Tuesday, April 24, 2018

LIVING A VICTORIOUS LIFE BY DYING TO SELF - We find newness of life in Christ by receiving Him as our own Savior from the penalty of sin. Abundance of that life we find by surrendering self and drawing on the unfailing resources of the Almighty. There is life; and then there is life more abundant. This is the exchanged life.

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Living A Victorious Life By Dying To Self
Image result for images victorious life in christThe Secret Of The Exchanged Life – The Indwelling


Out of discouragement and defeat they have come into victory.
Out of weakness and weariness they have been made strong. 
Out of ineffectiveness and apparent uselessness they have become efficient and enthusiastic.
The pattern seems to be: self-centeredness, self-effort, increasing inner dissatisfaction and outer discouragement, a temptation to give it all up because there is no better way.
Image result for images victorious life in christAnd then they find the Spirit of God to be their strength, their guide, their confidence and companion - in word, their life.
The crisis of the deeper life is the key that unlocks the secret of transformation. It is the beginning of the exchanged life. 
What is the exchanged life?  Really, it is not some thing: it is some One
It is the indwelling of the Lord Jesus Christ made real and rewarding by the Holy Spirit. 
There is no more glorious reality in the entire world. It is life with a capital L. 
It is new life for old. It is rejoicing for weariness, and radiance for dreariness. 
It is strength for weakness, and steadiness for uncertainty. 
It is triumph even through tears, and tenderness of heart instead of touchiness. 
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It is lowliness of spirit instead of self-exaltation, and loveliness of life because of the presence of the altogether Lovely One. 
Adjectives can be multiplied to describe it: abundant, overflowing, overcoming, all-pervading, satisfying, joyous, victorious; and each is but one aspect of a life that can be experienced but not fully explained.
Said the Savior: “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”  
We find newness of life in Christ by receiving Him as our own Savior from the penalty of sin. 
Abundance of that life we find by surrendering self and drawing on the unfailing resources of the Almighty
There is life; and then there is life more abundant.  This is the exchanged life.
The pattern of their experiences is much the same. 
They had believed on the Savior, yet they were burdened and bewildered, unfaithful and unfruitful, always yearning for a better way and never achieving by their efforts a better life. 
Then they came to a crisis of utter heart surrender to the Savior, a meeting with Him in the innermost depths of their spirit; and they found the Holy Spirit to be an unfailing fountain of life and refreshment. 
Thereafter, life was never again the same.
In one way or another they had learned what the apostle Paul had testified: “I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
Image result for images victorious life in christNew life had been exchanged for old. 
Their testimony to the reality of the joy and power of the Spirit-filled life is unanimous. 
Nowhere in Scriptures are we taught to seek experience.
Rather, the Word says, Seek ye the Lord.” 
It is Jesus who satisfies the longing soul. 
He is the secret of the exchanged life!
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