This is the Inceptive of Romans.
I follow his lecture this morning, that we
have a Savior to benefit.
And Father, we thank you this morning that
that Savior is able to make himself real
to us in all of our circumstances.
And Lord, as we wait on you today
with this congregation, we know that there is
no life apart from you.
And Father, we are waiting on the life
of Jesus, the manifestation of death.
And I want to praise those lives.
And now, Father, even control the atmosphere today.
And Father, have hope and see the glory.
And Father, we know that your ways are
not our ways.
Our ways are not your ways.
And Father, you don't have to conform it.
And Father, many times we're so ignorant of
your ways that we're not even willing to
cooperate.
So Father, in this life, we look to
you to work in us this morning.
That which is necessary, whether we realize it
or not, to carry on and do what
you want us to do.
In the name of the Lord Jesus, we
pray and for thy sake, Lord, we ask
that you pray.
Amen.
In these morning services, I've really just been
talking to you about God's provisions and realities.
Because we do have to have some kind
of understanding of the provisions of the Lord.
This gives us information whereby the Holy Spirit
can give us revelation.
There's a sequence by which most people have
to experience the reality of God.
And one is desperation, which is a need.
And the other, then, is after desperation, a
need, is there.
Then there is revelation.
And then after revelation comes appropriation.
And then after appropriation comes a demonstration.
And this is really the sequence of action
in the Bible.
It seems that all of the saints of
God were truly coming to become drastic needs
in our lives by some means with revelation.
And revelation is nothing but the truth of
God made real to you.
And then after, when you get revelation, then
there is a appropriation, which is an act
of faith.
And then after that, an act of faith
comes a demonstration from God.
And this is so beautifully put in the
Bible.
And I want you to, you folks, to
pray, especially for me.
These next few days, I have been asked
by Broglin Press to write a book on
faith.
It is almost completed.
Next week we're supposed to finish it.
I deal with the subject of faith constantly,
all the way through it.
And, of course, one of the things, one
chapter in it, is the progression of faith
from all of these steps.
It's supposed to be next week.
And you pray that the Lord will pick
this book.
But in that, in watching that closely, this
progression, and your need, and if you
ever see that your need is able to
really help you out.
And this morning, I'm just amazed
to say, from the law, we
meet this.
I came with this through one of my
favorite sins,
where I went into this.
Here is our love, and it's what He's
worth, and He is,
so are we, in this world.
Oh my, when you think about that this
morning, I just think with you for a
few minutes, and what I'm doing.
Getting your attention, I believe, I pray, and
I pray the Holy Spirit will be more
than just your kitchen, on the truth.
He is, and He does not say, and
He will be, but He is.
Now you think something beautiful, now you go
back to the light, and we are, we
see Him, we think that we're taught as
He was, and we are.
You say, Brother Man, I need to tell
you, I got a soul, regardless of what
you are, whether you believe
it or not.
And then when you see, and believe it's
so, it means you have a soul.
There's another verse like this, that our old
man is crucified.
Your old man, or you say, Brother Man,
in my personal daily experience, my old man
is not crucified, dead, with Christ.
Well, that may be true in your daily
experience, but in the Bible, it's true.
And when you see you agree with the
Bible, by the act of faith, then it
becomes true in you.
And a lot of my preachers preached the
dual nature message, and said, well, we have
two natures, the old and the new.
They shut it down too quick.
They said, well, and it's a true story
about the old Indian, he said that he
had two dogs fighting, the black one and
the white one.
Someone asked him, two dogs fighting, a black
one and a white one.
Someone said, well, which one wins?
He said, the one I say, kick them
to.
Well, that may be a beautiful story.
Now, you do have two natures within you.
You did not get the old nature, but
it does teach death of the old man.
When you believe it so, actively believe it
so.
Now, remember, I'm using this believing in the
content.
When you believe it so, it is so,
but when you seek to actively believe it
so, it's not.
So it's very beautifully put, if you just
see what I'm trying to say.
That is this, that our old man is
crucified.
