Gal 2:20 (NIV) I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself for me.

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live: In submitting your life to Jesus, the third thing that is required of you in The Six Biblical Principles is, you must PRAY for it. Once again, the Bible makes it clear that submitting your life to Jesus has already been credited to your record with God; but, Jesus wants you to PRAY and invite Him into empowering you to ACTUALLY submit your life to Him. Praying various prayers invites Jesus into your situation with divorce. This keeps you from having to deal with it alone.

There is a big difference between you having submission credited to your record with God and you ACTUALLY submitting to Jesus. You actually submitting to Jesus involves a system where Jesus is invited by you to teach you how to submit. But, teaching you how doesn’t just involve Him giving you some information. He wants you to allow Him to do the living in your place for awhile. He wants you to let Him show you how it is done; and He does this by you allowing Him to take your life, thoughts, feelings, words, and deeds and replace them with His. But, He will ONLY take over moment-by-moment and issue-by-issue. So, as you are going about your day, He will be waiting to see if you include Him or leave Him out.

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me: This is ONLY true, if Jesus gets your permission moment-by-moment and issue-by-issue. From now on, all day long, each day, He will be waiting to see if you PRAY and ask Him for His input, His influence, His methods, and His way of doing things. The only way you will be able to learn how to live as a mature, adult child of God will be for Him to show you by Him taking the situation and living it in and through you.

Once again, by you giving each moment and each issue into His control, you will get a chance to see through Jesus’ eyes, feel Jesus’ feelings, experience Jesus’ thoughts, and be used by Jesus to do God-sized things. He will take you into the spirit realm with Him and let you learn how to live as a child of God. It is the most dynamic, wonderful training system in all of existence. This is how He is going to bring healing, transformation, and power into your life.

Heb 2:5-8 (NIV) It is not to angels that He has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. But there is a place where someone has testified: “What is MAN that You are mindful of him, the SON OF MAN that You care for him? You made HIM a little lower than the angels; You crowned HIM with glory and honor and put everything under HIS feet.” In putting everything under HIM, God left nothing that is not subject to HIM. YET AT PRESENT we do not see everything subject to him.

You crowned HIM with glory and honor and put everything under HIS feet: This is your future; this is what Jesus is wanting to train you for; but, before you get all that power and authority, you must allow Jesus to get you ready. Your character and attitudes MUST be worked on. This is talking about an eternal Kingdom; that isn’t just a long time; it is a NEVER ENDING realm of existence. So, God is being VERY picky about who He lets in. Jesus is getting you trained in so you will be ready to enter into this eternal Kingdom.

Gal 4:1-2 (NIV) What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate. He is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father. Jesus is YOUR Guardian and Trustee until He is able to get you ready to be an inheritor of the Kingdom. He is using your struggle with divorce to teach you the principles for how to live The Victorious Christian Life.

Rom 8:17 (NIV) Now if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in His sufferings in order that we may also share in His glory. Everyone has to learn how to overcome some kind of difficulty; everyone has an issue like your issue with divorce. You are not unique in having this kind of a problem. You just have to be willing to do your suffering with Jesus rather than accepting it or struggling with it alone.

John 15:8 (NIV) This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be My disciples. Growing in your attitudes and character and sharing your breakthroughs with those around you brings glory to your heavenly Father. You and the people around you start demonstrating the love, generosity, power, grace, and transformation from God. AND, as you learn how to overcome big issues like your issue with divorce, then you are able to help everyone else with their big issues.

You now have two tool sets, which are: The Three Keys To All Of Christianity and The Six Biblical Principles. Those who are aware of these two tool sets, will read the assignments that are constantly being given to them from the Bible, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit and will know what to do. They will know how to use these tools to stay attached to Jesus. They will know how to start looking to Him for everything they need in life. They will know how to gradually stop consulting themselves and other humans; they will learn to always include Jesus in their thoughts, feelings, words, and actions through ASKING.

