tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349623131577593940.post7884231981906605190..comments2023-11-03T05:49:48.602-07:00Comments on The Neitherwegian: If I Were The Devil by Paul HarveyAgmvcchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321922678167931705noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349623131577593940.post-12013847512720259892012-03-23T13:29:23.860-07:002012-03-23T13:29:23.860-07:00More than ever, I have the responsibility to take ...More than ever, I have the responsibility to take My stand against the schemes of the devil. An impossible task if I trust in myself.<br />Paul says in Gal.2:20 -"I have been crucified with Christ"; he does not say "I have determined to imitate Christ,' or "I will endeavour to follow Him"- but "I have been crucified with Him in His death." When I come to such a moral decision and act upon it, then all that Christ wrought for me on the Cross is wrought in me. The free committal of myself to God gives the Holy Spirit the chance to impart to me the holiness of Jesus Christ. ..."nevertheless I live..." The individuality remains, but the mainspring, the ruling disposition, is radically altered. The same human body remains, but the old satanic right to myself is destroyed. "And the life that I now live in the flesh...," not the life which I long to live and pray to live, but the life I now live in the mortal flesh, the life which men can see, "I live by the faith of the Son of God." This faith is not Paul's faith in Jesus Christ, but the faith that the Son of God has imparted to him "the faith of the Son of God." It is no longer faith in faith, but faith which has overleapt all conscious bounds, the identical faith of the Son of God. For example, with so much competeing for our attention, gifting, talent, money, marriage, children, etc, the only test as to whether we ought to allow an emotion to have it's way is to see what the outcome of the emotion will be. Push it to its logical conclusion, and if the outcome is something God would condemn, allow it no more. But if the emotion is stirred by the Spirit of God and you do not let that emotion have its right issue in your life, it will react on a lower level. That is the way sentimentalists are made. The higher the emotion is, the deeper the degradation will be, if it is not worked out on its proper level. If the Spirit of God has stirred you, make as many things inevitable as possible, let the consequenses be what they will. We cannot stay on the Mount of transfiguration, but we must obey the light we received there; we must act it out. When God gives us a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.---Oswald chambers--- I'm just sayin'with Oswald!El G. man (pero yo)https://www.blogger.com/profile/15385977296012166773noreply@blogger.com