Monday, December 12, 2016

Personality

Monday, December 12, 2016
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"...that they may be one just as We are one..." (John 17:22)
PERSONALITY is the unique, limitless part of our life that makes us distinct from everyone else. It is too vast for us even to comprehend. An island in the sea may be just the tip of a large mountain, and our personality is like that island. We don't know the great depths of our being, therefore we cannot measure ourselves. We start out thinking we can, but soon realize that there is only one Being who fully understands us, and that is our Creator.
     Personality is the characteristic mark of the inner, spiritual man, just as individuality is the characteristic of the outer, natural man. Our Lord can never be described in terms of individuality and independence, but only in terms of His total Person- "I and My Father are one" (John 10:30). Personality merges, and you only reach your true identity once you are merged with another person. When love or the Spirit of God come upon a person, he is transformed. He will then no longer insist on maintaining his individuality. Our Lord never referred to a person's individuality or his isolated position, but spoke in terms of the total person- "...that they may be one just as We are one..." Once your rights to yourself are surrendered to God, your true personal nature begins responding to God immediately. Jesus Christ brings freedom to your total person, and even your individuality is transformed. The transformation is brought about by love- personal devotion to Jesus. Love is the overflowing result of one person in true fellowship with another.

Monday, November 28, 2016

The Super-Natural Life

Monday, November 28, 2016
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, 'The just shall live by faith'" (Romans 1:17).
LIVING BY FAITH is something the just shall do. Not won't do. Not can't do. But shall do. The just have been known for their efforts in keeping things flowing when it comes to the law of things. The law of the Bible states, that certain things must be done in order for God to be reconciled with His people. The law of the land focuses on keeping everyone in harmony. Jesus came to fulfill the law and that He did with His death on the cross. "...The just shall live by faith" (1:17) Living by faith requires a strong belief in God. This means that you are placing your life in the hands of Him who sacrificed His for you. A love that strong would demand certain things, but this is not merely a demand. Unconditional love, the kind that never fears, never moves, is unwavering, the 'agape' love, is found in the one and only God. So the just who shall live by faith must know that when they give their life to the Lord, place it in His hands, and live by faith, they know that they are giving it to the One who holds 'agape'. And therefore, it is now not a demand, but a sacrifice. While it is true that the Lord loves us and wants the best for us, He does place certain demands on His chosen people. But as you can see, over the course of time, our journeys that we embark on, with the Lord at our side, He isn't giving us demands, instead he is asking for sacrifices.
     "For we walk by faith, not by sight" (II Corinthians 5:7). When we walk with the Lord on our journey of life, we are told to walk by faith, not by sight. The reason for this is because
"While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal" (4:18). We must walk in the eternal and live in the eternal. If we were to merely state our differences between laws and jurisdictions, we wouldn't get anywhere. But by applying the "faith walk" and the "faith life" we are adhering to something much greater than ourselves. We are walking in the eternal and we are living in the eternal. We are following the eternal God. And with eternal things going on, we are living a super-natural life.

Thursday, November 17, 2016

The Eternal Goal

Thursday, November 17, 2016
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing...I will bless you..."(Genesis 22:16-17).
ABRAHAM, at this point, has reached the place where he is in touch with the very nature of God. He now understands the reality of God.
                                                         My goal is God Himself...
                                                         At any cost, dear Lord, by any road.
    "At any cost...by any road" means submitting to God's way of bringing us to the goal.
      There is no possibility of questioning God when He speaks, if He speaks to His own nature in me. Prompt obedience is the only result. When Jesus says, "Come," I simply come, when  He says,, "Let go," I let go; when He says "Trust God in this matter, " I trust. This work of obedience is the evidence that the nature of God is in me.
     God's revelation of Himself to me is influenced by my character, not by God's character.
                                                       'Tis because I am ordinary,
                                                        Thy ways so often look ordinary to me.
     It is through the discipline of obedience that I get to the place where Abraham was and I see who God is. God will never be real to me until I come face to face with Him in Jesus Christ. Then I will know and can boldly proclaim, "In all the world, my God, there is none but Thee, there is none but Thee."
     The promises of God are of no value to us until through obedience, we come to understand the nature of God. We may read some things in the Bible everyday for a year and they may mean nothing to us. Then, because we have been obedient to God in some small detail, we suddenly see what God means and His nature is instantly opened up to us. "All the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen..." when by obedience we ratify a promise of God by saying, "Amen," or, "So be it" That promise becomes ours.

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Still Human!

