What does First B Jackson teach about crucified with christ?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At First B Jackson, the teaching on being crucified with Christ starts with the grammar of Galatians 2:20 itself. When Pastor Mark worked through that verse, he slowed down at the opening verb: 'I have been crucified' is a perfect tense in Greek, describing something that happened once in the past with effects that extend permanently forward. What was crucified, he explained, is the self-motivated, self-righteous self. That is not the starting point of a metaphor. That is the actual ground on which Christian life stands.
The verse does not stop there, and neither did Mark. The present tense that follows, 'Christ is living in me,' is progressive and continual in the Greek, meaning Christ is actively and presently living in the believer right now. Because of that, the faith Paul describes is not simply Paul's own faith but also the faithfulness of the Son of God who loves him and gave himself for him. Where a believer doubts, Christ does not, and that is what is on offer to anyone who is in Him.
Verse 21 closes off any middle ground: if righteousness could come through the law, Christ died for nothing. The teaching at First B Jackson takes that seriously. Co-crucifixion with Christ is not only freedom from the guilt of past sin. It is freedom from the power sin held over a person, provided a person is willing to reckon it as true and keep reckoning it as true, day by day.
Taught from Galatians 2:20-21 · Romans 6:4-6 · Colossians 2:11-14 · Ephesians 2:1-10 · Romans 6:23
The passage taught · Colossians 2:11-14
11 in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
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The messages that teach on it
- August 26, 2012 Crucified With Christ and Yet I Live A verse-by-verse look at Galatians 2:20-21 showing how union with Christ's death and resurrection is the foundation for living a genuine life of faith.
Mentioned along the way
- September 29, 2024 Good News for the Sinners in This Room Step 10 of the 12 steps: continuing daily inventory and promptly admitting wrong. A Wyoming pastor connects recovery principles to Paul, James, and communion.
- March 5, 2017 Christ Is All and in All Colossians 3:1-11 examined as a word to Christians, not just the world, calling believers to put off the old self and find unity in Christ alone.
- April 19, 2015 Not Straightforward About the Truth of the Gospel Paul confronts Peter's fear-driven hypocrisy in Galatians 2, showing how the gospel breaks down every barrier between people and leaves no room for a works-based faith.