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Internal and External Conquest 3
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. (Revelation 2:10)
Self will, self-love, self-centerednessùself, self, self!
I've got to be me!
How many assemblings have been destroyed by the self-will of the pastor or the people or both?
How does God destroy self-will out of us?
By suffering.
God keeps us in prison.
The cross is a prison. One arm of the cross is the denial of your intense desiresùfor a season at least. The other arm is the compelling of you to continue in a situation you "cannot stand for one more minute!"
Would you believe forty years?
There are three crosses on the hill. God is crucified. The unsaved are crucified. The saved are crucified.
There will be only two crosses on the hill when you take your place with Jesus and say "not my will but yours be done." In that day you will live in Christ at the right hand of the Father.
God's prisons don't last forever. There is light at the end of your tunnel, it is not a grave you are in.
But for Heaven's sake don't bolt and run. You can't stand another day? Cool!
If you focus on your cross you will destroy yourself. There always are little flowers in the valley. Concentrate on your blessings. Quit focusing on your pain, what you are being denied. Get a hobby. Do something. But do not break God's laws by grasping what you want before the time or running from your responsibilities. "Can you hear me?" the drill instructor used to scream.
You want to rule with Christ? The cross and the crown go together.
You must be conquered internally before you are ready to march in the army of the Lord in the conquest of Satan and the nations of the earth. Until you are governing yourself with the rod of iron how do you expect to shatter the nations?
Your love of the world must be brought under subjection to Jesus Christ.
The lusts of your flesh must be brought under subjection to Jesus Christ.
Your self-will and personal ambition must be brought under subjection to Jesus Christ.
Tell Him right now this is what you want.
"Dear Jesus, I repent of my love of the world and excessive participation in it. Show me where I am sinning in this area. Guide me as I through the Holy Spirit reckon myself dead with Christ and alive with Christ and begin to think, speak, and act as a Christian should. Deliver me from entanglement with the things of this life.
"I repent of yielding to the passions of my flesh. Show me the elements of sin that are living in my flesh. Guide me as I through the Holy Spirit put every one of these sins to death, remembering the failure of the Israelites to destroy the enemy completely.
"I repent of my self-will, my stubbornness, having to have my own way, running through the checks of the Lord, refusing to seek His counsel in every detail of life. Guide me as I learn to endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, not murmuring and complaining as I am obliged to suffer the withholding of my desires for a season. Help me to remain faithfully in the prison where I have been placed and wait, as did Joseph of old, for deliverance from Your hand.
"This I pray in Jesus' name. Amen."
Congratulations! You are on your way to perfect internal conquest.
God has many such as you in these days. He is preparing all of us for external conquest, for the Battle of Armageddon, for the driving of all sin and rebellion from the world.
God is ready to punish all disobedience as soon as your obedience is complete.
===Internal and External Conquest 2===
Internal and External Conquest, 2
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (Romans 8:13)
Then there are the sins of the flesh. The Christian churches are filled with every form of lust, idolatry, anger, gossip, slander, party loyalties, drunkenness, cigarette smoking, drugs, robbery, dishonesty, sexual perversions including child molestation, haughtiness, arrogance, pride, personal ambition, envy, competition, profanity, pornography. These are but a few but they give you the idea.
You say, "I would never do any of these things." Oh no?
Many years ago Thelma Chambers came from the revival in the Armory in Detroit. She ministered for a while in the tent pastored by J. O. Dowell. She told us how the Spirit of God was moving in the Armory causing the Christians to confess their sins and get rid of them.
Yours truly was preaching what we called "the death route." The answer to sanctification was to reckon yourself dead.
We held out for a while. But it was obvious that reckoning yourself dead was one thing but confessing your sins was another.
So we stood in front of the mirror, in our little trailer in Chula Vista, and said, "Lord, if there is any sin in me, please show me."
The Lord wasted no time. We have been confessing our sins over the succeeding forty- seven years.
You may think that no one could be so wicked they would be confessing their sins for forty-seven years. Well, I don't make a fetish of confessing my sins but there is hardly a day goes by that I don't look up to the Lord and ask Him to remove something that has shown its head.
Maybe I am more wicked that everyone else. I wasn't raised in church!
