Jesus came to make me what He teaches I should Be.
He came to make me what He teaches I should
be....
When we read the Bible it should soon
become very obvious that the superior standards that God sets before us to
achieve and live by are impossible for us as human beings. There was a preacher
who, to me, was much the same in many ways as the Apostle Paul. This pastor
once said that there were 613 laws in the Bible. This man was once a successful
lawyer who came from an Orthodox Jewish family. This man knew law and knew the
Bible like few I've met before. But this man was special in the sense that he
forsook all this head knowledge when he met Jesus Christ in a personal way and
The Lord became His Lord and personal savior. Once this man found Jesus he
became a fire brand, a passionate preacher with fire in his belly. His theme
was we are saved and move by Grace and not by Works. He could quote Galatians
(the grace book) by heart.
The biggest thing I took away from this wonderful
man's teaching was that the law should primarily to make us "run to
Christ". It is in and through Jesus Christ that we can reach and be what
God's standards expect us to be. Otherwise, we'll be driven insane = someone
once said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over
again but expecting different results." Religion and religious people are
insane. They through rituals and vanity attempt to become what Christ taught
us. We can't do it. But Jesus can. Oswald Chambers said in "My Utmost For
His Highest", "Beware of thinking of our Lord as only a teacher. If
Jesus Christ is only a teacher, then all He can do is frustrate me by setting a
standard before me I cannot attain. What is the point of presenting me with
such a lofty ideal if I cannot possibly come close to reaching it? I would be
happier if I never knew it. ........But when I am born again by the Spirit of
God, I know that Jesus Christ did not come only to teach - He came to make me
what he teaches I should be. The redemption means that Jesus Christ can place
within anyone the same nature that ruled His own life, and all the standards of
God gives us are based on that nature. .. The teachings of the Sermon on the
Mount produces a sense of despair in the natural man - exactly what Jesus means
for it to do. ... Only when we are willing to come to Him as paupers and
receive from Him. "Blessed are the poor in spirit. .. When we finally
admit, "Lord, I cannot even begin to do it" Then Jesus says,
"Blessed are you.'.. Matthew 5:11. "Amen.
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