Saturday, April 28, 2018

Save Yourself, And Come Down From The Cross!

"With Him they also crucified two robbers, one on His right and the other on His left. So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, 'And He was numbered with the transgressors'. And those who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads and saying, 'Aha! You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save Yourself, and come down from the cross!'  Likewise the chief priests also, mocking among themselves with the scribes, said, 'He saved others; Himself He cannot save. Let the Christ, the King of Israel, descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe.' " (Mark 15:27-32)  Of course, their assessment was premature.

"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but 

Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave His life for me. I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain. O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed (made manifest, evident by Paul's faith in Christ (Gal. 2:20) among you as crucified? This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? Have you suffered so many things in vain - if indeed it was in vain?" (Galatians 2:20-3:4)

"I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed." (Galatians 1:6,7)

"If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds."(2 John v.10)

I rejoice, that in these verses of Scripture we may see and understand the fellowship of the mystery Paul discusses with the Ephesian church 
(Ephesians 3:8-11).

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