ADMINISTRATION OF THE CROSS
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By Miles Stanford
"For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in
God" (Colossians 3:3, ASV).
It is futile for us to attempt to curb our sins while we
ignore their source, the indwelling principle of sin. In trimming the branches
(sins), we strengthen the root (self). Rather, as we count upon the finished
work of Calvary, the Holy Spirit will apply the Cross to the old life. And as
that death cuts deeper and deeper into the root, the branches will wither and
fall away.
"The Lord Jesus has been waiting for us to come to the
end of our own efforts. He sends the call, 'Come back to the Cross.' At last we
can see we have been standing and working on the wrong ground, and we hear Him
say, 'It is you who are in My way. I can do My work myself. I simply need empty
vessels. You parted with your sins, but you kept yourself. Come now, part with
yourself, take your place where I put you.
When I died you were in Me on that
Cross.' 'Now I see! What next, Lord?' 'Now you pass to another sphere
where you become aware that you are joined to Me as your life.'
"Our identification with Christ in His death was a
death unto Sin--- the principle of Sin as a master and a tyrant --- Sin, not
sins. The Holy Spirit is ready to apply that finished work of death to the
depth of our self-life, until Sin loses its mastery at point after point. It
goes deeper than the cutting off of visible and external things. Cause, not symptoms."
"Christ, who is our life" (Colossians 3:4).
The simplicity of the Gospel - Les Feldick
How God Saves Men
Believing Christ DIED,
that’s HISTORY.
Believing Christ DIED for
YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
ead Acts 16L31 Romans
1:16, and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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