Loose That Man and Let Him Go! with Workbook by T.D. Jakes

Author:T.D. Jakes [Jakes, T.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781441213365
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2003-05-01T07:00:00+00:00

“These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.”

JOHN 11:11

Lazarus was beyond sleep; he was dead! Jesus called him “friend” anyway. Some people only call you “friend” as long as they can use you or benefit from your existence. Jesus considered Lazarus His friend even though he seemed to be at a point of no return. Their relationship was stronger than the predicament that threatened to divide them.

Our Savior keeps His commitment to men who have been discarded and buried by others. He has always befriended the sick, the decomposing, and the rotten. Jesus is the Friend of sinners. He comes when others have walked away, and His brilliance shines brightest when life seems darkest. He shouts a grave-shaking word of deliverance into the dismal, dank crypts of our lives. He is a God of relationship, and His creation can never escape its need for intimacy with its Creator. It is God Whom we must have. Nothing less will do.

“Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.”

LUKE 3:38

There was nothing in Adam that God hadn’t touched, for he was formed by the hand of God. God didn’t speak him into existence from a distance. He personally touched, caressed, and molded Adam’s shape to perfection.

God’s divine fingerprints are etched into every fiber of our beings, as they were with Adam. God knows us in ways more intimate than sex and more probing than surgery. He knows our inward parts. We are graphically naked and totally exposed before His eyes. Nothing is hidden from His view.

“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”

2 CORINTHIANS 3:18

We have an “open face” relationship with God. He sees our deepest yearnings and knows our darkest cravings. Our all-wise Creator has every right to find our weaknesses obnoxious, but instead He has chosen to love us beyond our failures and lift us beyond despair! We cannot impress Him into loving us — we are already accepted. He has already made up His mind about us, and the blood of Jesus has purchased a righteousness we could not afford.

RUNAWAY MAN

Insecurity keeps us from knowing God. We try to impress Him with our performance, but without Him it is basically a facade. It is knowing God that transforms our wretchedness into righteousness, but we cannot know Him when we are running or hiding from Him!

It began when Adam tasted the forbidden fruit of disobedience and brought death into the world. In the beginning, Adam’s obedience held death at bay and locked it out of the earthly realm. Adam’s sin opened the lock and allowed death to walk right in through the door of his failure, bringing with it the generational curse of sin on his offspring.

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