(Morning and Evening, Dec 14), Spurgeon writing on "The life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God" declares that…. Eph 1:3-6; 2:4, etc.). Reminding himself of his new position in Christ, he quickly turned and ran from her, shouting, “It’s not I! Standing by his piano, Parker called to his wife, "Bring me an ax! As Dr Walvoord discusses below, crucifixion is not something that we do, but is something that Christ has accomplished for us! We are to live with this consciousness of Jesus Christ in us! Under the old covenant of the Law, the “I” was prominent, it was that “I” of Paul that lived and strived to to keep the Law. Lloyd Ogilvie, who has a powerful personality and an eloquent presence, tells about being in Scotland as a theological student. May it be the means of causing people to fall in love with the CHRIST life, that they may begin to live the CHRIST life." We must be careful to be properly dressed each day. I've gradually learned to bring this "death" into effect by allowing my flesh no more rights than a corpse! Then he would experience the power the car possessed. This personal pronoun when used with a verb (as in this verse) intensifies and emphasizes the subject of that verb. (see note 2 Timothy 4:17). It was a faith that continually focused upon the sacrificial, atoning, propitiatory death of Jesus Christ by which he was justified. God calls us “alone” (Isa. In this verse Paul uses "flesh" to refer to one's ordinary bodily existence which is not in itself evil. No more turning down the streets of self-centeredness, greed, or lust. The Sinner Made Saint. When the Lord in mercy passed by and saw us in our blood, he first of all said, "Live"; and this he did first, because life is one of the absolutely essential things in spiritual matters, and until it be bestowed we are incapable of partaking in the things of the kingdom. The verb is not in the present tense but correctly translated the passage reads, “Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him.” The same is true with Galatians 2:20 where the perfect tense is used, signifying that we not only are crucified with Christ already, but also that we have been crucified with Him ever since Christ died upon the cross. Be Thou, my God, a shield from wrong. His love is an everlasting love. Christ crucified for us, is not the same thing as our being crucified with Christ. Oh, to be lost in Thee; We are no longer in the realm of the god of this world, but have passed into the realm of the Risen Christ. Through this union with Him I satisfied the law, yielded to it the obedience which it claimed, suffered its curse, died to it, and am therefore now released from it—from its accusations and its penalty, and from its claim on me to obey it as the means of winning eternal life. Oh, that it might be no more I, The purpose was the raising of a new self. 7. for they are now standing where the fire has been. But God says that “if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” And I’d rather believe Him, wouldn't you? Our Lord spent only a few hours on the cross but he lives forevermore. Paul is saying, ‘Yes, I still live, but there is something so different about life, for Christ now lives in me. A child trusts themselves to their parents, putting themselves without worry or concern, into their parent's care. 2. Christ Who lives… Now only what Christ does in us and through us merits God's approval (See Mt 3:22-23 for Who pleased God! And evangelist Christmas Evans, putting down on paper his surrender to Christ, began it by writing: “I give my soul and body to Jesus.” It was, in a very real sense, a death to self. There is, in reality, no place where life is not; there never was a time when life was not; and there never will be a period when life will cease to be. Think of their Relationship One to the Other. In these verses, Paul is confronting Peter, the disciple of Jesus, over the issue of Peter's hypocrisy centering around Peter's return to the law to be justified (declared righteous) before God after learning about and living under grace as the means of justification. It is miraculous in operation by the grace of God. Jn 5:25, 26. It is not simply assent that He died on the cross, or even that He rose from the tomb. The utterance is not, as might be expected, I live in Christ; but, “Christ liveth in me. Live (2198) (zao related to noun zoe = life) (zao is clearly a "key word" in this passage occurring 4 times) means to live a natural physical life (as opposed to death) and as used many times in the NT, zao refers the conduct of one's life or how one behaves. (McGee, J V: Thru the Bible Commentary: Thomas Nelson), Galatians 2:20 therefore is Paul's testimony that he was now free from the demands of the Law, a truth beautifully brought out by the old hymn below (take a moment and sing the words as an offering of praise to our Father in Heaven)…, Free from the Law Timothy George is right in remarking, “Not only are we justified by faith, but we also live by faith. That is the way Paul puts it in the