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November 3, 2007
A BOND-SLAVE OF JESUS
I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not
I, but Christ liveth in me.
Galatians 2:20
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=ga+2:20&sr=1
These words mean the breaking of my independence with my own band and
surrendering to the supremacy of the Lord Jesus. No one can do this
for me, I must do it myself. God may bring me up to the point three
hundred and sixty-five times a year, but He cannot put me through it.
It means breaking the husk of my individual in dependence of God, and
the emancipating of my personality into oneness with Himself, not for
my own ideas, but for absolute loyalty to Jesus. There is no
possibility of dispute when once I am there. Very few of us know
anything about loyalty to Christ - "For My sake." It is that which
makes the iron saint.
Has that break come? All the rest is pious fraud. The one point to
decide is - Will I give up, will I surrender to Jesus Christ, and
make no conditions whatever as to how the break comes? I must be
broken from my self-realization, and immediately that point is
reached, the reality of the supernatural identification takes place
at once, and the witness of the Spirit of God is unmistakable - "I
have been crucified with Christ."
The passion of Christianity is that I deliberately sign away my own
rights and become a bond-slave of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I do
not begin to be a saint.
One student a year who hears God's call would be sufficient for God
to have called this College into existence. This College as an
organization is not worth anything, it is not academic; it is for
nothing else but for God to help Himself to lives. Is He going to
help Himself to us, or are we taken up with our conception of what we
are going to be?
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