Pull Yourself Together.
I am quickly posting this encouragement ... as I am in the middle of a Zechariah essay for Old Testament ...
It's by Oswald Chambers
'My utmost for His Highest'
"Yield your members servants to righteousness
unto holiness." Romans vi. 13-22.
I cannot save and sanctify myself ; I cannot
atone for sin ; I cannot redeem the world; I
cannot make right what is wrong, pure what is
impure, holy what is unholy. That is all the sover-
eign work of God. Have I faith in what Jesus
Christ has done ? He has made a perfect Atone-
ment, am I in the habit of constantly realizing it ?
The great need is not to do things, but to believe
things. The Redemption of Christ is not an ex-
perience, it is the great act of God which He has
performed thought Christ, and I have to build my
faith upon it. If I construct my faith on my
experience, I produce that most unscriptural type,
an isolated life, my eyes fixed on my own white-
ness. Beware of the piety that has no presup-
position in the Atonement of the Lord. It is of
no use for anything but a sequestered life ; it is
useless to God and a nuisance to man. Measure
every type of experience by our Lord Himself.
We cannot do anything pleasing to God unless
we deliberately build on the presupposition of
the Atonement.
The Atonement of Jesus has to work out in
practical, inobstrusive ways in my life. Every
time I obey, absolute Deity is on my side, so that
the grace of God and natural obedience coincide.
Obedience means that I have banked everything
on the Atonement and my obedience is met
immediatetly by the delight of the supernatural
grace of God.
Beware of the piety that denies the natural life,
it is a fraud. Continually bring yourself to the bar
of the Atonement - where is the discernment of
the Atonement in this thing, and in that?
pg. 283
The part I wanted you to catch is this -
The great need is not to do things, but to believe things.
The Redemption of Christ is not an experience, it is the
great act of God which He has performed through Christ,
and I have to build my faith upon it.
This is only possible -
because...
His Wrath is Satisfied
It's by Oswald Chambers
'My utmost for His Highest'
"Yield your members servants to righteousness
unto holiness." Romans vi. 13-22.
I cannot save and sanctify myself ; I cannot
atone for sin ; I cannot redeem the world; I
cannot make right what is wrong, pure what is
impure, holy what is unholy. That is all the sover-
eign work of God. Have I faith in what Jesus
Christ has done ? He has made a perfect Atone-
ment, am I in the habit of constantly realizing it ?
The great need is not to do things, but to believe
things. The Redemption of Christ is not an ex-
perience, it is the great act of God which He has
performed thought Christ, and I have to build my
faith upon it. If I construct my faith on my
experience, I produce that most unscriptural type,
an isolated life, my eyes fixed on my own white-
ness. Beware of the piety that has no presup-
position in the Atonement of the Lord. It is of
no use for anything but a sequestered life ; it is
useless to God and a nuisance to man. Measure
every type of experience by our Lord Himself.
We cannot do anything pleasing to God unless
we deliberately build on the presupposition of
the Atonement.
The Atonement of Jesus has to work out in
practical, inobstrusive ways in my life. Every
time I obey, absolute Deity is on my side, so that
the grace of God and natural obedience coincide.
Obedience means that I have banked everything
on the Atonement and my obedience is met
immediatetly by the delight of the supernatural
grace of God.
Beware of the piety that denies the natural life,
it is a fraud. Continually bring yourself to the bar
of the Atonement - where is the discernment of
the Atonement in this thing, and in that?
pg. 283
The part I wanted you to catch is this -
The great need is not to do things, but to believe things.
The Redemption of Christ is not an experience, it is the
great act of God which He has performed through Christ,
and I have to build my faith upon it.
This is only possible -
because...
His Wrath is Satisfied
posted by PJC at 9:29 pm
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