closing verses of our chapter. But every true believer is a quickened soul, and with the Apostle, in the words under consideration, can exclaim, "I live!" . What shall those do?” (Luther.) By this he is disclaiming the right of the sin nature to rule over him in view of the power of God released through the death of Christ upon the cross. (Commentary on Galatians). Have you asked Jesus to be your Friend? Christ's friendship will always prevail. No reasoning, no persuasion, no appeal will convince a corpse that it is a corpse. What does that mean? Zao also means to live in the sense of enjoying a true, full life as God meant it to be enjoyed and lived, such a life only possible "by faith in the Son" and enablement by the Spirit of Christ. The wrath of God against the sin of saints was completely exhausted on the Cross. Allow Him to live out His divine life through you. (Eerdmans). But even our obedience ultimately is initiated and empowered by the indwelling Spirit of Christ (Ezekiel 36:27). Clearly Paul intends us to understand that the life of which he was the center had been nailed to the Savior’s cross, and that Christ’s life had been substituted for it. Sin gives way to holiness. Now the life which grace confers upon the saints at the moment of their quickening is none other than the life of Christ, which, like the sap from the stem, runs into us, the branches, and establishes a living connection between our souls and Jesus. THE STRUGGLE WITH SIN. The bumper sticker “Jesus is my co-pilot” may be a well-intentioned sentiment, but it has always troubled me. (Hendriksen, W., & Kistemaker, S. J. The free giving of Christ for sinners is the motive for true obedience. Galatians 2:19, CSB: "For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live for God." He is in possession of another, a new and spiritual life; and to some of the features of this spiritual life let us now proceed to address ourselves. (F B Meyer. With the things that now are the faith of Christians has to do; and it is concerning the life that we now live in the flesh that I shall now speak, trying, by the help of God’s Spirit, to show the influence which faith has upon it. ", Spurgeon writing on "I am crucified with Christ" declares that…, The Lord Jesus Christ acted in what he did as a great public representative person, and his dying upon the cross was the virtual dying of all his people. Tagalog: Ang Dating Biblia (1905) Select a Bible Translation × Galacia . They traveled in covered wagons drawn by oxen, and progress was necessarily slow. - All the Days, Vance Havner - Dead and Alive Gal 2:20  An old self dies. Take all my will, my passion, self, and pride; But release from law is not lawlessness. Paul is saying that works are of value when joined with faith in Jesus Christ, clearly showing that when works are combined with faith, they have positive value. Christ liveth in me.... Galatians 2:20. As we come to understand more of the work of Christ on our behalf, more of what took place in justification, we will find ourselves living in greater dependence upon Jesus Christ in daily life. Read also: How can I say that I have been crucified with Christ? IV. Without the indwelling Holy Spirit, they cannot do it. Now Christ liveth in me. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. To be faithless is to be lifeless, without union with Him who has life and imparts it. Every true believer is a return to first-century Christianity. Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer l 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 up for me. 2:20), we should, as Paul admonished in Romans 6:11 (see note), consider ourselves “to be dead indeed to sin.” We still have sinful tendencies within, but having died to them, sin no longer has dominion over us. There is a mystery in each of them. It is to this life the Apostle refers in the remarkable words which we now attempt to expound: "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives 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." As discussed more below, crucifixion with Christ also means death to self. PRAYER - Set my heart on fire with the love of Thee, and then to do Thy will, and to obey Thy commandments, will not be grievous to me. If we were to judge ourselves according the flesh we would not consider ourselves to be new creations in Christ at all, but our estimation of ourselves is not what matters. The meanings of flesh vary on one hand from the physical substance of which human beings are composed to on the other hand a description of man's evil nature orientated toward self, prone to sin, opposed to God and which pursues its own ends in self-sufficient, independence from God. AMEN. Eph. ", It is an impressive declaration- not less true than solemn- which we pronounce in the exquisitely beautiful burial service, "In the midst of life we are in death." 