PARABLES OF THE TALENTS AND
THE POUNDS
Summary: cont.
NOT I, BUT CHRIST
God speaks
to our hearts through His Word and this is true.
However, God speaks to me not only in
my heart,
but He is my heart and my mind.
I am more and more transformed into the
image of Christ,
that it is no more I, but Christ.
I go here and there, and
do this and that,
not because He told me to,
but because I have the mind of Christ,
or in truth He has my mind.
The Word of God fills my mind, and transforms
my mind,
to the mind of Christ.
His Word has grown in me,
and I am here or there because He led
me.
He desired to be there, for His purpose
and pleasure,
and used my vessel to do this.
He has come to own this vessel,
through merging closer together, as His.
It is no longer mine.
I remember
a
man's experience some years ago.
His younger son lost his wallet,
containing some money collected for his
school benefit.
The man and the children were frantically
searching for the wallet
around the premises of the home,
where the son thought he lost the wallet.
Then the man stopped the search,
and called his family into the house and
prayed,
"Father, I thank thee for thou has given
us the wallet."
He knew without a doubt that the wallet
was already his.
He walked out of the house,
and told his elder son to come with him
into the car,
and they drove away.
As they went on the road about several
hundred feet,
he got a glance of something on the road
as he passed by it.
He stopped and his son looked back,
and replied that there is something on
the road.
He backed the car to the object on the
road,
and there was the wallet with all the
money in it.
What made him get into the car,
when the younger son said he thought
he lost the wallet around the premises
of the home?
Where was he going? He did not know.
All he knew was the wallet was his and
went to get it,
and so he got into the car and drove off.
God did not speak to his heart and tell
him to go here or there.
It was the mind of Christ moving him.
A child needs to be
told what to do again and again.
A son who has grown, knows the ways of
the father.
He behaves like his father in many ways.
Paul tells us
(1Cor. 2:16).
"For who hath
known the mind of the Lord,
that he may instruct
him?
But
we have the mind of Christ."
We need to rest, so
completely, that many things that we do,
are directed by the Word of God, through
the Spirit of God in our mind.
The things that occur in our daily walk,
are guided by God without our knowing
who we will meet,
and who we should speak to,
for He is guiding us.
We need to spend much
time in the Word,
in meditation, in prayer,
and have a close relationship with the
Lord.
Where we go and who we meet are not by
chance,
but guided by the mind of Christ through
the Holy Spirit.
Do you want to
know God? Get to know Christ.
Do you want to know Christ?
Get to know the Word of God.
Christ is the mediator between God and
man,
and the Word of God is the relationship,
and revelation of Christ to you.
It will be revealed to you only by Grace.
Emphesize works and you will not learn
of Christ,
and you will not grow in His grace.
The Holy Spirit will
guide and direct you,
according to the Word of God through His
grace and by faith.
If you love God, you love the Word.
You cannot separate the two.
To love
God is to love Christ.
There is no way you can know God without
knowing Christ,
and to know Christ is to know the Word
of God,
and REST ON IT WITH YOUR WHOLE HEART.
Trusting on the Word of God,
is trusting Christ and trusting Christ
is trusting God.
You must know the Scriptures spiritually
and not only literally.
If you love His Word,
you love Christ and God,
and the love for one another is greater.
It is His Word in you
that grows,
that gives you this character of love
and holiness and power.
It is Christ in you through His Spirit,
and teaches you more of Christ.
It is not you, doing His commandments.
It is His Word being displayed in your
daily behavior.
Growing in faith is the Word of God growing
in you.
Growing in love, holiness, and power of
God,
is growing in the Word of God and the
Word of God growing in you.
You in Christ is salvation, and Christ
in you is sanctification.
The Apostle Peter said
to Christ,
“Though I should die with thee, I will
not deny thee.”
Though Peter did die for Christ later,
at this time Peter was afraid and ran
away.
He knew Christ in the flesh only.
The Apostle Paul says,
“Wherefore henceforth
know we no man after the flesh: yea,
though we have
known Christ after the flesh,
yet now henceforth
know we him no more."
(2Cor. 5:16).
Peter was chosen when Christ
was in the flesh.
Paul was chosen after Christ
was resurrected.
If
you and I learn only the literal meaning of the Word of God,
and emphasizes works and physical things,
then we know Word of God and Christ after
the flesh.
When we understand the deeper meaning of
the Word of God,
and trust Him, and walk by faith resting
on the Word of God,
then we know Christ not after the flesh,
but in the Spirit and in His Resurrection.
It
is the spiritual that we should be concerned about,
and not so much the physical.
We have been resurrected with Christ,
and we are sitted with Him in the Heavenlies
(Eph. 2:6).
"And hath
raised us up together,
and made us
sit together,
in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus."