TO BE CRUCIFIED WITH ME
I came down to earth not to do My will, but only My Father’s will. I did not speak on My own authority, but My Father’s. I was His Word, manifested in flesh. I did nothing of Myself, but only what I saw My Father do. Whatever I saw My Father do, I did also. Therefore when men saw Me, they saw My Father, for He dwelled in Me and I dwelled in Him.
I left My heavenly state and was sent in the likeness of sinful flesh to dwell among men. I emptied Myself of My own identity to be abased into the form of a slave. I chose to instead represent My Father, so that all would see Him and not Myself. Finally I so emptied Myself in Gethsemane – the garden where oil is pressed – that every bit of self will was squeezed out of Me. I drank the cup to be crucified, to lay My life down and die, not of My own will but the will of My Father.
You too are called to lay your own will down and drink of My cup. You too will carry your own cross and follow after My pattern, for I was the firstborn among many brethren. You will deny your own will, and become crucified with Me, so that I will live in you and manifest Myself in you, even as My Father manifested Himself in Me. When the world sees you, they will see Me, even as they saw My Father in Me.
This beloved ones, is the true intimacy of finding Oneness with us. There is no greater glory, no greater honor, no greater love than being One with us.
Gal 2:20-21
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.
Matt 10:38-39 NKJV
And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.
Luke 9:23-26
Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. 24 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. 25 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost? 26 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels.
Phil 2:6-8 AMP
Who, although being essentially one with God and in the form of God [possessing the fullness of the attributes which make God God], did not think this equality with God was a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained, 7 But stripped Himself [of all privileges and rightful dignity], so as to assume the guise of a servant (slave), in that He became like men and was born a human being. 8 And after He had appeared in human form, He abased and humbled Himself [still further] and carried His obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross!
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Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, the Life… and He died for you.
