CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST
Monday, April 22, 2024Key Verse
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me…” (Galatians 2:20).
Text — Galatians 2:17-21
Message
To live a crucified life, Christian youths must fully surrender to Christ. The journey to being crucified with Christ begins with our decision to follow Christ entirely. Jesus admonished His disciples to deny themselves and take up their cross and follow Him. In his book, Divine Conquest, A. W. Tozer said, “The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostles died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and all who in very truth are His.”
Being crucified with Christ is to be dead to sin. Just as a dead man is not moved by anything around him, a crucified youth is not moved by the allurements of the world around him. The issue of crucifixion with Christ takes a central place in our walk with God. Paul warned us not to build again the things which we have destroyed because to do so would be to frustrate the grace of God brought to us through the death of Christ. It takes self-denial, and dependence on Christ to walk with God in crucifixion.
Quote
Be dead to sin.
Challenge
Consecrate your life, your all to Christ.
Prayer for today
O God, I surrender all in Jesus’ name.
About Author - Pastor W.F. Kumuyi
Listed among “500 most powerful people on the planet” by the Foreign Policy magazine in 2013, Pastor (Dr.) William F. Kumuyi is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry (DCLM) headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. DCLM started in 1973 as a 15-member Bible study group right in Kumuyi’s apartment at University of Lagos where he was a lecturer. His revolutionary Bible teaching on personal holiness and commitment to evangelism soon gained so much traction and resulted in a widespread revival.
