What About Suffering With Christ

WHA T ABOUT SUFFERING WITH CHRIST? What About Suffering With Christ? Printer- friendly version PDF version Here's some good news: When the Word says we are to be partakers of Christ's suffering, it means we are to enter into the victory Jesus bore for us on the cross. The only suffering we encounter in sharing His victory is spiritual. That's what the Word is talking about when it says we are to be partakers of Christ's suffering. In other words, the only suffering for a believer is the spiritual discomfort brought by resisting the pressures of the flesh, not a physical or mental suffering. Jesus has already borne for us all the suffering in the natural and mental realms. Romans 8:17-18 says we are to suffer with Him so that we can be glorified together. Jesus isn't suffering physically or mentally, and if we are suffering with Him, we don't have to either. Right now, He is our head and seated at the right hand of God (Hebrews 10:12-13). As Christ's Body in the earth, our struggle isn't against flesh and blood - against the physical or mental. Instead, we spiritually stand against principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and wicked spirits in high places (Ephesians 6:12). That's why it's to God's Glory when we are healed or delivered physically and mentally, for we only ha ve to fight in the spirit realm. As you have prob ably experienced, any time we are w alking in the Word and fellowshiping with the Father, S atan will do his best to stop us. He wants to stop this spiritual relationship. He knows as we receive revelation knowledge into our spirit, we will learn to lord over him in the physical and mental realms. Then his tact ics to put us under the law of sin and death will be futile (Romans 8:2). James 1 says when we fall into different temptations and pressures, we should be happy about it! Why? Because the trying of our faith works our patience - our steadfastnes s on God's Word. In other words, the more our faith is tried, the more we'll learn to trust in and rely on His Word, and the more we'll be strengthened in our spirit. Then, when our patience (our steadfastness on God's Word) has its perfect work, we will be perfect and entire, lacking nothing. It's when we "lack nothing" that we have been delivered. We don't have to suffer physically or mentally. That is good news! Romans 8 : 2 -For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] h as freed me from the law of sin and of death. 3 For God has done what the Law could not do, [its power] being weakened by the flesh [the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit]. Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, [God] condemned sin in the flesh [subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice], [Lev. 7:37.]

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