2:1), but we were also spiritually raised (Eph 2:5). This is, perhaps, one of the strongest and most convincing evidences of its reality and growth. and thy fit name, Tags: Denying The Flesh, Walking In The Spirit. It is from Him that I receive all my strength. We cannot regenerate ourselves or confess Christ as Lord or understand the Bible but by the Holy Spirit. Reprinted by permission. We die to our old selves, we die to our sin, we die to the world, the flesh, and the devil, and we identify with the cross of Christ…. How much and how fully Christ can be Himself in us at present is an interesting subject. Spurgeon discusses the practical importance of the phrase "the Son of God Who loved me" noting that…, The distinguishing mark of a Christian is his confidence in the love of Christ and the yielding of his affections to Christ in return. It is all of God and none of them has anything he did not receive. Examination of the context shows that Paul uses "flesh" in Galatians 2:20 to refer to the physical part of man which includes the idea of the entire person. (Gal 2:14) Paul refutes this crucial error by reviewing that a man is justified or declared righteous before God by faith in Jesus Christ and not by keeping the Law…, We are Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles. He seeks now not his own will but the will of Him who saved him and sent him. The indwelling of Christ in the regenerate soul is not less comforting than sanctifying. For to him that loveth, nothing is difficult, nothing is impossible; because love is stronger than death. A Living Life—"I live." What is there in common between this "I" and the "Christ?" His Spirit-directed life began in me when I arose with Christ. In the flesh, but not after the flesh. ", Oh what vigilance it demands, lest this wretched self in us obtain a partial, or even a momentary, ascendancy! Yet, while conscious of death to the world, he can, at the same time, exclaim with the apostle, "Nevertheless I live." He is Paul's (and our) representative, who has borne the penalty of God's Law in our place. Galatians 2:20. by Grant Richison | Jan 18, 2000 | Galatians | 26 comments. Reprinted by permission. “Christ lives in me!” I remember reading someone’s definition of a Christian a number of years ago, as ‘a Christian is a person in whom Jesus Christ lives’. I doubt it. I. The manifest untruth of the lead statement, “We ourselves are Jews by birth…” for contemporary hearers presents in microcosm the difficulty of “getting” Galatians. Instead of leaving his family, as he was commanded, Abraham took his father and his nephew Lot with him when he left Ur; and then he stayed at Haran until his father died. 4:13). Galatians 2:18-21. "Crucified with Christ." We are meant to be more than holy corpses. But he is also your elder brother and his love takes out all the worry, fever, and tension. Preached at Life BPC 8am service, 2007-12-09. He is composed of opposites as wide apart as the poles asunder. When I arrived at the conference, I found a very curious crowd assembled. Christ died a substitutionary death. Faced with the impossibility of performing in a way that would be acceptable to God, we must receive Him who is the Life. He has come to live in us. Parker did not follow through, of course, but he realized that he could never be a Paderewski by simply following his example. (Mt 27:44) And the robbers also who had been crucified with Him were casting the same insult at Him. (Jn 19:32) The soldiers therefore came, and broke the legs of the first man, and of the other man who was crucified with Him; (Romans 6:6) knowing this, that our old self (old man) was crucified with (aorist tense = past completed action) Him, that our body of Sin might be done away with (aorist tense = past completed action), that we should no longer be slaves (present tense = continually) to sin; (see note Romans 6:6), Comment: Note how God deals with the old self - He does not change it or transform it. We now live a life of faith - saved by faith, live by faith, walk by faith. Gal. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press), Sing out the truth in the following hymn and live out your life strengthened by the grace of Christ Who now lives in you…. The principle of living is not by the Law which has slain us because it found us guilty. It is the very soul and marrow of the gospel. It’s not I!” Augustine had found the secret of Paul’s words: “I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me” (Gal. The fires of GOD's judgment burned themselves out on Him, In the context (too often this famous verse is quoted out of context) of his discussion (Gal 2:19 "For through the Law I died to the Law, that I might live to God." “I have been crucified,” but “I now live.” But you might say, “That’s not paradoxical, it’s just sequential. Having received Christ, he is to this world as one who is utterly dead. Thus, for to me to live is Christ (Php 1:21-note): Christ is the principle of my life; from His fullness I live—as the branch lives from the root (cp Jn 15:5). Abraham and Sarah brought a sinful agreement with them from Ur (Gen. 20:13), and it got them into trouble twice (Genesis 12:1-20; 20:1-18). Nature can go far in its forgeries of God's