25-0620A_THE STATURE OF A PERFECT MAN PT-13 (PARTAKERS OF CHRIST'S DIVINE NATURE)
2Pe 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 2Pe 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2Pe 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2Pe 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2Pe 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2Pe 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
2Pe 1:13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
1Pe 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
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*BUT THE HOLY SPIRIT BRINGS YOU INTO
OPERATION, OR IN CONTROL OF GOD, THAT YOU WALK IN PEACE AND IN LOVE AND IN JOY
WITH LONGSUFFERING, GOODNESS, MEEKNESS, GENTLENESS, PATIENCE
WHAT.DOES.IT.TAKE.TO.MAKE.A.CHRISTIAN.LIFE_ CHICAGO.IL
SUNDAY_ 57-0113
E-35 The Holy Spirit will make every
movement like Christ. It'll make you Christ-like. The fruits of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience,
faith. Those things are what the Holy Spirit controls, our emotions.
Our
emotions is not so much as jumping up-and-down. You could do that. A shindig
will bring that to you. But the Holy Spirit brings you into operation, or in
control of God, that you walk in peace and in love and in joy with
longsuffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience. You
see? It isn't something that you do. It's something the Holy Spirit does in
you. You see, it's no longer an intellectual thought of your own; it's a subconscious
moving of the Holy Spirit. Oh, I wish I could shout the praises of
God around the world to that.
*THERE IS THE PERFECT MAN OF GOD WHEN HE
POSSESSES THESE VIRTUES.
THE.STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_ JEFF.IN
V-2 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1014M
50-2
If you die, you take the blood out of a man. You embalm
him. Trouble of it is, a lot of them never got embalmed. See? You take the
blood out of a man, he's gone. Then the only thing you can do is put another
blood back in him if he's going to live again; you took his blood out. And now we put the Blood of Jesus Christ in. See? And that brings the faith of Jesus Christ, the virtue of Jesus Christ, the knowledge
of Jesus Christ, the temperance of Jesus Christ,
the patience of Jesus Christ, the godliness of Jesus Christ, the brotherly kindness of Jesus Christ, and the
love of God which is Jesus Christ. He's the Head
that controls you. And your feet is the foundation, faith. Amen.
Controlled by the Head, takes the people...?... There
you are. There is the perfect man of God when he possesses these virtues.
*THERE HE IS WALKING IN THE MIDST OF HIS
PEOPLE. THERE HE IS, THE CHIEF SHEPHERD OF THE FLOCK.
117-1 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE -
CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
Now the Lord God Almighty says, "I
KNOW." There He is walking in the midst of His people. There He
is, the Chief Shepherd of the flock. But does He hold back the
persecution? Does He stem the tribulation? No, He does not. He simply says,
"I KNOW your tribulation--I am not at all unmindful of your suffering."
What a
stumbling block this is to so many people. Like Israel they wonder if God
really loves them. How can God be just and loving if He stands by and watches
His people suffer?
That
is what they asked in Malachi 1:1-3,
"The burden of the Word of
the Lord to Israel by Malachi.
I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet we say, Wherein hast Thou loved
us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob,
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the
dragons of the wilderness."
*HIS PURPOSE IS THAT AFTER WE HAVE
SUFFERED AWHILE WE WOULD BE MADE PERFECT, BE ESTABLISHED, STRENGTHENED AND
SETTLED.
You see, they could not figure out
God's love. They thought that love meant no suffering. They thought that love
meant a baby with parental care. But God said that His love was
"elective" love. The proof of His love is ELECTION--that no matter what
happened, His love was proven truly by the fact they were chosen unto salvation
(because God hath chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit
and belief of the truth). He may commit you to death as He did Paul. He
may commit you to suffering as He did Job. That is His prerogative. He is
sovereign. But it is all with a purpose. If
He did not have a purpose, then He would be the author of frustration and not
of peace. His purpose is that after we have suffered awhile we
would be made perfect, be established, strengthened and settled. As
Job said, "He puts strength
in us." (Job 23:6b) You see He, Himself,
suffered. He learned obedience by the things that He suffered. He was actually made
perfect by the things that He suffered.
*HE HAS LEFT HIS CHURCH A MEASURE OF
SUFFERING THAT THEY, TOO, BY THEIR FAITH IN GOD WHILE SUFFERING FOR HIM, WOULD
COME TO A PLACE OF PERFECTION.
Hebrews 5:8-9,
"Though He were a Son, yet
learned He obedience by the things which He suffered;
And being made perfect, He became the author of
eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him."
In plain language, the very character of Jesus was perfected by
suffering. And according to Paul He has left His church a measure of suffering
that they, too, by their faith in God while suffering for Him, would come to a
place of perfection. Why did He want this?
James
1:2-4,
"My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into
divers temptations;
Knowing this, that the trying of
your faith worketh patience.
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye
may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing."
*AND SINCE HE WANTS US TO SHARE EVEN HIS
THRONE ON THE SAME BASIS THAT HE OVERCAME AND IS SET DOWN IN HIS FATHER'S
THRONE…
117-1 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE -
CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
Why does He stand by? The reason is in Romans
8:17-18,
"And
if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be
that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to
be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."
