Co-Crucified with Christ
- Henley Samuel
- Dec 6, 2025
- 4 min read
December 06, 2025
In this meditation, we'll explore the profound reality of being co-crucified with Christ and what it means to live in unbroken fellowship with God. This transformative truth changes not just our understanding but our very identity.
We Died With Christ
One of the most transformative truths in Scripture is that when Christ died, we died with Him. Romans 6 reveals this reality:
"Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by the baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the death by the glory of the father, we too might walk in the newness of life." - Romans 6:3-4
This isn't merely symbolic language. When Jesus was crucified, you were co-crucified with Him. The passage continues:
"For if we have become one with him by sharing a death like his, we shall also be one with him in sharing his resurrection by new life lived for God." - Romans 6:5
Our old nature was crucified with Christ:
"We know that our old unrenewed self was nailed to the cross with him in order that our body, which is the instrument of sin, might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin." - Romans 6:6
This co-crucifixion with Christ means that our former identity has been forever stripped of its power. We are no longer defined by sin or separation from God.
Living in Unbroken Fellowship
The culmination of Christ's work on the cross is our restored relationship with God. Romans 6 continues:
"For by the death he died he died to sin ending his relation to it once for all and the life that he lives he is living to God in unbroken fellowship with him." Romans 6:10
And this same reality applies to us:
"Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God living in unbroken fellowship with him in Christ Jesus." Romans 6:11
This is the heart of the gospel: unbroken fellowship with God! The relationship that was fractured in Eden has been fully restored through Christ. We now live in continuous communion with the Trinity, embraced by the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
From "My God" to "Father"
At the cross, Jesus experienced something He had never experienced before. Throughout His ministry, He always addressed God as "Father." Yet in His darkest moment, He cried out:
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
This wasn't because God had actually abandoned Him, but because Jesus was experiencing our perspective of separation. He was seeing God through our fallen lens, through Adam's perspective.
But if we look at Psalm 22, which Jesus was quoting, we see that it doesn't end in forsakenness. By verse 24, the tone shifts dramatically:
"For he has not despised or upheld the affliction of the afflicted; neither has he hidden his face from him, but when he cried to him, he heard." Psalm 22:24
Jesus didn't remain in that place of perceived separation. Before He died, His final words were:
"Father, into your hands I commit my spirit."
He returned to addressing God as Father, showing us the way back to intimate relationship with God.
Inside the Trinity
Through Christ's finished work, we are now positioned inside the Trinity. Imagine a triangle with God the Father at the top, Jesus on one side, and the Holy Spirit on the other. We are not outside this triangle looking in; we are inside, embraced by all three persons of the Godhead.
This means we are living in the powerful love of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We are not separated or distant from God. We are at the center of His love and attention.
Conclusion
Good Friday is not a day for sadness but for rejoicing! What happened at the cross wasn't just about Jesus dying for us; it was about us dying with Him and being raised to new life. We now have unbroken fellowship with God.
Today, choose to see God not through Adam's fallen perspective but through the lens of Christ's finished work. You are not forsaken or abandoned. You are living in unbroken fellowship with God, inside the loving embrace of the Trinity.
Reflect on This
How might your daily experience change if you truly lived from the reality of your unbroken fellowship with God?
In what areas of your life do you need to shift from seeing God as distant to recognizing Him as your loving Father who is always present?
Prayer
Father, I thank You that through Jesus, I now live in unbroken fellowship with You. I declare that nothing can separate me from Your love. I am no longer defined by sin or separation. I am defined by righteousness and relationship with You. I reject any perspective that sees You as distant. You are my Father, always present, always loving. I receive the fullness of my position in Christ today, embraced within the Trinity's love. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Key Takeaways
When Jesus died on the cross, we died with Him to our old sin nature.
We have been raised with Christ to walk in newness of life.
We now live in unbroken fellowship with God through Christ.
Jesus experienced our perspective of separation so we could experience His perspective of communion.
We are now positioned inside the Trinity, embraced by the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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