Boy! Shakespeare couldn't have done better! She had eyes like stars. A fellow in our churchįell in love with my sister. Some of you ladies remember the first one you got. You know why? Because it is a love letter. That covers a lot of territory, doesn't it? The King James version, says "Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God." I believe that's the territory in which he lived, and moved, and had his being. If you turn over to chapter 4 verse 6, this explains his life, I think.
The thing that gripped me as I read it this week, Christ may be magnified,īut, he says, that Christ might be magnified IN MY BODY. (or as some put it by my body), whether it be by life, or by death." ".as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body
Now I've come to this conclusion reading recently our verse in Phillipians, that the motivation of the apostle in his zigzag course - in prison, out of prison, in weariness, in fastings, in painfulness, in tribulations, in distress, in perils of his countrymen, in perils of the deep, in perils of robbers - the one thing that motivated him is here in this 20th verse: I thought that 14th verse, "For the love of Christ constraineth me," was the motivation, with the obligation to present Christ in all his majesty and glory. Then verse 14 expresses what I always considered to be the thing that really motivated him. "All roads lead to the judgment seat." Without exception. "All roads lead to the judgment seat." It's true. Â" We must all appear at the judgment seat of Christ.ĭear Keith Green said one day in my office, as we were talking about the roads, Â" Knowing the terror of the Lord we persuade men. Â" If we are absent from the body, we are present with the Lord. I used to think that in the second letter to the Corinthians, chapter 5, Paul gives a summary of his theology. Phillipians 1:20, "According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body." John, the man who walked with Him and talked with Him for three years said that "when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as DEAD.You're here: » Articles Home » Leonard Ravenhill » Christ Magnified in My Body - Part 1 His tongue as sharp as a two-edged sword. His face is like the sun in its strength. Well, what will He be like in heaven? Well, I'll tell you what the Book says He'll be like. The picture of Jesus here is not the picture of a pathetic individual pushed around by anybody that wants to push Him around! I think sometimes we think we're going to march up and say, "Well, You know Jesus, do You know how many years I've served You and how many souls I've won for You and how many sermons I've preached for You?" Oh, no, no, no, no.
forget it! Or the new song that's out, "Shake Hands with Jesus," Listen, when you see Jesus you're not going to walk up to Him and say, "Hey buddy, I'm glad you died for me." When you see Jesus you'll be almost paralyzed with fear unless you have a glorified body and a glorified mind.
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The Apostle Paul got a picture of Jesus, not with a lamb in His arms and not like the stained glass windows where Jesus looks pathetically feminine! When I hear people singing, "Put your hand in the hand of Him that walked on the water". This is the King of Kings! And He's the Judge of Judges! And the Tribunal of Tribunals! And there's NO court of appeals after it! The verdict is FINAL! There'll be no biased judgment! I believe that the church of Jesus Christ needs a new revelation of the majesty of God. There are some dreadful pictures that have been given by the great masters, so-called, and they've given us pictures of Jesus but I'll tell you what, it's a very different picture in the Word of God. At the voice of the Son of God, they're all going to rise and face the Eternal Judge. Well, of course, if you have a judgment you must have a JUDGE. Can you imagine it? At the judgment seat of Christ to give an account for the deeds dome in the body. Every king that's ruled over England, the caliphs of Baghdad, and the maharajas of India, the multi-millionaires, the billionaires. But here, the great man, the rich man, the mighty man, the rulers.
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