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November 28, 2007
THE BOUNTY OF THE DESTITUTE
Being justified freely by His grace...
Romans 3:24
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=ro+3:24&sr=1
The Gospel of the grace of God awakens an intense longing in human
souls and an equally intense resentment, because the revelation which
it brings is not palatable. There is a certain pride in man that will
give and give, but to come and accept is another thing. I will give
my life to martyrdom, I will give myself in consecration, I will do
anything, but do not humiliate me to the level of the most
hell-deserving sinner and tell me that all I have to do is to accept
the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ.
We have to realize that we cannot earn or win anything from God; we
must either receive it as a gift or do without it. The greatest
blessing spiritually is the knowledge that we are destitute; until we
get there Our Lord is powerless. He can do nothing for us if we think
we are sufficient of ourselves, we have to enter into His Kingdom
through the door of destitution. As long as we are rich, possessed of
anything in the way of pride or independence, God cannot do anything
for us. It is only when we get hungry spiritually that we receive the
Holy Spirit. The gift of the essential nature of God is made
effectual in us by the Holy Spirit, He imparts to us the quickening
life of Jesus, which puts "the beyond" within, and immediately "the
beyond" has come within, it rises up to "the above," and we are
lifted into the domain where Jesus lives. (John 3:5.)
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