I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
You see, it's a very personal faith in the Son of God. It's personal because there is something He did for me. He gave Himself for me. Who was I, when He gave Himself for me? I was a sinner, ignorantly a chief of it actually! We became sinners ignorantly. We are still ignorant of who Christ is, if we obey the sinful nature of the Devil in us. But now, I too have paid the price for being ignorant of God's love. That's the greatest sin of mankind, being ignorant of God's love. God's love is very different from what we know without knowing Christ. Once we come to know Christ our Lord, we become crucified with Him. We have crucified the sinful nature of the Devil in us. We longer return to please the sinful nature of the Devil in us. If we still do, then we haven't been crucified with Christ. Being "crucified with Christ" means we consciously have chosen to crucify the sinful nature of the Devil in us, to put it to death. We know that we cannot do that with our own abilities or strength. God the Holy Spirit helps us with that daily. That's what living by faith in the Son of God means. I live by the Spirit of God in me, whom Christ and the Father in heaven had sent after Christ had finished His work on Earth and ascended to the right hand of God the Father through His mighty resurrection from the dead. Even though Christ is physically at God the Father's right hand now, He had sent His Spirit to live in me because I believe He loved me and gave Himself for me on the cruel cross at Calvary. He gave Himself for me through His death on that cruel cross because that's how cruel I am going to be to the sinful nature of the Devil in me. With the help of God the Holy Spirit in me now, I am going to put it to death. In this way, i longer live obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in me but Christ lives in me. Christ my Lord lives in me through His Spirit in me. I am full of Christ because I am full of His Spirit now. This is how my life is in the body now. My body has become the temple of God the Holy Spirit fully when Christ is fully formed in me Therefore, Christ lives in me now, when His divine nature is formed in me. He lives in me through Christformation. God the Holy Spirit helps to transform my sinful mind into the mind of Christ according to the proportion of Christformation in my born again spirit. My imperishable body at God's right hand is on it's way to become the temple of God the Holy Spirit fully. When full Christformation has occurred in me, then I become the fully Christconformed temple of God the Holy Spirit. God's work has been completed in me. For now, I live by faith in the son of God to see this happen fully in me. He will not fail me, this I know!
1 Thessalonians 5: 23-24
May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.
