CRISIS AND PROCESS
So, there is both a crisis and a process to every experience that we are to have in God : the New Birth, the Lordship of Christ, Sanctification, (dedicated and made holy), the Holy Spirit, etc.
Ask some “Christians” if they are saved, and they’ll say, “I dunno, I’m workin’ on it.” (The Bible says we can KNOW! I Jn. 5). But because they are always “working on” the process of salvation, without the CRISIS of having been born again, they won’t be because they are always GOING THROUGH the door, but never quite get IN. But one can ask others if they’re saved, and they say, “Ya sure, I got saved 90 years ago!” But, too many of them got saved and stuck! They got through the door and then went to sleep for 89 years. The same thing is true of the Holy Spirit. Some believe only in the process of being filled, while others got “it”, and got stuck, (or sprung leaks!). And the same thing Is true with ‘The King’s Greatest Secret” — BOTH the crisis of appropriation AND the process of abiding in Him - moment by moment, both are necessary
ARE YOU NOW READY TO DIE? - THEN LIVE!!!
You simply: #1. Know and “RECKON YOURSELF TO HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED
WITH CHRIST’ (Rom. 6:6 - this is the crisis), and #2. Then “CONSIDER AND RECKON YOURSELF (here is the process) AS DEAD INDEED UNTO SIN, SELF
AND satan, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord!!! (Rom. 6:11) ALLELUYAHWEH!!!
Please repeat this prayer:
Thank You, Dear Lord Jesus, for taking us to the Cross with You and for raising us up with You in newness of Life in You. Lord God, we receive You to BE all that You are, In
us, now and forever more. We receive You AS OUR VERY LIFE to BE OUR VERY LIFE!!! Please now, LIVE YOUR VERYLIFE THROUGH ME!!!
In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Jesus said, “BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT, EVEN AS YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN
IS PERFECT.” Matt. 5:48. Jesus, as always, meant just what He said! He meant “BE as perfect as God!” Or would you prostitute and change and twist and warp and noneffectualize the Word of God here or any other place?
It does NOT mean: ‘try to be perfect”, nor, “be perfect sometime after your body has rotted”, nor, ‘give up on being perfect”, nor, ‘it’s impossible to be perfect”, nor, ‘wish that you were perfect”, nor, “God isn’t great enough to make or keep me perfect”, nor, “be theoretically (or ‘pretend”) perfect”, nor any of that kind of silliness. ‘Would be” disciples of the Kingdom, WONT BE disciples of the Kingdom of God as long as they are messing with the commands of the King of God’s Kingdom in this way! One who changes the commands of the King is a Kingdom anarchist and traitor.
When someone asks, ‘What does this verse mean?” The best answer always is, ‘The Bible - this VERSE - means just what it says!” because the King means what He says. I believe that whenever people disagree about a Scripture, it is because one or more of them is not willing to accept what the Scripture and King say.