What was crucified with Christ? (Galatians 2:20)

Jan 14
08:35

2010

Mark Virkler

Mark Virkler

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What was crucified with Christ? What are some issues we face as Christians regarding who we are in Christ?

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• Self consciousness died and Christ consciousness came alive. I was restored to the original experience of the Garden of Eden,What was crucified with Christ? (Galatians 2:20) Articles before man fell from union consciousness to self consciousness.

• In receiving a new spirit, I went from a dead spirit -- one cut off from Christ -- to a live spirit -- one reunited with Christ. I went from separation to union, from self’s strength to divine flow.

• I no longer ask God to help “me” become better, because that prayer betrays a still resident belief that “I” am separate from Him, and thus shows that I am still living “self conscious” rather than “Christ conscious.” Instead I simply ask Jesus to do the job through me -- demonstrating that through revelation knowledge I have moved back to union consciousness, and I now see myself as the “Christ I” acting.

• My spirit was reconnected to the Holy Spirit Who is working out my soul’s salvation, for it is Christ at work in me, healing my shattered heart, restoring my soul and healing my body (Phil. 2:12,13).

He doesn’t want to give me strength; He wants to BE my strength.
He doesn’t want to give me wisdom; He wants to BE my wisdom.
He doesn’t want to give me love; He wants to BE my love

Q. So, Lord, what was my problem? Why am I uncomfortable when I teach the seminar on Naturally Supernatural?

Mark, you have been accentuating the fact that you are a vessel. Mark, you are more than a vessel -- there is also an organic union. Eventually you become conscious of Me at all times; there is no more this illusion of separation, that I am something within you and separate from you. There comes the revelation that we are one, and so life and vocabulary take on a whole new perspective.

You no longer say that “I am the negative and God is the positive.” You are joined to God, so you have become positive, for you have learned to live out of your roots at all times, and to be conscious of your roots at all time. You are no longer self conscious. You are constantly Christ conscious. So you no longer say, “I am the negative and Christ is the positive.” The new reality is that the two have become one. You say “I” and you mean “Christ.” So you begin saying, “I am the positive.”

There is a progression. You go from speaking of:
• “I” living, out of my own strength, to
• “I” stepping to the indwelling Christ Who is my life, to
• “I” living who is the “Christ I” living.

Those are the stages one goes through. You are actually in the third stage at this point in your life, and you were talking as though you were in the second stage. Thus you experienced confusion. You have not distinguished the fact that there is a progression in one’s revelation and thus one’s vocabulary as he goes through this process.

Q. Lord, am I to speak of the old man, or only the new man? Would I want any more to speak of the illusion, or only the reality?

Mark, you only want to speak of the new reality you have found in Christ. You only want to speak of the truth, never the illusion, never error. So don’t speak of whom the “self I” is. If self seeks to rear his ugly head (resurrect himself), confess that which is true (who you are in Christ). That is whom you are to speak of, and only of that, not of error. Not of the old man, because he has been done away with and a new man now lives. Speak and live only out of the new man, never the old man who has been done away with. Thus I have spoken, and thus it is to be done.

Mark, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. So the flesh will express weakness, but the spirit will not. So you may say, “My flesh is weak but my spirit is strong.” That is a true confession and that is permissible. However, your focus should always be on energizing your spirit through My Holy Spirit, so that its energy overcomes the weakness of the flesh. Always put the accent on the spirit, never on the flesh. Always speak of the spirit much more than you speak of the flesh. Always fix your eyes on the spirit much more than you fix your eyes on the flesh. Even though you acknowledge the flesh, you never fix your attention upon it. You always fix your attention on the union of My Spirit to your spirit and the flow of My life into and through you. That way you are always fixed upon the positive and never the negative.

So you will never accentuate the fact that you are weak, or powerless, or ignorant. It may be true from time to time that your flesh is, or you are, if you step back from the “Christ I” to the “self I,” but speak instead of who you are in Christ. Your eyes are fixed on Christ. Your mouth confesses who you are in Christ. And you live in Christ. Thus you have been overcome by Christ, and it is the “Christ I” who lives, and not the “self I.”

Thank You, Lord.

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