0076 Revelation of the Cross

Revelation of the Cross

Difference between the work of the Cross and the Principle of the Cross.

If you are not willing to give all of you, I am not interested in part of you – Jesus

Exodus 14:30 Israel was saved. They saw Egyptians dead (toward them). But Israel didn’t die toward Egypt (they wanted for so many times to go back into Egypt)

Galatians 5:14 “...cross...by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” – that is what Israel didn’t do.

Don’t kill sin but kill your nature.

Idol is a work of your hand. That takes the place of God in our lives.

What began as a selfish act under a tree...ended with a selfless act on a tree

Adam – selfish in the Garden

Jesus – selfless in the Garden

One hand reached for a tree, another was nailed to it

The problem is not really the coldness of the heart, but it’s a veil in our hearts.

Veil is our fleshly, fallen nature living on, unjudged within us, uncrucified and unrepudiated, it is the woven veil of the self-life which we have never truly acknowledged, of which we have been secretly ashamed, and which for these reasons we have never brought to the judgment of the cross.

Veil is the enemy of our lives and an effective block to our spiritual progress.

Veil is not a beautiful thing.

Veil is not something we do, it’s something we are.

Self-sins are self-righteousness, self-pity, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-admiration, self-love.

Self is murdered not by righteousness of Jesus.

Self hides the face of God from us. Can be removed only in spiritual experience, never in instruction.

There must be a work of Christ in destruction before we will be free.

We must invite the cross to do it’s deadly work within us.

We must bring our self-sins to the cross for judgment.

We must be prepared for the suffering in some measure like that through which our Savior passed when He suffered under Pontius Pilate.

Self is pleasant at the same time it’s not pleasant.

Veil is made of spiritual tissue. To touch it is to touch us where we feel pain.

To tear it away is to injure us, to hurt us and make us bleed.

It’s never fun to die.

To rip the veil of which life is made of can never be anything but deeply painful.

That what the cross did to Jesus and it is what the cross would do to every man to set him free.

Never are we able to tear the veil ourselves. It’s totally up to God.

We ought to yield and trust in God.

We ought to confess, forsake, and renounce the self-life, and then reckon it crucified.

Never be content with self-crucifixion doctrine.

The cross is rough and it is deadly, but it is effective. It doesn’t keep it’s victim hanging there forever.

Finally victim dies.

Moses is symbolic of you; Egypt is symbolic of sin; Israel is symbolic of this generation

Before God can use Moses to deliver Israel out of Egypt, he will deliver Egypt out of Moses

Fishing business of disciples....

Hurt people hurt others; healed people heal others.

Potters Wheel Jeremiah 18:1-11

Through the cross world is turned away and I am turned away from the world. “Turned off” Gal.2:20

You are not a treat or dangerous unless you are dead.

You will never be persecuted if you are not confronting

You can have authority to the point that you are submitted.

Chose to suffer with the people of God

Stepping on the footsteps of past hero’s

Joseph was in pit

Jesus is a man of sorrow

Esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches

Matthew 13

For he looked to the reward

Forsook Egypt

Endured seeing Him who is invisible

The more they afflicted Israel the more they grew Exodus 1:12

Hebrews 12

1. Lay aside – every sin, everything that is heavy, everything that ensnares

2. Cloud of Witnesses

3. Run the Race – endurance

4. Looking unto Jesus

You are not dangerous unless you are dead.

Luke 14:25-27,33 “…he cannot be My disciple…”

~ Disciple goes after the Master (Luke 14:26)

~ Disciple hates everyone and his life (Luke 14:26; Matthew 12:25; Matthew 16:24)

~ Disciple bears his cross (Luke 14:27)

cross is a symbol of death and crucifixion we were baptized into the death of Jesus (Romans 6:2-14) we were crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20; 5:24; 6:14)

~ Disciple forsakes all that he has (Luke 14:33)

no price without the cost

no crown without the cross

No victory without the fight

Pain is the fuel of passion or bitterness

When you hit the rock bottom, you will hit the Rock at the bottom.

Jesus is the lilies of the valley; the lilies of the valley grow only in the valley, you can only find them there

King of Syria said: Their God is a God of hills, but we fight them in the plain or the valley surely we will be stronger than they... I Kings 20:23, 28

Crushed grapes make finest wine

Crushed olives make good oil

There is no Victory (Power) without the Surrender

~ Power is given to Disciples (Matthew 10:1)

~ Disciples heart is in absolute surrender to the Master (Luke 14:26,27,33)

~ They overcame the enemy with not loving their lives (Revelation 12:11)

There is no Gain without the Loss

~ The Principle of the Seed

Seed – son of the kingdom (Matthew 13:37-38) Seed cannot produce without dying (1 Corinthians 15:36; John 12:24) No resurrection without death You can’t see souls until you will be on the cross (powerful)

~ To lose life for Jesus’ sake is to gain (Matthew 10:39; 16:25; Luke 9:24)

loss – fact of no longer having something; death; sad feeling there is no loss without pain or sorrow (Philippians 3:8)

~ The loss is not without gain (Mark 10:29-30)

loss is not without gain even on this Earth as well as in Heaven

Secret of the Life of Jesus (Philippians 2:4-8)

not My will be done (Luke 22:42) (birth; baptism; obedience to parents) Death of Jesus ~ veil is torn down and holy of holies is open.

Principle of the Soldier (2 Timothy 2:3-5)

Example of the Leader of Israel of Moses (Hebrews 11:24-27)

Example of the plower “cannot look back and front at the same time” (Luke 9:62)

The Kingdom of God not without loss (Matthew 13:44-46)

Example of Abraham the man of faith (Genesis 22:1-13)

Example of husband and wife “leave” (Genesis 2:24)

Deliverance from Sin: fire, blood, cross

Quit trying: Surrender – Kathryn Kulman

Those who suffered the loss will cease to sin (1 Peter 4:1-2)

Our bodies belong to the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19)

Talk how Christians were persecuted