Time Brings a revelation
We must always be cognizant of the promises God has given us. He will not suffer us to bear any more than we can stand (l Corinthians 10:13). The reason many believers are destroyed during the time of God’s dealings is that they do not have a true Gospel to go with the schooling of the Father. Let us never forget that God is not shaping us for a better earth life, but for eternal life in His house (John 14:2).
Jesus Yields To A Time Element
To reach the Father’s house, we must be as Jesus. He is the Way, the time element was most important in His life. Hebrews tells us that even though He was the Son,
yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered (Hebrews 5:8). The suffering was a part of His kenosis (self-emptying). Even He had to yield to His Father’s time element. Paul says, “In the fullness of time, God sent forth His Son” (Galatians 4:4). He who was “slain from the foundation of the world” waited some 4300 years until the time of His revelation was at hand (John 1:29). During the three and one-half years of His public ministry,
the time element was constantly evidenced. Two times before He died, He approached and went through the Passover. He knew He was to be the eternal Passover Lamb. He knew, each year of His public ministry, that the time was not yet come that He should be offered. What great feeling must have come to His heart each time the Passover drew near! Twice, the Father told Him,
“This is not the time.” Thus, He learned obedience by the things He suffered.
In John 12:27, we see Him coming to the hour. He told His disciples that the hour had come that the Son of Man should be crucified (Matthew 26:2). God’s time element was in operation. Undoubtedly, the Father made the Son wait for the ap-
pointed time, that He might make
the Captain of our salvation perfect
through His sufferings (Hebrews 2:10). How precious the breaking (kenosis) through which the Father put the Son, that our redemption might be perfect! Now He Who was dealt with in this way by the Father is our life, our Captain, our Shepherd. Think not that the Father will let us escape such refinement through the time element. While we do not have to
suffer for our sins, seeing that He
completely paid the price for oursalvation, we still will be chastened in love and shaped into His likeness by suffering the breaking of our will into His obedience.
God Never Tells Us His Time
Element
One great and notable truth about God’s time element is that the Father never shares the duration or amount of time necessary to schooling sons. Jesus said, in Matthew 24:36, that no man or angel knew the time when the Lord would return.
We must always be cognizant of the promises God has given us. He will not suffer us to bear any more than we can stand (l Corinthians 10:13). The reason many believers are destroyed during the time of God’s dealings is that they do not have a true Gospel to go with the schooling of the Father. Let us never forget that God is not shaping us for a better earth life, but for eternal life in His house (John 14:2).
Jesus Yields To A Time Element
To reach the Father’s house, we must be as Jesus. He is the Way, the time element was most important in His life. Hebrews tells us that even though He was the Son,
yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered (Hebrews 5:8). The suffering was a part of His kenosis (self-emptying). Even He had to yield to His Father’s time element. Paul says, “In the fullness of time, God sent forth His Son” (Galatians 4:4). He who was “slain from the foundation of the world” waited some 4300 years until the time of His revelation was at hand (John 1:29). During the three and one-half years of His public ministry,
the time element was constantly evidenced. Two times before He died, He approached and went through the Passover. He knew He was to be the eternal Passover Lamb. He knew, each year of His public ministry, that the time was not yet come that He should be offered. What great feeling must have come to His heart each time the Passover drew near! Twice, the Father told Him,
“This is not the time.” Thus, He learned obedience by the things He suffered.
In John 12:27, we see Him coming to the hour. He told His disciples that the hour had come that the Son of Man should be crucified (Matthew 26:2). God’s time element was in operation. Undoubtedly, the Father made the Son wait for the ap-
pointed time, that He might make
the Captain of our salvation perfect
through His sufferings (Hebrews 2:10). How precious the breaking (kenosis) through which the Father put the Son, that our redemption might be perfect! Now He Who was dealt with in this way by the Father is our life, our Captain, our Shepherd. Think not that the Father will let us escape such refinement through the time element. While we do not have to
suffer for our sins, seeing that He
completely paid the price for oursalvation, we still will be chastened in love and shaped into His likeness by suffering the breaking of our will into His obedience.
God Never Tells Us His Time
Element
One great and notable truth about God’s time element is that the Father never shares the duration or amount of time necessary to schooling sons. Jesus said, in Matthew 24:36, that no man or angel knew the time when the Lord would return.
