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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Resurrection and Eternal Judgment, #30
And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. (Deuteronomy 8:2)
We surely will achieve victory over the world, over Satan, over our fleshly lusts, and over our self-will if we follow the Lord closely. We must bear our cross patiently, reckoning our inner man to be dead and our new life to be growing up in the Lord Jesus in the Presence of the Father.
We can achieve victory if we do not surrender to the numerous forces and pressures that keep attempting to convince us of the desirability of preserving our adamic inner man—forces that promise us we may preserve our adamic life and still inherit the Kingdom.
We know this is a lie of the enemy. The one who is soothing us by telling us the way of the cross need not be hard is not a friend. We must die. If we save our life we will lose it. It is only by enduring the death of the cross that we reign with Jesus. It is only by sharing in the suffering of the cross that we are qualified to experience the awesome power of His resurrection.
The goal is the total replacement of our disobedient adamic nature with the obedient Nature and Life of Christ, resulting in our attainment of eternal life in the Presence of Christ in the inner man, in our eligibility (authorization and competence) for glorification of the outward man when the Lord Jesus appears, and in our attainment of the role in the Kingdom of God for which we have been predestined from the foundation of the world.
God will be content with nothing less than total victory in our personality. The Kingdom of God does not consist of the defeated but of the conquerors. Satan was crushed beyond hope on the cross of Calvary. The realization and manifestation of this total crushing is to come through God's elect, through saints who are determined that all Christ has purposed and developed will be attained in and through them.
The crushing of Satan came by means of the death of the Lord Jesus. The crushing of Satan will come by means of the death of the members of Christ's Body.
And the God of peace shall bruise [crush] Satan under your feet shortly..... (Romans 16:20)
But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them. (Deuteronomy 7:23,24)
"Destroy, destroyed, destroy, destroyed."
He who, through the Lord Jesus Christ, emerges victorious in the struggle, will inherit the fullness of God. God will be his God and he will be God's son (Revelation 21:7).
To be continued.