Tuesday, November 13, 2007

This Particular LIFE (Part 2)
Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life. (Acts 5:20)

This Altered and Interrupted Life is PERMANENT!

We must recognize the truth that is manifested in this passage, and how it speaks about a life that has been permanently changed to bring glory and honor to God and His redemptive grace. God the Father permanently alters the position, and progressively transforms the practice, of the trophies of His grace (His new creatures) with such eternal power and precision that the angel referred to it as "THIS LIFE"! Does God’s grace permanently alter and transform life? YES! When God interrupts someone, through the life of His only begotten Son, it is forever? Not only is it permanent but He does it Personally? Have YOU personally and powerfully been interrupted by Him?

The reason He interrupts our lives is to conquer us for His own purpose. How does He do this? He permanently and persistently INVADES our life with His GRACE. Have YOU been INVADED by Jesus and conquered by Him? The Church, that is the Bride of Christ, the Redeemed, not everyone who "professes" to be the church, has been conquered by her King. She is, as the Word of God describes her, "subject to Christ"!
Subject: It means to be under authority and the appointment of specific orders or a direct assignment.

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and He is the saviour of the body. [24] Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. [25] Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it…
(Ephes. 5:23-25)
What is one of the God ordained and specific task that Jesus is accomplishing today? He's conquering sinners! What is the result of this invasion? He makes them His subjects! For what reason? So they can bring glory to the name of His Father, while living as "more than conquerors", through the life sacrifice and shed blood of Jesus. He gave up His life and poured out His blood to interrupt and invade the lives of hopeless and helpless men forever.
And when all things shall be subdued unto Him (Jesus), then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him (The Father) that put all things under Him (Jesus), that God may be all in all. (1 Cor. 15:28)
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. (Romans 8:37)
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That Thou mightest be justified in Thy sayings, and mightest overcome when Thou art judged. (Romans 3:4)
All men should be seen as guilty of rebellion to the authority of King Jesus, and in need of being permanently conquered and made subject to Him, until otherwise proven innocent of this common and most natural sin.
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready (stumbling) to be slain (slaughtered); [12] If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not He that pondereth the heart consider it? and He that keepeth thy soul, doth not He know it? and shall not He render to every man according to his works? (Proverbs 24:11-12)

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