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October 19, 2007
THE UNHEEDED SECRET
My kingdom is not of this world.
John 18:36
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=joh+18:36&sr=1
The great enemy to the Lord Jesus Christ in the present day is the
conception of practical work that has not come from the New
Testament, but from the Systems of the world in which endless energy
and activities are insisted upon, but no private life with God. The
emphasis is put on the wrong thing. Jesus said, "The kingdom of God
cometh not with observation, for lo the kingdom of God is within
you," a hidden, obscure thing. An active Christian worker too often
lives in the shop window. It is the innermost of the innermost that
reveals the power of the life.
We have to get rid of the plague of the spirit of the religious age
in which we live. In Our Lord's life there was none of the press and
rush of tremendous activity that we regard so highly, and the
disciple is to be as His Master. The central thing about the kingdom
of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship to Himself, not public
usefulness to men.
It is not its practical activities that are the strength of this
Bible Training College, its whole strength lies in the fact that here
you are put into soak before God. You have no idea of where God is
going to engineer your circumstances, no knowledge of what strain is
going to be put on you either at home or abroad, and if you waste
your time in over-active energies instead of getting into soak on the
great fundamental truths of God's Redemption, you will snap when the
strain comes; but if this time of soaking before God is being spent
in getting rooted and grounded in God on the unpractical line, you
will remain true to Him what ever happens.
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