The Cross is the only Entrance 8
Summary 3
The reason many Christians are adherents of a religion but do not enjoy the relationship with Jesus Christ they could have is that they do not enter through the cross. They come to Jesus as an adamic personality and remain an adamic personality throughout their life.
The reason for this is they were not taught when they were baptized in water that they were entering Christ's death on the cross and rising in His resurrection life. They never have learned that they are to count themselves crucified with Christ and risen with Christ. They may have memorized Galatians 2:20 but it is not a living experience with them.
Because crucifixion and resurrection with Jesus Christ are not being emphasized in our day we have multitudes of believers who believe in Christ, speak in tongues, and exercise other gifts of the Spirit, but are vulnerable to deception because they have never given over their self-life to crucifixion. They are very much alive in the adamic nature. Therefore they are an imitation of Christ. Christ does not know them. They are not part of Himself. The Spirit of God has fallen on their flesh but they themselves, although they claim to be born again, have never actually been born again because Adam is still alive.
That we are crucified and risen with Christ is a position we must adopt forcefully, diligently, consistently, every moment of our life. Otherwise we are merely a member of the Christian religion, not a true Christian at all.
God has no intention of saving our adamic personality. God is not saving what we are, He is saving us from what we are.
We cannot begin as a Christian until we count ourselves dead with Christ and risen with Christ. The cross is the only door to the new covenant.