The Destruction Of Self

For if I build again the things which I destroyed, 

I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law 

am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

 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. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law,

 then Christ is dead in vain.

Galatians 3:18-21

     Authentic Christians are those who have crucified themselves with Jesus Christ, they have signed their death warrant of the disposition of sin, that is to turn all emotional and impressions, furthermore, intellectual beliefs into a verdict of morality and this verdict of morality stands against the disposition of sin. Authentic Christians do not claim any right to themselves. The opening Scriptures from the apostle Paul makes it clear that Authentic Christians do not become determined to imitate Jesus Christ, no, they endeavour to follow Jesus Christ. Authentic Christians become identified with Jesus Christ, identified with the death of Jesus Christ. A person does not become sinless in this life except that God the Father sees a believer through the Son, Jesus Christ. We all know that we will, and often do, come to a place where we must make a moral decision and to act upon that decision and it is then that the cross of Jesus Christ, if it is, is then wrought in you, and me, so then, we are free to commit ourselves to God allowing the Holy Spirit to be able to impart the holiness of Jesus Christ. You are not changed into a new individual in this life for you are still human so that your individuality remains but is radically altered. To hold on to your individuality outside the realm of Authentic Christianity is satanic and must be destroyed. 

     The life a person lives in this life, the life of the flesh should not be the life a person longs to live. Men can see your actions and how you exercise your faith so that if there is not destruction of satanic right to yourself leading a person to be more cultural than an Authentic Christian is to destroy what God desires to do through you. Many will turn away from anything that "smacks" of God, of Jesus Christ, of Christianity. Our faith is in Jesus Christ, not in faith so that our faith is not faith in faith but in the Son of God and Authentic Christian Faith overlaps, even overleaps all conscious bounds so that you have become identical to Jesus Christ. 

     We have feelings, emotions and can have a knowing of Jesus Christ who has provided our profound feelings and can have help to aid us to maintain our diligence in our pursuit of Authentic Christian Faith. Christians, have something that this world does not have, even those who claim to be Christian, and that is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. This resource is so great, more than just a verification of our senses for the Holy Spirit lives in us to make our Christian walk and our experience as truly a person who has become the image of Jesus Christ. We become, and should be, humble to think that God loves us so much that He came to live in all who have put their faith and belief in the Son of God who is Him in the flesh to give us what we need now in this life, and life eternal. We become dependent on the grace of God which is working in us. 

     Cultural Christians have a view of the Holy Spirit that is askew from Scripture rightly interpreted. Cultural Christians have an understanding of the Holy Spirit that is not Scriptural and can be seen in how they exercise their faith. This cultural Christianity in its exercise of faith is more about experience and have a false sense of security that they are being empowered by God's Spirit. This is a lack of knowledge, not intellectually unknown. There is reality in the empowerment of the Holy Spirit but not a cultural understanding of this empowerment. We are not to take advantage of this empowerment of the Holy Spirit to somehow reach authenticity in our faith. This is not the faith of Scripture. Our faith is not in experience, not in some working(s) and was not the life of the early Christians who were being enticed by the Judaizers to go back to what they have left behind, the law. Well, you may not have left the Mosaic Law, but you have as an Authentic Christian left the law of this culture. Do not return to it! You and I are to live the life of Authentic Christian Faith. We are to have right view of the Holy Spirit and this will be the theme of the next blog. 

Except the LORD build the house,

     they labor in vain that build it:

except the LORD keep the city, the

    watchman waketh but in vain.

                     Psalm 127:1

Are you laboring only for God?

Richard L. Crumb