Wednesday, November 16, 2016
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"...whatever you do, do all to the glory of God" (I Corinthians 10:31).
IN THE SCRIPTURES, the great miracle of the incarnation slips into the ordinary life of a child; the great miracle of the transfiguration fades into the demon-possessed valley below; the glory of the resurrection descends into a breakfast on the seashore. This is not an anticlimax, but a great revelation of God.
    We have a tendency to look for wonder in our experience, and we mistake heroic actions for real heroes. It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us. If we are not looking for halos, we at least want something that will make people say, "What a wonderful man of prayer he is!" or, "What a great woman of devotion she is!" If you are properly devoted to the Lord Jesus, you have reached the lofty height where no one would ever notice you personally. All that is noticed is the power of God coming through you all the time.
     We want to be able to say, "Oh, I have had a wonderful call from God!" But to do even the most humbling tasks to the glory of God takes the Almighty God Incarnate working in us. To be utterly unnoticeable requires God's Spirit in us making us absolutely humanly His. The true test of a saint's life is not successfulness but faithfulness on the human level of life. We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life "hidden with Christ in God" in our everyday human conditions (Colossians 3:3). Our human relationships are the very conditions in which the ideal life of God should be exhibited.

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

What Is That to You?

Tuesday, November 15, 2016
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"Peter...said to Jesus, 'But Lord, what about this man?' Jesus said to him'...what is that to you? You follow Me'" (John 21-21-22).
ONE OF THE hardest lessons to learn comes from our stubborn refusal to refrain from interfering in other people's lives. It takes a long time to realize the danger of being an amateur providence, that is, interfering with God's plan for others. You see someone suffering and say, "He will not suffer, and I will make sure that he doesn't." You put you hand right in front of God's permissive will to stop it, and then God says, "What is that to you?" Is there stagnation in your spiritual life? Don't allow it to continue, but get into God's presence and find out the reason for it. You will possibly find it is because you have been interfering in the life of another-proposing things you had no right to propose, or advising when you had no right to advise. When you do have to give advice to another person, God will advise through you with the direct understanding of His Spirit. Your part is to maintain the right relationship with God so that His discernment can come through you continually for the purpose of blessing someone else.
     Most of us live only within the level of consciousness- consciously serving and consciously devoted to God. This shows immaturity and the fact that we're not yet living the real Christian life. Maturity is produced in the life of a child of God on the unconscious level, until we become so totally surrendered to God that we are not even aware of being used by Him. When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured- out wine, we have yet another level to reach- a level where all awareness of ourselves and of what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.

Sunday, November 13, 2016

Faith or Experience

Sunday, November 13, 2016
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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" ...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 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 faultless 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 sacrifices!
     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 impatience of the Holy Spirit against unbelief. All of 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.

Saturday, November 12, 2016

The Changed Life

Saturday, November 12, 2016
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The Word

Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new" (II Corinthians 5:17).
WHAT UNDERSTAINDING do you have of the salvation of your soul? The work of salvation means that in your real life things are dramatically changed. You no longer look at things in the same way. Your desires are new and the old things have lost their power to attract you. One of the tests for determining if the work of salvation in your life is genuine is-has God changed the things that really matter to you? If you still yearn for the old things, it is absurd to talk about being born from above- you are deceiving yourself. If you are born again, the Spirit of God makes the change very evident in your real life and thought. And when a crisis comes, you are the most amazed person on earth at the wonderful difference there is in you. There is no possibility of imagining that you did it. It is this complete and amazing change that is the very evidence that you are saved.
     What difference has my salvation and sanctification made? For instance, can I stand in the light of I Corinthians 13, or do I squirm and evade the issue? True salvation, worked out in me by the Holy Spirit, frees me completely. And as long as I "walk in the light as He is in the light" (II John 1:7), God sees nothing to rebuke because His life is working itself into every detailed part of my being, not on the conscious level, but even deeper than my consciousness.

Friday, November 11, 2016

The Supreme Climb

Friday, November 11, 2016
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The Word

Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"He said, 'Take now your  son..." (Genesis 22:2).
GOD'S COMMAND is, "Take now," not later. It is incredible how we debate! We know something is right, but we try to find excuses for not doing it immediately. If we are to climb to the height God reveals, it can never be done later- it must be done now. And the sacrifice must be worked through our will before we actually perform it.
     "So Abraham rose early in the morning...and went to the place of which God had told him" (22:3). Oh, the wonderful simplicity of Abraham! When God spoke, he did not "confer with flesh and blood" or even your own thoughts, insights, or understanding- - anything that is not based in your personal relationship with God. These are all things that compete with and hinder obedience to God.
     Abraham did not choose what the sacrifice would be. Always guard against self-chosen service for God. Self-sacrifice may be a disease that impairs your service. If God  has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; or even if He has made it bitter, drink it in communication with Him. If the providential will of God means a hard and difficult time for you, go through it. But never decide the place of your own martyrdom, as if to say, "I will only go to there, but no farther." God chose the test for Abraham, and Abraham neither delayed nor protested, but steadily obeyed. If you are not living in touch with God, it is easy to blame Him  or pass judgement in Him. You must go through the trial before you have any right to pronounce a verdict, because by going through the trial you learn to know God better. God is working in us to reach His highest goals until His purpose and our purpose become one.

