July 18 1983 - Excerpts of My Old Notebook
July 18, 1983
Luke {5:24} But that
ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to
forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto
thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.
The Son of man has power here on earth to forgive sins.
Here on earth.
On earth Christ has the power to forgive the sins of those on earth.
He has the power!!!!!
It is His will to forgive sins, or else why would He have the power to do so? Why have the power and not exercise it?
He wants to forgive our sins, He wanted to heal by forgiving us.
He wants us to know we are sick, sin-filled and especially that He is willing to heal us from the sickness.
You get sick and you call a doctor for help, advice, medicine or you talk to someone, a friend, and ask their advice. Or a friend may turn it around and ask you what you are doing to get better.
The point is, when you are sick you want to get better so you look for ways to get better.
We are all sin sick and we need to look for ways to get better, to stop sinning.
So what if the doctor tells you it's an incurable disease? Maybe he tells you that there is medicine that may help you, that you have to take the medicine whenever you have an attack. It will seem as if you'll never get better, but on the plus side you'll live a lot longer, maybe a normal lifespan if you keep taking the medicine.
Now you may try other doctors, other medicines, or rely on you own advice or a friend's, but this one pill alone will help you, more than you'll really realize.
The pill for the sin-sick which is all of us, is Jesus. If we confess to Him every time we sin we'll be helped quite a bit. We'll never stop sinning, having attacks, but we'll always have the medicine about to help us, Jesus.
We choose our doctors and we choose whether to take the prescribed medicine.
In this sickness we have God as our doctor and Jesus is the medicine.
(Sin really isn't an incurable disease- there is One who has overcome the sickness and it is through that One we may be inoculated. Only there is just one way He can inoculate us. We have to stay in His presence. We have to stay with Him, live with Him all the time not just off and on when we feel like being with Him, but always no matter what we are going through. As long as we live and until Jesus returns to take us home with Him we need to remain close to Him or we will never be saved, never be inoculated fully.
If your life depended upon being with another person always day in and day out, 24/7, would you want that person with you? If the alternative is death I'm almost certain you would.
People just don't realize that we are all under a very real death sentence. A death sentence that kills the spirit as well as the flesh.
Matt. {10:28} And fear not them which kill the body,
but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is
able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Do you see?
Death is the destiny of us all. Life in Jesus is also the destiny of all who desire such life in Christ.
We hope to one day be with Jesus forever, we need to let that desire be manifested in our lives right now, living with Him as a reality to us and not some figment called upon in desperation. He needs to shape our daily lives now. Truly who would desire to live with Jesus forever if they don't even want to be with Him now? )
(Please note- information taken from my old notebooks may be altered by me to take what I think is pertinent from among all that is written. All additional writing which will be my current thoughts on past writings will be in parentheses. Thank you.)
All Glory, Praise and Honor to Our Lord on High! By His Mercy and Grace now and forever!
Amen.
4/11/10
Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Gal 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
I am crucified with Christ.
What exactly does that mean?
It goes on to say...
Nevertheless I live, yet NOT I, but Christ liveth in me.
To be crucified is to be killed. If a person is killed yet they live, we have to ask ourselves how that is possible. You can't kill something and have it live, killed means dead, no longer living. Yet Christ was crucified. Christ was murdered and yet He lived. As the Son of God a miracle was performed. God raised His Son back to life accepting His sacrifice for all of mankind giving mankind hope of eternal life. When we are crucified and yet we live, what does it mean? We aren't killed and then brought back to life. If we are crucified with Christ it has to mean something in us is killed, something in us dies so that Christ can live in us. What is it in us that dies? What are we crucifying, or what is being crucified? I. The I in us is being crucified. Self. The part in us we use to say I am. We cannot save ourselves, Christ must save us, Christ must live in us through faith. Christ lives, and it is Christ in us living that is righteous, not anything of ourselves. Christ living in us is the grace He gives to us, the hope He gives to us. Christ has to live in us by faith. The love of the Son of God was manifest in His dying for us, taking on our sins and being crucified. We could die a million deaths and none of them would warrant a thing because we have no righteousness. Christ's death gives us eternal life, His righteousness alone saves us. It is only through His death that we can live. To be crucified with Christ means any part in us that believes it is righteous has to die.
We cannot frustrate the grace of God and we do frustrate it when we believe that by our own actions we are saved eternally. We frustrate the grace of God when we believe anything we do is righteous in His eyes and warrants anything at all. Only Christ's righteousness brings salvation. Christ is dead in vain if we believe our own righteous acts can save us.
By the grace and mercy of our Lord we live only in Him. All praise and glory, all honor to Him now and forever. In His righteousness alone may we be crucified with Him so that we may live in Him forever.
Amen.
4/11/11