We can’t… we won’t… crucify ourselves. Only Another can, and already has. Besides, we don’t have enough hands to hold the hammer and nails. The Cross reveals our Union with the Godhead, yet self-righteousness continues to attempt vainly, in its own effort, to replicate… to duplicate… the Cross of Jesus Christ; all the while claiming it is “in process” or “a work in progress”… just like Adam’s spirit, in thinking that by his doing good and abstaining from evil, successfully, he could make himself like God or achieve “God-likeness”. The more we taste of our Union with the Godhead, the more we will lose our taste for everything else…
Colossians 3: 1-5 (YLT)
1 If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated,
2 the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,
3 for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;
4 when the Christ -- our life -- may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.
5 Put to death, then, your members that [are] upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --
