![]() Initial Salvationįaith is necessary for the initial salvation of the spirit. Faith in the threefold work of the Holy Spirit in us and through us:-1) Saving our spirits. Throughout the pages of Scripture, we are been pointed towards the need for faith. 12:6).įaith is the substance of things hoped for – the evidence of things not seen. "But now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me" (2 Cor. If you do so to your advantage, you will be some day found out, but if to your disadvantage, there is no doubt that He who searcheth the heart and trieth the reins will one day vindicate you." "Perhaps there is nothing so hard as not to appear anything but what you are. ![]() If walking in true lowliness and manifesting that measure of the Lord Jesus in which we have grown, there will be certain progress." -W.K. "My wisdom will be, not to set myself up above that which I really am. If I am a babe in Christ, where there is true lowliness of heart, I display God, as a babe manifesting Him but if, as a babe, I am attempting to manifest Him as a man, there will be frustration and failure. "I know so little of the Lord Jesus,' one may say, and this may be true but every grace that is in Him is in every saint, though not developed. "It is true that there is the hunger to be devoted, and to be like the Lord Jesus, long before one's acts and manner corroborate the hunger, and make it a fact but the more the hungers which grace has generated in your heart are given a place, the sooner will they become experiential facts and the more the Lord Jesus has His throne within you, the more you will rejoice in Him, and have no confidence in the flesh'" (Phil. Many sincere believers are apt to put up an insincere front in order to "protect the Gospel," so as not to "let the Lord down." But He will increase, if we but decrease. Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts" (1 Pet. Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. The day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man. Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighted down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. But see what a uniting power there is in everybody feeling that they are called to a purpose! They are united by one common vision. We may all be redeemed by the precious Blood of Jesus and yet remain just individual units. We may all be saved, and yet we may all be divided. ![]() This is a very important thing to remember. It is the common consciousness of all believers that they exist for a purpose and that God has saved them with a great purpose in view. What is it that unites us as Christians? Now listen to this: It is not salvation, nor redemption, but it is God's power in salvation and redemption that unites us. You see, it is God's own sovereignty in His choice, and the point is this: It is not the vessel, but the purpose for which the vessel has been chosen. It is then that we discover that naturally we are not fit for it, and many of God's chosen vessels have had to be kept in the work by the very power of God itself. When we are young we have perhaps a great idea of being in the Lord's work, and we leap to it very eagerly as though we can do it, but when we get older we feel more acutely our dependence. Divine choice is a very extraordinary thing, and it is not always the thing that we would like or would choose that God calls us to. A prophet, whose one business it was to speak, felt that it was the one thing he could not do. When God would send him to Egypt, he said: "Oh, if you can send by anybody, do so, but not by me." When God chose Jeremiah, the latter said: "I cannot speak: for I am a child" (Jeremiah 1:6). Sooner or later that chosen vessel is full of one question: "Why did God choose me? Why did He call me to this work? He ought to have chosen anyone but me! I am the most unsuited for this kind of life and this kind of work." That was true of Moses. The chosen vessel becomes the instrument of a Divine wisdom which surprises the vessel itself.
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