GOD’S WORD FOR MAY 7

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES:

JESUS, YOU……… ARE MY EXPECTATION –Psalm 62:5

JESUS, YOU…..  WILL PROTECT ME IN THE LATTER DAYS WHEN I TURN TO YOU.  —Deut 4:30-31

JESUS, YOU……  WILL MAKE BLESSINGS COME UPON ME AND OVERTAKE ME WHEN I OBEY YOUR  VOICE (Deut 28:2)                                             

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THE WORD FOR TODAY

Matthew 12:33 ~ ~ “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.”

Finishing chapter 9 in Andrew Murray’s great classic book, “Abiding in Christ” ~ ~ He spoke yesterday about grafting a branch into a tree and how that relates to our being “grafted” into Christ at our salvation, and ongoing through our sanctification in this life.

And now, if you would live a holy life, abide in Christ your sanctification.  Look upon Him as the Holy One of God who was made man that He might communicate to us the holiness of God.  Listen when Scripture teaches that there is within you a new nature, a new man, created in Christ Jesus in righteousness and true holiness.  Remember that this holy nature that is in you is singularly fitted for living a holy life and performing all holy duties, as much so as the old nature is for doing evil.

(Romans 6:6 ~ “knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.”

2 Corinthians 5:17 ~ “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”)

Understand that this holy nature within you has its root and life in Christ in heaven and can only grow and become strong as the dealings between it and its source (Christ) are uninterrupted.  And above all, believe most confidently that Jesus Christ Himself delights in maintaining that new nature within you and imparting to it His own strength and wisdom for its work.

Let that faith lead you daily to the surrender of all self-confidence and the confession of the utter corruption of all there is in you by nature.  Let it fill you with a quiet and assured confidence that you are indeed able to do what the father expects of you as His child, under the covenant of His grace, because you have Christ strengthening you.  Let it teach you to lay yourself and your services on the altar as spiritual sacrifices, holy and acceptable in His sight, a sweet-smelling savor.  Do not look upon a life of holiness as a strain and an effort, (adding empty and vain rituals and memorized prayers)  but as the natural outgrowth of the life of Christ within you.  Let a quiet, hopeful, cheerful faith hold itself assured that all you need for a hoy life will most assuredly be given you out of the holiness of Jesus.  Thus will you understand and prove what it is to abide in Christ our sanctification.

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