As intercessors, we have jurisdiction in this critical communication post between heaven and earth. The warfare comes in because we have an assignment in illegally occupied territory. Our base of operation is under fire. We pray in a war zone even though warfare is not our objective. Our objective is not to render the enemy powerless by stripping him of any authority he has, but to break the grip he has on people by praying and wooing them into the kingdom of God. Here is where I think the church in America is struggling. We identify with Jesus the man and have developed a lot of theology around his humanness, which seems to be developing into humanism, and that is really natural for us humans. The problem is that Jesus is also fully God and he is to be worshipped as God. In one of my books, years ago, I wrote about how prayerlessness diminishes the deity of Christ and leaves us primarily focusing on the human side of Christ. That is what we most naturally identify with subsequently, if we are not spending adequate time on our knees bowed before him as our God – we tend to lose a living sense that he is not only a man but also God. You can have the fact that Jesus is God in your theology, but if prayer is not a regular practice of your life then it’s merely a belief you have but it doesn’t really affect your lifestyle. Without a spirit-wrought conviction about the deity of Christ – his human nature becomes dominant in our thinking and then that determines our lifestyle. This is where the whole debate between legalism and grace comes from. It comes from having lost a true living sense of the deity of Christ. And there shouldn’t be a debate about legalism vs. grace because that has nothing to do with this. It’s not a matter of what we can or cannot do as a Christian. It’s a matter of whether or not what we do brings any glory to our God. That’s the criteria. The priority we put on our worship, our faithfulness, and our commitment to the things of God, all stem from our revelation of the deity of Christ. CHRIST IS GOD. - Ron Auch (From Sundays sermon)
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 03:15:21 +0000
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