Our Identification With Christ

IDENTIFICATION WITH CHRIST

THE glorious fact of our Identification with Christ is one of the richest facts in the whole Plan of redemption. We were crucified with Christ-we were nailed
to the cross with Him, in the mind of God. As He was stripped naked and hung there in His shame and disgrace, so we also were stripped naked and hung there,
for He took our place on the cross.

We died with Christ, as He died. As He died to sin, so we died to sin.
As He died to Satan’s rule, so we died to it. As He died to sickness and disease, we died. We were buried together with Him as He went down into the place of suffering and paid the penalty of our sins and union with Satan. As He put off from Himself the forces of darkness and sin, the sickness and diseases of man, so we put them off in Him¬
we left them there.

We were raised together with Christ. He was raised up by the glory of the Father, when He had satisfied the claims of justice, and had met our great enemy Satan and His army in the dark regions of hell and conquered them. He then was made alive in spirit, and justified in spirit. Then, He arose; and we rose with Him.

He was raised up because God justified Him, and He could not be held longer, by death and hell. When He was justified, we were justified in Him. When He was healed of death, we were healed in Him. When He conquered sickness and disease, so also did we, in Him.

To all who are in Christ, disease is a conquered foe. We are seated with Christ at the Right Hand of God,-in the highest place of power in the Universe. Identified with Him in suffering and shame, and in glory.