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The Crucifixion: What it Means to me

   When Man was created the Bible announces that God said ‘Let us create man in our own image’. We also learn that the Us is the Trinity of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. In the moulding of Man, the whole of God is thus the image we have been created as.

We were then placed in this World, and there was always an expectation that being created in the image of God, in His wholeness we will be as whole as he is, and thus not sinful. What we have also learned is that the arch angel Lucifer is banished to this World we are placed in. As a past senior angel he knew, and understood as he still knows and understands what the Wholeness of God meant when it declared, let us create man in Our own image. Lucifer enjoyed the benefits of being God-like before he got banished.


He understood that we have been created as;


  1. The Father; this means we have a leadership role over those entrusted to us to parent and partner with in his greatest institution called a family.  This Father image that He created us with, it is the Father that is found in mothers that are single parenting and yet able to still be Fathers to their children as they are mothers. It is because the image that the Father has created Man with, is also that of the Father. (I pray and hope I dealt with the gender issues on this matter)
  2. The Son; this means we are created in the image of being children to The Father. We have claims to be heirs to Gods Kingdom. When we say ‘Our Father, who art in Heaven, thy Kingdom come, thy Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven’, we are drawing on our rights as heirs. We are in fact non-compromising in our quest to isolate any earthly kingdom by petitioning that His Will should be done as it is done in Heaven. In this confirmation of being children we are obviously going to be in conflict with earthly kingdoms that are not based on his will. TheseKingdoms will thus react by creating diversions to remove us from being in position with God. We will be removed from where He left us as it happened with Adam and Eve. 
  3. The Holy Ghost; this means we were also created in the image of the Holy Ghost. We will have His abilities of discernment, prophecy and in some instances healing and speaking into lives of those entrusted to us as children and followers. As the Holy Ghost we will have an image that guards us as we live in this world. It that image of us that helps us to see good from bad, right from wrong. It is that image that allows us to see what is of and/or from God and that which is orchestrated by the devil. 


In his quest to remove us from the position he knows God has placed us, the prince of Darkness led us into temptations we could not easily refuse and thus sinful. It is for this truth of temptation that Jesus instructed that as we pray we should as far as it is possible say 'lead us not into temptations'.


The Son in the Wholeness of God petitioned God the Father and came as Man to confront the Prince of Darkness and restore our relationship with the Father through the Salvation that can only come through Him. In this journey the wholeness of God was for the first time seen in operation. He was conceived of the Holy Ghost, became a Son of Man, lived amongst us until He died our type of death, went and took the power of life out of the hands of the Prince of Darkness, rescued those that deserved resurrection. He resurrected from Death and left us with the Power to defeat death through salvation, and left to be by Our Father’s right hand waiting for the day He will be our solicitor.


By going through crucifixion, He took the most excruciating of pains. Pain that was reserved for those humanity has condemned to death. He went to and left the cross for us to find salvation. It is through us accepting Him as saviour that we will get salvation. The cross represented therefore where He was to take pain and death on our behalf, and position it below Him for us to know that through Him resurrection is not only guaranteed, but death can never be victorious on our lives ever.


Crucifixion means therefore that as humanity, we need to take out lives to the cross, be crucified to die as worldly persons, in that death reclaim our Son and Holy Ghost status from the Prince of Darkness. With that reclaimed be resurrected as new creatures that have seen salvation and only awaiting or looking forward to Judgement Day. 


What we should know is that if we die the human death without Salvation, there is no way we can claim it beyond the grave. We will thus be awaiting judgement without the benefit of Jesus the Christ as our solicitor. Crucifixion should thus be a volunteered journey to the cross in order to die as a sinner and be reborn as a new creature of God. To us that should be the first resurrection. As you come out of your ‘death’ you are expected to see life differently and that calls for you to repent and allow the Holy Ghost in you to take over.


As we walk the crucifixion memory of Christ, let us go to our own cross. In our likeness to Him, let us remember “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds we have been healed.” And “Surely He took up our pain and bore our suffering” and “whoever does not take up their cross and follow Him is not worthy of Him”.


As His birthday approaches, we should think of his birth as a path through which our visibility as God's children is illuminated. God bless us as we start to become Him on earth.


🤷🏽‍♂️Amen


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