superscription, its counterfeits of the Spirit's work, and yet be Nature still. They were men who knew the love of Christ and rested upon it as a man leans upon a staff whose trustiness he has tried. —Whittle The immediate context of Galatians 2:20 is a set of verses beginning with Galatians 2:11 and ending with Galatians 2:21. And best of all, the power of Sin over Saul (in Adam) was broken and no longer had any right to dominate the new Paul (in Christ). Amen. In the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (1/17/98) Judy Zmerold writes: Three-year-old Katie was taken to her pediatrician during a recent bout with the flu. Godliness with contentment is great gain: it hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. before we again enter His presence. That is Paul’s testimony, and every believer who is in Christ can truly say, I too am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live. Nothing can be more untrue than this: I venture to say that more practical moral teaching is given by ministers of the gospel than by all the philosophers, lecturers, and moralists put together (eg, see Titus 2:11-note, Titus 2:12-note). Whatever you bring with you from the old life into the new is likely to create problems. Chicago: Moody Press, Packer, J I: Your Father Loves You. Galatians 2:20. 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.” The context of Galatians 2 is how the believer is made right with God. Paul reiterates this same truth of Christ working through the yielded saint in many other verses, of which the following are examples…, For I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed… (see note Romans 15:18), Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 51:1, 2), and we must not compromise. Not all your praying or obedience can ever make you worthy. He died for us so that He might be able to live His life in us. NLT: I myself no longer live, but Christ lives in me. In Spiritism there is the extinction of personality—never in Christianity. what multitudes there are the fruitful offspring of this age of broad theory and speculative thought who thus accept the Bible as a text-book only without the slightest knowledge or profound conviction of its being wholly and only the Word of God: whose great revealed truth is, "Christ our life. —Whittle. This is not an experience that we must struggle to enter into now. In the Hebrew, "in dying, you shall die the death. We cannot regenerate ourselves, for we are born again not of the will of the flesh but of God (John 1:13). This is the "I" as under the domination of the sin principle. Saint Paul writes this particular chapter of Galatians to recount a disagreement with Saint Peter. 2:2) operates in and through the one, while the Almighty Father of all manifests Himself through the other. Reprinted by permission. —Joanie Yoder (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. Its chains are broken and its charms are gone.”, In the light of these truths, would you say you are acting like a “crucified” Christian? That is real Christianity. Everything is changed in and about the place. The Apostle’s ability to live unto God came through a faith that gave him confidence in Christ’s unfailing love and the sufficiency of Christ’s atoning, justifying work. (Wuest's Word Studies from the Greek New Testament), Martin Luther who was well versed in trying to live a righteous life in his own power wisely wrote this warning…. "… But Christ-life in us is a blessed fact, realized by profound consciousness; and the personality is not merged, it is rather elevated and more fully individualized by being seized and filled with a higher vitality, as the following clauses describe. He is not going back, and he has no further plans of his own.”, Theodore Epp notes that every believer's…. He is always meant to be in the driver’s seat. Henry Morris in his comments on Galatians 2:20 rightly says that "Here is the great secret of a Christ-honoring Christian life. 2:20. She knew that God had reckoned her as one with the Lord Jesus in His death, burial, and resurrection, and that any goodness she had manifested in her life was the result of her union with the Living Christ. The figure is not only unscriptural, but physically impossible as crucifixion must always be administered by another. You might screw up your own courage and hope you have what it takes to cross it. I must not spare my shrinking flesh, the crucifixion pain; We are not to seek to be crucified with Christ… There are many people today who talk about wanting to live the “crucified” life. The old Paul with his animosity and hatred, with his pride and covetous spirit, met the judgment of God at the cross. I was holding a series of evangelistic meetings in a church in Virginia. Revile his name but he lives by the name of another. Today thank Jesus that His death gave you new life. - All the Days. Is it fear of surrendering your will to His perfect will? Galatians 2:20. That Christ liveth in me. Galatians 2 English Standard Version (ESV) Paul Accepted by the