Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength (Vol. 1) - #
350
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The idea that God come in the flesh is foreign to
the natural mind. To Believers it is a magnificent reality.
DAY 144
The Crucified Christ
But may it never be that
I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the
world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
--Galatians 6:14
When people saw Jesus they were seeing God,
for He was attached, so to speak, by a divine umbilical cord to the Father,
whose LIFE flowed through Him. Satan could not defeat God in heaven, so he
thought he would try again with his next best chance, which was when God was no
longer in heaven but on the earth. Wrong! It was the same God on earth in a body, and in
that body God defeated sin, the world, and every aspect of the flesh.
How? The “I” attitude of Jesus intertwined throughout His mind, will, emotion,
and body was this: “Of My own self I can do nothing.” To the world, He hung on the cross as a defeated
man; in actuality, there hung the greatest conqueror the world would ever know.
Jesus’ body went to
the grave, but His LIFE departed and descended. Jesus had no choice but to
descend when He died; that is what was happening to dead people. There were a
couple of battles along the way, all easily won by the power of an
indestructible life. Death encountered a new foe, LIFE, and death went running.
Captivity was taken captive, and a Man tore open the very gates of hell and
preached! All who believed in Jesus left with Him. In short, Hell was
plundered. What a time! Next, God reconnected with Him to raise Him from the
dead, and Jesus returned to His body in the tomb. His life was so powerful,
having overcome sin; Satan; the world; the mind, will, emotions, and body of
man; the “I” attitude; and Death, Captivity, and Hell, all by doing nothing of
“Himself.” When this powerful life reentered His body, His body was instantly
transformed by the power of an indestructible life. His fleshly body could not
decay; it was overcome by LIFE and was transformed. We men can only take our
spirit along where our body allows us to go. His transformed body had to go
wherever His spirit went. If He wanted to walk through a wall, His transformed
body followed. Lest we forget, when He returned to His body, He was soaked with
the “I” that proved the Love of God, an “I” attitude that trusted God and was
holy, righteous, acceptable, and dependent.
Remember that every
believer is the dry sponge attached to the soaked One that fills him. Formerly
dead in trespasses and sins, believers are filled with a new “I” that soaks
into their whole being and gets into every corner until thinking, will,
emotions, and body all change. Believers may look the same but they are not; they are having a
conversion, being filled with His Spirit, His “I” attitude, and His life.
Again, like the great tree root, this divine “I” wraps itself around
everything. The flesh of man does not like it, for in the past the flesh was
allowed to follow flesh; now the flesh must fight to do so. However, it is
fighting an “I” that has already overcome flesh and counterattacks from a place
of victory. Believers are filled with THE SPIRIT and are raised up.
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
That Believers may look the same, but in Reality
are not…is another mystery (parable) that God has given to all mankind to
ponder. Well, amen.
At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw
the Light, and the burden of my heart rolled away! (rolled away), It was there
by belief I received my sight, and
now I am happy all the day!
There are multitudes who will not believe, and they miss out on being
raised up.
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