FAITH OR EXPERIENCE ...

FAITH OR EXPERIENCE ...

By the way, I think I have figured out how to hear from you ... say
something about politics :-) It was good to hear from so many of you in
response to my Freedom Fighter yesterday. Just to clarify one point - I
DID NOT say that you were not a Christian if you were a Democrat. If
that implication was received, please forgive me.

" ... the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me." Galatians
2:20

"We should battle through our moods, feelings, and emotions into
absolute devotion to the Lord Jesus. We must break out of our own little
world of experience into abandoned devotion to Him. Think who the New
Testament says Jesus Christ is, and then think of if the despicable
meagerness of the miserable faith we exhibit by saying, 'I haven't had
this experience or that experience!'

Think what faith in Jesus Christ claims and provides - HE CAN PRESENT US
FAUTLESS BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD, inexpressibly pure, absolutely
righteous, and profoundly justified!!! Stand in absolute adoring faith
'in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God - and righteousness
and sanctification and redemption ....' (I Corinthians 1:30). How dare
we talk of making a sacrifice for the Son of God! We are saved from hell
and total destruction, and then we talk about making a sacrifice!

We must continually focus and firmly place our faith in Jesus Christ -
not a 'prayer meeting' Jesus Christ - or a 'book' Jesus Christ, but the
New Testament Jesus Christ, who is God incarnate, and who ought to
strike us dead at His feet. Our faith must be in the One from whom our
salvation springs. Jesus Christ wants our absolute, unrestrained
devotion to Himself. We can never EXPERIENCE Jesus Christ, or selfishly
bind him in the confines of our own hearts. Our faith must be built on
strong determined confidence in Him.

It is because of our trusting in experience that we see the steadfast
patience of the Holy Spirit against unbelief. All our fears are sinful,
and we create our own fears by refusing to nourish ourselves in our
faith. How can anyone who is identified with Jesus Christ suffer from
doubt or fear! Our lives should be an absolute hymn of praise resulting
from perfect, irrepressible triumphant belief." Good words this morning
from the pen of Oswald Chambers - My Utmost for His Highest

Great quote: Other books were given for our information, the Bible was
given for our transformation.

Anonymous

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