WHAT ABOUT SUFFERING

WITH CHRIST?


What About Suffering With Christ?
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Here's some good news: When the Word says we are to be partakers of Christ's suffering, it means we are to enter
into the victory Jesus bore for us on the cross. The only suffering we encounter in sharing His victory is spiritual.
That's what the Word is talking about when it says we are to be partakers of Christ's suffering. In other words, the
only suffering for a believer is the spiritual discomfort brought by resisting the pressures of the flesh, not a physical or
mental suffering. Jesus has already borne for us all the suffering in the natural and mental realms.

Romans 8:17-18 says we are to suffer with Him so that we can be glorified together. Jesus isn't suffering physically
or mentally, and if we are suffering with Him, we don't have to either. Right now, He is our head and seated at the
right hand of God (Hebrews 10:12-13). As Christ's Body in the earth, our struggle isn't against flesh and blood -
against the physical or mental. Instead, we spiritually stand against principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of
this world, and wicked spirits in high places (Ephesians 6:12). That's why it's to God's Glory when we are healed or
delivered physically and mentally, for we only have to fight in the spirit realm.

As you have probably experienced, any time we are walking in the Word and fellowshiping with the Father, Satan will
do his best to stop us. He wants to stop this spiritual relationship. He knows as we receive revelation knowledge into
our spirit, we will learn to lord over him in the physical and mental realms. Then his tactics to put us under the law of
sin and death will be futile (Romans 8:2).

James 1 says when we fall into different temptations and pressures, we should be happy about it! Why? Because the
trying of our faith works our patience - our steadfastness on God's Word. In other words, the more our faith is tried,
the more we'll learn to trust in and rely on His Word, and the more we'll be strengthened in our spirit. Then, when our
patience (our steadfastness on God's Word) has its perfect work, we will be perfect and entire, lacking nothing. It's
when we "lack nothing" that we have been delivered. We don't have to suffer physically or mentally. That is good
news!

Romans 8 :
2 -For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the
law of sin and of death.

3 For God has done what the Law could not do, [its power] being weakened by the flesh [the entire nature of
man without the Holy Spirit]. Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin,
[God] condemned sin in the flesh [subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that
sacrifice], [Lev. 7:37.]

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