You get in a good revival, maybe
for a few weeks.
Until you learn that this old man, this
old man is crucified with Christ.
On that basis, that you'll never have what
you consider a consistent revival.
Because you see, you just keep one nature.
And so here you go.
And here you are, your old nature, here.
And after a few weeks, you raise it
back up.
Now, as long as you actively believe that
the old man is crucified, God, by his
grace, holds that old man.
Now, your sense world, your involvement every day,
tell me now, which one are you going
to do?
Are you going to take God at his
word?
Or are you going to take the sense
world at its manifestation, you can believe in?
Now, which one are you going to go
with?
As I said the other morning, the issue
is, which one is real truth?
Well, that's had me so on the conviction
this week, I haven't messed it at all.
I mean, the Lord has just really said,
Now, son, which one will you believe is
true?
And here's what he said here, As so
are we.
Where?
In the world of God?
No, he's been telling right in this world.
Now, I usually put the whole sermon on
this, and I'm not this morning.
But there's a beautiful outline, As he is,
so are we.
I'm not waiting till I get to heaven.
What else is he?
What is he this morning?
He's seated in the heavenly places.
He's overcoming.
He's fixing.
He's seated in the heavenly places.
What else is he this morning?
Well, as he is today, so are you.
But it's still true, because the Bible says
so.
Now, which one will you believe?
Which one will you believe?
You see, John 1 John 4 says, You
are of God, little children, because He didn't
say you're going to overcome, he said you
have overcome.
He said you're already overcomers.
He said, brother man, I'm not an overcomer.
He said, you don't know it, you aren't.
But if you ever know you are, then
you are.
You see, this is why I can't agree
with Pentecostal folks who say, You ought to
fix the baptismal.
You're down to pray for the baptism.
Excuse me, isn't it?
To pray
would be the same identical prayer as to
pray for God and make the whole plan
of redemption.
It's foolish for him to do that.
It's foolish for you to pray that, because
he's already done that.
What you need is a lost sinner.
It's already settled.
Show your will open to Him.
God will do something for you.
You just open your will, my dear friend.
And boys, they tell you to take a
brick band or something over their head to
even get them to wake up even more,
God.
You can do more than that or anything.
I'm just simply saying, folks, it's unwise to
conceal truth, the truth of God.
And the Bible says, As He is, so
are we in Him.
Will you believe your senses, or will you
believe God's word?
If you believe your senses, you'll stay in
defeat.
If you take God and His word and
believe, act on His word, then my friend,
you are going to have this experience to
become the spirit
of life.
To walk after the Father, to set up
a law of the spirit of life,
or what the law could not learn, to
set up a law.
And these laws operate.
You don't have to do anything to lose
your temper.
Just let yourself go.
Let yourself go.
Lose your temper.
Just let yourself go, and you'll just naturally,
do you know why?
Because there is a lot working in you.
I have a watch here.
Turn that watch loose.
That watch is operating under a law.
The law of God.
I don't have to throw it down.
I can just turn it loose.
And that law will just put it down.
It's just natural, as natural as it can
be.
It's an absolute law.
Now every man, woman, boy, and girl in
this world, has the law of sin and
death in their body.
And my dear friend, Jesus Christ, the Son
of God, did not only come and die
on the cross of Calvary to pay the
price that you might be set free from
that law of sin and death.
That's not all Jesus did.
The dying on the cross of Calvary was
the price that was paid, not the procedure
that was made.
He died on the cross of Calvary, beloved,
to pay the price of sin for the
wages of sin and death.
But the gift of God is eternal life,
not heaven, hell, and in heaven.
What the law cannot do, you see, you
read that again, it says Jesus came down
in human flesh.
And not only did he die on the
cross to pay the price, but he died
on the cross and was resurrected in order
to overcome the law of sin and the
law of death, whereby right now you can
stand without any condemnation by the law, any
condemnation by God.
You can stand before God as perfect as
Jesus, through the blood of Jesus Christ.
And that's saying something.
