{"id":15390,"date":"2017-03-21T09:33:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T13:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=15390"},"modified":"2017-03-21T09:33:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T13:33:46","slug":"identified-or-simply-interested-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=15390","title":{"rendered":"Identified or Simply Interested?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I have been crucified with Christ\u2026 \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=31&amp;search=Galatians+2%3A20\" target=\"_blank\">Galatians 2:20<\/a><!--\n \t\n\n<li class=\"odb-share-whatsapp\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/#print');\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"share-whatsapp sd-button\" href=\"whatsapp:\/\/send?text=: \" title=\"\"><span><i class=\"fa fa-whatsapp\"><\/i> <span class=\"share-label\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- .entry-meta --><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"top-rule\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JGYjKR69M6U\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe inescapable spiritual need each of us has is the need to sign the death certificate of our sin nature. I must take my emotional opinions and intellectual beliefs and be willing to turn them into a moral verdict against the nature of sin; that is, against any claim I have to my right to myself. Paul said, \u201cI have been crucified with Christ\u2026.\u201d He did not say, \u201cI have made a determination to imitate Jesus Christ,\u201d or, \u201cI will really make an effort to follow Him\u201d \u2014but\u2014 \u201cI have been <em>identified<\/em> with Him in His death.\u201d Once I reach this moral decision and act on it, all that Christ accomplished <em>for<\/em> me on the Cross is accomplished <em>in<\/em> me. My unrestrained commitment of myself to God gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to grant to me the holiness of Jesus Christ.\u201c\u2026it is no longer I who live\u2026.\u201d My individuality remains, but my primary motivation for living and the nature that rules me are radically changed. I have the same human body, but the old satanic right to myself has been destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026and the life which I now live in the flesh,\u201d not the life which I long to live or even pray that I live, but the life I now live in my mortal flesh\u2014 the life which others can see, \u201cI live by faith in the Son of God\u2026.\u201d This faith was not Paul\u2019s own faith in Jesus Christ, but the faith the Son God had given to him (see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Ephesians+2:8\">Ephesians 2:8<\/a>). It is no longer a faith in faith, but a faith that transcends all imaginable limits\u2014 a faith that comes only from the Son of God.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"entry-content\"><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been crucified with Christ\u2026 \u2014Galatians 2:20 \u00a0 The inescapable spiritual need each of us has is the need to sign the death certificate of our sin nature. I must take my emotional opinions and intellectual beliefs and be willing to turn them into a moral verdict against the nature of sin; that is, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15392,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15390\/revisions\/15392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}