Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Day 34 -Buy A Sword!

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength - # 200
         
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Michael draws our attention to an interesting perspective: how could I replace Jesus if He were to leave me?  He gives the “biblical” answer that dates all the way back to Jesus’ day…



DAY 34

Buy a Sword!

And He said to them, “But now, let him who has a purse take it along, likewise also a bag, and let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. --Luke 22:36.

What a thing for the Prince of Peace to say! Why buy a sword? Earlier He had said that when He was with the disciples, they had need of nothing. But now they are in need of everything! What would it take to replace Jesus? When He was with them, they needed nothing, but since He was leaving, they would need everything, even swords. Peter tried to use the sword and was rebuked because Jesus was still with them. They never did need the purse, the bag, or the sword, for Jesus returned from the dead and they were able to live freely in the fact that He was with them. In my own personal life, how could I replace Jesus if He were to leave me? I move in and out of countries freely with the plane tickets that I need and so much provision, every bit of which is given by Him. How would I replace Him? If Jesus leaves a Christian organization, what will it take to replace Him? How many meetings? How many fund drives? How many employees? One friend, upon being told that a church had experienced a visitation of the Lord, responded, “If He visited you, you might want to ask what made Him leave in the first place!”

Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point      Green – IT, Incredible Truth        
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches           Pink – PV, Priceless Victory


The “biblical” answer to the above question is: “They never did need the purse, the bag, or the sword, for Jesus returned from the dead and they were able to live freely in the fact that He was with them.”  Amen.

And then God gives us a further word in Hebrews 13:5, “Let your conversation (life) be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”  It’s very comforting to know that as Christians we can never be without the Lord.

A man I once knew, spoke of his Sunday School class with these words: “The Holy Spirit could walk out of the room, and most in the class wouldn’t know He had left, and would never miss Him.”  Guess it wouldn’t help to ask them “what made Him leave in the first place?”




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