THY HIDDEN ONES Jessie Penn-Lewis

"It is because the children of God do not apprehend the TWO aspects of crucifixion with Christ that they fail to realise the abundant life in practical experience. The OBJECTIVE or the finished work of Christ in His death and resurrection is the basis of the SUBJECTIVE work of the Holy Spirit in us.

OBJECTIVELY the death of Christ was not only a propitiation for sin, but was in the purpose of God, the death of all for whom He died.

In our position before God, we who are believers are IN HIM, the Cleft Rock-PLANTED IN HIS DEATH. The Holy One became a curse for the accursed ones, that the accursed Adam-life might be nailed to the cross with the substitute the Lamb of God.

SUBJECTIVELY it is the work of the Spirit of God to apply to us the power of Christ’s death and resurrection, to bring us inwardly into correspondence with our ‘position’ in Christ-crucified, buried, risen and ascended in the Redeemer.

The ‘objective’ and ‘subjective’ aspects must both be made real to the soul by the power of the Holy Ghost, if the ‘life out of death’ is to be known in practical reality.

On our part, if we have been brought by the mercy of God to truly hate ourselves-our ‘own life’ (Luke14:26) as well as our sins, and to recognise that all is accursed, being heartily willing to renounce all that we ourselves have, we may turn to Calvary and see that in Christ we ARE delivered, being dead to that wherein we were held. (Romans 7:6)

In dependence upon the Divine Spirit we may appropriate the death of Christ as our death and count upon the immediate inflow of the life of the Risen Lord, to possess us to the fullest capacity of the earthen vessel.

From this point, the faith position that we have been crucified with Christ, we may expect the Holy Spirit to bear witness and ‘make to die’ the ‘doings of the body’ in ever deepening power whilst He teaches us increasingly to hate the garment spotted by the flesh and to glory in the Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to us and we at the world.

The Eternal Spirit, charged with the work of applying to us the death and of communicating the resurrection life of Christ, will cause us always to bear about the dying of Jesus. Thus shall be manifested in our mortal flesh the life also of Jesus and in the power of that endless life we shall be energised to labour according to HIS working, working mightily in us.”

2 Corinthians 1:3-10King James Version (KJV)

3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

7 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

I liked the article, and these verses I think illustrate what was said.
Paul showed how in practice we die with Christ.

Romans 8:36
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.