DEAD WITH HIM

By Lahry Sibley

2Ti 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that
they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with
eternal glory.
2Ti 2:11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall
also live with him:
2Ti 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him,
he also will deny us:
2Ti 2:13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny
himself.

I realize that I posted the above, below the piece on the horror that has
been and is now taking place in the nation of South Africa. But there are
some other things that need to be said about this text. As I understand it,
there needs to be more “emphasis” put on this text, and others like it that
collaborate the established doctrine that only those who lose their life can
keep it. (John 12:25)

So let us take a look at what Shaul is saying in vs 11 above. “If we are dead
with Him, we shall also live with Him”. What does this really mean?

One only need to review Romans 6 to fully understand what being “DEAD
WITH HIM” is all about. Death is a one way, one time event, beloved. Once a
person has been to the CROSS by faith, (where He died and we died with
Him), that person NO LONGER LIVES. All of the riches and cares of this
world dies when a person dies. These things die with them.

Have you ever seen a taxi in a graveyard waiting to take someone to a

football game, a rodeo, or an antique show? NO!!!! Why not? Because the
folks in the graveyard are DEAD TO THIS WORLD. So are THEY who have
been crucified with the Messiah.

So what Shaul is saying above is that we should be as dead people in this

world. If we are, a big “IF”, then we can hope to live with HIM. If we suffer
for His name’s sake, so what? The promise is that one day, we will also reign
with Him.

Eph 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in
heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
And there you have it. As Elohim sees it, we who have crucified the flesh and
every occasion for it, are already seated (past tense) in heavenly places with
the Master. So how does one die with Him by faith? Romans 12:1 tells us
plainly…..

Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,

that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto
God, which is your reasonable service.

Yah’shua was sacrificed for us, put to death on our behalf in the most brutal
fashion, the entire wrath of Elohim poured out upon Him for our sins. We,
you and I, are to present ourselves before Elohim DAILY as living sacrifices.
That means that even though our flesh is alive, we are to live and move and
have our being as dead people in this world, and have no part in it. DEAD.

Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that
grace may abound?
Rom 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any
longer therein?

How is it beloved, that the Calvanistic antinomian (anti-law) so called

“Christians” claim such a title when they admittedly willfully sin daily? How
can they be dead to sin, and every occasion of the flesh, when they are still
living in it? If willful sin is still alive and part of who you are , YOU ARE NOT
DEAD TO SIN. You have NOT BEEN CRUCIFIED WITH THE MESSIAH. If you
have been baptized, you are a mockery of grace because the baptizer buried
a live person. Anyone can resurrect a live person, beloved. But only Elohim
can raise the dead to life.

Mat 16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come
after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow
me.
Mat 16:25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and
whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

It is unmistakable, yet today almost unheard of, that we are to deny our
self, die daily to sin, and every occasion that would incite the lusts of the
old sin bent flesh. Dead to this world. Dead to sin. We take up the CROSS
and what happened there, DAILY. And we follow Him. You cannot “reform”
the old flesh nature. It can only be put to death. It is corrupt and destined
for destruction. It will not accompany you into eternity.
Do you realize that you cannot stay where you are , and follow Him? It is
impossible. Those who are “left behind” are those who stay where they are,
keep the same old friends, hang out in the same old places, listen to the
same old garbage music, watch the same old sin soaked violent TV shows
and movies. YOU CANNOT POSSIBLY BE CRUCIFIED WITHOUT RADICAL DO
THESE THINGS. It is IMPOSSIBLE. WHERE IS THE RADICAL CHANGE?
DEATH IS RADCIAL!!! This “radical change” is called DEATH TO SELF.

When you DIE, you cannot stay where you are. To follow Him you cannot
stay where you are either. This is the real “LEFT BEHIND”. The old life is left
behind as dramatically and completely as if you were physically dead. DEAD.

Rom 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into

Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

If you were baptized and did not know this, your baptism is worthless.
WORTHLESS.

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.

There is our blessed hope. The old life is put to death, and the resurrection
power of Yahweh raises us up from the dead, as Messiah was raised, and we
walk in that newness of life in the resurrection power of the Lord. Halleuyah.

Anyone who preaches a “gospel” that differs from this is ACCURSED! If your
“faith” and “life” does not line up with Romans 6 and other texts quoted, you
ARE NOT on the NARROW WAY. You have NOT BEEN BORN AGAIN. Your
hope for eternal life in New Jerusalem is nothing more than an “air castle”.
YOUR NAME IS NOT YET WRITTEN IN THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE. I don’t
care how many times you’ve prayed “the sinner’s prayer”. I don’t care how
many times you have “rededicated” your life to the Messiah. You are yet
DEAD IN YOUR SINS.

Rom 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his
death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

Only those who are DEAD WITH HIM in the likeness of His death, have the
hope of His resurrection POWER. Oh my, this is so important for everyone to
understand. The “apostasy” does not have this doctrine. That is why it is
apostate, fallen from truth. The “so called church” has departed from this
truth and foundation of true religion, to follow the traditions of men and the
perversion of Sacred Scriptures.

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.

If you are still living your old sin soaked life, you are not walking in the
newness of His RESURRECTION LIFE. The BODY OF SIN is still ALIVE!!!! It
cannot be any other way. It is impossible. WAKE UP!! You, who support liars
and perverts of things holy. WAKE UP!!!

Rom 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.

If you’re not dead to sin, you are not FREED FROM SIN. DEAD!!!!

Rom 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall

also live with him:

And so we go back to what Shaul has written to young Timotheos. Dead to

live; no death, no life. It cannot be any other way. Anyone who claims any
such thing that is different to what is presented here is a liar. A LIAR!!!!
He/she is a perverter of Truth, a leader of apostates, and severed from
grace and eternal hope. Selah - Lahry