The Indwelling Life of Christ: All of Him in All of Me by Thomas Ian Major

Author:Thomas, Ian Major [Thomas, Ian Major]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307562975
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Published: 2008-12-30T00:00:00+00:00

The life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us.

1 JOHN 1:2

Have you known enough of the living and indwelling presence of the risen Jesus to be able to speak up about it?

Is knowing Christ and making Him known the consuming passion of your life?

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The God-Given Life

here is a wonderful discovery God wants you to make, one that is absolutely basic to an intelligent understanding of the Christian life.

This discovery is not only charged with comfort and encouragement for your soul, but is calculated to deliver you from the heartbreak, frustration, and despair which are the unhappy lot of so many sincere Christians in their earnest endeavors to please God in the energy of the flesh.

It is not a question of improving or being reformed, but of substitution, receiving a God-given Life, a life for which we have nothing to offer to God in exchange.

God tells us that the old Adamic nature within you, called the flesh, has no redeeming feature about it. It is entirely without remedy.

This was Paul’s persuasion: “For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot perform it. I have the intention and urge to do what is right, but no power to carry it out” (Romans 7:18, AMP).

For your own spiritual well-being, it is absolutely imperative that you recognize the fact that this old nature will never change its character. All the wickedness of which it is capable today, it will be capable of tomorrow, or fifty years from now if you are still alive. The flesh within you then will be as wicked as the flesh within you today, and there is absolutely no salvageable content within it.

What a relief it must be for you to discover that in all your attempts to harness the flesh in the service of Jesus Christ, and in all your painful endeavors to introduce it to godly principles of life and conduct, God has never expected anything of you but the hopeless failure you have been!

You have been trying to do the impossible!

The Galatian Christians had made the same mistake, for they had been trying to achieve holiness in their own strength. They tried to submit themselves to rules and regulations imposed upon them by legalists who gloried in their conformity to Jewish customs. Outward form and ritualistic patterns had become a substitute for the spontaneous expression of the indwelling Life of Christ.

Paul therefore addressed them as “poor and silly and thoughtless and unreflecting and senseless Galatians!” He asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit as the result of obeying the Law and doing its works, or was it by hearing the message of the Gospel and believing it? Was it from observing a law of rituals or from a message of faith? Are you so foolish and so senseless and so silly? Having begun

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