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Christ, Out Life Ministries’ Scriptural Basis pt36 by Sylvia Pearce Programs 35 & 36 The Life of an Intercessor: Ezek. 22:30—“I sought for a man among them to stand in the gap.” Isa. 53:4—“Born our grief, carried our sorrows? Col. 1:24—“Fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ.” Phil. 3:10—“The fellowship of His suffering, being made conformable unto His death.” Rom. 8:32—“He spared not his own son, how shall he spare us?” Rom. 8:36—“We are killed all the day long-sheep to the slaughter, yet more than conquerors. 2 Cor. 4:10—“Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus” 2 Cor. 4:12—“So then death works in us, but life you.” Ex. 32:32—“Blot me out of thy book which thy has written.” Rom. 9:1—“I wish that myself were accursed for my brethren sake.” Rom. 12:2—“Present your bodies a living sacrifice.” Rom. 15:2—“Bear the infirmities of the weak.” Rom. 15:3—“The reproaches of them fell on me.” Gal. 6:2—“Bear one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.” Ezek. 4:5—“I have laid on thee the years of their iniquity.” Galatians 2:20--We are crucified with Him This justifies us Colossians. 1:27--We are raised with Him This Sanctifies us Ephesians. 2:6—We are ascended with him, inheriting His throne rights for co-savoir- hood This Glorifies us The sacrificial Lamb is now the enthroned Christ, and we with Him! “Love Never Fails” Faith and Love Norman Grubb God is wholly outgoing through all eternity. We have begun that life for eternity, for He lives in us. What a vista! And God specializes in giving Himself for those who are most unpleasant to Him, sinners and enemies; and now He specializes in doing it through us. That puts meaning and content into every possible situation a human can be in. Love is unstoppable. This is “the life also of Jesus manifest in our body,” which Paul says always replaces the death. In the death we accept conditions we would naturally reject, and in doing so we “die” to our reactions. A quality of life is manifest in us, though we man not know it. Faith and love in a person cannot be hidden. Once we have taken the place of death in daily situations, accepting them as sent of God, there arises in us spontaneously the realization of Him in His outgoing love. So every situation is a situation for faith and love. It may not at all be a matter of a great crisis. It may be just the repetition of daily living. Faith is always a necessity, for all life is a series of appearances. Things and people seem to be what out outward eye sees them to be—the ordinary, the same, maybe the wearisome, the tiresome, the boring, the irritating, the carnal. But faith see differently. Faith see Jesus in them, either seeking the door of entry into their hearts or growing up in them. Faith see Jesus resolving problems or providing needs that are beyond man. And love means that God has put me just in that place to love through,--not to pester, not to judge, not to drive, but freely to give myself as patience, meekness, service, and sometimes faithfulness. And always, in the secret of my spirit, I call “the things that be not as though they were.” THE SECRET OF THE CROSS! Norman Grubb “Life only flows out of from the Cross. But the Cross is where Jesus died for me, the Just for the unjust, and where He now united me with Himself, in His death, over and over again for others. “I,” the sensitive, earnest, serving, sacrificing “I”, must die, that He may live in and through me. People try me, fall me, drain me, spoil my work with their carelessness, frustrate me with their stubbornness, hurt me with their thanklessness, misrepresent me in their blindness, and my only answer is to be the Cross—to die, to die, to die. I kick against such a spineless way, a thousands times, but a thousand times I have to come back to it; it is the only way. It is the meekness that inherits the earth. It is the weakness in which strength is made perfect. It is the nothingness that possess all things, the poverty that many rich. It is the foolishness of God which is wiser than men. For what it does is simple. It puts my little “I”, out, crucified with Him; it gives His might “I”, all-wise, all meek all-loving, right of way through me; for the reverse side of the Cross in action is always the resurrection in equal action. Blessed Cross, where I die daily. Blessed resurrection, by which Christ the Conqueror goes out through me to His inevitable conquests over Satan in others lives. All the strain goes out of life, as I learn the daily secret of this brokenness in Calvary, for no longer do I put my wits, my energies, my impotent striving against the contradictions and frustrations of life; I have leaned where little “I” belongs, even in the tomb of Christ, that His big “I” multiply His grace through me, as the five loaves to the five thousand. What a revelation and relea

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