Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Matthew 16:24-25, “Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.”
To lose our soul-life means losing our soul-life as the initiator!
In these verses the Lord is saying, “Lose setting your mind on the things of men. Lose it! Take Me! You will find your soul when you take Me as your relationship with all things. Your relationship to your self is Me! Lose your self; do not find your self. When you lose your self to find Me, then you will find your self in a proper way.”
For the church to be in the reality of Christ, we need many experiences of starting to do something out of ourself and then stopping ourself by calling on the Lord.
By this we bring our being back to Christ.
We sink back into our mingled spirit.
We stop ourself from initiating, thinking, acting, deliberating, and bring ourself back to Christ as our source.
At that point, we lose our soul-life.
The more we lose our soul-life, the more Satan comes out of our system, and the more Satan cannot destroy the church through our undealt-with mind and opinion.
When Peter took the initiative to rebuke the Lord concerning His going to the cross, the Lord looked at him and said, “Get behind Me, Satan!”
That means Satan was in Peter’s system.
He was occupying Peter’s soul.
This is where the problems and division in the church really come from our undealt-with soul.
Satan will be ejected out of our system if day by day and hour by hour we do not initiate anything, but lose our soul-life to find it in Christ.
When the self initiates things, Satan is unrestrained in his attack on the church.
We must all learn not to initiate!
Do not live!
Do not reason!
Do not introspect yourself!
Just say, “Lord, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!”
Then, like Peter, we will learn to eject Satan out of our system; and our independent, undealt-with self will not be Satan’s door into the church.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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