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November 13, 2007
FAITH AND EXPERIENCE
The Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.
Galatians 2:20
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=ga+2:20&sr=1
We have to battle through our moods into absolute devotion to the
Lord Jesus, to get out of the hole-and-corner business of our
experience into abandoned devotion to Him. Think Who the New
Testament says that Jesus Christ is, and then think of the despicable
meanness of the miserable faith we have - I haven't had this and that
experience! Think what faith in Jesus Christ claims - that He can
present us faultless before the throne of God, unutterably pure,
absolutely rectified and profoundly justified. Stand in implicit
adoring faith in Him, He is made unto us "wisdom, and righteousness,
and sanctification, and redemption." How can we talk of making a
sacrifice for the Son of God! Our salvation is from hell and
perdition, and then we talk about making sacrifices!
We have to get out into faith in Jesus Christ continually; not a
prayer meeting Jesus Christ, nor a book Jesus Christ, but the New
Testament Jesus Christ, Who is God Incarnate, and Who ought to strike
us to His feet as dead. Our faith must be in the One from Whom our
experience springs. Jesus Christ wants our absolute abandon of
devotion to Himself. We never can experience Jesus Christ, nor ever
hold Him within the compass of our own hearts, but our faith must be
built in strong emphatic confidence in Him.
It is along this line that we see the rugged impatience of the Holy
Ghost against unbelief. All our fears are wicked, and we fear because
we will not nourish ourselves in our faith. How can any one who is
identified with Jesus Christ suffer from doubt or fear! It ought to
be an absolute pæan of perfectly irrepressible, triumphant belief.
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