{"id":4354,"date":"2009-06-18T19:52:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T23:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/200\/?p=34"},"modified":"2009-06-18T19:52:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T23:52:33","slug":"interest-or-identification-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/06\/18\/interest-or-identification-2\/","title":{"rendered":"INTEREST OR IDENTIFICATION?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been crucified with Christ.<\/p>\n

— Galatians 2:20<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The imperative need spiritually is to sign the death warrant of the
\ndisposition of sin, to turn all emotional impressions and
\nintellectual beliefs into a moral verdict against the disposition of
\nsin, viz., my claim to my right to myself. Paul says – “I have been
\ncrucified with Christ”; he does not say – “I have determined to
\nimitate Jesus Christ,” or, “I will endeavour to follow Him” – but –
\n“I have been identified with Him in His death.” When I come to such a
\nmoral decision and act upon it, then all that Christ wrought for me
\non the Cross is wrought in me. The free committal of myself to God
\ngives the Holy Spirit the chance to impart to me the holiness of
\nJesus Christ.<\/p>\n

“. . . nevertheless I live. . . .” The individuality remains, but the
\nmainspring, the ruling disposition, is radically altered. The same
\nhuman body remains, but the old satanic right to myself is destroyed.<\/p>\n

“And the life which I now live in the flesh . . . ,” not the life
\nwhich I long to live and pray to live, but the life I now live in my
\nmortal flesh, the life which men can see, “I live by the faith of the
\nSon of God.” This faith is not Paul’s faith in Jesus Christ, but the
\nfaith that the Son of God has imparted to him – “the faith of the Son
\nof God.” It is no longer faith in faith, but faith which has
\noverleapt all conscious bounds, the identical faith of the Son of
\nGod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been crucified with Christ. — Galatians 2:20 The imperative need spiritually is to sign the death warrant of the disposition of sin, to turn all emotional impressions and intellectual beliefs into a moral verdict against the disposition of sin, viz., my claim to my right to myself. Paul says – “I have been…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}