Throughout the scripture we are taught of our position as believers. We are told that we are the head and not the tail. We are more then conquerors. We're told that we are the sheep of His pasture. We are the bride, we are the saints of God, and many more references to who we are. Many times we over look the most important position that God Himself has placed us in through Christ Jesus His Son, and that place is death.

It is only though the act of death that we are able to see ourselves in the Word of God as conquerors, saints, bride, and His sheep. For we are nothing without Jesus. When He died he took upon Himself the stains of man-kind enabling us (believers) to be made the righteousness of God. Therefore, we can now see ourselves as the righteousness of God. We are no longer second rate citizens who walk as other Gentiles in the flesh. We are no longer aliens from the common-wealth. We are no longer strangers from the covenant of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. (Eph. 2:11-12) The believer is no longer considered strangers and foreigners, and no longer is the believer a servant. (Gal. 4:7)

The death of Jesus Christ was something more then just saving us from our sins. The merciful demonstration of Love went deeper and covered much more territory for the believer. Christ’s death also "placed" us, (the believer) in a position without end. It is now time for those that want a closer relationship in Christ’s death to recognize the full benefits of our dying with Him, for Apostle Paul says, "For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection." Praise the Lord!

This isn’t something that we are waiting for in the future, this is something that has already happened. It is only when we by faith accept the fact that when He died, the believer also died with Him. We should be reckoning (count it as so) ourselves dead to sin (the carnal senses of the flesh, the assuming factors we are faced with, ideas and our reasoning, which all make up unbelief), and ALIVE in Christ!

What does it mean to be Alive In Christ? Through the study of scripture I can’t find were Christ uses his reasoning to fulfill what the Father desired of Him. I can’t find were Jesus used His sense knowledge to please the Father in order to be accepted. I can’t find where He automatically accepted the daily spirits He faced, and assumed that, what ever will be will be.

Christ had no problem receiving whom He was and the position that God had placed Him. He didn’t say, "when things are going great I can see where I and my Father are one". He didn’t say, " I only do the will of my Father when I’m having a good feeling." On the contrary, He knew who He was and acted upon the faith that was within Him. He declared, "I and my Father are ONE." Christ was showing us how we as believers should act concerning our position in Him. We are not on a clearance rack, but we are in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. We have been positionally placed to act and do has the Father desires.

What keeps us from recognizing that God has positionally placed us in a position that is forever settled? In Eph 6: 10 Apostle Paul encourages the believer to "Be Strong." What are we striving to strengthen? I think many times we believe that God is desiring to see us strong in the flesh, for that is where many place their emphasis on. They teach in order to be a pleasing believer to the Lord Jesus Christ your hair and dress must be long and your tongue short. How can we be pleasing in the flesh or with a self man attitude when Apostle Paul also taught, "Have no confidence in the flesh (Phil. 3:3), Make no provisions for the flesh (Rom. 13:14) Put off concerns of the flesh? (Eph 4:22). If we are to be dead to the flesh, and we know that the flesh is enmity against God, how can we ever think that we are a pleasing to Him by trying to access His presence through the acts of the flesh? Is this saying that it is alright to do as one pleases? Apostle Paul was also questioned concerning this situation and the people asked, "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid, how shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? (Rom. 6: 1-2)

Any moral person should dress right, talk right, and act right, but your relationship with God isn’t based upon these good moral fleshly developed attributes. Your relationship is established through Death. When you began to reckon (or count on) yourself dead to sin, you no longer have a desire in your heart to live in the presence or allow the dominion of sin to rule your life as a believer. Your faith is there forth founded upon the Rock of your Salvation, which is Christ, and not upon your righteous deeds of the flesh.

I assume that the lack of teaching concerning the depravity of the flesh man has become a danger to many people that claim to follow truth. But, the flesh man must first be exposed in order to understand why he must die. He (the flesh man) is a oppressor to this victorious walk with Christ. I believe that the flesh is what keeps most people from recognizing that they are positional placed.

It’s to our benefit to see ourselves not as a old sinner saved by grace. That is what we were, but we are no longer a old sinner saved by grace. We are now made the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus. If we are no longer the old sinner that the flesh tries to make us believe we are, then we can say, "There is therefore NOW no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." (Rom 8:1)

Notice, we no longer walk after the Flesh, but after the Spirit! What accommodates the Spirit? Faith, Hope, Reverence, Prayer, and Worship. These five faculties are not found in the flesh realm. The Flesh is attracted by what it sees, hears, smells, taste and touches. The flesh realm relates to earthly things. The spirit realm relates to heavenly things. This is what Apostle Paul was speaking of when he said "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ." Eph. 1:3.

The Psalm’s of David never said, "the joy of the flesh is my strength", but on the contrary he recognized that all joy comes through a higher channel and thus proclaimed. "The Joy of the Lord is my strength." Apostle Paul never declared that we become righteous through the deeds of the flesh, but once again on the contrary he declared, "For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God." This should make every believer rejoice in God’s great plan of deliverance.

Knowing this, we as believers can now reestablish our union with Christ by looking far beyond the flesh realm, for the scripture declares. "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are Dead, and your life is Hid with Christ in God." (Col. 3: 1-3)