Identification with Jesus Part 2

In part one, we talked about things that Jesus identified with us when he came in the flesh. And we told you that he identified with us in sin, he took our sin upon his self. And we also found out that he took our sicknesses upon his self and that the word is the medicine for the sickness.
Now, this is one reason it takes a while for health to come to your physical body, because it has to be taken care of spiritually before it can work its way out to the physical.  Every once in a while, boom, there will be instantaneous healing, and it’s great, it’s wonderful, but that is a very small minority of the time. The majority of the time healing comes with time and that’s because healing starts with the spirit.
Next, in identifying things that Jesus took on or substituted or came into union with us on is that we died with him.  Isaiah 53: 9 says, “And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.”
Let’s look at the word death.  This word death should be plural as in deaths, because Jesus died twice. I think in the original Hebrew text for Gen 2:17 it says in dying you die rather than thou shalt surely die according to the King James Version of the bible. Did Jesus not cry out My God My God why hast thou forsaken me? That was the spiritual death.
You see, Adam and Eve had spiritual bodies, and when they ate fruit of the forbidden tree, they died spiritually. They lost their eternal bodies. Jesus could not die physically until he died spiritually. We were born dead, that’s why we need to be born again by receiving Jesus.
We look upon death here as cessation, stopping, no more, or done. This is not the death I’m talking about. Eternal death is separation from God.
That was the first time in eternity that Jesus ever experienced separation from God.  God turned his back on Jesus, not because he didn’t love him anymore, but because he could not look at the sin that was piled upon him.
God turned his back on the sin, and in this, because he was separated, Jesus experienced spiritual death. Now because of this, Jesus could die physically.  Jesus didn’t have a mortal (meaning subject to death or death doomed) body like us. He didn’t have an immortal body. He had an eternal body, one that would live forever. So, Jesus died spiritually and then naturally. He died the natural death when he said it is finished and gave up the Holy Ghost.  In other words, his spirit left his body at that point.
When Jesus rose, he didn’t rise the way we do. When he rose he went back into his eternal body. Before he was crucified, he was flesh and blood.  After he was crucified he was flesh and bone-spiritual body.
Abel’s blood cried out for vengeance. He was murdered by his brother Cain, see Gen 4:10.  It says there that Abel’s blood cries out to God.
 Jesus’ blood is in front of God on the mercy seat and it’s crying out.  His blood is fresh; it hasn’t dried up or flaked away.  It’s on the mercy seat of God, crying for better things than the blood of Abel.  It’s crying out for Mercy!  Amen, Praise the Lord.
John 10. Let’s start in verse 17, which says, “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.  18) No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.”
Turn to Romans 6: 8 says, “Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.” Jesus took our death, our separation from God, he identified with that, came into union with our death. And by him paying the price of dying, because the wages of sin is death, it had to be paid, and when he went as the representative of the human race, justice was met.
Now, the only time that justice will take up in your place is if you reject what Jesus did then you must pay the price, which will be eternal death, see also Hebrews 10: 28-31.
But it says we’ve got this confidence, if we know that we died with him, we must also know that we’re going to live with him.  He identified with us in death so that we could identify with him in Life.
Stay tuned there's more to come on our Identification with Jesus.
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