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Sacred Service

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 
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The Word

Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ... (Colossians 1:24).
THE CHRISTIAN worker has to be a sacred "go-between". He must be so closely identified with his Lord and the reality of His redemption that Christ can continually bring His creating life through him. I am not referring to the strength of one individual's personality being superimposed on another, but the real presence of Christ coming through every aspect of the worker's life. When we preach the historical facts of the life and death of our Lord as they are conveyed in the New Testament, our words are made sacred. God uses these words, on the basis of His redemption, to create something in those who listen which otherwise could never have been created. If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is a refined religious lifestyle, and the Spirit of God cannot witness to it because such preaching is in a realm other than His. We must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.
     When we say, "What a wonderful personality, what a fascinating person, and what wonderful insight!" then what opportunity does the gospel of God have through all of that? It cannot get through, because the attraction is to the messenger and not the message. If a person attracts through his personality, that becomes his appeal. If, however, he is identified with the Lord Himself, then the appeal becomes what Jesus Christ can do. The danger is to glory in men, yet Jesus says we are to lift up only Him (see John 12:32).

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Obedience or Independence?

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 
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The Word

Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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" If you love Me, keep My commandments" (John 14:15).
OUR LORD never insists on our obedience. He stresses very definitely what we ought to do, but He never forces us to do it. We have to obey Him out of oneness of spirit with Him. That is why whenever our Lord talked about discipleship, He prefaced it with an "If", meaning, "You do not need to do this unless you desire to do so." "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself..." (Luke 9:23). In other words, "To be My disciple, let him give up his right to himself to Me." Our Lord is not talking about our eternal position, but about our being of value to Him in this life here and now. That is why He sounds so stern (see Luke 14:26). Never try to make sense from theses words by separating them from the One who spoke them.
     The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear. If my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation. If I hesitate, it is because I love someone I have placed in competition with Him, namely, myself. Jesus Christ will not force me to obey Him, but I must. And as soon as I obey Him, I fulfill my spiritual destiny. My personal life may be  crowded with small, petty happenings, altogether insignificant. But if I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God. Then, when I stand face to face with God, I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed. When God's redemption brings a human soul to the point of obedience, it always produces. If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.

Monday, October 31, 2016

The Trial of Faith

Monday, October 31, 2016
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"If you have faith as a mustard seed...nothing will be impossible for you" (Matthew 17:20).
WE HAVE the idea that God rewards us for our faith, and it may be so in the initial stages. But we do not earn anything through faith- faith brings us into the right relationship with God and gives Him His opportunity to work. Yet God frequently has to knock the bottom out of your experience as His saint to get you in direct contact with Himself. God wants you to understand that it is a life of faith, not a life of emotional enjoyment of His blessings. The beginning of your life of faith was very narrow and intense, centered around a small amount of experience that had as much emotion as faith in it, and it was full of light and sweetness. Then God withdrew His conscious blessings to teach you to "walk by faith" (II Corinthians 5:7). And you are worth much more to Him now than you were in your days of conscious delight with your thrilling testimony.
     Faith by its very nature must be tested and tried. And the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character must be proven as trustworthy in our own minds. Faith being worked out into reality must experience times of unbroken isolation. Never confuse the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life, because a great deal of what we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive. Faith as the Bible teaches it, is faith in God coming against everything that contradicts Him- a faith that says, "I will remain true to God's character whatever He may do." The highest and the greatest expression of faith in the whole Bible is- "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him" (Job 1:15).


Thursday, October 20, 2016

Is God's Will My Will?

Thursday, October 20, 2016
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The Word

Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"This is the will of God, your sanctification..." (I Thessalonians 4:3).
SANCTIFICATION is not a question of whether God is willing to sanctify me- is it my will? Am I willing to let God do in me everything that has been made possible through atonement of the Cross of Christ? Am I willing to let Jesus become sanctification to me, and to let His life be exhibited in my human flesh? (see I Corinthians 1:30). Beware of saying, "Oh I am longing to be sanctified." No, you are not. Recognize your need, but stop longing and make it a matter of action. Receive Jesus Christ to become sanctification for you by absolute , unquestioning faith, and the great miracle of the atonement of Jesus will become real in you.
     All that Jesus made possible becomes mine through the free and loving gift of God on the basis of what Christ accomplished on the cross. And my attitude as a saved and sanctified soul is that of profound, humble holiness (there is no such thing as proud holiness). It is a holiness based on agonizing repentance, a sense of inexpressible shame and degradation, and also on the amazing realization that the love of God demonstrated itself to me while I cared nothing about Him (see Romans 5:8). He completed everything for my salvation and sanctification. No wonder Paul said that nothing "shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:39).
     Sanctification makes me one with Jesus Christ, and in Him one with God, and it is accomplished only through the magnificent atonement of Christ. Never confuse the effect with the cause. The effect in me is obedience, service, and prayer, and is the outcome of inexpressible thanks and adoration for the miraculous sanctification that has been brought about in me because of the atonement through the Cross of Christ.


