Tarsus I used to know. But of course it has to be me. Who else could it be? You know, I am Paul of Tarsus. I'm not Paul of Tarsus, you see. I'm both Paul of Tarsus and not Paul of Tarsus. Being a Christian is a very complicated condition. That's always been true. Being a Christianity brings into you a new complexity psychologically. I sure wish people would see that. Being a Christian does not suddenly get rid of all your problems by any means. Being a Christian, in some ways, creates a lot of problems. I mean, a bear is dangerous, but nowhere near as dangerous as if you just shot her in the leg. She's much more dangerous then. Your sinful nature, …
… He used to be Saul of Tarsus. And there's a place where Paul says, in Galatians 2.20, he says, I live, yet not I, but Christ lives within me. I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me. Now, that's a perfect example of what it means to be a Christian. There's a confusion there, but it's a wonderful confusion. It's a delirious confusion. It's a joyful confusion. He says, it's I that live, and yet it's not I. See, that's what every Christian feels like. it's me, but it's not me. Well, it has to be me. Of course it's me. I am Paul of Tarsus. I'm not Paul of Tarsus, but it is a new Paul of Tarsus. A Christian becomes a beautifully complex person. Stupendous what Christianity is. Something has come from the outside. A new life has been brought to me. A new perspective has been brought to me. I see things differently. I have a new power within me, a new strength. I've been made partaker of the divine nature, now is there's a sense in which I still am me, but I'm not me. There's a joy about it. And yet there's, there's always, I would call it a holy and joyful confusion about it. It is I, it is not I. It's me, yet it is not me. You can see it in that hymn. And can it be that I should gain an interest in the Savior's blood? Died he for me, who caused his pain? Now, if you think of Christianity …