Title: I Changed into the Cross
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I changed into the cross (2 Corinthians 5:13-19) 2009.04.05.
Paul is teaching that since the saints have been united to the Lord in the death of Christ through the cross and given new life through his resurrection, they must now live not for themselves, but entirely for Christ.
We share in his death through the cross, and now we are new creations in Christ. Our center has been changed through the cross. Now our new center is in Christ, and Christ is the source of our life force. Therefore, we claim that it is not 'I' but 'Christ's love'.
When God reveals the truth of the cross to us, it goes beyond mere intellectual understanding and reveals it through practical experience unfolding in our lives.
A changed center (2 Corinthians 5:14)
- The center of the self is not me, but the change of the center of being transformed into Christ.
New creation, new personality (1 Corinthians 6:17, Galatians 2:20)
-The characteristic of Christ's atonement is not the oppression of the person, but the re-creation of the person.
The ultimate goal of Christ's atonement is to change the ultimate purpose by the Holy Spirit from saving souls to re-creation. And the Lord wants you to dwell in that re-created person.
The Holy Spirit is a new divine principle, step by step in us a new function, a new will,
He creates new knowledge and emotions and a new sense of self.
The cross of death (Romans 6:2.7)
-In the death of Christ we are dead to sin, and it is already finished and completed (Galatians 2:20).
Practical experience of dying (Romans 6:2, 8:13)
- All actions that arise from the root of the corrupted natural man must be dealt with at the cross.
Only when our flesh is continually handed over to the cross to be continually given will the fallen human nature that drives the action of the flesh will be dealt with and all the action of the flesh within us will be put to an end.
The continual life and death of death (2 Corinthians 4:10-11)
-We must continue to share in Christ's death from our transformed center to our outward body.
The cross and changed values (2 Corinthians 5:14-16)
When the nation and self are crucified, all values within us are also changed.
This means that not only has changed, but is now completely changed. When Christ becomes the center of our lives, we will rely on the Lord to give us even the midi spoken under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Changed words and deeds (John 5:19)
- We must lay down all our natural materials in front of the cross and allow us to actually admit that it is the truth only in the words of the Lord. God wants to use that transformed heart that has dealt with ‘I’ on the cross. Now, God wants to use us as a tool to convey the truth of God to people by changing the center of “I” that insists on all our words and actions.
What kind of cross should I bear?
This means to suffer shame and suffering in order to benefit others and to save the dying. God is glorified through the person who takes up the cross, and He accomplishes His will and blesses him. Sacrifice for the glory of God does not end with sacrifice.
When a grain of wheat falls to the ground and rots, it bears much fruit, but the uncorrupted grain of wheat
There is always just one grain.
Even if they go to church for a long time and know a lot of the Bible, those who do not carry the cross always live that way. But sometimes when you give up everything for the glory of God
I believe that there is no one who will not gain a hundred in this time and eternal life in the next life. This is the Lord's promise.
When you are low, the Lord exalts you. If you sacrifice, the Lord will reward you.
It is to be able to bear such a cross. The reason everyone commits is because they do not want to sacrifice themselves, but because they want to succeed even if they use others as a scapegoat
There is a war in this world, and there is a small fight between husband and wife.
It's all the cross that belongs to me
You have to die to live, you have to give up to gain, you have to hurt to mature, and when you break, you recover
God's code is that you can wear a crown only when you hang on the cross.
Therefore, we must die in order to live, we must give up in order to gain, and we must suffer in order to mature;
We must be broken every day to be restored, and we must die on the cross to be crowned.
No matter who you are, there is a 'cross born in my share'.
There is not a single Christian without the cross in the world.
Everyone is bound to carry their own big and small crosses.
So, what is my cross? 'If it weren't for this problem... if it wasn't for this person...'
The thing that I can trust well and that I can be thankful for in everything.
Things you want to avoid, things you don't want to think about, things you want to get rid of,
If there is one thing I want to forget, it is all about 'the cross that belongs to me'.
Whether it be people, poverty, disease, parents, children, couples, or persecution.
When people face their own crosses in front of them, they react in two ways.
One is to think that my cross is the heaviest and largest.
Another thing is that I try not to carry the cross somehow, and I try to avoid it if possible.
But God's code of the cross toward us avoids the cross,
It's not about changing the cross to something light or telling you to take off the cross and run.
Then, what is the will of God that demands of us through the cross?
It is to take up the cross and not to drag it.
After you are taken away, you are to die by hanging on the cross.
But Christianity does not end with death,
With death, a new beginning is made, and with death we live properly.
You cannot live unless you die. How can we be resurrected without death?
Just as surgery cannot be performed without anesthesia
Without our 'death experience' (pain), there is no 'life experience' (change).
All you have to do is die on the cross, you just have to live and carry the cross and hang on it,
Things get worse and worse as they try to avoid the cross and run away.
The problem is that it still entangles me with the problem.
There is no place in the world without problems.
However, there is one place where there is no problem, and that place is a 'cemetery'.
There is no quarrel, no quarrel, no resentment, no hate, no hurt, no uproar, no regret, no greed.
Because there are only dead people there.
Why our lives are hard, difficult, and problems feel like problems
Because my self is still alive and alive.
There is a saying that 'the end of man is the beginning of God'.
God's beginnings, answers, miracles, and changes always appear at the end of man.
Then, why is it that I do not have God's beginning and answer and it is so slow?
The conclusion is simple, it's not dead and less dead.
Just as unripe persimmons are astringent, and unripe rice cannot be eaten.
It is not an unripe death, but it is not as bad as death.
Other people's crosses tend to look lighter and smaller, but they are not.
The weight of the cross is almost the same. The secret of the weight of the cross is,
When you look at it and think about it, it seems heavy, but it becomes light with the carrying and hanging of death.
For all of us, we have a cross bearing our share that cannot be avoided and cannot be lifted.
It is a blessing to carry the cross even by force, but how about carrying it with joy?
Actually, I cannot carry the cross by my own strength. but,
When I go to carry the cross, the Lord who carried the cross
It's going to take my place.
When we die on the cross, we receive a resurrection of answers, a resurrection of change,
You can experience the resurrection of healing, the resurrection of recovery, the resurrection of resolution, and the resurrection of prosperity.
If I struggle and try to avoid it, the weight of the cross will weigh on me.
If you don't want to believe in the Lord, you don't know what to believe
We must carry the cross that was born from our share and follow it.
A grain of wheat must fall to the ground and rot, but Christians must die on the cross.
Now, to Calvary Hill, from which we have all descended on the cross.
Please go under the cross that you tried to escape by the side of the cross that you took off.
The reason Paul was so full every day, even in the worst circumstances, he was able to achieve his best victories.
Because Paul could die every day.
We must not die once, we must die every day to live.
If you want to live well every day, you just have to die every day, where is it so satisfying to die?
Is there anything more difficult than dying? That is why we need grace, we need the Word, we need suffering, and we need refinement.