Tuesday, October 18, 2016

The Key to the Missionary's Devotion

Tuesday, October 18, 2016
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The Word

Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"...they went forth for His name's sake..." (III John 7).
OUR LORD told us how our love for Him is to exhibit itself when He asked, "Do you love me?" (John 21:17). And then He said, "Feed My sheep." In effect, He said, "Identify yourself with My interests in other people," not, "Identify Me with your interests in other people." First Corinthians 13:4-8 shows us the characteristics of this love- it is actually the love of God expressing itself. The true test of my love for Jesus is a very practical one, and all the rest is sentimental talk.
     Faithfulness to Jesus Christ is the supernatural work of redemption that has been performed in me by the Holy Spirit- "the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit..." (Romans 5:5).  And it is that love in me that effectively works through me and comes in contact with everyone I meet. I remain faithful to His name, even though the commonsense view of my life may seemingly deny that, and may appear to be declaring that He has no more power than the morning mist.
     The key to missionary's devotion is that he is attached to nothing and to no one except our Lord Himself. It does not mean simply being detached from the external things surrounding us. Our Lord was amazingly in touch with the ordinary things of life, but He had an inner detachment except toward God. External detachment is often an actual indication of a secret, growing, inner detachment to the things we stay away from externally.
     The duty of a faithful missionary is to concentrate on keeping his soul completely and continually open to the nature of the Lord Jesus Christ. The men and women our Lord sends out on His endeavors are ordinary human people, but people who are controlled by their devotion to Him, which has been brought about through the work of the Holy Spirit.


Sunday, October 16, 2016

The Key to the Master's Orders

Sunday, October 16, 2016
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The Word

Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"Pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest" (Matthew 9:38).
THE KEY to the missionary's difficult task is in the hand of God, and that key is prayer, not work- that is, not work as the word is commonly used today, which often results in the shifting of our focus away from God. The key to the missionary's difficult task is also not the key to of common sense, nor is it the key of medicine, civilization, education, or even evangelization. The key is in following the Master's orders- the key is prayer. "Pray the Lord of the harvest..." In the natural realm, prayer is not practical but absurd. We have to realize that prayer is foolish from the commonsense point of view.
     From Jesus Christ's perspective, there are no nations, but only the world. How many of us pray without regard to the persons, but with regard to only one Person- Jesus Christ? He owns the harvest that is produced through distress and through conviction of sin. This is the harvest for which we have to pray that laborers be sent out to reap. We stay bust at work, while people all around us are ripe and ready to be harvested; we do not reap even one of them, but simply waste our Lord's time in over-energized activities and programs. Suppose a crisis were to come into your father's or your brother's life- are you there as a laborer to reap the harvest for Jesus Christ? Is your response, "Oh, but I have a special work to do!" No, a Christian has a special work to do. A Christian is called to be Jesus Christ's own, "a servant [who] is not greater than his master" (John 13:16), and someone who does not dictate to Jesus Christ what he intends to do. Our Lord calls us to no special work- He calls us to Himself, "Pray the Lord of the harvest," and He will engineer your circumstances to send you out as His laborer.


Friday, October 14, 2016

The Key to the Missionary's Work

Friday, October 14, 2016
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations..." (Matthew 28:18-19).
THE KEY to the missionary's work is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the lost. We are inclined to look on our Lord as one who assist us in our endeavors for God. Yet our Lord places Himself as the absolute sovereign and supreme Lord over His disciples. He does not say that the lost will never be saved if we don't go-He simply says, "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations..." He says, "Go on the basis of the revealed truth of My sovereignty, teaching and preaching out of your living experience of Me."
     "Then the eleven disciples went...to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them " (28:16). If I want to know the universal sovereignty of Christ, I must know Him myself. I must take time to worship the One whose name I bear. Jesus says, "Come to Me..." - that is the place to meet Jesus- "all you who labor and are heavy laden..." (Matthew 11:28)- and how many missionaries are! We completely dismiss these wonderful words of the universal Sovereign of the world, but they are the words of Jesus to His disciples meant for here and now.
"Go therefore..." To "go" simply means to live. Acts 1:8 is the description of how to go. Jesus did not say in this verse, "Go into Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria," but, "....you shall  be witnesses to Me in [all these places]. He takes upon Himself the work of sending us.
     "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you..." (John 15:7)-that is the way to keep going. Where we are placed is then a matter of indifference to us, because God sovereignly engineers our goings.
     "None of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus..." (Acts 20:24). That is how to keep going until we are gone from this life.


