The Final Events.
Our Problems Are Solvable.
Part Fifty-eight in a Series on the Parousia, Second Coming of Jesus Christ
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The Final Events. Our Problems Are Solvable.
What is God’s solution to our problems?
How can we grow to be happy and strong Christians?
“Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.” John 15: 4
This two-part divine solution for our central problem is at the same time the way to a happy Christian life. Why? Jesus commented on these words: “These things I have spoken to you that my joy may remain in you and that your joy may be full.” John 15:11.
Through these two steps
- Continually receiving the Holy Spirit and
- Complete surrender to His service
Christ lives in us, and this is the only way to perfect happiness. Colossians 1:27 “To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” This verse speaks about the riches of the glory: Christ in you.
Isn’t it remarkable that Jesus embedded this parable of the vine in between the promise for the Holy Spirit in John 14 and the work of the Holy Spirit in John 16?
The Final Events will end with the splendor of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ also known as the Parousia. The Signs of Parousia are detailed in the Final Events Blog series and emphasize the Imminent Return and Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and the Love of the Father for all mankind.
The crucial point is that we, as a rule, daily surrender ourselves to God including everything we are and have and that we also daily ask and receive by faith the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
In the Final Events, our problems are solvable.
Jesus said in Luke 9: 23: “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow me.” Jesus said that discipleship is a daily matter.
To deny oneself means giving Jesus the control over my life. Carrying a cross doesn’t mean that we will have difficulties every day. Here it means to daily deny our egos and to submit gladly and willingly to Jesus just as Paul said about himself: “I die daily.”
To follow Jesus requires wholehearted conversion at the start and a repetition of this conversion experience and process every day. However complete may have been our consecration at conversion it will avail us nothing unless it is renewed daily. Consecrate yourself to God in the morning, make this your very first work. Let your prayer be:
“Take me O Lord as holy thine I lay all my plans at thy feet. Use me today in thy service. Abide with me and let all my work be wrought in thee.”
This is a daily matter. The abiding daily relationship with God leads to abiding surrender and moment by moment dependence on Him. The Lord is willing to do great things for us. We shall not gain the victory through numbers but through the full surrender of the soul to Jesus.
We are to go forward in His strength trusting in the mighty God of Israel.
Only those who will become coworkers with Christ, only those who will say, Lord all I have and all I am is yours, will be acknowledged as sons and daughters of God. All who consecrate soul body and spirit to God, will be constantly receiving a new endowment of physical and mental power. The Holy Spirit puts forth its highest energies to work in heart and mind, the grace of God enlarges and multiplies their faculties, and every perfection of the divine nature comes to their assistance in the work of saving souls. And in their human weakness they are enabled to do the deeds of omnipotence.
The Final Events.
Our Problems Are Solvable.
Part Fifty-eight in a Series on the Parousia, Second Coming of Jesus Christ
https://steps-to-personal-revival.info/
The Final Events will end with the splendor of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ also known as the Parousia. The Signs of Parousia are detailed in the Final Events Blog series and emphasize the Imminent Return and Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and the Love of the Father for all mankind.