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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Three Works of Grace, #15
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. (Isaiah 58:13,14)
The third work of grace, the rest of God, the building of the eternal House of God, requires that the following become our experience:
That we perform the Lord's pleasure twenty-four hours of every day of our life throughout eternity.
That we delight to perform the Lord's pleasure rather than our own.
That we choose to be holy, that is, to dwell in the Center of the Consuming Fire.
That we esteem such participation in God's will as honorable rather than a despised task we are forced to do.
That we honor God by not following our own paths, not seeking our own pleasure, not even speaking our own words but speaking as the oracle of God as much as possible.
This is how the Lord Jesus lives eternally.
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. (John 14:10)
If we would move past Pentecost into the third work of grace, then we must press into the Sabbath rest of God where we take pleasure in the fact that God and Christ are expressing themselves in us rather than we seeking to express ourselves and to live our own life as we see fit.
Entering the third work of grace requires the deliberate, verbalized choice to give up our own life in favor of having the Father and the Son live Their lives in us. Apart from such a deliberate, spoken choice, a decision made in the fullness of joy, it is impossible to move past the sixtyfold experience into the hundredfold experience.
Those who are willing to make such a choice have been known from the beginning. However, to enter the fullness of God is available to "whosoever will."
The third work requires war. The third aspect of the third work has to do with war.
For if Jesus [Joshua] had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. (Hebrews 4:8)
Joshua led the children of Israel into the conquest of Canaan.
Here we confront one of the revolutionary concepts associated with the third work of grace.
The revolutionary concept of which we are speaking is that Canaan, the land of promise of the Hebrews, is not a type of Heaven. This ought to be obvious to all Christians in that we assuredly do not fight our way into Heaven one city at a time. We do not have to drive out God's enemies from Heaven in order to occupy Heaven, as Israel had to drive out the Philistines from Canaan in order to occupy Canaan.
To be continued.