Thursday, October 13, 2016

How Will I Know?

Thursday, October 10, 2016
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
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"Jesus answered and said, 'I thank You, Father...that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes'" (Matthew 11:25).
WE DO NOT grow into a spiritual relationship step by step- we either have a relationship or we do not. God does not continue to cleanse us more and more from sin- "But if walk in the light," we are cleansed "from all sin" (I John 1:7). It is a matter of obedience, and once we obey, the relationship is instantly perfected. But if we turn away from obedience for even one second, darkness and death are immediately at work again.
     All of God's reveled truths are sealed until they are opened to us through obedience. You will never open them through philosophy or thinking. But once you obey, a flash of light comes immediately. Let God's truth work into you by immersing yourself in it, not by worrying into it. The only way you can get to know the truth of God is to stop trying to find out and by being born again. If you obey God in the first thing He shows you, the He instantly opens up the next truth to you. You could read volumes on the work of the Holy Spirit, when five minutes of total, uncompromising obedience would make things as clear as sunlight. Don't say, "I suppose I will understand these things someday!" You can understand them now. And it is not study that brings understanding to you, but obedience. Even the smallest bit of obedience opens heaven, and the deepest truths of God immediately become yours. Yet God will never reveal more truth about Himself to you, until you have obeyed what you know already. Beware of becoming one of the "wise and prudent." "If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know..." (John 7:17).

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Building on the Atonement

Sunday, October 9, 2016
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"...present...your members as instruments of righteousness to God" (Romans 6:13).
I CANNOT SAVE and sanctify myself; I cannot make atonement for sin; I cannot redeem the world; I cannot right what is wrong; purify what is impure, or make holy what is unholy. That is all the sovereign work of God. Do I have faith in what Jesus Christ has done? He has made the perfect atonement for sin. Am I in the habit of constantly realizing it? The greatest need we have 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 on it. If I construct my faith on my own experience, I produce the most unscriptural kind of life-an isolated life, with my eyes focused solely on my own holiness. Beware of that human holiness that is not based on the atonement of the Lord. It has no value for anything except a life of isolation- it is useless to God and a nuisance to man. Measure every kind of experience you have by our Lord Himself. We cannot do anything pleasing to God unless we deliberately build on the foundation of the atonement by the Cross of Christ.
     The atonement of Jesus must be exhibited in practical, unassuming ways in my life. Every time I obey, the absolute deity of God is on my side, so that the grace of God and my natural obedience are in perfect agreement. Obedience means that I have completely placed my trust in the atonement, and my obedience is immediately met by the delight of the supernatural grace of God.
     Beware of human holiness that denies the reality of the natural life- it is a fraud. Continually bring yourself to the trial or test of the atonement and ask, "Where is the discernment of the atonement in this, and in that?"

Saturday, October 8, 2016

Coming to Jesus

Saturday, October 8, 2016
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"Come to Me..." (Matthew 11:28).
ISN'T IT HUMILATING to be told that we must come to Jesus! Think of the things about which we will not come to Jesus Christ. If you want to know how real you are, test yourself by these words- "Come to Me...". In every dimension in which you are not real , you will argue or evade the issue altogether rather than come; you will do anything rather than come the last lap of the race of seemingly unspeakable foolishness and say, "Just as I am, I come." As long as you have even the least bit of spiritual disrespect, it will always reveal itself in the fact that you are expecting God to tell you to do something very big, and yet all He is telling you to do is to "Come...".
    "Come to Me..." When you hear those words, you will know that something must happen in you before you can come. The Holy Spirit will show you what you have to do, and it will involve anything that will uproot whatever is preventing you from getting through to Jesus. And you will never get any further until you are willing to do that very thing. The Holy Spirit will search out that one unmovable stronghold within you, but He cannot budge it unless you are willing to let Him do so.
     How often have you come to God with your requests and gone away thinking, "I've really received what I wanted this time!" And yet you go away with nothing, while all the time God has stood with His hands outstretched not only to take you but also for you to take Him. Just think of the invincible, unconquerable, and untiring patience of Jesus, who lovingly says, "Come to Me..."

