So it is the good fight will come from the Christ in you. The only life that reigns. Christians are not set out to destroy other believers, but they stand with this truth. They stand, and alone if necessary, for the gospel of truth. The only truth God has as a gospel message to the world. We are not against the world - we stand in truth. The message of God confronts men in their folly and ignorance of who they are. Their identity! no one is exempt.
Thats where the battle is - taking away the old identity, for the new life. Dear friend you will have a battle in confronting evil. It is like facing the devil himself. And the day will come - in our day, where men will kill you and think they do God a service. That is wickedness! It will be on every hand - foolish gesturing. We see in our day a technology where men can show the ignorance that is in them, and not knowing who they are. As great as technology is - men will fly their colors so to speak. It is as if the Lord said "ok you want to compare flesh, lets let the whole world see." It brings to surface that thing that must be cut off, if they are to reign in life by one. Just as the reigning in life was by death, so is the reign in life by one. Not two not three, not the multitudes congregating around to prop up a false identity.
How have you been hurt by death reigning. Think on that - when you have been confronted by the death that reigns in religion. It may just be a miracle to get you out of death - to move on to reign in life by the one! We don't understand the things of God in our self. But we can know them.
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. - 1 Corinthians 2:7-9.
You get no deeper in God - than to reign in life by one. That life stands alone. It can stand in any adversity in the world. It is the only life that stands, that life is in you. Learn Christ who is your life - there is no other life that can be learned, and reign in life by one.
Thats where the battle is - taking away the old identity, for the new life. Dear friend you will have a battle in confronting evil. It is like facing the devil himself. And the day will come - in our day, where men will kill you and think they do God a service. That is wickedness! It will be on every hand - foolish gesturing. We see in our day a technology where men can show the ignorance that is in them, and not knowing who they are. As great as technology is - men will fly their colors so to speak. It is as if the Lord said "ok you want to compare flesh, lets let the whole world see." It brings to surface that thing that must be cut off, if they are to reign in life by one. Just as the reigning in life was by death, so is the reign in life by one. Not two not three, not the multitudes congregating around to prop up a false identity.
How have you been hurt by death reigning. Think on that - when you have been confronted by the death that reigns in religion. It may just be a miracle to get you out of death - to move on to reign in life by the one! We don't understand the things of God in our self. But we can know them.
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. - 1 Corinthians 2:7-9.
You get no deeper in God - than to reign in life by one. That life stands alone. It can stand in any adversity in the world. It is the only life that stands, that life is in you. Learn Christ who is your life - there is no other life that can be learned, and reign in life by one.
