Ruling Verse 5

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	Galatians 2:20: I have been crucified with Christ. I live, however, but no longer I. Christ lives inside of all that is me [as me]. More than that, the life I now live inside this sphere of flesh, I live entirely inside the sphere of the faith of the Son of God, this One who loved me and who gave Himself [traded Himself] entirely for me.
	• Paraphrased and Expanded. I have already been crucified with Christ, the old is already gone. I live, for Jesus calls me by name (John 10:3), yet no longer “I” as separate from Him. Rather, Christ lives inside of all that is me, that is, Christ Jesus lives as me. More than that, the life I now live inside this sphere of flesh, flesh of His flesh, one flesh with Him (Ephesians 5:30-31), I live entirely inside the faith of the Son of God, this One who loves me and who gives Himself entirely for me, this One who gives Himself to me in trade, His Life for my life.

Gospel Comments	Notes
• Defining the Rule: We CANNOT save ourselves; we cannot fix ourselves. God alone saves us by sending the Lord Jesus into us as the only way for us to know God. We awake brand new inside of Jesus with the old already gone, we know not how. Now we are one with Jesus in Spirit and in flesh; we live in full and intimate union with Him, sharing every moment. • Christ Made Personal: Christ is my life; I have no other life. I share with Jesus in all; He gives me His life in trade even as He receives mine. Jesus loves me and calls me by name. • Life: The one who has the Son has the Life (see 1 John 5:12). Christ Jesus, Spirit and Word together, is Life, the Source and Cause of Life. Ruling Verse 5 shows the intimate working by which Jesus makes us part of His Life. Life happens for us as the Personal and intimate action of the Lord Jesus in trading Himself for ourselves, Life for life. • Covenant: The Heart, the living and beating cause of our relationship with God is “Jesus loves me.” This giving of Life for life takes place inside the absolute faith of the Son of God and inside the absolute protection of the finished Cross. • Speak Christ: Paul is giving us probably the strongest example of speaking Christ in the Bible. In every line, Paul is declaring himself to be inside that which is already absolute. By making union personal to himself, he is making that same union to be personal to us. • Ruling Verse 1: Synergeoing and Symmorphosed, sharing the same Causative Action and sharing the same Form, is the definition of union with Christ. Yet Galatians 2:20 puts the intimate Love of “Jesus for me” into these mighty “togethers.” Then, “already crucified” and “already glorified” stand together as the beginning of our Christian lives, but Jesus actively initiating union with us is HOW it all happens for us. • Ruling Verse 2: Ephesians 3:17-19 shows us the exact relationship between Christ Jesus living inside our hearts and an entire Church filled with all the fulness of God. Galatians 2:20 shows us HOW that mighty transition happens. “To comprehend God together” requires the stunning realization that if Jesus lives as me, then He also lives as all who are my brethren, including those I do not like. • Ruling Verse 3: That which flows out cannot be anything other than that which flows in. Inflow first, outflow second. “If you thirst, come to Me and drink.” Yet we could not drink except Jesus be pouring Himself freely into us and receiving us wholeheartedly into Himself. Then, Rivers of Spirit will impact every distant place as this same intimacy. • Ruling Verse 4: Victory over the accuser inside our own souls must come before we can cast down all accusation against the Church. The faith of the Son of God is all the faith you need. The cross protects you from all that is not-Christ. • Ruling Verse 5: Union with Christ is the greatest surrender to Jesus as Lord that can be known. Jesus is Lord. “Jesus, You share all of my humanity with me. Jesus, every next moment is You sharing with me.” Like Paul, speak it be already True. • Ruling Verse 6: We possess a BOLD proclamation of entrance. Union with Christ places us already inside of God. Sin is already gone, AND Jesus, our Scapegoat, now lives as us. • Ruling Verse 7: You are part of Christ IF you are confident that you are part of Christ. The faith of the Son of God is all the confidence we need. Everything Jesus is, He gives us freely as our own. And everything we are, Jesus receives from us freely as His own. As He is, so we are in this world (1 John 4:17). • Ruling Verse 8: Our surrender to union with Christ then allows our greatest surrender, that is, to the Father’s Heart, that Jesus has already turned us around upon Mercy. AND WE ALSO – Love, God through us into our world. For 1 John 3:16 to be real, then Jesus must actively share His propitiation with us, that we might share with Him in joining others with God. • Ruling Verse 9: We are seated upon Mercy, having turned around in full surrender to the Father only because Jesus already shares all with us. Our eyes are now fixed upon the entire Church, for Father’s sake, that she might know LIFE. • Ruling Verse 10: I live, yet not I but Christ. – You in Me and I in you. – One Spirit with Him, one flesh with Him. – Symmorphosed with the image of His Son. – This One who loves me, who gives Himself in trade for me. – He calls me by name. John 14:20 makes Symmorphy personal, and Galatians 2:20 makes it intimate. To know the Father is Life, and we know the Father through the intimacy of Jesus in us. We know that Jesus is absolutely Lord. Then – we put this same Lord Jesus Christ upon ourselves through faith, and upon the entire Church of Christ. • Kingdom: Galatians 2:20, intimacy with Jesus, is HOW everything fits together in perfect proportion, for God, for the Church, for us, and for creation. Intimacy is also surrender to another inside the highest respect. Thus Ruling Verse 5 enables the perfect balance between personal and social in all. • The Form for God through Jesus: Inside of Christ, inside of the protection of the Cross and the mighty Faith of Jesus, we find such a wondrous relationship with God and with one another as the dwelling place of God. Everything inside the gathering of the Church FITS God. Everything inside the gathering of the Church FITS us, but in two ways. Everything FITS us personally, and everything FITS our togetherness. It is Jesus the Lamb, in service to all, who makes this happen, the deep and pure intimacy of “the One who loves me.”

