Living with Confidence in a Chaotic World by Dr. David Jeremiah

Author:Dr. David Jeremiah [Jeremiah, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2018-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

Focus on His Connection to You

Colossians 3:1–4 reads, “If then you were raised with Christ . . . your life is hidden with Christ . . . you also will appear with Him in glory” (emphasis added).

I’ve highlighted the word with to show just how critical it is in this frame of thinking. With is a word of connection, our lifeline to Christ. When He died, we died with him. When He was buried, so were we. And we shared in His glorious resurrection, so that now we can be seated in the heavenlies with Him.

When the Bible says that Jesus died for us, it doesn’t mean simply that He died in our behalf; it means He died in our place. He died where we should have died. Just as Adam was the personal embodiment of our fall into sin, Christ is the personal embodiment of our salvation and glory. “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive” (1 Corinthians 15:22). We fell with Adam, but we were resurrected with Christ.

Do you see the importance of that little word with in our spiritual destiny? The great Chinese Christian preacher and writer, Watchman Nee, grasped it. In 1927, he had been struggling with issues of temptation and his sinful nature. One morning he was sitting upstairs reading the book of Romans, and he came to the words, “Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him . . .” (6:6). For Nee, it was as if the words had come to life on the page. He leapt from his chair, ran downstairs, and grabbed a kitchen worker by the hands. “Brother,” he shouted. “Do you know that I have died?”

The worker only stared in puzzlement. Nee blurted out, “Do you not know that Christ has died? Do you not know that I died with Him? Do you not know that my death is no less truly a fact than His?”

It was all Watchman Nee could do to keep himself from running through the streets of Shanghai, shouting about his death and new life. From that day on, his faith was confident and strong. His biographer wrote that it was impossible to say anything that might offend Nee. Why should he be offended? That Watchman Nee was long since dead!14

Charles Spurgeon had his own way of explaining this amazing phenomenon of dying with Christ:

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