Crucified with Christ

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

When we come to faith in Jesus and are united to the crucified, risen Savior, our old life is left on the other side of the cross. Today, Sinclair Ferguson identifies what it means for Christians to be crucified with Christ.

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Meet Today’s Teacher:

Sinclair Ferguson is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow, vice-chairman of Ligonier Ministries, and Chancellor’s Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

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0:00.0	We measure the greatness of the love by the greatness and dignity of the lover.
0:06.0	And there is no greater dignity.
0:08.0	That's what's so astonishing to the apostle.
0:11.0	It's the Son of God who loved me.
0:18.0	1 John 3 says, See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called
0:26.4	children of God, and so we are. You know, you can almost hear the Apostle John's utter amazement
0:33.6	and delight at the magnitude of the Father's love for his children. We're going to consider that
0:40.3	today as we continue exploring the repeated truth found throughout the New Testament, the Christian's union with Christ.
0:47.3	What does it mean to be united to Christ? What does it look like? And how is it a measure of God's love for you and me?
0:56.3	Here's the Vice Chairman of Ligeneer Ministries, Sinclair Ferguson.
1:02.3	I want especially in this session to focus on one particular verse, very famous verse, which
1:08.9	if you became a Christian in my era, you would have been told to
1:12.5	memorize immediately. It's Galatians, chapter 2 and verse 20. These amazing words of Paul that in a way
1:22.4	nothing seems to prepare you for when he says, I have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live,
1:31.1	but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God
1:37.7	who loved me and gave himself for me. Among the many striking things about this statement is the prepositions that Paul uses.
1:50.3	I'm not sure there's another verse in the whole of the New Testament where the whole gospel is
1:56.3	summarized by the use of four different prepositions. I have been crucified with Christ. Christ lives in me.
2:07.4	I live by faith. He gave himself for me. You know that amazing just in these four prepositions.
2:17.3	It seems as though the whole of the gospel is
2:19.8	summarized, and certainly our union with the Lord Jesus Christ is so clearly stated. In a way,
2:26.5	this is the framework for a gospel-saturated Christian life. And clearly it focuses on this idea that we are united to Christ. And in some ways,
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