Now, here's what I want you to see,
that every one of us this morning that's
been saved by the grace of God, whether
you are experiencing it or not, you have
the law of life in Christ Jesus in
you.
Now you know you've been paid for and
your sins are forgiven and you're on the
road to heaven.
You do not know for
just one purpose, for any reason, but that
law is there to protect you from
sinning.
For a sin could be an exception.
If we sin, if we sin, of course
if a man says he's a budget, and
then not only that, there's a law not
only where we have victory over sin, but
this law is there to operate to give
us victory over death.
It means that right now you've got a
dead body on you.
Oh, this is man that I am who
shall deliver me from this body.
You see, your body, as far as God
is concerned, he's going to deliver that earthen
body and give it daily life.
The law of the spirit.
When you got saved by the grace of
God, because of the Lamb, you've got the
life, the law of life, and he's working
in you this morning.
Now, you may not be giving, you may
not be having victory over sin and over
condemnation and over death.
For instance, this morning, if I'll deal with
the death part just a moment, if you
take the advice and it gets weak enough,
you start going to the death.
And that law of gravitation pulls you down
and you may be a person that, as
far as you're concerned, alive, but you've got
a sickness in you.
In other words, you're not healthy.
First thing you know, you'll be lying down
and maybe permanently, but you see that law
working in you.
But there's also a law of life.
Now, you watch this, watch.
Let's go back to that law of gravity.
That law, if it goes down, the law
of gravity pulls you down.
But now you watch this, watch.
I'm going to take this watch and I'm
going to let the operation of the law
of gravity operate on me and it does.
The focus isn't here.
You know, there's a law now that's operating
on this watch that's stronger than the law
of gravity.
And you know what that law did?
It's holding that watch up right?
It's holding it up.
Now see, the laws of the Bible say
do and don't.
Do and don't.
And they demand.
Now I'm talking about the judicial laws of
the Bible.
They say do and don't.
And the law of death and sin and
death is working in you.
And the law says do this and don't
do that and that law of sin and
death is working in you.
And what that law could not be, what
the demand of God could not be, Jesus
Christ came into the world and took upon
himself a body, lived it out, comes
within you and gives you the law of
life.
And that law of life is like that
law holding that watch up.
And that law is working to do what?
To keep you from sinning, keeping you from
being condemned.
Whereby the do's and the don'ts of the
Bible are practically lived up to.
To where there is no condemnation in your
life.
And it's the law of the spirit of
life in Christ.
For what the law could not be, Jesus
himself came and took up his abode in
you.
The law of life, the law that you
see from the initial law where you
can have it over and it's not you.
It's the law of the life of Christ.
That's why it's so erroneous to teach a
person to get saved and then when they
get saved they tell them that now the
next thing is go out and do the
best.
Try your best.
Read your Bible and pray and your spirituality
is washed off on that.
Amen.
Now, it's the law of life.
And he knows you for what you are.
And do you know he's
the only thing that is you to submit
to him what he can work.
That law that God has a problem with.
If you bring your life to submit to
him that's the only problem.
Because the rest of the problem and he
can handle because he's already made provision.
And of course when you bring your unbelief
to make him on his revealed feet which
means to him, obedience to him.
When you get to him then he can
handle any other.
Now I'll give you another illustration of faith.
It's the overcoming in a Roman sense.
And I believe it's the key to a
lot of truth that some of us need.
But I want to give you an illustration
that I give you.
I did this to be one of the
best I've ever used.
If I had a glove up here this
morning and I put that glove right there
now let me assume that I'm and so
when God tells you to read your Bible
he tells you to witness he tells you
to do things I'm going to tell this
glove I say glove, pick up that watch.
Now that glove there right by him I
say now glove, pick up that Bible.
He says no, you know why?
That glove in reality is dead.
Now it's hard for you to see this
but brother and sister it's so.
Now you watch it.
If I would take this hand take that
glove and reach over and put that hand
in that glove I say glove, that
glove to move over I say glove, pick
up that Bible.
