The Cross Experience
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SUMMARY:
Christ died on the cross and it was a provision for all mankind to walk in His footsteps and to die out to the Adamic nature. How do we respond to that? What do we do in order to see the cross experience fulfilled in our lives?
SHOW NOTES:
A believer will be brought to the point where he knows he is falling short and is living too much in the flesh.
A devastation can come where you can't even do the things that are in your heart.
It's important to remember that the Lord is the One who is doing the work.
We may think we know what He is doing and try to accomplish the experience our own way, but it won't work.
The Apostle Paul was really expressing the submission and obedience that he lived by, when he summarized it: “I die daily.”
An example of how difficult this cross experience can be was exemplified by Abraham when he was given a word to take his son, Isaac, up the mountain and sacrifice him. Even though God stopped Abraham from completing that act, that truly was a cross experience for Abraham.
QUOTATIONS:
Religion always wants to take the cross and say, okay, I've got to identify with this cross and let it crucify me.
We have to remember that He's the One doing the work, not us.
We don't go forward at all until we continue to die out, because it's all about Him moving through us.
I don't really think that we have the ability to do the work God is asking to be done, because I think He has to finish the work.
What is the cross, you know, that God brings? It's often a thing that you don't want to hear.
In other words, you submit to His will, to His Lordship, and allow Him to complete the work.
I submit my spirit to the death process of the cross daily, but I don't do the work, because that's God's business, not mine.
REFERENCES:
Knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we no longer be slaves to sin.
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Jesus Christ.
Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on the cross.
that I may know Him and he power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.
For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
TAKE AWAY:
Today we are reaching into the submission to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. You cannot force yourself into this. You cannot perfect what God wants you to bring to the cross by your own efforts. You have to submit yourself to the cross experience and allow Him to complete the work.
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