Galatians 2:20

Memory Verse

I am in a state of having been crucified with Christ; indeed, it is no longer I who live, but Christ living in me. And the life I now live in flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself on my behalf (Galatians 2:20).

Christ’s crucifixion is imputed to the believer. Therefore, the grace believer shares in Christ’s death (Romans 6:4). By God imputing Christ’s death to the believer, He frees him from slavery to his sin nature (Romans 6:6). Since we are bound to Christ’s death, we are also raised with Him to walk in newness of life (Romans 6:5).

Death is separation. Just as a woman, whose husband has died, is free to marry another, since God has imputed Christ’s death to the grace believer, he is also bound to Christ’s resurrection and united with His righteousness (Romans 7:4).

This is now the believer’s identity. His life is no longer his own. His duty then is to learn to live out this new life in Christ, seeking out righteousness and rejecting the desires and works of the flesh from which he is now free.

We are now righteous in Christ; therefore, let us govern our lives by seeking out and fulfilling the desires of the Spirit so that the life in us is manifested in our proper righteous conduct to the glory of God.