End-Time Event Part II
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The Shadow of the
Almighty
Now, as never before,
we must abide in the shadow of the
Almighty. The true fear of the Lord
separates a man from the dangerous
shoals of unperceived danger that
lurk all around. When he is
overshadowed by the Most High, the
approach of danger can be perceived
by the unmatched, superlative warning
voice of the Holy Spirit, warning in
the Spirit of danger. When that
warning is unheeded, when that sense
that something is not right is
unheeded, the person ventures outside
of the protection of the Almighty
onto the killing fields of Satanic
ground.
His Righteousness
Become Ours By Faith
True discipleship of
the true, Biblical Christ means that
we have a union with Christ by faith
so tight, so faithful, so one with
Him, that His righteousness, His
character, becomes our character.
This is the only character that God
will acknowledge of having value.
The One Enduring Union
This character is built
up on Christ, in Christ, with a
surrendered will to Christ by faith-a
union that transcends all other
unions.
“A union with
Christ by living faith is enduring;
every other union must perish. Christ
first chose us, paying an infinite
price for our redemption; and the
true believer chooses Christ as first
and last and best in everything.
However, this union costs us
something. It is a union of utter
dependence, to be entered into by a
proud being. All who form this union
must feel their need of the atoning
blood of Christ. They must have
change of heart. They must submit
their own will to the will of God.
There will be a struggle with outward
and internal obstacles. There must be
a painful work of detachment, as well
as a work of attachment. Pride,
selfishness, vanity, worldliness
– sin in all its forms –
must be overcome, if we would have
union with Christ. The reason why
many find the Christian life so
deplorably hard, why they are so
fickle, so variable, is, they try to
attach themselves from these
cherished idols.” MYP 118.
Guard Your Faith
Now, just now, we must
be exceedingly careful to keep and
guard the orientation of faith with a
great focus on the Biblical Christ
and all of faith’s reference
points in the Word of God. The
constant and powerful effect of the
pantheism in the culture and churches
that surround us is to erode away all
of these reference points of faith.
It has now happened in culture and in
the churches. It must not happen
in our souls. We must know where the
Rock Christ Jesus is, we must hunt
for the Rock, and build upon Him
alone, for all else is being swept
away in the storm.
Dwell Deep –
Unfathomable, Unreachable
We must dig deep, and
dwell deep. (Jeremiah 49: 8, 30).
“Cause to make deep,
unfathomable, unreachable, be
profound, make strong, powerful the
dwelling.” Jeremiah is warning
in these verses to flee and dwell
deep for shelter from judgment In
verse 8 Jeremiah is warning “the
Dedanites, who caravans march in
peace through Edom,…to flee and
hide themselves in deeply concealed
hiding places in order to escape the
evil befalling Edom…withdraw
yourselves into deep or hidden,
mysterious places where the enemy
does not see and discover you.”
– Keil & Delitzsch,
Commentary on the Old Testament,
Jeremiah and Lamentations, vol. 8.
Peabody, Ma: Hendrickson Publishers,
republished from T&T Clark,
Edinburgh 1866-91, in 1996, p. 408.
Self-Abnegation
At the foundation of
this character of Christ in the heart
is self-abnegation, the negation of
self. This is the opposite of the
Robert Schuller
‘self-esteem” New
Reformation” that swept the
churches, including the Structure, in
the 1980s. Read on, and see how
‘self-esteem” is the bridge
to the New Age Christ, who is none
other than Satan himself.
All Our Decisions About
the Nature of Christ and the Gospel
Will Come Home To Us One Day
The day is coming when
Satan will appear as Christ. Then all
the decisions that we are making now
about which Christ we will serve,
will come home to roost – at
earth’s crisis hour.
Through This Avenue of
Self-Esteem Satan Will Seek to
Ensnare the People of God
Years ago the servant
of the Lord wrote:
“It is through
this avenue of self-esteem and
self-sufficiency that Satan will seek
to ensnare the people of God.”
– RN 6 18-89.
“Pride and self-esteem
cannot flourish in the hearts that
keep fresh in memory the scenes of
Calvary.” LHU 43.
I Am Crucified With
Christ
Paul said, “I die
daily.” 1 Corinthians 15:31.
Crucifixion of self is the way of the
Biblical Christ. “I am crucified
with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet
not I [ego in Greek], but Christ
lives in me. And [as for] the now
–I live in flesh, I live by
faith in the Son of God, Who loved me
and gave himself for me.”
Galatians 2:20 [Greek].
Deny Self
“Then said Jesus
unto His disciples, If any man would
come after Me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross,
and follow Me.” Matthew 16:24
Self-denial is the way
of the Biblical Christ.
When Apostasy Comes,
Wisdom Goes
The apostasy is
happening in every aspect of human
life today – from the macro
scale of global end-time developments
to national apostasy that will result
in national ruin, to denominational
apostasy, the local church and
finally personal apostasy. Apostasy
is simply “stepping aside”
out of the position of full surrender
to God and His Word.
God says, I will cause
the wisdom of the wise to perish,
when a people “draw near Me with
their mouth, and with their lips do
honor Me, but have removed their
heart far from Me, and their fear
toward me is taught by the percept of
men.
“Therefore,
behold, I will proceed to do a
marvelous work among this people,
even a marvelous work and a wonder:
for the wisdom of the wise men shall
perish, and the understanding of
their prudent men shall be hid.”
Isaiah 29: 13,14.
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