The fellowship of His sufferings….

[Not me]

Philippians 3:10 (NASB20)
that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;

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Knowing Christ and the power of His resurrection is knowing by experience the growing of the new birth… Knowing the fellowship of His suffering is the suffering and dying one goes through when one denies one’s own will…. Being conformed to His death is the steadfastness of the denial of that will…

These three truths are to be experienced in life as one grows in Christ…. One can know about Christ without being conformed to His death, but one can not know the power of the new birth in the soul without being conformed to His death… For only when one has given up or died to their own will can one understand what another has gone through in the giving up of their will, henceforth the fellowship of Christ’s sufferings when He denied His own will to do the Father’s, one likewise experiences the same suffering when one dies to one’s own will to do His…

For Christ gave up His will to do the Father’s will even to the point of death… Scripture says one is to follow suit if one would be perfected in Christ… For this is the all of being obedient to Christ, the giving up of one’s own will in things to pursue God’s will in the set of circumstances one finds oneself in… For if one is pursuing own will, regardless of how righteous or good one might think or believe it to be, because own will is not of faith, own will is sin, and sin can never find itself pleasing to God…. For giving up own will is giving up one’s sin, for giving up the sin of own will is the giving up that from which all sin has its root….

For there is but one way to come out from under the power of own will and that is to consciously choose to look to another by faith that that One’s will might be done…

This One that is to be looked to that His will might be done must be believed in, and it must also be believed that He has the power, strength, and the willingness to do that which is necessary to accomplish the task of keeping one free from sin…. For this is what it comes down to, does one believe that God Himself will so live His life through one that that one could walk in newness of life…

For this miracle to be accomplished death of own will must come first if one would experience God Himself living His life through one…  For both will’s can not rule in the life at the same time, one or the other must have mastery…. Christ taking one to death on the cross with Him does get rid of own will, if but one wills to allow it to be so by the faith of the heart embracing the truth of one’s death on the cross with Christ….. 

Be blessed in embracing the truth of one’s death in Christ that the fellowship of His sufferings might be known by experience to the knowing of Him….

A fellow follower of His, Not me