We must examine the Word of God to see if the concept of "Death Route" holiness can be found. The below Scriptures contain direct references to "death-route"
Christianity; thus identifying all genuine Christians with Christ Himself.
Christ stated:
"And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple" (Luke
14:27).
The writer to the Hebrews stated:
"Let; us go forth therefore, unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach" (Heb. 13:13).
(Without the camp meant crucifixion.)
All who WILL NOT be thus identified with Christ, cannot be identified with Him at all.
Remember, dear reader, "Death-route" Christianity, to the total dethronement of self-will, and the
total enthronement of Christ, is the only true Christianity. This is the only Christianity Christ
originated, and it is the only kind the apostles preached and practiced. Anything less than "death"
to old carnal self is not the genuine article.
Note the following passages from the pen of the
Apostle Paul:
"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" (Gal. 2:20).
"For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds
of the body ye shall live." (Rom. 8:13).
"Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his
death?" (Rom. 6:3).
"Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death..." (Rom. 6:4).
"For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the
likeness of his resurrection" (v. 5).
"Knowing this, that OUR OLD MAN IS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM [8] that the body of sin
[the carnal mind] might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin" (v. 6).
"Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through
Jesus Christ our Lord " (v. 11).
"For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God" (Col. 3:3).
"Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth..." (Col. 3:5).
"That I may know...the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his
death" (Phil. 3:10).
"But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom
the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." (Gal. 6:14).
"That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt
according to the deceitful lusts..." (Eph. 4:22).
"It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him,
we shall also live with him" (2 Tim. 2:11).
The above Scriptures and explanations come from the book "Scriptural Death Route Holiness" by L.S. Boardman.
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