Unless we suffer with Him we cannot reign with Him. You have to suffer
to reign. The reason for this is that character simply is never made without
suffering. Character is a VICTORY, not a gift. A
man without character can't reign because power apart from character is
Satanic. But power with character is fit to rule. And since He wants us to
share even His throne on the same basis that He overcame and is set down in His
Father's throne, then we have to overcome to sit with Him. And the little
temporary suffering we go through now is not worthy to be compared to the
tremendous glory that will be revealed in us when He comes.
Oh, what treasures are laid up for those who are willing to enter into His
kingdom through much tribulation.
*THE CHURCH THAT IS NOT SUFFERING, AND IS
NOT BEING TRIED, HASN'T GOT IT--IT ISN'T OF GOD.
117-2 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE -
CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
"Think
it not strange concerning the fiery trials that are to try you."
That is what Peter said. Is it strange that God wants us to develop a
Christ-like character that comes through suffering? No sir. And we all have
trials. We are all tried and chastened as sons. Not one but goes through that. The church that is not
suffering, and is not being tried, hasn't got it--it isn't of God.
Heb.
12:6,
"For whom the Lord loveth He
chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. But if ye be without
chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not
sons."
*NOW THIS SPECIAL CONDITION IN SMYRNA
MUST BE APPLIED TO EVERY AGE. THERE IS NO AGE FREE FROM IT.
117-3 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE -
CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
Now this special condition in Smyrna must be applied
to every age. There is no age free from it. There is no true believer free from
it. This is of God. This is the will of God. It is needful. We need the Lord to
teach us the truth that we are to suffer and be Christ-like in doing it.
"Love suffereth long and is kind."
Matthew
5:11-12,
"Blessed are ye, when
men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil
against you falsely, for My sake.
Rejoice and
be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they
the prophets which were before you."
*AND HOW SHALL I PROVE MY LOVE TO HIM? BY
BELIEVING WHAT HE SAID, AND BY CONDUCTING MYSELF WITH JOY AMIDST THE TRIALS
THAT HE IN HIS WISDOM ALLOWS TO COME TO PASS.
118-1 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE -
CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
The cloudy skies and storms of life are no signs of God's
disapproval. Neither are bright skies and still waters signs of His love and
approval. His approval of any of us is only IN
THE BELOVED. His love is elective which He had for us before the
foundation of the world. Does He love us? Ah yes. But how shall
we know? We shall know because He SAID SO, and manifested that He
did love us for He brought us to Himself and gave us of His Spirit, placing us
as sons. And how shall I prove my love to Him? By believing what He
said, and by conducting myself with joy amidst the trials that He in His wisdom
allows to come to pass.
2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Pe 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2Pe 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2Pe 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2Pe 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2Pe 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
2Pe 1:13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
1Pe 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
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*BUT THE HOLY SPIRIT BRINGS YOU INTO
OPERATION, OR IN CONTROL OF GOD, THAT YOU WALK IN PEACE AND IN LOVE AND IN JOY
WITH LONGSUFFERING, GOODNESS, MEEKNESS, GENTLENESS, PATIENCE
WHAT.DOES.IT.TAKE.TO.MAKE.A.CHRISTIAN.LIFE_ CHICAGO.IL
SUNDAY_ 57-0113
E-35 The Holy Spirit will make every
movement like Christ. It'll make you Christ-like. The fruits of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience,
faith. Those things are what the Holy Spirit controls, our emotions.
Our
emotions is not so much as jumping up-and-down. You could do that. A shindig
will bring that to you. But the Holy Spirit brings you into operation, or in
control of God, that you walk in peace and in love and in joy with
longsuffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience. You
see? It isn't something that you do. It's something the Holy Spirit does in
you. You see, it's no longer an intellectual thought of your own; it's a subconscious
moving of the Holy Spirit. Oh, I wish I could shout the praises of
God around the world to that.
*THERE IS THE PERFECT MAN OF GOD WHEN HE POSSESSES THESE VIRTUES.
THE.STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_ JEFF.IN
V-2 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1014M
50-2
If you die, you take the blood out of a man. You embalm
him. Trouble of it is, a lot of them never got embalmed. See? You take the
blood out of a man, he's gone. Then the only thing you can do is put another
blood back in him if he's going to live again; you took his blood out. And now we put the Blood of Jesus Christ in. See? And that brings the faith of Jesus Christ, the virtue of Jesus Christ, the knowledge
of Jesus Christ, the temperance of Jesus Christ,
the patience of Jesus Christ, the godliness of Jesus Christ, the brotherly kindness of Jesus Christ, and the
love of God which is Jesus Christ. He's the Head
that controls you. And your feet is the foundation, faith. Amen.
Controlled by the Head, takes the people...?... There
you are. There is the perfect man of God when he possesses these virtues.
*THERE HE IS WALKING IN THE MIDST OF HIS PEOPLE. THERE HE IS, THE CHIEF SHEPHERD OF THE FLOCK.