The heart is deceitful above all else and desperately wicked.
How about your heart? Is it deceitful above all else and desperately wicked?
Here's an idea. Stand in front of the mirror and ask the Lord to show you if there is any sin in you. Then fasten your seat belt.
Paul never meant "reckon yourself dead" to be the way to achieve purity in the Lord. Rather, reckon yourself dead is the way your orient yourself to the Christian program of deliverance. You reckon that your first personality is dead on the cross with Jesus and your new born-again inward nature is risen with Christ to the right hand of the Father.
Once you do this the Spirit can begin to call forth the worldliness, lust, and self-will from your personality.
Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead but Jesus did not remove Lazarus' graveclothes. Lazarus came hobbling out. That is what is true of us. We have been raised from the dead but we are bound head and foot with graveclothes.
Well, how about you?
We Christians have problems with the love of the world and the lusts of our flesh. Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit helps us get rid of every trace of these.
But there is an even bigger monster lurking in the dark caverns of your personality. While you are singing "Sunlight, sunlight, in my soul today" this leviathan crawls back further into his cave.
He is willing that you be delivered from worldliness. He is resistant but finally willing that you be delivered from the lusts of the flesh.
He is willing that you be very religious and enter Christian service.
Just as long as he is untouched!
Do you know the name of the leviathan?
It is self-will.
Self-will is a bigger problem in the Kingdom than worldliness and lust put together.
Continued. ===Internal and External Conquest 3===
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. (Revelation 2:10)
Self will, self-love, self-centerednessùself, self, self!
I've got to be me!
How many assemblings have been destroyed by the self-will of the pastor or the people or both?
How does God destroy self-will out of us?
By suffering.
God keeps us in prison.
The cross is a prison. One arm of the cross is the denial of your intense desiresùfor a season at least. The other arm is the compelling of you to continue in a situation you "cannot stand for one more minute!"
Would you believe forty years?
There are three crosses on the hill. God is crucified. The unsaved are crucified. The saved are crucified.
There will be only two crosses on the hill when you take your place with Jesus and say "not my will but yours be done." In that day you will live in Christ at the right hand of the Father.
God's prisons don't last forever. There is light at the end of your tunnel, it is not a grave you are in.
But for Heaven's sake don't bolt and run. You can't stand another day? Cool!
If you focus on your cross you will destroy yourself. There always are little flowers in the valley. Concentrate on your blessings. Quit focusing on your pain, what you are being denied. Get a hobby. Do something. But do not break God's laws by grasping what you want before the time or running from your responsibilities. "Can you hear me?" the drill instructor used to scream.
You want to rule with Christ? The cross and the crown go together.
You must be conquered internally before you are ready to march in the army of the Lord in the conquest of Satan and the nations of the earth. Until you are governing yourself with the rod of iron how do you expect to shatter the nations?
Your love of the world must be brought under subjection to Jesus Christ.
The lusts of your flesh must be brought under subjection to Jesus Christ.
Your self-will and personal ambition must be brought under subjection to Jesus Christ.
Tell Him right now this is what you want.
"Dear Jesus, I repent of my love of the world and excessive participation in it. Show me where I am sinning in this area. Guide me as I through the Holy Spirit reckon myself dead with Christ and alive with Christ and begin to think, speak, and act as a Christian should. Deliver me from entanglement with the things of this life.
"I repent of yielding to the passions of my flesh. Show me the elements of sin that are living in my flesh. Guide me as I through the Holy Spirit put every one of these sins to death, remembering the failure of the Israelites to destroy the enemy completely.
"I repent of my self-will, my stubbornness, having to have my own way, running through the checks of the Lord, refusing to seek His counsel in every detail of life. Guide me as I learn to endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, not murmuring and complaining as I am obliged to suffer the withholding of my desires for a season. Help me to remain faithfully in the prison where I have been placed and wait, as did Joseph of old, for deliverance from Your hand.
"This I pray in Jesus' name. Amen."
Congratulations! You are on your way to perfect internal conquest.
God has many such as you in these days. He is preparing all of us for external conquest, for the Battle of Armageddon, for the driving of all sin and rebellion from the world.
God is ready to punish all disobedience as soon as your obedience is complete.