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Our Lord is getting you ready as he is the rest of us.....for a time of trouble that we know just as the Father gave Jesus the power to die a horrible death, as the Lord prayed tears of blood in asking if the cup could be removed....yet said the Father's will be done and not the Son's...the Father granted the strength and the power to his Son to do HIS WILL...


Be encouraged all who are His, because if we are called to die we only have to ask our Father as Jesus did and know the strength we need will be given to us all.

This verse shows we will be given the strength:

Rev 12:11  They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of "THEIR TESTIMONY;" They did NOT LOVE THEIR LIFE SO MUCH TO SHRINK FROM DEATH. 

We have the covering of the Blood of the Lamb and we have the Testimony of Christ and if called to our trust is in the Lord to give us the strength we need just as the Father did Jesus to cross over  from Death to Life forever more... Praise be to our Lord Jesus and Our Father. 

amen. 

We do have His testimony and give our life...but the life we give is our carnal/flesh nature.  Our old man must die, must be crucified with Him in order to live spiritually.  Only then are we One.  I repeat the quotes from the OP....

• Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
  
  Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.
  
  Galatians 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
  
  Revelation 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

The crucifixion, the death of our old man, is spiritual...not literal.  We have taken up His cross and already experienced this death Vickie.  He lives in us now.  Consider....

• Luke 21:17-19  And ye shall be hated of all men for My name's sake. But there shall not an hair of your head perish. In your patience possess ye your souls.
  
  Luke 10:19  Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
  
  Isaiah 53:5  But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.

It was He that took the terrible physical punishment.  It is my belief from these Scriptures that our deaths are to be seen spiritually.  So when I read the following, I understand it as such....

• Revelation 12:11  And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

It is His blood that allows us to overcome...not ours, not our stripes, our bruises but His.  By the testimony we give, which is His Word, it shows that we have died to self, been crucified with Him...our lives in this world are not loved and are freely given.  That is not such a simple task for part of that is....

• Matthew 10:37  He that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

Where it is written, "loved not their lives unto the death," we know that "the death" is Satan for he is the subject.

• Revelation 12:9-11 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

Our lives have been crucified with Christ....they are not "unto the death," not unto Satan. 

Will some lives literally be taken by unbelievers, by Islamic terrorists?  Yes, they have been and will be but our biggest enemy is from within and it is of a spiritual nature.....

• John 16:2  They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.