Three Deaths and Three Resurrections: Vol 2
There are three major phases of the Divinely provided redemption that is in Christ. The three phases are not like three rungs on a ladder we are to climb or three grades in school we are to attain. Rather, the three phases are as three facets of one diamond. They are three dimensions of the one redemption that we possess, entire and whole, when we receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Savior.
The redemption that is in Christ is a powerful work, a broad work, a perfect work. It includes the growth of the believer to spiritual maturity, which is the image of Christ; the growth of the Church, the Body of Christ, to the Bride of the Lamb without blemish of any kind; and the setting up of the Kingdom of God on the earth.
The believer is "born again" into the Kingdom of God and baptized by the Holy Spirit into the Church, the Body of Christ. The saint then fights his way, by the wisdom and power that the Holy Spirit gives, into the "throne" phase of redemption. He must "overcome" if he is to rule with Christ and be God’s son.
In order to enter each of the three areas of redemption we must die the specific death God has ordained. If we are willing to go through the "deaths" God has decreed, we will receive the accompanying resurrections.
Christ asks you: "Will you be saved?"
If your answer is yes, He will bring down your old nature into crucifixion with Him and will raise you in the likeness of His resurrection. You will be protected from wrath by His blood, received of the Father, made alive by the Spirit of God, and born again by His Divine Substance placed in you.
Christ ask you: "Will you follow the Holy Spirit in sanctification?"
If your answer is yes, the Holy Spirit will furnish you each day with the wisdom and power to put to death the deeds of your body. Your fleshly lusts will be brought into subjection to the will of the Spirit. In their place will flow deeds, words, and thoughts that glorify God and testify of the redeeming authority and power that are in Christ. You will be holy and behave in a holy manner.
Christ asks you: "Will you lose your life for My sake and the Gospel’s?"
If your answer is yes, He will teach you obedience in the school of suffering. He may demand every one of your rights and privileges as a person and as a Christian. Will you allow Him to treat you in this way without grumbling and complaining? Is there any point at which you will refuse Christ?
If you will obey the Lord through every testing He will raise you to His throne. The fullness of fruitfulness and dominion will be yours.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER IV. SANCTIFICATION: THE SECOND AREA OF REDEMPTION
Definition of Sanctification
Learning To Know God
Holiness: the result of the school of the Spirit
The manifest works of the flesh
The Door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation
The Holy Place of the Tabernacle: The Church
The Table of Showbread: The Substance of Christ
The Golden Lampstand: The Light of the Holy Spirit
Five Operations of the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit gives gifts and ministries
The Holy Spirit destroys the works of the devil
The Holy Spirit creates the Nature of Christ in us
The Holy Spirit comforts and guides us
The Holy Spirit keeps us pressing toward Christ
Five End Products of the Five Operations
The first end product: imparting Christ
The second end product: the testimony of God
Three additional end products of the operations
Review: The Holy Spirit and the Lampstand
The Altar of Incense: Consecration, Worship, Supplication
The heavenly Altar of Incense
Inner resurrection precedes outer resurrection
The Boards Standing Up: Members of the Body of Christ
Three Kinds of Lighting
The Sanctification Domain of Christianity
The Feast of Weeks: Pentecost
The two wave loaves
The double portion of the last days
Sinai; then the land of promise
The Book of Hebrews exhorts us to press on toward the land
A season and place of instruction: the wilderness
The revelation of God’s Nature in the Law and ordinances
"Blueprints" for the Tabernacle and the Church
Formation into an army
Moses’ ministry: Part Two
The Fourth Day of Creation
Hosea Six, Second Day: Revival
Waters to the Knees
Christ Walks: Second Day
The Sixtyfold Bearing of the Fruit of the Spirit
The growth of the truth in us
More fruit: the result of pruning
The Second Level of Noah’s Ark
Three periods of God’s dealing with man
The Church: the second level of the Ark
Overcoming by the Word of Our Testimony
The testimony of Christ: four workings of the Holy Spirit
The Word of God—two aspects
The power of miracles
Pure Gold—Christ Himself wrought in us
First-hand testimony
Two distinctions
Victorious saints, and the second anointing of David
Becoming a victorious saint
The Second Temptation of Christ
Conclusion: The Area of Sanctification
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