Session # 6
Resting, Leaning or Depending Upon Anything Else than
the Revealed Person of Christ
1Co 1:23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
q We preach Christ as being crucified.
q This entails that we enter into his crucifixion
1Co
2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him
crucified.
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The outcome
is to experience the resurrected Christ.
Ac 4:33 And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
The Substitute Life
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The other person living within lives a
separate from ours.
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The lives are diametrically opposed. One
is natural and one is spiritual
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The cross is used to kill, still and silence
our natural life so that the person of Jesus Christ can be discerned, heard,
and obeyed.
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Two lives cannot compete. One must die and the other one live.
Walking in the Spirit
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Walking in the Spirit is a life of
cooperation with the other person living within.
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Walking in the Spirit is simply
discerning the life of Jesus living with in us obeying his whims and desires.
2Co
6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you
also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
Phillip 3:10
That I may know
him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings,
being made conformable unto his death;
11 If
by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
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Php 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Php
3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness,
which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the
righteousness which is of God by faith:
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God’s character is to time and time again bring us through trials
of weakness, impossibilities, handicaps, and difficulties, so as to cause us to
come to an end of our efforts, strength, and agendas.
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God works in our
lives through our weaknesses, hopelessness, and failures. God knows how thoroughly corrupted by pride,
ego, and selfishness even our best Christian intentions and plans are.
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If we are to work in the power and glory of
God everything in our lives must be purified.
Everything must be put to death and resurrected through the cross of
Christ. As we shall see, our God can
only raise up the dead. (Corpse
in the Greek). Abraham and Sarah were walking corpses at the time of God’s
visitation to them.
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The Lord most effectively
moves when our agendas, our plans, and visions have become literal corpses
before Him. This is because only the
dead are freed from sin and the flesh.
This is exactly what God needs to work.
Remember, “God’s greatest manifestation of power transpired on the event
of His raising Christ up from the dead.”
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As we yield, and yield, and yield even more, God will fill us
more, and more and more, until we can joyfully exclaim with the apostle Paul;
Ephesians 5:18 And be not
drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;