Notes from a Study on Christ
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.
The Church consists of all those who
have died to themselves and been born again by the
resurrected life of Christ.
We cannot have more of Christ until we
have less of ourselves — self must die fully before
Christ can live fully in us. Thus the death and life of
Christ must constantly work in us.
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.
We pray, "Your will be done on earth as
it is done in heaven." But how shall we ever see God's
will done on earth if we do not first see it done in us?
What did Fénelon mean when he wrote,
"The life of faith is the most penetrating of all
deaths"?
There are many who desire to live to God
but are unwilling to die to self.
Truly humble Christians do not consider
themselves little or lowly, they do not consider
themselves at all.
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