i want to know what Jesus meant by this in Galations 2:20 "I was put to death on the cross with Chirst, and i do not live anymore---it is Chrit who lives in me"
2007-01-03 12:12:23 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We are to live according to the Spirit of Christ within us, and "crucify" our flesh with its sins and passions. It's about our focus. It is either on the world and its stuff, or on Jesus and what He wants.
2007-01-03 12:15:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Galations 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
If you accepted Jesus s your personal Savior, you live not only by faith but Jesus now lives inside you. Praise the Lord!! Your body becomes the Temple of the Lord and no longer belongs to you when you become born again.
1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
2007-01-03 20:16:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus Didn't say that. The Apostle Paul said it. What He meant is that since each one of has sinned and has fallen short of the Glory of God, a substitute was needed for payment for sins. Jesus took our penalty on the cross and in a way we should have been there. When we accept Christ as Savior--we die--our old life is gone. Now God, through His Holy Spirit, (the comforter, our Guide) now lives in us.
2007-01-03 20:17:16 · answer #3 · answered by studentofword84 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This is Paul speaking. He is referring to the old Adam or original sin that was crucified with Christ. We are reborn each and every day into Christ when we live our lives to the glory of God.
2007-01-03 20:17:19 · answer #4 · answered by L Strunk 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Paul wrote that one and what he meant was his old sinful nature was crucified and died with Christ. His old self was a murderer and he hated Jesus and Christians. Now that he is saved he lets Christ rule his life and live inside him.
2007-01-03 22:01:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is where we get to the REAL message of Jesus: he was fully enlightened, where he realized himself as the 'Christ'. This is the same as the Buddha realizing himself as 'Buddha Nature'. Our real essence is not these personalities, these individual bodies and consciousnesses; instead we are the Christ -- the single, formless thing that God created. Our individuals selves do not exist and when someone (like Jesus or anyone else) has the realization of what they really are, their self (Jesus) completely drops away and the only thing that remains is the Christ.
2007-01-03 20:18:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Maybe it has something to do with what Islam says - that Jesus wasn't killed at the cross, he was raised to heaven and God replaced him with someone else.
Or maybe not.
2007-01-03 20:21:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that he his no longer his old sinful self. By Christ's death and resurrection, sin and death has been defeated, and we no no longer live for ourselves, but for the one whose who gave us salvation.
2007-01-03 20:18:01 · answer #8 · answered by WC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That was not Jesus, but Paul.
2007-01-03 20:30:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
that was not Jesus talking.
it was Paul explaining about himself being indwelt by God.
2007-01-03 20:20:18 · answer #10 · answered by Chef Bob 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