He shared with us in His Incarnation. He became one with us. He gave us His kingly glory and became one with suffering, lost humanity. He was one with us in His Substitution. He shares with us; He shares our sins, our infirmities, our diseases. He took them upon Himself. The sharing was so real that He who knew no sin, became sin in order to become Identified with us, to come to our level. He not only had sin reckoned to Him, sin laid upon Him as the High Priest laid the sin of Israel upon the goat, but He actually became sin. We can hardly grasp the fact that Deity could become sin, but He did. He died spiritually. The Righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God. In the New Creation we shared with Him. He is the Head; we are the body. He has imparted Himself to us, and when He imparted Himself to us, He gave to us a new self in the place of our old self. That old, fallen, sin-ruled self was displaced and the new Jesus self, the New Creation self, the Godlike self, the self that is made in the image of Christ, became our new self. Cant you see that today you are partaking of His Divine Nature, that as you yield to the inward Life of God in your spirit, you will slowly but surely gain the ascendancy over your reasoning faculties until your mind becomes renewed through the reading of the Word, which is really the unveiling Mind of Christ. You will have the Mind of Christ. Dont forget for a moment that in the mind of the Father you are sharing in the Throne of Grace. You own a share in it. Just as Way translates Eph. 2:6, We share His throne. Why, our Head is there. Our Lord is there. Marvelous, isnt it? I sometimes wonder how Paul and John and the rest of them that are gathered about the Throne, feel about us down here. I imagine Paul is just yearning over us that we might understand the riches of the unveilings that he gave to us of the Living Christ in His Resurrection. Cant you see how we reign with Him? In His Substitution we share with Him from the cross to the Throne. We were crucified with Him; we died with Him; we suffered with Him; we were justified with Him; we were made alive with Him; raised with Him; and are now seated with Him. Now you want Weymouths translation of Rom. 5:17: For if, through the transgression of the one individual, Death made use of the one individual to seize the sovereignty, all the more shall those who receive Gods overflowing grace and gift of righteousness reign as kings in Life through the one individual, Jesus Christ. This is the climax of our earth walk. That overflowing Grace is the overflowing of the Love Nature of the Father that is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. The Gift of Righteousness gives us our legal standing before the Father. The overflowing Grace was the incoming of the Nature and Life, the substance and being of our Father into our spirits. The Nature of the Father coming in has made us Righteous, made us like the Father, like Jesus; made us utterly one with Him. Now we reign as kings in the realm of this New Life through Jesus Christ our Lord. You see, we were in slavery and servants of the adversary. We are now the joyful Love Slaves of Jesus. We are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, and we are coming into that new knowledge of what we are in Christ. Sin-consciousness has robbed us in the past of our faith; robbed us of our sense of worthiness; robbed us of our joy of Sonship. We know now that sin-consciousness was just a camouflage of the adversary. We were standing complete in Christ, but we did not know it. We were the Righteousness of God in Christ and we did not know it. As long as Satan could keep us in ignorance, he kept us in darkness and weakness. But the veil has been torn away. The light has shone in. The light that we had before was darkness, but now this is the Light of Life. He that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness. We walked in the darkness, but now He is the Light of our Life. He is our Life. He is our Light. We have become like those whose eyes had been blinded but now have received light, and we see things as they really are. Before, we were groping and hoping. Now we have passed out of the realm of hope into the realm of assurance. It is the realm of Reality. We know who we are, what we are. We know what Grace has been bestowed upon us. We are walking in the light of this wonderful Life Christ brought into the world. New Creation Realities
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