Jesus is going to take you through Romans 6:12-19 where you are going to be exposed to numerous assignments. Then, after you are exposed to them, He is going to lead you into powerful, specific prayers that GET these assignments fulfilled in your life. If you feel ANY pressure, feel fear, become overwhelmed, or feel inadequate, you are yielding to thoughts and feelings that are pressuring you as a human. You are thinking that YOU are being asked to full that Biblical assignment with YOUR abilities, skills, talents, and world training. If you feel faith, assurance, peace, and excitement, then you are moving into remaining in Jesus; your eyes are fixed on Him. The pain and concern you have that is being caused by you difficulties with divorce can cause you to take your eyes off of Jesus.

Rom 6:12 (NIV) Therefore do not LET sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Once the Bible tells you WHAT your assignment is, you have to know HOW to “do what it takes” to get it done. If you don’t IMMEDIATELY apply The Three Keys To All Of Christianity and The Six Biblical Principles, you WILL use human effort and world training to TRY to not LET sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.

Rom 6:13 (NIV) Do not OFFER the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather OFFER yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and OFFER the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness. In order for you to not OFFER the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, you are going to have to apply ASKING, SEEKING, and KNOCKING to your DESIRING, STUDYING, PRAYING, BELIEVING, LOVING, and taking FAITH-ACTION. These are your two spiritual tool sets for LIVING The Victorious Christian Life. These tools will bring the RESULTS you are looking for that you weren’t able to get through any other system.

Rom 6:14 (NIV) For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. It is only by the grace of God that you have such powerful tools like The Three Keys To All Of Christianity and The Six Biblical Principles. You have a clean record with God that made you not under law, but under grace. But, the main reason God gave you that perfect record was so you could gain possession, training, and power to use these tool sets so that sin shall not be your master. Law would make YOU responsible for gaining the victory over your problems with divorce; grace makes JESUS responsible for your problems with divorce. You are responsible for using the two tool sets; but, Jesus is responsible for the miracles and healing.

Rom 6:15 (NIV) What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Some Christians are sinning because they don’t know about Jesus’ tool sets. They are TRYING, DETERMINING, PROMISING, and failing. They are trying to learn from their mistakes, trying to get other Christians to hold them accountable, using the process of self-forgiveness, acting like they are doing fine while hiding their sins, deciding that they are just in process and maybe someday they will do better, and using a lot of other HUMAN techniques. There are even those who have decide that sinning is a normal way of life and that they just have to accept the fact that “no one is perfect.”

Rom 6:16 (NIV) Don’t you know that when you OFFER yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you OBEY--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? After a lot of Christians have tried everything they know how to apply to their issues of sinning and their issues with things like divorce, they give up and just “do the best they can.” Some “accidently” apply ASK, SEEK, and KNOCK by reading their Bible, going to church, listening to Christian music, doing devotions, and hanging around mature Christians. They don’t do it based on training, obedience, and spiritual growth. They just happen on to them and don’t know why they get SOME breakthroughs and not others.

Rom 6:17 (NIV) But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. The form of teaching Jesus is causing you to be exposed to, not only helps you strategically take the necessary steps to victory, you are able to know why you succeeded. And, you know how to help others take the Biblical steps so they can win. If you don’t why or how you are winning, then you can’t give others Jesus’ form of teaching. 2 Tim 2:15 (AKJV) Study to show yourself approved to God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, RIGHTLY DIVIDING the word of truth.

Rom 6:18 (NIV) You have been SET FREE from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. Now we are back to the three forms of freedom. Salvation made you free by GIVING you forgiveness for your past sins. Justification made you free by GIVING you forgiveness for your present and future sins. THEY provided you a perfect record with God for as long as you have the Romans 7:15 WANT and HATE. THAT want and hate are able to motivate you to the third aspect of freedom through sanctification or spiritual growth. That is where you skillfully, strategically, and powerfully apply your tool sets to each and every spiritual issue you face.

Rom 6:19 (NIV) I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to OFFER the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now OFFER them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

Just like you used human effort and world training to help you OFFER the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, use ASKING, SEEKING, and KNOCKING on DESIRING, STUDYING, PRAYING, BELIEVING, LOVING, and taking FAITH-ACTION, to OFFER them (the parts of your body) in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

It took some training from other sinners, television, internet, magazines, books, and your own human trial and error process to learn how to OFFER the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness. And, it is taking training from Jesus to learn how to OFFER them (the parts of your body) in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.