OUR IDENTITY IN CHRIST SERIES MESSAGE 5 – MORE THAN CRUCIFIED

<p>OUR IDENTITY IN CHRIST SERIES</p> <p>MESSAGE 5 – MORE THAN CRUCIFIED</p> <p> We are going through terrible times here in America, innocent blood is being shed, civil unrest, political parties battle the world we live in today that is filled with constant attacks on our identity.  Yes, our Identity in Christ.</p> <p>In addition, the Word of God tells us Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour look at our nation today</p> <p>2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV) 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.</p> <p>Colossians 1:27 (NKJV) – 27 To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.</p> <p>MORE THAN CRUCIFIED</p> <p>In her book It Only Hurts When I Laugh, Ethel Barrett tells how four outstanding servants of God died to self and sin. George Mueller, when questioned about his spiritual power, responded simply, “One day George Mueller died.” D. L. Moody was visiting New York City when he consciously died to his own ambitions. Pastor Charles Finney slipped away to a secluded spot in a forest to die to self. And evangelist Christmas Evans, putting down on paper his surrender to Christ, began it by writing: “I give my soul and body to Jesus.” It was, in a very real sense, a death to self.</p> <p>We live in a world filled with the thought that you only go around once so you might as well live in a way that makes YOU happy.  As far as any thoughts of eternity, just go ahead and put it out of your mind because it’s so far away. You better think again eternity .is real</p> <p>One cannot help but look at the Cross where Jesus was crucified without seeing pain and death, and something that none of us hope we would never have to go through in a physical sense.</p> <p>Yes, there are Christians in different parts of the world even today who have had to endure thi