The Fathers plan for building Himself into us is striking. We must take Jesus place. We must learn to act in His stead. There must be the conscious training of our spirits to be His actual representatives. Col. 1 :9-12 gives us an intimation of the passion of the Father to make Himself known to us in such a real way that we can enter into all the riches of the fullness of His Life that belongs to us. Here is a prayer of the Spirit through the lips of Paul For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray and make request for you, that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. The word knowledge in the Greek is epignosis. It means full knowledge, complete knowledge, exact knowledge. We should have that kind of Knowledge, for it is in this Revelation. We have the Holy Spirit who inspired it as our teacher. He has never left His position as an instructor. He is here in my heart and yours, and He longs to fill us with the exact knowledge of the Fathers will in all Spiritual Wisdom and Understanding. It will be Wisdom to use the knowledge of this Revelation in our daily walk. It will be Wisdom to know how to use the statements of fact as well as the promises in the Gospels. It will be Wisdom to know how to make this message known in an attractive way. We are to have knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom, a deeper insight into the very heart of the Father. I Cor. 2:9, 10 may throw some light on this. Things which eye saw not, the ear heard not, and which entered not into the heart of man, whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him. These are revealed to us today in this Revelation through the Spirit, for the Holy Spirit is able to search all things, yea, the deep things of God, and our recreated spirit is enabled to follow the Holy Spirit in this searching of the Riches of His Grace. Most of these riches are in the Pauline Revelation. In Eph. 3:8 we catch a glimpse of where Paul said, Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. These unsearchable riches belong to us, but, like pearls, we have to search for them. 1 Cor. 2:11, 12 For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God. Now note carefully the next verse: But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in words which mans wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth. We are learning to grasp this exact truth by the aid of the Spirit. We find that in Col. 1:9, 10 this knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding is to enable us to walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing. Our walk is before the world. We might say that it is a two-fold walk. One phase of it is before the Father, and the other is before the world. I am to walk worthy of the Lord before men so they will recognize this New Life in me. I am so Jesusized (if we could coin the word), that they will become Jesus-conscious in my presence. I knew a woman that found Christ through my ministry over the air. Her husband was a godless man and she had been a fit companion in his worldliness, but now she had found Christ. It went on for several weeks until finally one morning before he went to work, he said, Do you know, woman, that I have been living and sleeping and eating with Jesus Christ for the last two weeks. She was a keen-minded woman, and she said, How do you enjoy it? Tears filled his eyes. He said, I wish I was like that. I wish I had that something that has come into your life. You see, Jesus had so lived in her that the man could feel the presence of the Master in her. Two young men were working in a shop. One of them was studying the Word in our classes. The fellow working on a lathe next to him said to him one morning, Harry-. I would like to ask you something that is personal. What have you in your life that makes you so different from all the other men here in the room? The boy answered, Jesus. Oh, he said, that is religion; I dont believe in that. And the young boy said, It is not religion, it is the Living Christ. Christ magnified in my body, said Paul; Christ made large in my daily walk. In Phil. 1:20, 21 he said, For to me to live is Christ. Once those words burned in my heart for months. The Master was saying to me, I want to be magnified in you. I want to absorb your personality. I want to take possession of your dreams and ambitions. I want the first place in your life. I was afraid of Him. I spoke out, Lord, I dont dare let you have control of me for if I do I will never achieve the things for which I am so ambitious. And I shall never forget, a voice in my heart said, I love you more than you love yourself. I am more ambitious for your success than you are. I have the ability to put you over. I said, Lord, dont make me preach on the streets. You will send me down into the slums. I dont want to go there Lord. I struggled again, but He was tender with me. His `Wisdom became so apparent. Often in my extremities He had helped me. When I would get into difficulties He would lift me out. One day I said, Master, I will go with you. Here I am; take all of my ability. Swallow up my ambition with your own, but give me Love like your Love. Help me to so live that men can see you in me, feel you, that when I speak it will be your voice. When I lay hands on the sick it will be your hands. And then I heard a Scripture in Gal. 2:20: I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in your Master, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. Then I said, Now Master, I trust you and I give myself up to you. You see, when we come quietly in our heart-life to the place where we say Yes to Him, then He reveals Himself in us. It is not forced upon us. He doesnt drive us. He doesnt force us with sickness or the loss of property. The sickness comes because we are not aware that He can shield us. We have gone the way of our inclinations. We have gone the way of our own desires and our plans have been worked out, reasoned out with sense knowledge. New Creation Realities.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:00:00 +0000
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