A lot of effort is devoted to getting believers to understand their co-death and co-resurrection with Christ. But we should also be able to identify with Him in His burial. This is our co-burial with Him.
1. We were buried with Christ THE DAY WE FIRST GOT SAVED. Rom 6:3-5.
2. We are buried with Him DAILY as we die daily. 1 Cor 15:31.
3. We are buried with Him ALL DAY LONG as we are being killed “all day long.”. Rom 8:36.
4. There are THREE DAYS in the Christ event. Friday is the death. Saturday (the Sabbath) is the day where His body lie in a state of burial. Sunday, the first day of the new week, He was resurrected.
5. The Grace Age is the SATURDAY of history. It is the Age of Rest. It is the time segment between our co-death with Christ (Calvary) and our co-resurrection with Christ (the Rapture). Today, we look back to experience His death and we look forward to experience His resurrection. But we are presently in the days of His burial.
6. On Saturday, they had lost Him. He was dead. They could no longer see, touch and hear Him. They were in MOURNING. They only had their faith that He would rise again. Their was the temptation to lose faith and all hope.
There was the tragic mood of only remembering His death. There were the thoughts that everything He taught, did and stood for was gone. There was a finality to Him lying in the sepulcre. Although He is risen today, there is still the finality of Saturday. We experience this sometimes.
7. Daily death and burial must be experienced before daily resurrection can be had. Life springs up out of burial. Your old self is being buried daily. To “sink down” is to sink down into death and burial. To be “rooted” and “grounded” in Him is to be buried into Him deeper and deeper. Col 2:7; Eph 3:17. To be ROOTED and GROUNDED in love is to be have a life that is shaped by and founded in the cross. As the believer is daily buried in Christ, he goes deeper down into His bowels. Phili 1:8 KJV (I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ); Is 37:31.
8. If there is not a FULL BURIAL of you, there can be no full resurrection of you. MATT 13:3-8, 18-23.
9. To be buried is to come to your “WITS’ END.” Ps 107:27. Death, burial and resurrection are all seen in Ps 107. See v 12-13; 19a; 28; and 39 for burial situations. Jonah experienced burial in the great fish who swallowed him up. Jonah 2.
10. Burial is to come to a point where death has done all that death can do and now the only thing to do is to wait, to WAIT IN FAITH and hope. Faith in a time of burial believes there will be a resurrection. Faith beieves the situation will result in God bringing a resurrection situation. Hope confidently anticipates resurrection. Resurrection means God will move, miracles will occur, God’s power will be demonstrated. Something will be created out of nothing. Power will spring up out of weakness. Fruit will be borne out of barrenness. Burial is the ultimate of, the full extent of, weakness, barrenness, nothingness, and deadness. Resurrrection means the desert will bloom an light will arise out of darkness, power will come out of powerlessness.
11. Burial is THE END of things like sins, your past, the devil’s power over you, the old selfish you, guilt, condemnation (Rom 8:2), the curse of the Mosaic Law, and the forces of the old creation.
12. Burial is a time of waiting, waiting on God because there is nothing else I can do. I, the old egotical ego “I,” am kaput. Burial is to WAIT on God to do something realizing I can’t.
13. Burial is a time of stillness. Be still, cease striving, stop fighting, relax and wait. Ps 46:10. Be STILL and know that I am God. Burial is a day to “stand still and see the salvation of the Lord” (not self-salvation). Ex 14:13; 2 Chron 20:17. Resurrection is the time to move out or “go forward” with God against the ememy. Ex 14:15.
14. Burial is a time of REST. The Sabbath was the burial day, the day of rest, the end of week day. It is a day when no more work can be done. It is a day to sleep. It is a day which must precede our laboring with Christ otherwise there can be no labor. No rest means no work. We are resting and laboring at the same time many days. We are resting in our soul as we labor in body. Or we are resting in our spirit as we labor in soul (mind, will, or emotions). burial is not a time of action, effort, methods, techniques, striving or anguish about our tasks. It is stillness.
15. Burial touches both death and resurrection. It is the TRANSITION day between death and resurrection. Going down triggers and transitions into the going up but all stands still in burial. 2 Kings 13:20-21 to see how burial transitions into life and health and vigor..
16. The height of the Christian’s life hinges on the DEPTH of his burial with Christ. The greatest blessings and riches are found deep down in the burial of you with Christ. Job 28; Rom 11:33; Job 3:13-22; Col 2:3.
17. Burial is a deep blessing. We should DIG for it more than hidden treasures. Job 3:21. We will then “rejoice exceedingly and be glad, when we can find the grave.”. Job 28:22-23.
18. Christ is buried into you and you are buried into him. There is an interpenetration between you and Christ as result of death and burial. In Him “are HID all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”. Col 2:2. When you are buried with Christ “ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”. Col 3:3. He is hidden in you. Satan and his evil powers cannot find you when you are hidden with Christ in burial. Job 28:6.
19. How do we get (allow ourselves to be) buried with Christ? We have to go down, get down, sink down into this burial. We must first declare defeat, a defeat of our own ability and wits. We must make a humble surrender. Burial means meekness and humility; not insisting on always being right or enforcing rights. This is a sinking down into a daily baptism. It is giving up control, a yielding up of the ghost as Jesus did on the cross. It is a willingness to drink the bitter cup of death to self. It is surrender. It is saying “I am done, stick a fork in me. I can’t do it but God can.” It is to embrace and not run from suffering in the cross-moments of each day. It is to love and be thankful for those who humiliate you. It is to let go, let go of control, control of the past, present and future. It is to rest everything in Christ! It is to stop the flesh so, by faith, God can enable you to go forward in spirit, His power, not yours.
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