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"If we have been united together in the likeness
of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection . .
." — Romans 6:5
Co-Resurrection. The proof that I have experienced crucifixion with Jesus is
that I have a definite likeness to Him. The Spirit of Jesus entering me
rearranges my personal life before God. The resurrection of Jesus has given Him
the authority to give the life of God to me, and the experiences of my life must
now be built on the foundation of His life. I can have the resurrection life of
Jesus here and now, and it will exhibit itself through holiness.
The idea all through the apostle Paul’s writings is that after the decision to
be identified with Jesus in His death has been made, the resurrection life of
Jesus penetrates every bit of my human nature. It takes the omnipotence of God—
His complete and effective divinity— to live the life of the Son of God in human
flesh. The Holy Spirit cannot be accepted as a guest in merely one room of the
house— He invades all of it. And once I decide that my “old man” (that is, my
heredity of sin) should be identified with the death of Jesus, the Holy Spirit
invades me. He takes charge of everything. My part is to walk in the light and
to obey all that He reveals to me. Once I have made that important decision
about sin, it is easy to “reckon” that I am actually “dead indeed to sin,”
because I find the life of Jesus in me all the time ( Romans 6:11 ). Just as
there is only one kind of humanity, there is only one kind of holiness— the
holiness of Jesus. And it is His holiness that has been given to me. God puts
the holiness of His Son into me, and I belong to a new spiritual order.
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