Friday, October 7, 2016

The Nature of Reconciliation

Friday, October 7, 2016
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Word of the Day

Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him" (II Corinthians 5:21).
SIN IS A fundamental relationship- it is not wrong doing, but wrong being- it is deliberate and determined independence from God. The Christian faith bases everything on the extreme, self-confident nature of sin. Other faiths deal with sins- the Bible alone deals with sin. The first thing Jesus Christ confronted in people was the heredity of sin, and it is because we have ignored this in our presentation of the gospel that the message of the gospel has lost its sting and its explosive power.
     The revealed truth of the Bible is not that Jesus Christ took on Himself our fleshly sins, but that He took on Himself the heredity of sin that no man can even touch. God made His own Son "to be sin" that He might make the sinner into a saint. It is revealed throughout the Bible that our Lord took on Himself the sin of the world through identification with us, not through sympathy for us.  He deliberately took on His own shoulders, and endured in His own body, the complete, cumulative sin of the human race. "He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us..." and by so doing He placed salvation for the entire human race solely on the basis of redemption. Jesus Christ reconciled the human race, putting it back to where God designed it to be. And now anyone can experience that reconciliation, being brought into oneness with God, on the basis of what our Lord has done on the cross.
     A man cannot redeem Himself-redemption is the work of God, and is absolutely finished and complete. And its application to individual people is a matter of their own individual action or response to it. A distinction must always be made between the revealed truth of redemption and the actual conscious experience of salvation in a person's life.

Thursday, October 6, 2016

The Nature of Regeneration

Thursday, October 6, 2016
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
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"When it is pleased God...to reveal His Son in me..." (Galatians 1:15-16).
IF JESUS CHRIST is going to regenerate me, what is the problem He faces? It is simply this- I have a heredity in which I had no say or decision; I am not holy, nor am I likely to be; and if all Jesus Christ can do is tell me that I must be holy, His teaching only causes me to despair. But if Jesus Christ is truly a regenerator, someone who can put His own heredity of holiness into me, them I can begin to see what He means when He says that you have to be holy. Redemption means that Jesus Christ can put into anyone the hereditary nature that was in Himself, and all the standards He gives us are based on that nature- His teaching is meant to be applied to the life which He puts within us. The proper part is simply to agree with God's verdict on sin as judged on the Cross of Christ.
     The New Testament teaching about regeneration is that when a person is hit by his own sense of need, God will put the Holy Spirit into his spirit, and his personal spirit will be energized by the Spirit of the Son of God- "...until Christ is formed in you" (Galatians 4:19). The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life. When I finally reach the edge of my need and know my own limitations, then Jesus says, "Blessed are you..." (Matthew 5:11). But I must get to that point. God cannot put into me, the responsible moral person that I am, the nature that was in Jesus Christ unless I am aware of my need for it.
     Just as the nature of sin entered into the human race through one man, the Holy Spirit entered into the human race through another Man (see Romans 5:12-19). And redemption means that I can be delivered from the heredity of sin, and that through Jesus Christ I can receive a pure and spotless heredity, namely, the Holy Spirit.

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

The Nature of Degeneration

Wednesday, October 5, 2016
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"Just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned..." (Romans 5:12).
THE BIBLE does not say that God punished the human race for one man's sin, but that the nature of sin, namely, my claim to my right to myself, entered into the human race through one man. But it also says that another Man took upon Himself the sin of the human race and put it away- an infinitely more profound revelation (see Hebrews 9:26). The nature of sin is not immorality and wrongdoing, but the nature of self-realization which leads us to say, " I am my own god." This nature may exhibit itself in proper morality or in improper immorality, but it always has a common basis-my claim to my right to myself. When our Lord faced either people with all the forces of evil in them, or people who were clean-living. moral, and upright, He paid no attention to the moral degradation of one, nor any attention to the moral attainment of the other. He looked at something we do not see, namely, the nature of man (see John 2:25).
     Sin is something I am born with and cannot touch- only God touches sin through redemption. It is through the Cross of Christ that God redeemed the entire human race from the possibility of damnation through the heredity of sin. God nowhere holds a person responsible for having the heredity of sin, and does not condemn anyone because of it. Condemnation comes when I realize that Jesus Christ came to deliver me from this heredity of sin, and yet I refuse to let Him do so. From that moment I begin to get the seal of damnation. "This is the condemnation [and the  critical moment], that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light..."(John 3:19).

Monday, October 3, 2016

The Place of Ministry

Monday, October 3, 2016
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Word of the Day

Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"He said to them, 'This kind [of unclean spirit] can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting'" (Mark 9:29).
HIS DISCIPLES asked Him privately, 'Why could we not cast it out?'" (9:28). The answer lies in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. "This kind can come out by nothing but" concentrating on Him, and then doubling and redoubling that concentration on Him. We can remain powerless forever, as the disciples were in this situation, by trying to do God's work without concentrating on His power, and by following instead the ideas that we draw from our own nature. We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.
     When you are brought face to face with a difficult situation and nothing happens externally, you can still know that freedom and release will be given because of your continued concentration on Jesus Christ. Your duty in service and ministry is to see that there is nothing between Jesus and yourself. Is there anything between you and Jesus right now? If there is, you must get through it, not by ignoring it as an irritation, or by going up and over it, but by facing it and getting through into the presence of Jesus Christ. Then that very problem itself, and all that you have been through in connection with it, will glorify Jesus Christ in a way that you will never know until you see Him face to face.
     We must be able to "mount up with wings like eagles" (Isaiah 40:31), but we must also know how to come down. The power of the saint lies in the coming down and in the living that is done in the valley. Paul said, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" (Philippians 4:13) and what he was referring to were mostly humiliating things. And yet it is in our power to refuse to be humiliated and to say, "No, thank you, I much prefer to be on the mountaintop with God." Can I face things as they actually are in the light of the reality of Jesus Christ, or do things as they really are destroy my faith in Him, and put me into a panic?

