Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Colossians 2:20-21, “Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not;”
If you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations–Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle.
It is a privilege to experience the cross, because we are ushered into a divine procedure of experiencing both Christ’s feelings of weakness and His actual putting to death.
This experience is all Christ from beginning to end.
It is marvelous to see such a provision.
You never again want to be experientially outside the spirit (1 Cor. 6:17).
The experience of the cross is altogether Christ as the Spirit, as it were, reenacting Himself again on the earth through us–the many sons who are being brought into glory.
The way we are being brought into glory is by being led by the Spirit to know the cross operating in our lives.
It is by this that we are the genuine sons of God.
There are some dangers related to this experience of the cross.
One of these is self-introspection, that is, looking at the self with the self.
Self-introspection is the self examining the practices of the body.
It is the self trying to figure out what needs to die in me.
It is the self analyzing my experience.
Here we must realize a divine principle: If you are not in the Spirit, do not analyze, do not introspect about what needs to be put to death in your natural life.
This kind of self-analysis only leads to something that is full of accusation and condemnation.
If we are accused and condemned over this matter of the cross, it is most likely that we are just in self-introspection.
We should not analyze the self by the self or with the self.
The only One qualified to touch the self in any way is the Spirit.
Do not dare to touch the self apart from the Spirit.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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