Let us now look at the six scriptures below. These verses define six specific events that every ‘believer shared in common “TOGETHER” with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Every Christian believer partook in these six occurrences simultaneously with the Lord Jesus. These historical incidents therefore have exerted an identical influence, and produced matching outcomes for us as it did for the Lord Jesus. We are absolutely one with the Lord in the course and development that these six events took Him through.
Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
When Christ was CRUCIFIED, we were CRUCIFIED “TOGETHER” WITH HIM.
Rom 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
When Christ DIED on the cross, we DIED “TOGETHER” WITH HIM.
Rom 6:4 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.
When Christ was BURIED in the tomb, we were BURIED “TOGETHER” WITH HIM.
Ephesians 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;-)
When Christ was BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE, we were BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE “TOGETHER” WITH HIM.
Ephesians 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
When Christ ASCENDED UP TO HEAVEN, we ASCENDED UP TO HEAVEN “TOGETHER” WITH HIM.”
When Christ SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER TO RULE AND REIGN, we SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER TO RULE AND REIGN “TOGETHER” WITH HIM.
In Christ
We know that the crucifixion, death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and the sitting down of Christ at God’s right hand to reign, ARE ALL HISTORICAL EVENTS.
Roughly two thousand years ago, in the succession of time, theses six incidents left their mark in history. Their historical occurrences will influence time for all eternity.
All “born again believers” from the past, the present-day, and the future, were “TOGETHER WITH CHRIST” and therefore PRESENT AT THESE SIX EVENTS;
EVERY BELIEVER WAS THER
E EXACTLY AT THE SAME TIME, AND IN THE VERY SAME LOCATION AS THE LORD JESUS WAS, when these events took place.
THE IMPACT, AND THE FINAL OUTCOME OF THESE SIX EVENTS UPON THE LORD JESUS’ LIFE, WAS IN EVERY WAY OUR IMPACT AND OUTCOME.
How can this seeming impossibility be a reality? You and I, were not even born two thousand years ago! Secondly, Jesus died and rose in Israel, and most of us live in different parts of the world, which is not Israel.
The answer lies that every born again believer IS IN CHRIST!
Envision for a moment that Christ Jesus is “a book.” You, and I, and every believer that has and will pass through the pages of global history, is a piece of paper.
We open the book, slip the piece of paper deep within its pages, and close the book. The piece of paper is now IN THE BOOK! Hence every born again believer is IN CHRIST! Every person, at the moment of his or her conversion, automatically becomes IN CHRIST.
Whatever happened to the book or wherever the book went, will also be the paper’s destiny because it is forevermore in the book. So it is with us, and the Lord Jesus.John 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.1 Cor 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.Rom 5:12 Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned—
Rom 5:19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man’s obedience many will be made righteous.
Every person in human civilization is IN ADAM. Even though billions of us were not yet born when Adam roamed the face of the earth, spiritually speaking, he and Eve gave birth to all of us, through a long line of their descendants. Let us look at the result of our being IN ADAM.
Romans five and twelve tells us that sin came into the world through this one man, Adam. Sin has spread and will continue to spread to all men and women in civilization causing the eventual death of all humanity. In other words, the impact and the outcome that sin had upon Adam have now become our impact and outcome. Our being IN ADAM has caused us partake “TOGETHER WITH” him of his sinful nature.
However, at the very moment that any man or a woman becomes “born again,” they have now become IN CHRIST, and forevermore have partaken TOGETHER WITH Christ in His life, death, and resurrection and ruler ship.
These six historical events that we partook “TOGETHER WITH” the Lord Jesus Christ are all in the “past tense.”
The Indicative And The Subjunctive Moods
Every grammatical tense in the Greek language is further explained by its grammatical “moods.” The grammatical mood gives life to the past tense in this case.
There are three moods in the Greek grammar; we will however only deal with the two that concern us today; the indicative and the subjunctive.
The indicative mood is a “statement of fact.” When used with the past tense it tells us the following: An event without fail has occurred, or will occur, and
will punctuate the progression of history, makes no mistake about it! This is called the past indicative. There is no possibility of its not coming to pass.
The subjunctive is the mood of “probability and possibility,” and its occurrence is conditional upon a person’s free will to make it happen.
The past subjunctive can be defined as an event that will punctuate the succession of history if an individual is faithful to accomplish it as an act of their free will.
Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him(Past Indicative), that the body of sin might be destroyed(Past Subjunctive), that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Rom 6:8 Now if we be dead with(Past Indicative) Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with(Past Indicative) 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(Past Subjunctive) in newness of life
Ephesians 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together(Past Indicative) with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;-)
Ephesians 2:6 And hath raised us up together (Past Indicative), and made us sit together (Past Indicative)in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7 That in the ages to come he might shew(Past Subjunctive) the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
Romans 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
As we study the six events, I want you to take special notice of the glorious beauty of the Lord’s accomplished works as seen in the scriptures above. His crucifixion, death, burial, coming back to life, ascension, and sitting down at God’s right hand to reign, are all in the past indicative! This tells us that without fail, He faithfully executed theses six events to utter completion! Hallelujah!
You will notice however that as we progress through this section of our study, that whereas Christ has once and for all unmistakably accomplished all in the past indicative, our walk with the Lord is tied up in the past subjunctive.
The big problem throughout history is that the church, through its ignorance of its position in Christ, and by a disobedient free will, has left the accomplished tasks of Christ in the heavenlies, unaccomplished on earth.
I don’t think that we yet understand the eternal ramifications of our not habitually completing the accomplished tasks of Christ on earth through a life of disobedience. It is most so
bering for us to know that in our hands lies the responsibility to become free, Spirit filled Christians, which can bring, or fail to bring, the spiritual kingdom of God into the earthly realm, through the obedient or disobedient exercise of our free wills.
A free will, which is uncompromisingly obedient and continuously yielded to the Spirit of God, will bring forth the reality of God’s accomplished acts into the earth, and will cause all circumstances to line up in accordance to it. Let us look at one example
Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified(Past Indicative) with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed,(Aorist Subjunctive) that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Our old man was crucified “TOGETHER WITH” Christ. Please notice the past indicative. In that the Lord died two thousand years ago, we died two thousand years ago together in Him. The apostle Paul stresses that it was “our old man” which died. Our old man was made up of the body, or the whole essence of the sin that dwelled within us. The “old man” is all that embodied and defined sin in us. In the reality of our spiritual position in Christ however, we are sinless. There are several reasons for this.
Rom 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
The King James mistranslates verse seven of Romans chapter six. This verse should read as “For he that has died is justified from sin.” Justification is defined as innocence. A corpse has no sin. Therefore, he cannot sin, nor can he be tempted by sin. Because of his sinlessness, and his inability to sin, he is innocent from, or of sin. A corpse is therefore justified from sin. When we died and were buried together with Christ, we became a corpse, totally set free from sin.
However the manifestation of this reality in our lives is tied up with our free will, our faith in believing this positional reality and our obedience to the Lord as seen with the past subjunctive in Romans 6:4 below,
Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with(Past Indicative) 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(Past Subjunctive) in newness of life.
Greek: And you shall know through progressive learning what is genuine and accurate about God, and in proportion to your accurate understanding of the things of God will be the same proportion that these truths will set you free.
The devil will constantly hit us in any area of our lives that these positional events are yet not a reality to us as a rhema word. We can have 99% truth as rhema word and 1% uncertainty or unbelief. The devil will hit this 1% percent until it becomes revealed as a rhema word. It is essential to know that in these six events we were IN CHRIST and that they are all PAST INDICATIVE OCCURRENCES.
Jose and Mary Alvarez 