her qualities of this nature which he has never noticed.
The Holy Spirit does not always cast these out at once. No. There are
different ways of entering into the blessed life. One man enters into the
blessed life with the idea of power for service; another with the idea of
rest from worry and weariness; another with the idea of deliverance from
sin. In all these aspects there is something limited, and therefore every
believer is to give himself up after he knows the power of Christ's death,
and say continually: "Lord Jesus, let the power of Thy death work through,
let it penetrate my whole being." As the man gives himself unreservedly up,
he will begin to bear the marks of a crucified man. The apostle says: "I
have been crucified," and he lives like a crucified man.

What are the marks of a crucified man? The first is, deep, absolute
humility. Christ humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the
death of the cross. When the death to sin begins to work mightily, that is
one of its chief and most blessed proofs. It breaks a man down, down, and
the great longing of his heart is, "Oh, that I could get deeper down before
my God, and be nothing at all, that the life of Christ might be exalted. I
deserve nothing but the cursed cross; I give myself over to it." Humility
is one of the great marks of a crucified man.

Another mark is impotence, helplessness. When a man hangs
on the cross, he is utterly helpless, he can do nothing. As long as we
Christians are strong, and can work, or struggle, we do not get into the
blessed life of Christ; but when a man says, "I am a crucified man, I am
utterly helpless, every breath of life and strength must come from my
Jesus," then we learn what it is to sink into our own impotence, and say,
"I am nothing."

Still another mark of crucifixion is restfulness. Yes. Christ was
crucified, and went down into the grave, and we are crucified and buried
with Him. There is no place of rest like the grave; a man can do nothing
there, "My flesh shall rest in hope," said David, and said the Messiah.
Yes, and when a man goes down into the grave of Jesus, it means this: that
he just cries out, "I have nothing but God, I trust God; I am waiting upon
God; my flesh rests in Him; I have given up everything, that I may rest,
waiting upon what God is to do to me." Remember, the crucifixion, and the
death, and the burial are inseparably one. And remember the grave is the
place where the mighty resurr