Excellent post Gid, excellent! ...it is evidence of the of the call 'come out of her my people'
Hello my friend from down under. Funny, but God has been dealing with me on that very verse. I have pondered a lot on what exactly that means.... what it should look like in our lives personally as well as corporately.
Personally, in truth, it is simply leaving the old carnal nature behind and clothing ourselves with our new natures by an act of faith in what Christ has told us. The old us is dead. Not dying every day. DEAD. BUT.... and rhis is huge. For it to profit us, that truth must be mixed with faith on our parts. This is the reckoning Paul spoke about....the one thing we must DO... and continue in doing.
Remember the verse that tells us "but it did not profit rhem, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.". Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner! This is THE core truth that is our crossing of the Jordan river from 'wilderness' people of God, overcome but kept, to 'promised land' people of God, overcomers driving out all the inhabitants of the land that do not belong there.
In the wilderness of unbelief, we may want to obey, but even with our best efforts, we will fail. But praise God, once we recognize how much we have let unbelief dictate to us what to accept as
normal Christianity, and take God out of tge box of limitations we have placed upon Him, and let HIM be the potter, well, amazement will surely follow.
So what must we do to cross over Jordan and enter into our rest? We must come to the place where we truly HATE the old us, our worldliness, our lack of fruit, especially love, our secret wins, our self loving thoughts. We cross over by faith, but unless we see it, not as a nice arrow to be added to our Christian 'quiver of doctrines', but hunger and thirst for it as if we are starving or dying of thirst, real faith will be impossible. We must be 'all in'.
bless you, QT
Gids