Toward the Mark - 1972 - 4 by T. Austin-Sparks

Author:T. Austin-Sparks [Austin-Sparks, T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

All the meticulous details of the two chapters are directed to the one concern of providing a priestly ministry for God. When we say "worship before service", we do not refer to the idea of having worship on a Sunday morning and gospel preaching in the evening, but we really mean that we have no means by which we can serve God until we have first learned to invest the Lord Jesus with His true glory and honour. This is the nature of our priesthood and it does God's heart good, if I may put it like that. He delights in that which is truly a ministry to Himself. As we minister to God we find ourselves engaged in the task of "putting on", and this is what gives us something to share with others. That is why it says, "As they ministered to the Lord ... the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them", and they were sent forth (Acts 13:2). That is why Paul used three priestly terms when he wrote that he had served with the gospel from Jerusalem to Illyricum and all the regions round about (Romans 15:15-21), because first of all he ministered to the Lord, and that is how he had a message of life for other men. This "putting on" activity, this investing of Christ with His true honour and glory, is our movement towards delighting God's heart, and by it we have something to offer to those who are without Christ, for it enables them to see something of Him.

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