The Apostle Paul revealed that keeping the Law of Moses could not bring salvation.

Gal 2:16
16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. (KJV)

Paul revealed that we are saved by God’s grace through faith in Christ.

Eph 2:8-9
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. (KJV)

Today, we will look at Paul’s revelation concerning the intimate spiritual experience of those who believe in Jesus Christ. After Paul spoke of the ineffectiveness of the Law in Galatians 2:16, he said something very mysterious in verse 20.

Gal 2:20
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (KJV)

Paul clearly taught that he had experienced a spiritual unity with Christ to the extent that his spirit died with Christ on the cross of Calvary but that his spirit was replaced with the Spirit of Christ. In Romans 6, Paul said that this spiritual unity exists between Christ and every believer.

Rom 6:3-4
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. (KJV)

The word baptize means to immerse. Therefore, Paul says that those who are spiritually immersed into Jesus Christ are spiritually immersed into His death, burial and resurrection. The physical body of each believer, therefore, becomes an instrument of the Spirit of Christ. This results in a tremendous change in the believer’s life.

2 Cor 5:17 says:
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (KJV)

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