Paul declared… “I am crucified with Christ…” (Galatians 2:20) “Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep...Ought not Christ to have suffered these things (events of his death) and to enter into His GLORY (thru his resurrection) ...But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death , crowned with GLORY and honor" ...(1 Corinthians 15:20; Luke 24:26; Hebrews 2:9) When Jesus hung on the cross it was a graphic declaration that death is the path to GLORY, for himself and for humans. Got it? Sin, death, and the grave is the path to GLORY. Christ the first fruit, then all the rest of us. It is the SPIRIT within us which longs to live, not die, and testifies to us “the sufferings of Christ and the GLORY that should follow.” (1 Peter 1:11) There is NO path to GLORY among the present self-righteous institutions of men in this present age. It is not our good works, nor our bad that de...