The Divine Exchange | Easter Day | Andy Elmes | 20th April 2025

Ps Andy delivers an awesome message today about the divine exchange upon the cross. Jesus paid for all our sins by his death, but we also died with Him and are resurrected to new life though Him. Ps Andy calls this a moment of co-crucifixion. Each of us who believes in what Jesus has did on the cross, would enter in to His death, His burial and also resurrection to newness of life. By faith, we embrace what He did on the cross and His death becomes our death. His burial of the old man becomes our burial and His resurrection to newness of life becomes our new experience.

We don't embrace this by our doing religion, we embrace it all by faith. We believe that He said He did it for us and did it, He did. Ps Andy explains how this is the true meaning of identification, we're living in a society that's warped with the wrong ideologies, the power of identification finds its strength in the work of the cross. God doesn't want you to crucify yourself because you haven't got enough hands! You can't do it yourself!

He wants you to identify with the death he provided so that death can be yours and with the burial and resurrection. So when we identify with Christ, what we're saying is, you were on the cross my saviour, but you also took not just my sin, but all sin so that I could be free from sin and become a new creation. 

Ps Andy tells us he wants us all leaving the service today knowing that our old man is dead in Christ and that we've been risen to newness of life. Now we've just gotta get some grave clothes off so we can begin to live in the good of what God isn't going to do because He's already do it!