Gospel Comments

Notes

• Defining the Rule: We CANNOT save ourselves; we cannot fix ourselves. God alone saves us by sending the Lord Jesus into us as the only way for us to know God. We awake brand new inside of Jesus with the old already gone, we know not how. Now we are one with Jesus in Spirit and in flesh; we live in full and intimate union with Him, sharing every moment.

• Christ Made Personal: Christ is my life; I have no other life. I share with Jesus in all; He gives me His life in trade even as He receives mine. Jesus loves me and calls me by name.

• Life: The one who has the Son has the Life (see 1 John 5:12). Christ Jesus, Spirit and Word together, is Life, the Source and Cause of Life. Ruling Verse 5 shows the intimate working by which Jesus makes us part of His Life. Life happens for us as the Personal and intimate action of the Lord Jesus in trading Himself for ourselves, Life for life.

• Covenant: The Heart, the living and beating cause of our relationship with God is “Jesus loves me.” This giving of Life for life takes place inside the absolute faith of the Son of God and inside the absolute protection of the finished Cross.

• Speak Christ: Paul is giving us probably the strongest example of speaking Christ in the Bible. In every line, Paul is declaring himself to be inside that which is already absolute. By making union personal to himself, he is making that same union to be personal to us.

• Ruling Verse 1: Synergeoing and Symmorphosed, sharing the same Causative Action and sharing the same Form, is the definition of union with Christ. Yet Galatians 2:20 puts the intimate Love of “Jesus for me” into these mighty “togethers.” Then, “already crucified” and “already glorified” stand together as the beginning of our Christian lives, but Jesus actively initiating union with us is HOW it all happens for us.

• Ruling Verse 2: Ephesians 3:17-19 shows us the exact relationship between Christ Jesus living inside our hearts and an entire Church filled with all the fulness of God. Galatians 2:20 shows us HOW that mighty transition happens. “To comprehend God together” requires the stunning realization that if Jesus lives as me, then He also lives as all who are my brethren, including those I do not like.

• Ruling Verse 3: That which flows out cannot be anything other than that which flows in. Inflow first, outflow second. “If you thirst, come to Me and drink.” Yet we could not drink except Jesus be pouring Himself freely into us and receiving us wholeheartedly into Himself. Then, Rivers of Spirit will impact every distant place as this same intimacy.

• Ruling Verse 4: Victory over the accuser inside our own souls must come before we can cast down all accusation against the Church. The faith of the Son of God is all the faith you need. The cross protects you from all that is not-Christ.

• Ruling Verse 5: Union with Christ is the greatest surrender to Jesus as Lord that can be known. Jesus is Lord. “Jesus, You share all of my humanity with me. Jesus, every next moment is You sharing with me.” Like Paul, speak it be already True.

• Ruling Verse 6: We possess a BOLD proclamation of entrance. Union with Christ places us already inside of God. Sin is already gone, AND Jesus, our Scapegoat, now lives as us.

• Ruling Verse 7: You are part of Christ IF you are confident that you are part of Christ. The faith of the Son of God is all the confidence we need. Everything Jesus is, He gives us freely as our own. And everything we are, Jesus receives from us freely as His own. As He is, so we are in this world (1 John 4:17).

• Ruling Verse 8: Our surrender to union with Christ then allows our greatest surrender, that is, to the Father’s Heart, that Jesus has already turned us around upon Mercy. AND WE ALSO – Love, God through us into our world. For 1 John 3:16 to be real, then Jesus must actively share His propitiation with us, that we might share with Him in joining others with God.

• Ruling Verse 9: We are seated upon Mercy, having turned around in full surrender to the Father only because Jesus already shares all with us. Our eyes are now fixed upon the entire Church, for Father’s sake, that she might know LIFE.

• Ruling Verse 10: I live, yet not I but Christ. – You in Me and I in you. – One Spirit with Him, one flesh with Him. – Symmorphosed with the image of His Son. – This One who loves me, who gives Himself in trade for me. – He calls me by name. John 14:20 makes Symmorphy personal, and Galatians 2:20 makes it intimate. To know the Father is Life, and we know the Father through the intimacy of Jesus in us. We know that Jesus is absolutely Lord. Then – we put this same Lord Jesus Christ upon ourselves through faith, and upon the entire Church of Christ.

• Kingdom: Galatians 2:20, intimacy with Jesus, is HOW everything fits together in perfect proportion, for God, for the Church, for us, and for creation. Intimacy is also surrender to another inside the highest respect. Thus Ruling Verse 5 enables the perfect balance between personal and social in all.

• The Form for God through Jesus: Inside of Christ, inside of the protection of the Cross and the mighty Faith of Jesus, we find such a wondrous relationship with God and with one another as the dwelling place of God. Everything inside the gathering of the Church FITS God. Everything inside the gathering of the Church FITS us, but in two ways. Everything FITS us personally, and everything FITS our togetherness. It is Jesus the Lamb, in service to all, who makes this happen, the deep and pure intimacy of “the One who loves me.”