Shalom,
Today I want to share again from "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers.
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.
AMEN! We (Christians) are NOT following a concept, idea, formula, list of rules, or religion! WE are children of the Most High God, citizens of Heaven, partakers of a NEW and BETTER Covenant! Let's start REALLY acting like it! AMEN! Here is Hillsong Worship with"Freedom":
Shalom in Him!