That glove to reach over and pick up
that Bible.
What's the difference?
Still a glove.
You know there's something in that glove now
that's got the ability my friends if you're
saved by the grace of God this morning
washed in the blood of the Lamb you
have who has the ability and when the
law says without the law of life and
Christ Jesus operating in you friends you now
because you have a human body you can
get up and go through the activity of
performance but folks you still haven't learned the
lesson that as far as God is concerned
it's not what you do for God and
the whole sermon on the mouth becomes a
lie I get tickled at folks saying some
preachers are too negative I don't think people
have an understanding to the extent of what
they know negative or positive preaching when they
heard me my mother-in-law came to
hear me you and mine are
so different and what she was wanting me
to be is one of these how you
can't be involved with Jesus if you're supposed
to be the controversy who do you want
with Jesus you know I want you to
rock but
she really is and she's really deep in
the Lord she's gone through some unusual things
in her life she said to me you're
just too negative I said what do you
mean she said what do you know Jesus
said love you I said would you please
tell me how you're going to love me
I said just suppose that your neighbor is
a witch how are you going to love
her you
would really want to but
she said oh no I end up getting
a misprint I said can't you see because
that's the thing God asked you to do
and I said it's only there where you
have brought your hands to love
my neighbor and you love
her but
it's the Lord you say preaching the same
way you get love Paul said
I live this life by the faith by
his faith not my faith he said the
source of my faith he said I am
he said I'm dead yet I live but
it's not me it's Christ that's doing the
living in me and he said since he's
doing the living in me he said yet
I'm dead and it's because this law of
life in Christ and that law can operate
in you today if you have to make
yourself read the Bible folks there's something wrong
with your spiritual relationship you shouldn't just grab
a Bible and take it over I know
that my reading this Bible is strictly legalistic
and boy when he takes over and that
law of life starts operating it becomes a
living one when you have to make yourself
go visiting because there's a visitation on Thursday
night or something like that I wouldn't give
you two bits for a man's Christianity just
find the law because that law of life
is worth the enemy in
you you know what this law sets you
free from they that are after the flesh
but they that are after the spirit are
to be carnal minded now the law will
set you free from a carnal mind and
this is a great need today our carnal
minds when you see
things as God sees them the law is
not worried about the whole thing and
you're not only free you're
not condemned you
are set free that God
wants you to be if you are allowing
the law of life now I have seen
some folks who have taken the law of
life as Paul was in the church in
order to be oppressed still
in the book quite a few years ago
God spoke to her in heart when she
said Lord I'm too old oh
I know
she said Lord I just can't she said
alright Lord give me a hindrance she said
your will give me a promise where my
body will not be a hindrance the
spirit of Christ that law he
shall quicken that
was their major stayed in his home she
said man I've never seen a woman so
young in all my life she said she
went everywhere testifying she said I just don't
see how she can do it except God
you could bring Bertha Smith in you could
bring her in here today she
said when are you going to get you
a lady to go around to you like
Corrie Ten Boom she's already older than she
is but she said well preacher what's the
thing I knew Charles
Weigel personally you know the man and you
know what God so shall thy
strength be that's the word of God now
which one are you going to stand with
the word or how you feel smell taste
see calm down you know what you're free
from let me give you this one you're
free from something else this is a beauty
when you're set free by the law of
life in Christ Jesus you're set free from
suffering suffering now preacher the Bible says you
suffer I didn't say you didn't Paul said
I counted so
you do suffer but you don't suffer amen
so folks there are 17 things amen 17
things you're set free from being a defeat
he says well more than what did you
know this morning the only testimony that you
really have to the world did you know
that when I get up and tell you
I'm saved I'm saved you don't have any
right but when I say I'm saved and
you look out and see my life
I didn't say you weren't saved I
said you're real who was a conqueror so
when that law of life and
it's a law as the law of sin
that you're
set go with him that's
why the Christian to
see if they're real or not well
if it just blows out this may
not mean much to you before the week's
over it will give
you dimensions and show me the
law of life