7500	Forums / Main Forum / Heavy Weight	on: April 30, 2007, 05:54:47 PM
Quote I cm completely new to any sort of forum of any kind so here goes. After consideration of the many post that I have read the on that is missing is that our Lord Jesus Christ gave up his life.  "NO man takes my life... "  This is important to any discussion of the crucifixion.  Each of us knows of our own heavy burden that we will willingly place on the shoulders of Jesus our God.  While we look for the generic and there are times that it would be true each of us has a burden that must be place upon him.  Cain declared to God Almighty "you have placed a burden greater than I can bare".  He never asked for forgiveness and the guilt of his sin followed him.  Grace that unmerited favor that has been presented to us as believers is as light as a feather compared to those things that are upon us as to great to bare.   I know this rambles and I should have taken more time to think it through but in a nutshell. Christ is our propitiation the redeemer of our souls. No man can take his life he gave it freely Risen on the third day he ascended to sit at the right hand of the Father in his glory. With Christ as our high priest tempted in all ways as we are and can sypathise with our weakness how much more superior is he than any sacrifice. I don't know about you but this is light indeed compared to what my life was like before Christ my redeemer called to me Come. I agree, I can know that Christ atonement was Trinitarian, that is He is God whose glory was manifested on the cross as the only eternal sacrifice that made an end to sin and death. He in this sense is our only hope in this life. But it is quite another thing to have it as an assurance so that in any situation we go through we can rejoice and know that it was for us personally and we are at peace resting in Him. Since we still struggle with sin our testings can be quite a bit of stretching our faith. Since we have such a small faith it would be necessary for us to travel through things that are beyond our ability to endure because it wouldn't be a test to us unless it was trying our patience. Its as if we were in a marathon race which is grueling and exhausting to the point giving up and we were putting all of our energy toward the finish. In this sense we are suffering on behalf of Christ because we were never promised a smooth path. We are at times being push into the direction while we are not wanting to go. Its really never a good thing to ask for God to break us. We are always in need of grace since we are not wanting to go through the Christian life loaded with guilt, because when we are under that kind of burden we are not under the gracious assurance of resting in His forgiveness , which is an abundant grace. We are always in need of more of Gods presence. We are always looking to receive a blessing of assurance. It is the ploy of Satan to get us in a mind set of liking to be under a burden so that we think that we are humble being buffeted in this way. No we want to always be revived and under the domination of the fruit of the Spirit. It is in the path of humble morning that we do not stay in that state but we experience that break through of assurance of the Spirit , who always is good, and leads us on that smooth pathway. Our supplications are to be Spirit illuminated to the point where our trials are unburdened by that assurance of full relief in a physical sense. Whatever adversity we go through we have an advocate in Christ our high priest who has gone before us and finish the work of concurring our enemies. We are running a race that has already been won, and He finished it for us. He was the only one who had the perfect race, who was fully obedient when He crossed the line for us. In His winning we have a High Priest who is ready to meet us at every trial with the like strength and endurance that Christ experienced by being filled with the Spirit beyond our capability.He was filled with the Holy Spirit and He has sent the Spirit into our hearts at His ascension so that He comes as the fullness of God in the Trinitarian sense, as equal in the essence of the Father and the Son. With the Spirit comes Christ and the Father. So that we are left with more strength than we can handle, and we are left with more comfort than we can fathom. It is the Spirit who witnesses with our spirit that we are the sons of God. It is the Spirit that fills us with joy and comfort when we go before the Father in prayer through Christ , and who restores us to know Him and the joy and pleasure that the Father and the Son receive from each other in the Trinitarian relationship. Because we have the Spirit we have the Godhead living in us. We may be weak in the flesh , being corrupted in all areas of our being, but we are filled with the fullness of God. We are more than conquerors though Him who love us. We have are filled with power to each task, being trained by the Godhead. We receive strength unto strength, in all of our daily task. He trains our hands for work. He makes us the recipients of others who have strongholds who fall beneath our feet. Yes , we restore by being regenerated by the supernatural work of the Spirit so that we are strengthened to over come in our daily task and in the society we are in.  David was not saying his choices determined his being blessed or disciplined. Davids view of his own righteousness and his own ability was a Pauline view , it was filthy rags. The decision to fight the battles was determined on Gods choice to give victory not Davids ability to fight or the size of Davids armies. Salvation belongs to the Lord. The Lord was Davids king. David was gifted with Gods ability through the new birth. It was determined from his mothers womb to be in a relationship of grace from the Lord and with the Lord. David was the poet of Israel, because He was given special gifts by the Spirit not only to fight in a supernatural way but he was given a special measure of the Spirit to rule as the only King of Israel who was after Gods own heart. It was through his gifts that He gave God the praise and the glory in this poetic and exalting way. David was a worshiper who was blessed with an ability to worship in the Spirit before the battles and after the battles. It was in his worshiping God in the temple with such an unfeigned that he was empowered to have victory over all of his enemies. It was not by the power of his choices. Those victories were not of a self congratulatory paradigm. But the war victories brought on a supernatural ability in David to write about the experience and the trust that was a result of the individual moments in those supernatural battles to give God the glory for His unfathomable strength and His absolute sovereign work in those supernatural defeats of his enemies. David experienced the help of God beyond his own ability to grasp and understand. Davids will was given up to Gods