And God,
...The Author and Finisher of our faith shall raise to our minds eye, details of where He has penned in His Presence in hindsight. God brings to our recollection, occurrences that He caused and created for us to experience. We are CAUSED by GOD to remember our failures and we shall be overcome.
In LOF part 13
http://bible-truths.com/lake13.html Ray lists five answers to what we are to do when we see that our spiritual house has fallen. Answer two quotes Mal. 3 : 7
"RETURN unto ME, and I will return unto you saith the Lord of Hosts."We are taught that no scripture is of its own interpretation yet often the above Scripture is part of the "to do list" quick fix of Babylon. Yet how does one return to God? How can carnality return when it is not spiritual to start off with?
Ray shows us the answer quote,
I have already stated a dozen times or so in this paper that we must all "follow Christ." Peter puts it this way:
"For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an EXAMPLE, that we should FOLLOW HIS STEPS: Who did NO SIN, neither was guile found in His mouth: Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, He threatened not; but committed Himself to Him that judges righteously: Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto RIGHTEOUSNESS: by whose stripes ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now RETURNED unto the Shepherd and Bishop [overseer] of your souls"
Notice that we are all to follow His steps. But Jesus "did NO SIN," and we ALL sin. There is the giant difference. We have to KEEP WALKING in His steps until we STOP SINNING. But the point to be made here is, that we must and WILL "follow His steps."
John "stood on the sand of the sea," and I said that we must ALL ‘stand on the sand of the sea.’ Jesus was driven by the Spirit into the wilderness [a desert waste place—sand] and was tried and tested there by the Adversary. Jesus appeared to be alone with the Adversary and the sand. Nothing to eat and nothing to drink—just sand. But Jesus was only alone in this physically desert of sand. Spiritually Jesus was IN HEAVEN with His Father.
Jesus had built a spiritual house. His house was about to be tested to see if it could withstand the rain, and flood, and wind. Satan would do all in his power to bring down the spiritual house of Jesus. But His house did not fall under the temptation of Satan, for he was FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD, and His spiritual house was ‘built upon THE Rock’ (John 3:34). The spiritual house of Jesus was to DO THE WILL OF THE FATHER:Did you see HOW we are to DO THE WILL OF THE FATHER?
Look again. What did Jesus DO when HE was reviled, suffering and threatened? Did you catch it? What did JESUS DO that WE are to DO?
Right. Jesus quote :....
committed Himself to Him that judges righteously: The other witness to this action is expressed in the choice King David received from God as penalty for error. King David preferred to place himself in the Mercy of God Almighty.
This is so vital. This action is an INNER action not an external one. It is an action of soul and heart that God sees in secret. It is further witnessed in 1 Peter 4 : 19.
Therefore those who are ill-treated and suffer in accordance with God's will MUST DO RIGHT and commit THEIR SOULS to theOne Who created them and will never fail them. We are to do as Christ does in suffering. We turn our souls to Him Who judges righteously. An INNER action for the Father Who sees in secret. Not an outer action of visibility for the applause of man, like casting out demons, healing the sick or sticking to religious requirements, teachings, priorities and false standards.
Our attention should not be on trying to fix or change the other person, or recommending to God what HE should be doing to make a better person out of our Adversary. God knows exactly what HE is doing. As Ray states at
http://bible-truths.com/lake14.html quote
The only beast we need to concern ourselves with is the beast "within," "the man of sin."Our try fix it, change it, save the world, win a soul for Christ, are futile efforts given to deceiving religious decoys of deeper darkness.
Any action of religious merit = Christ shall profit me NOTHING. Why?: God sees in secret.
"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not entangled gain with the yoked of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, [sounds important…] that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you NOTHING. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do THE WHOLE LAW [Abraham was circumcised, but Moses taught it AS A LAW that HAD to be obeyed]. Christ is become of NO EFFECT unto you, whosoever of you are [Gk: ‘are’ should be‘attempt to be’] justified by LAW; ye [‘ALL of you’] are FALLEN FROM GRACE." Arc
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