Buried With Christ
/I WAS BURIED WITH CHRIST
I often tell people that when I got born-again that I really got born-again. A lot people seem to be mystified by my statement. When I state that I really got born-again, I mean that even though there were some flesh issues that I have had to overcome, (and am still working on), I had a clear understanding in my heart my sins were done away with and God would never resurrect them again to taunt me, haunt me, or punish me. Now no one told me this, it was the understanding that I got from hearing the preacher preach from Romans 8:31-39. These scriptures literally saved my life (Click here to see my testimony). These scriptures not only will develop your faith, but will help to train and equip you for the life that you were meant to live.
Romans 6:4 "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."
(Living Bible) Your old sin-living nature was buried with Him by baptism when He died, and when God the Father, with glorious power, brought Him back to life again, you were given His wonderful new life to enjoy.
(Stevens) This participation involves an ethical dying with Christ on his cross—a complete breaking off of relations with the old sinful life—and a burial into moral death; that is, a permanent separation from the sinful world in which we formerly lived, in order that a new life in a new world of motive and action might be begun—a life as different form the former one as was Christ’s life after his resurrection from what it was before.
Confession: The person I used to be was entombed with Christ. The burial was a permanent separation from the sinful world in which I once lived so that for me a new life in a new world has begun. When He was buried, I was buried. Water baptism was a sign and confirmation that I died with Christ and was placed into that death. My diseases and bondages were sealed away in the tomb with Him. Because Christ rose by the Father’s glorious power, I walk in possession of His wonderful new life. His life is in me and controls me. I live and move in a new sphere— of life. His own resurrection life is in me. The same life that enabled Him to conquer hell and Satan is in me. I am free from all He became and bore for me including sin, sickness, poverty, and bondage. I live my daily life empowered by a new vital force—His resurrection Life.
Romans 6:5 "For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection."
(Pilcher) For if we have been grafted into union with Christ so as to share His death, we shall also share His resurrection.
(Johnson) Since we have participated in his death, we will also participate in the new life his resurrection releases.
Confession: I was identified with Christ—dying with Him when He died, buried with Him when He was buried, and rising with Him when He arose. I participated in His death, burial and resurrection. What those events did for Him; they did for me. What those events gave Him; they gave me. I have now been grafted into Him in spirit so that His death has gone into effect in me.
It is no longer I that live, but Christ. Through my union with Him there is constantly flowing into me the Life He now lives. He was one in nature with me on the cross. I am now one in nature with Him in His resurrection Life. I shared His death; I shared His resurrection. Both His death and resurrection are now at work within me. I have been cut off from, and have become dead to the trunk of the old humanity and this wicked world, and have now been grafted into the Stock of the New Humanity which is Christ. I am vitally united to Him. I have become a part of Him, having died with Him, and having been buried with Him. I now share His new resurrection life, having also been raised with Him.
Colossians 2:12 "Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead."
Confession: Water baptism represented my identification in His burial and resurrection. I was buried with Him; I was raised with Him. My past was buried with Him. My diseases were buried with Him. My failures and bondages were buried with Him. I now have new victorious risen life in me. I am a partner in the power and life of His resurrection.
I WAS MADE ALIVE WITH CHRIST
Colossians 2:13 "And you, being dead in your sins and circumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses."
(Street Letters) Your rotten life deserved death, so in Himself, Jesus took you to the cross, dumped all your rottenness on Himself, and gave you new life.
Confession: I was made alive with Christ. The Father made us alive together; He co-quickened us. His resurrection life is now in me. God thrilled me with the same new life that He made Jesus alive with. I share in the life of Christ. My spirit is full of His life.
Ephesians 2:6 "Even when we were dead in sins, [God] hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved.)"
(Amplified) … He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him.
Confession: Because I was identified with Him, God gave life to me in giving life to Christ. God saw me crucified. God saw me dead. God saw me buried. He saw me made alive. I was made alive with Christ and that same new life has now been breathed into me. This new life is breathed into my spirit. He gave me the very life of Christ Himself the same new life with which He quickened Him. The same life that made Jesus the master of hell’s dark forces is in me.