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

The "Go" of Unconditional Identification

Wednesday, September 28, 2016
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"Jesus...said to him, 'One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor...and come, take up the cross, and follow Me'" (Mark 10:21).
THE RICH young ruler had the controlling passion to be perfect. When he saw Jesus Christ, he wanted to be like Him. Our Lord never places anyone's personal holiness above everything else when He calls a disciple. Jesus' primary consideration is my absolute annihilation of my right to myself and my identification with Him, which means having a relationship with Him in which there are no other relationships. Luke 14:26 has nothing to do with salvation or sanctification, but deals solely with unconditional identification with Jesus Christ. Very few of us truly know what is meant by the absolute "go" of unconditional identification with, and abandonment and surrender to, Jesus.
     "Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him..." (Mark 10:21). This look of Jesus will require breaking your heart away forever from allegiance to any other person or thing. Has Jesus ever looked in this way at you? This look of Jesus transforms, penetrates, and captivates. Where you are soft and pliable with God is where the Lord has looked at you. If you are hard and vindictive, insistent on having your own way, and always certain that the other person is more  likely to be in the wrong than you are, then there are whole areas of your nature that have never been transformed by His gaze. "One thing you lack..." From Jesus Christ's perspective, oneness with Him, with nothing between, is the only good thing,
     "...sell whatever you have..." I must humble myself until I am merely a living person. I must essentially renounce possessions of all kinds, not for salvation (for only one thing saves a person and that is absolute reliance in faith upon Jesus Christ), but to follow Jesus. "...come...and follow Me." And the road is the way He went.
 

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

The "Go" of Renunciation

Monday, September 27, 2016
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"...someone said to Him, 'Lord, I will follow You wherever You go'" (Luke 9:57).
OUR LORD'S attitude toward this man was one of severe discouragement, "for he knew what was in man" (John 2:25). We would have said, "I can't imagine why He lost the opportunity of winning that man! Imagine being so cold to him and turning him away so discouraged!" Never apologize for your Lord. The words of the Lord hurt and offend until there is nothing left to be hurt or offended. Jesus Christ had no tenderness whatsoever toward anything that was ultimately going to ruin a person in his service to God. Our Lord's answers were not based on some whim or impulsive thought, but on the knowledge of what was in man. If the Spirit of God brings to your mind a word of the Lord that hurts you, you  can be sure that there is something in you that He wants to hurt to the point of its death.
     Luke 9:58. These words destroy the argument of serving Jesus Christ because it is a pleasant thing to do. And the strictness of the rejection that He demands of me allows for nothing to remain in my life but my Lord, myself, and a sense of desperate hope. He says that I must let everyone else come or go, and that I must be guided solely by my relationship to Him. And He says, "...the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head."
     Luke 9:59. This man did not want to disappoint Jesus, nor did he want to show a lack of respect for his father. We put our sense of loyalty to our relatives ahead of our loyalty to Jesus Christ, forcing Him to take last place. When your loyalties conflict, always obey Jesus Christ whatever the cost.
     Luke 9:61. The person who says, "Lord, I will follow You, but...," is the person who is intensely ready to go, but never goes. This man has reservations about going. The exacting call of Jesus has no room for good-byes; good-byes, as we often use them, are pagan, not Christian, because they divert us from the call. Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.

Friday, September 16, 2016

Praying to God in Secret

Friday, September 16, 2016
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"When you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut the door, pray toy your Father who is in the secret place..."( Matthew 6:6).
THE PRIMARY thought in the area of religion is- keep your eyes on God, not on people. Your motivation should not be the desire to be known as a praying person. Find an inner room in which to pray where no one even knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret. Have no motivation other than to know your Father in heaven. It is impossible to carry on your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
     "When you pray, do not use vain repetitions..." (6:7). God does not hear us because we pray earnestly- He hears us solely on the basis of redemption. God is never impressed by our earnestness. Prayer is not simply getting things from God- that is only the most elementary kind of prayer. Prayer is coming into perfect fellowship and oneness with God. If the Son of God has been formed in us through regeneration (see Galatians 4:19), then He will continue to press on beyond our common sense and will change our attitude about the things for which we pray.
     "Everyone who asks receives..." (Matthew 7:8). We pray religious nonsense without even involving our will, and then we say that God did not answer- but in reality, we have never asked for anything. Jesus said, "...you will ask what you desire..." (John 15:7). Asking means that our will must be involved. Whenever Jesus talked about prayer, He spoke with wonderful childlike simplicity. Then we respond with our critical attitude, saying, "Yes, but even Jesus said that we must ask." But remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.

