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Issue 4208 |
Living Water Newsletter
for December 22, 2008 |
SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT
CHRIST |
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God has given us nothing outside of Christ.
Christ is our life—action based upon knowledge is activated
by memory, life acts spontaneously.
True obedience to God comes not from what we know but from
what we are.
The purpose and intent of God shown from the beginning to
the end of the Bible is resurrection and eternal life, and
Jesus said He is both. Thus all of God's purpose and intent
is consummated in Christ.
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All who truly find Christ will converge into one point,
where Christ is the sum of all things in a vital, living,
active experience and faith. All who find only doctrines
about Christ will diverge into many points and have only
dead experiences and dead faith.
Christianity is not rules and regulations to
live by—Christianity is the resurrection life of Christ in
the heart and soul of a human being.
Christianity is Christ in you, "the hope of
glory." |
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Things Are Not Always What
They Seem to Be |
One night an archangel and his assistant stopped to spend
the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was
rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion's
guest room. Instead, the angels were given a space in the
mansion's cold basement, an old mattress, and a couple of
worn blankets.
As they made their bed on the hard floor, the archangel saw
a hole in the wall and repaired it. When his assistant asked
why, the archangel replied, "Things are not always what they
seem to be."
The next night, the angels came to rest at the house of a
very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife. After
sharing what little food they had, the couple let the angels
sleep in their bed where they could have a good night's
rest.
When the sun came up the next morning, the angels found the
farmer and his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had
been their sole income, lay dead in the field.
The assistant angel was puzzled and asked the archangel,
"How could you have let this happen!? The first man had
everything, yet you helped him. The second family had so
little, but was willing to share everything and you let
their cow die."
Things are not always what they seem to be," the archangel
replied. "When we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I
noticed that the former owner had stored gold in that hole
in the wall. Since the present owner was so selfish and
unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he
wouldn't find it.
"Then last night as we slept in the farmer's bed, the angel
of death came for his wife. I gave him the cow instead.
Things are not always what they seem to be."
Sometimes this is exactly what happens when things don't
turn out the way we think they should. If we have faith, we
just need to trust that every outcome is always to our
advantage. We might not realize it until some time later,
however, because "things are not always what they seem to
be." |
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 Recently
a woman bought a copy of The Real Faith for Healing
by Dr. Charles S. Price. About a week later, she called
Beverlee and said she couldn't put the book down and read it
in one setting. She then ordered ten more copies to give
away to members of her prayer group. A few days after that,
we also received an order for 25 copies from a missionary
who was taking them with him to distribute to pastors in
China.
Charles Price is the only person I know of who has written
about "imparted faith," Chapter 8, which Smith Wigglesworth
spoke of in different words, and which George Muller of
orphanage fame termed a "grace level of faith." Dr. Price
says you can no more have true Bible faith without results
than you can have motion without movement, and that what we
often call faith for healing is nothing more than belief in
healing. He explains all this in his book, which is probably
the greatest book ever written on real faith for healing, or
for anything else.
Go
here to read about it.
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Was Jesus Just a Great
Teacher? |
I am here trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish
thing that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept
Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim
to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who
was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said
would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a
lunatic—on a level with a man who says he is a poached
egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell.
You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the
son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can
shut Him up for a fool, you can spit on Him and kill Him as
a demon: or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and
God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about
His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open
to us. He did not intend to. (C. S. Lewis, Mere
Christianity) |
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