117-1 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE -
CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
Now the Lord God Almighty says, "I
KNOW." There He is walking in the midst of His people. There He
is, the Chief Shepherd of the flock. But does He hold back the
persecution? Does He stem the tribulation? No, He does not. He simply says,
"I KNOW your tribulation--I am not at all unmindful of your suffering."
What a
stumbling block this is to so many people. Like Israel they wonder if God
really loves them. How can God be just and loving if He stands by and watches
His people suffer?
That
is what they asked in Malachi 1:1-3,
"The burden of the Word of
the Lord to Israel by Malachi.
I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet we say, Wherein hast Thou loved
us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob,
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the
dragons of the wilderness."
*HIS PURPOSE IS THAT AFTER WE HAVE SUFFERED AWHILE WE WOULD BE MADE PERFECT, BE ESTABLISHED, STRENGTHENED AND SETTLED.
You see, they could not figure out God's love. They thought that love meant no suffering. They thought that love meant a baby with parental care. But God said that His love was "elective" love. The proof of His love is ELECTION--that no matter what happened, His love was proven truly by the fact they were chosen unto salvation (because God hath chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth). He may commit you to death as He did Paul. He may commit you to suffering as He did Job. That is His prerogative. He is sovereign. But it is all with a purpose. If He did not have a purpose, then He would be the author of frustration and not of peace. His purpose is that after we have suffered awhile we would be made perfect, be established, strengthened and settled. As Job said, "He puts strength in us." (Job 23:6b) You see He, Himself, suffered. He learned obedience by the things that He suffered. He was actually made perfect by the things that He suffered.
*HE HAS LEFT HIS CHURCH A MEASURE OF
SUFFERING THAT THEY, TOO, BY THEIR FAITH IN GOD WHILE SUFFERING FOR HIM, WOULD
COME TO A PLACE OF PERFECTION.
Hebrews 5:8-9,
"Though He were a Son, yet
learned He obedience by the things which He suffered;
And being made perfect, He became the author of
eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him."
In plain language, the very character of Jesus was perfected by
suffering. And according to Paul He has left His church a measure of suffering
that they, too, by their faith in God while suffering for Him, would come to a
place of perfection. Why did He want this?
James
1:2-4,
"My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into
divers temptations;
Knowing this, that the trying of
your faith worketh patience.
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye
may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing."
*AND SINCE HE WANTS US TO SHARE EVEN HIS THRONE ON THE SAME BASIS THAT HE OVERCAME AND IS SET DOWN IN HIS FATHER'S THRONE…
117-1 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE -
CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
Why does He stand by? The reason is in Romans
8:17-18,
"And
if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be
that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to
be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."
Unless we suffer with Him we cannot reign with Him. You have to suffer
to reign. The reason for this is that character simply is never made without
suffering. Character is a VICTORY, not a gift. A
man without character can't reign because power apart from character is
Satanic. But power with character is fit to rule. And since He wants us to
share even His throne on the same basis that He overcame and is set down in His
Father's throne, then we have to overcome to sit with Him. And the little
temporary suffering we go through now is not worthy to be compared to the
tremendous glory that will be revealed in us when He comes.
Oh, what treasures are laid up for those who are willing to enter into His
kingdom through much tribulation.
*THE CHURCH THAT IS NOT SUFFERING, AND IS
NOT BEING TRIED, HASN'T GOT IT--IT ISN'T OF GOD.
117-2 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE -
CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
"Think
it not strange concerning the fiery trials that are to try you."
That is what Peter said. Is it strange that God wants us to develop a
Christ-like character that comes through suffering? No sir. And we all have
trials. We are all tried and chastened as sons. Not one but goes through that. The church that is not
suffering, and is not being tried, hasn't got it--it isn't of God.
Heb.
12:6,
"For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons."
*NOW THIS SPECIAL CONDITION IN SMYRNA
MUST BE APPLIED TO EVERY AGE. THERE IS NO AGE FREE FROM IT.
117-3 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE -
CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
Now this special condition in Smyrna must be applied
to every age. There is no age free from it. There is no true believer free from
it. This is of God. This is the will of God. It is needful. We need the Lord to
teach us the truth that we are to suffer and be Christ-like in doing it.
"Love suffereth long and is kind."
Matthew
5:11-12,
"Blessed are ye, when
men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil
against you falsely, for My sake.
Rejoice and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you."
*AND HOW SHALL I PROVE MY LOVE TO HIM? BY
BELIEVING WHAT HE SAID, AND BY CONDUCTING MYSELF WITH JOY AMIDST THE TRIALS
THAT HE IN HIS WISDOM ALLOWS TO COME TO PASS.
118-1 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE -
CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
The cloudy skies and storms of life are no signs of God's
disapproval. Neither are bright skies and still waters signs of His love and
approval. His approval of any of us is only IN
THE BELOVED. His love is elective which He had for us before the
foundation of the world. Does He love us? Ah yes. But how shall
we know? We shall know because He SAID SO, and manifested that He
did love us for He brought us to Himself and gave us of His Spirit, placing us
as sons. And how shall I prove my love to Him? By believing what He
said, and by conducting myself with joy amidst the trials that He in His wisdom
allows to come to pass.
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