Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is important information for every born again believer to know, especially as they choose a church to attend!
The
Absoluteness Of Jesus Christ
He shall glorify Me. — John 16:14
The pietistic movements of today have none of the rugged reality
of the New Testament about them; there is nothing about them that needs the
Death of Jesus Christ, all that is required is a pious atmosphere, and prayer
and devotion. This type of experience is not supernatural nor miraculous, it
did not cost the passion of God, it is not dyed in the blood of the Lamb, not
stamped with the hall-mark of the Holy Ghost. It has not that mark on it which
makes men say, as they look with awe and wonder – “That is the work of God
Almighty.” That and nothing else is what the New Testament talks about.
The type of Christian experience in the New Testament is that of
personal passionate devotion to the Person of Jesus Christ. Every other type of
Christian experience, so called, is detached from the Person of Jesus. There is
no regeneration, no being born again into the Kingdom in which Christ lives,
but only the idea that He is our Pattern. In the New Testament Jesus Christ is
Saviour long before He is Pattern. Today He is being despatched as the
Figurehead of a Religion, a mere Example. He is that, but He is infinitely
more; He is salvation itself. He is the
Gospel of God.
Jesus said, “When He, the Spirit of truth, is come,…He shall
glorify Me.” When I commit myself to the revelation made in the New Testament,
I receive from God the gift of the Holy Spirit Who begins to interpret to me
what Jesus did and does in me subjectively all that Jesus Christ did for me
objectively.
Our Lord Jesus is most certainly NO 'figurehead'! He IS the One, True, Most High, Living, Almighty GOD of the BIBLE! Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is LIBERTY! There is LIFE and LOVE and POWER! This is no lifeless journey of obeying endless rules and regulations so that 'perhaps' we may gain favor with God. NO! This is a NEW life by the Spirit of God where those who belong to Him can be filled with Holy Spirit and have HIS constant direction and guidance. This is a life of GRACE, where the price for all sin has been paid and WE can decide whether or not we choose to appropriate that GIFT! THIS is a life of POWER, where we, as born again believers have been given the authority of Jesus in order to operate as He did while on the earth! ARE YOU READY FOR THIS? THIS is what the local churches are SUPPOSED to be teaching their congregations, so that people of authority and power will rise up and take their places in bringing the enemies works to NOTHING! AMEN! Let's get to it! Soon and very soon, we are going to see our King, and we want Him to be WELL PLEASED! AMEN! Here is Hillsong Worship with "Grace To Grace":Shalom in Him!