Sunday, September 11, 2016

Missionary Weapons

Sunday, September 11, 2016
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet" (John 13:14).
MINISTERING in Everyday Opportunities. Ministering in everyday opportunities that surround us does not mean that we select our own surroundings- it means being God's very special choice to be available for use in any of the seemingly random surroundings which He has engineered for us. The very character we exhibit in our present surroundings is an indication of what we will be like in other surroundings.
     The things Jesus did were the most menial of everyday tasks, and this is an indication that it takes all of God's power in me to accomplish even the most common tasks in His way. Can I use a towel as He did? Towels, dishes, sandals, and all the other ordinary thins in our lives reveal what we are made of more quickly that anything else. It takes God Almighty Incarnate in us to do the most menial duty as it ought to be done.
     Jesus said, "I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you"(13:15). Notice the kind of people that God brings around you,and you will be humiliated once you realize that this is actually His way of revealing to you the kind of person you have been to Him. Now He says we should exhibit to those around us exactly what He has exhibited to us.
      Do you find yourself responding by saying, "Oh, I will do all that once I'm out on the mission field"? Talking in this way is like trying to produce the weapons of war while while in the trenches of the battlefield- you will be killed while trying to do it.
     We have to go the "second mile" with God (see Matthew 5:41). Yet some of us become worn out in the first ten steps. Then we say, "Well, I'll just wait until I get closer to the next big crisis in my life." But if we do not steadily minister in everyday opportunities, we will do nothing when the crisis comes.

Friday, September 9, 2016

Do It Yourself

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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"...bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ..." (II Corinthians 10:5). DETERMINEDLY Discipline Other Things. This is another difficult aspect of the strenuous nature of sainthood. Paul said, according to the Moffatt translation of this verse, "...I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ..." So much Christian work today has never been disciplined, but has simply come into being by impulse! In our Lord's life every project was disciplined to the will of His Father. There was never the slightest tendency to follow the impulse of His own will as distinct from His Father's will- "the Son can do nothing of Himself..." (John 5:19). Then compare this with what we do- we take "every thought" or project that comes to us by impulse and jump into action immediately, instead of imprisoning and disciplining ourselves to obey Christ.
     Practical work for Christians is greatly overemphasized today, and the saints who are "bringing every thought into captivity" are criticized and told that they are not determined, and that they lack zeal for God or zeal for the souls for others. But true determination and zeal are found in obeying God, not in the inclination to serve Him that arises from our own undisciplined human nature. It is unconceivable, but true nevertheless, that saints are not "bringing every thought [and project] into captivity," but are simply doing work for God that has been instigated by their own human nature, and has not been made spiritual through determined discipline.
     We have a tendency to forget that a person is not only committed to Jesus Christ for salvation, but is also committed, responsible, and accountable to Jesus Christ's view of God, the world, and of sin and the devil. This means that each person must recognize the responsibility to "be transformed by the renewing of [his] mind..." (Romans 12:2).

Thursday, September 8, 2016

Do It Yourself

Thursday, September 8, 2016
Heavenly Healing Ministries
To God be the Glory!
Mon, Thu 7pm EST
Live: 641-715-3660 code: 406878#
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Word of the Day


Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!
We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"...casting down arguments and every  high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God..."( II Corinthians 10:5).
DETERMINEDLY Demolish Some Things. Deliverance from sin is not the same as deliverance from human nature. There are things in human nature, such as prejudices, that the saint can only destroy through sheer neglect. But there are other things that have to be destroyed through violence, that is, through God's divine strength imparted by His Spirit. There some things over which we are not to fight, but only to "stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord..." (Exodus 14:13). But every theory or thought that raises itself up as a fortified barrier "against the knowledge of God" is to be determinedly demolished by drawing on God's power, not through human effort or by compromise (see II Corinthians 10:4).
     It is only when God has transformed our nature and we have entered into the experience of sanctification that the fight begins. The warfare is not against sin; we can never fight against sin- Jesus Christ conquered that in His redemption of us. The conflict is waged over turning our natural life into a spiritual life. This is never done easily, nor does God intend that it be so. It is accomplished only through a series of moral choices. God does not make us holy in the sense that He makes our character holy. He makes us holy in the sense that He has made us innocent before Him. And then we have to turn that innocence into holy character through the moral choices we make. These choices are continually opposed and hostile to the things of our natural life which have become so deeply enriched the very things that raise themselves up as fortified barriers "against the knowledge of God." We can either turn back, making ourselves of no value to the kingdom of God, or we can determinedly demolish these things, allowing Jesus to bring another son to glory (see Hebrews 2:10).