Apostles. ", Oh what a vital and blessed truth is this! Blessed is that heart, that home, that church, where the Saviour is not an occasional visitor for special occasions, but a welcome resident who is also President, where it truly can be said, "Jesus lives here"! Vance Havner - WHAT TO DO WITH YOURSELF It is this that marks the real difference between the old life prior to our salvation and the new life now that we are saved. This is what our Father desires in His children. In short, is what it means to walk by the Spirit. He gave Himself. All rights reserved). And yet when it comes to pleasing God, we could never "do" or "work" enough to please Him. 1986), Our Daily Bread has a devotional adapted from Ethel Barrett's work "It Only Hurts When I Laugh"…. Still at the wheel of your life? In Colossians 3:5-10, Paul described how this actually happens. You are "through the law dead to the law, that you might live unto God." . So too, people who have never been born again are doomed to disappointment and failure when they attempt to live in a way that pleases God. But in God’s Word the light I found, 1:3 Sumainyo nawa ang biyaya at kapayapaang mula sa Dios na Ama, at sa ating Panginoong Jesucristo, That there may be counterfeits of spiritual life, God's word makes it evident. He is not dealing in strange mysteries for a few select saints. Yet Christ does not operate automatically in a believer’s life; it is a matter of living the new life by faith in the Son of God. Our life is now ‘in Christ’, not ‘in Adam’ (1Cor 15:22), but this is known only by faith. The law shows the standard for entering heaven – perfection. (Wesley, J. Wesley's Notes), Christ is the PRINCIPLE of my life. He loved us on Calvary and He loves us today and forever. IV. It is His permanent residence, never to forsake it. Vine adds that "The singular pronoun ("ME") here is in keeping with the rest of the section, but there is no other instance of its use in this connection in New Testament. Among other things it means that followers of Christ have once upon a time come to the old rugged cross and have gazed upon the dying form of one who suffered there. (see notes Romans 8:9, 8:11). I did die, but I am now here, risen from the dead, and alive forevermore.” While Revelation 1:18 applies first of all to the death and resurrection of Jesus, it reminds me of what has happened to every member of the body of Christ. Jesus Christ (Ed: Via His indwelling Spirit - Ro 8:9) sends forth life… into me, to quicken me to every holy action. Dr. Lee replied, "Yes! In view of the principle that resurrection can only come after death, as believers we must continually reckon ourselves as dead to sin (Ro 6:11-note) with Christ in order to experience His victorious life and His resurrection power, walking by faith and not by sight. The new life is Christ living in the man, and where Christ lives all is beauty and blessing. He is fully alive unto God. (Morning and Evening, Dec 28), Pastor Ray Pritchard tells a somewhat humorous story related to Galatians 2:20…. The old self died on the cross with Jesus. This is a verse I memorized during my college days; I've been mulling over it for twenty-five years, but I have yet to plumb its depths. We begin in faith; we continue in faith; and thank God, we finish in faith! Grace hath redeemed us once for all. This very One now indwells us and by His Spirit enables us to live life in a way that pleases our Father!). What communion hath light with darkness? He says that to live, we must die (Lk 9:22-24). There is a far better, surer way than that: let the steam in, and that will do it. (see notes Romans 6:3 - this describes our identification with Christ), 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. The one is the instrument of Satan, the other is the servant of God. (Real Stories for the Soul), F B Meyer in a devotional entitled "Christian Living" wrote…, THE HEART of true religion is to believe that Christ is literally within us. In short, the reality of His life will keep showing up in your thoughts, your desires, your longings, your obedience, your tongue. Have you ever pondered the Cross from this very personal perspective? (Mt 20:28), "I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep… For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. Galatia was part of the country that we now call Turkey. Vance Havner - By His Spirit  - We cannot of ourselves produce any of the experiences of the Christian life. Galatians 4:30. Live today! Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. "I have been crucified with Christ; and 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 up for me. (Amplified Bible - Lockman), Barclay: I have been crucified with Christ. Agapao describes love which is still given if it's not received or returned! Death, the gate of life. From the divine side, Christ is living in us and enabling us to live the way he teaches us to live. (see note Romans 6:2), 3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 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