{"id":509,"date":"2009-12-23T07:38:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T15:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=509"},"modified":"2009-12-23T09:25:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T17:25:23","slug":"sharing-in-the-atonement-12-23-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"Sharing in the Atonement 12-23-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
December 23, 2009<\/div>\n
Sharing in the Atonement<\/div>\n
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God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ . . . \u2014Galatians 6:14<\/strong><\/div>\n

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\nThe gospel of Jesus Christ always forces a decision of our will. Have I accepted God\u2019s verdict on sin as judged on the Cross of Christ? Do I have even the slightest interest in the death of Jesus? Do I want to be identified with His death\u2014 to be completely dead to all interest in sin, worldliness, and self? Do I long to be so closely identified with Jesus that I am of no value for anything except Him and His purposes? The great privilege of discipleship is that I can commit myself under the banner of His Cross, and that means death to sin. You must get alone with Jesus and either decide to tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you, or that at any cost you want to be identified with His death. When you act in confident faith in what our Lord did on the cross, a supernatural identification with His death takes place immediately. And you will come to know through a higher knowledge that your old life was “crucified with Him”<\/strong> (Romans 6:6<\/a> ). The proof that your old life is dead, having been “crucified with Christ”<\/strong> (\u00a0Galatians 2:20<\/a> ), is the amazing ease with which the life of God in you now enables you to obey the voice of Jesus Christ.<\/div>\n

Every once in a while our Lord gives us a glimpse of what we would be like if it were not for Him. This is a confirmation of what He said\u2014 “. . . without Me you can do nothing”<\/strong> (\u00a0John 15:5<\/a> ). That is why the underlying foundation of Christianity is personal, passionate devotion to the Lord Jesus. We mistake the joy of our first introduction into God\u2019s kingdom as His purpose for getting us there. Yet God\u2019s purpose in getting us into His kingdom is that we may realize all that identification with Jesus Christ means.<\/p>\n

Today we asked, “why? \u00a0 why stay connected?” \u00a0Is it to stay blessed? \u00a0 Yes, but not only that, \u00a0or primarily that. \u00a0 Higher and better is to bring him praise and honor. \u00a0 Also higher and better and more selfless is to be able to partner with God as his delivery boys. \u00a0 Delivering the miracles that he wants to inject into the world. \u00a0 Miracles that we cannot accomplish but he can. \u00a0Miracles that he will not deliver but we can. \u00a0Help us Lord to stay connected and expecting so that we can see what you want delivered….. and then obey……. \u00a0djr – jdv<\/em>
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December 23, 2009 Sharing in the Atonement http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9ErFHZFbOoQ God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ . . . \u2014Galatians 6:14 The gospel of Jesus Christ always forces a decision of our will. Have I accepted God\u2019s verdict on sin as judged on the Cross of Christ? Do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509"}],"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=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}