Christ, Out Life Ministries’ Scriptural Basis pt37 by Sylvia Pearce Program 37 |più

Christ, Out Life Ministries’ Scriptural Basis pt37 by Sylvia Pearce Program 37 Commission: The Call Ex. 3:10—“I will send thee unto Pharaoh.” Jud. 6:14—“Have I not sent you?” Isa. 6:9—“Go, and tell this people.” John 1:6—“There was a man sent from God.” Acts 9:15—“He is a chosen vessel to me.” The Bodily Cost: Isa. 53:12—“He has poured out his soul into death.” 2 Cor. 1:8—“We were pressed out of measure above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life.” 2 Cor. 1:9—“We had the sentence of death in ourselves.” 2 Cor. 2:4—“Out of much affliction and anguish of heart.” Phil. 1:29—“But also to suffer for his sake.” 2 Cor. 7:5—“Our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side without were fightings, within were fears.” 2 Cor. 6:4-10—“In much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes in imprisonments in tumults, in labors, in watching in fasting, by honor, by dishonor, by evil report, by good report, as known, as dying and behold we live; as chastened, and not killed. As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing, as poor, yet making many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.” 2 Cor. 11:23-27—“In labors, in strips, in prisons, in stoning, in shipwreck, a night and a day in the deep; in journey often, in perils in waters, and by robbers, in perils by my own countrymen, by heathen, in perils in cities, in wilderness, in the sea, among false brethren, in weariness and painfulness, in hunger, thirst, in cold and nakedness. Completion and Fruit Bearing: Heb. 2:10—“Bring many sons to glory.” John 12:24—“If it die, it rings forth much fruit.” John 15:16—“He has chosen you to bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain.” Prov. 11:30—“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life.” 2 Cor. 4:12—“Death works in me, life in you.” Dying Daily What we are talking about is not the cross for our redemption, but for the redemption of others. This is adulthood, not adolescence. This kind of cross is constantly repeated in our daily lives when ever we are in situations which independent-self would be rid of; but instead of remaining in hurt self, we recognize them to be part of some redemptive purpose of God through us in others. So, Paul says, we accept them as something we have been “delivered unto,” and our “dying” which is said to be the dying of the Lord Jesus in us is our heart acceptance of them, though that may be lightly, or easily, any more than the Savior could accept His cross without a Gethsemane. Here is a principle of constant “dyings,” daily maybe, affecting every kind of normal situation in life, not by any means in which we might call our religious activity. Anything which hurts, disturbs our status quo, or challenges, be it what we may call small in our personal lives, or big in some public affair, is a place of dying when we change from self’s resistance to acceptance as a step in God’s saving plan. Without such dyings, Moses could never have seen that he was not to be a possible, ephemeral Pharaoh, but a savor of God’s chosen people; Gideon could never have changed from challenging God’s apparent indifference to accepting the challenge to be himself the deliverer. Abraham could never have exchanged his laughter at the idea of a couple of their age having a son for a productive faith. David could never have resisted the chance of killing Saul to wait in patience for God’s day of his coronation. So through every aspect of achieving or enduring faith in all history. Everyone had to start by disturbed, resisting self which saw God in the tough situation and then died to his self-resistance. Then comes the resurrection—which is the Spirit in us causing us to see things from His point of view. We can begin to be intercessors. We can see what God is after, and the first effect is a joy, release, sense of adventure, praise where there seems nothing to praise for, for we now see the redemptive purposes, something by us for others. Its immediate effect, as Paul says, is a quickening in our own selves: “the life of Jesus manifest in our mortal flesh”—burdens, fears, the sense of a hurtful, not joyful cross, is gone, and others watching can see a release and ease which is not what the world experiences in its tough spots. Resurrection life is manifested in our mortal bodies, and that by itself is God coming through us to others. Taken from THE SPONTANEOUS YOU; Norman P. Grubb—Chapter 18; pg. 105-106. We are Cross operators INTERCESSORS Part 1 We take up our Cross! (Luke 14:27) We are called Kings and Priests! (Rev. 1:6) WORD OF FAITH (Mark 11:23) Peter calls us a “Royal Priest.” Kings operate on a universal Spirit level. “We call the things that be not as though they are!” (Rom. 4:17)

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