WEDNESDAY NIGHT CLASSES
6:30
The Book Of Revelation
With Dr. David Jeremiah
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
2 Corinthians 4:10-11, “Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.”
To inwardly apply the cross, we need to coordinate our spirit with our environment.
In these verses we have both the inward cross and the outward cross.
“Always bearing about in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus” speaks of the inward cross.
Then this inward cross is coordinated with the outward cross by the word “for”: “For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.”
The inward cross and the outward cross operating together is the “death working in us” that produces “life in you” (v. 12).
In verse 11 we are handed over, or delivered, unto death.
We may be handed over into weakness, into a trial, into insults, into misunderstanding–into being crossed out.
We are handed over again and again to all kinds of outward environments.
Just as the Lord Jesus was handed over to the smiters, to those who rejected Him, to all the environment that was sovereignly laid out for Him, we also are always being handed over.
So do not be surprised.
This is our lot because we have a destiny and a goal—to follow the pathway of the cross, to enjoy resurrection life, and to be conformed to His image.
We are always being handed over to death “for Jesus’ sake.”
In Greek, the preposition used here can be literally translated because of.
Thus, it would read, “For we who live are always delivered unto death because of Jesus.”
He is the cause of all this!
He is in our spirit, and God’s desire is to push Him out into our soul—to manifest Him, to display Him, to make Him known.
Jesus is not happy being confined to our spirit.
He wants to spread out into our whole being.
And because many times we do not take the initiative to pursue Him, we get handed over to a death situation–to a trying environment or to a disappointment.
We are just handed over.
This is because God is so desirous that Jesus be manifested in our mortal flesh.
Until Tomorrow
With a Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
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Bill Lawhead’s Memorial Service is Saturday @ 11 AM
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