WEBVTT 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:02.540 The person who lives in the power of the resurrection 00:00:02.540 --> 00:00:08.539 of Jesus is raised to a plane of life which is 00:00:08.539 --> 00:00:14.839 outside the boundaries of natural law, outside 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:21.280 the possibilities of the natural man. When he's 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:23.960 born again, when he's had that wonderful spiritual 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:28.809 experience, After he's passed from death unto 00:00:28.809 --> 00:00:33.869 life, he begins to live under a divine law as 00:00:33.869 --> 00:00:41.689 Christians. You and I are living under a divine 00:00:41.689 --> 00:00:47.390 law. He becomes possessed with a divine nature. 00:00:47.490 --> 00:00:49.950 He begins to manifest the beauties of a divine 00:00:49.950 --> 00:00:54.670 character. The standards by which his life are 00:00:54.670 --> 00:00:59.850 governed or all divine. Our trouble is that we 00:00:59.850 --> 00:01:05.129 hang on to the flesh, to our moral comprehensions, 00:01:05.370 --> 00:01:09.590 to our intellectual attainments, to our human 00:01:09.590 --> 00:01:12.930 understanding, to the circumstances and the environments 00:01:12.930 --> 00:01:17.489 in which we find ourselves. And while we do, 00:01:17.689 --> 00:01:23.969 we're closing the door to God's wonderful inheritance. 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:31.079 We're missing heaven's best. We're missing that 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:36.280 which is really ours because of our unbelief. 00:01:38.060 --> 00:01:43.120 On the spiritual possibilities, we're closing 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:47.599 the door to those spiritual possibilities that 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:50.799 are inherent in every life which is actually 00:01:50.799 --> 00:01:57.280 hid with Christ in God. Know that. That's the 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:01.700 reason that Jesus said, don't worry about tomorrow. 00:02:02.579 --> 00:02:08.319 Don't be over -anxious about tomorrow. Your father 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:12.180 fully recognizes the need in your bodies in this 00:02:12.180 --> 00:02:16.860 respect. You ought not to be living on a plane 00:02:16.860 --> 00:02:20.439 so low that you're going to be affected by material 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:24.400 things until the same kind of worry that the 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:29.719 heathen or the... pagans engage in, the unregenerated, 00:02:29.819 --> 00:02:35.620 the unconverted. You need to be living on a plane 00:02:35.620 --> 00:02:39.879 higher than the plane of which they live, the 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:43.500 plane that will rob you of your spiritual inheritance. 00:02:47.340 --> 00:02:52.860 Haven't you in the stillness of a moment, that 00:02:52.860 --> 00:02:57.710 moment when you were So worried, almost beside 00:02:57.710 --> 00:03:03.349 yourself with frustration, haven't you heard 00:03:03.349 --> 00:03:14.610 his gentle whisper? Let them live down there. 00:03:15.370 --> 00:03:22.069 You're my child. You come up here and live with 00:03:22.069 --> 00:03:29.150 me. You belong to me. You're my property. You 00:03:29.150 --> 00:03:34.949 were not made for the lower plane. Let them live 00:03:34.949 --> 00:03:37.389 on the lower plane with its human boundaries 00:03:37.389 --> 00:03:43.490 and its mortal limitations. Identify your life 00:03:43.490 --> 00:03:47.469 and yourself with me. Rise above the shadows 00:03:47.469 --> 00:03:50.050 through which you have to travel and above those 00:03:50.050 --> 00:03:52.210 material things which mean darkness or light. 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:58.879 or happiness or joy, laughter or tears. Physically, 00:03:58.900 --> 00:04:02.419 you're in the world, but spiritually, you are 00:04:02.419 --> 00:04:08.039 above it. You should not live in the flesh. You 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:10.500 should live in the spirit. You should not live 00:04:10.500 --> 00:04:12.460 in the flesh and try to get the spirit to serve 00:04:12.460 --> 00:04:16.300 you and help you out of your difficulties. But 00:04:16.300 --> 00:04:20.800 you should live in the spirit, and then the flesh 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:25.180 would be... Come subjected to it in its mastery 00:04:25.180 --> 00:04:32.959 over you. Jesus is saying, when I died, you died. 00:04:33.139 --> 00:04:38.279 When I rose again, you arose also. When I ascended, 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:42.459 you ascended. You are now identified with me 00:04:42.459 --> 00:04:45.779 in the heavenlies. The life you now live, you 00:04:45.779 --> 00:04:54.519 live by my faith. That's scripture. The life 00:04:54.519 --> 00:05:01.060 you now live as one of his children, you live 00:05:01.060 --> 00:05:06.680 by his faith. This is the message of the Christ 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:10.459 which comes sweeping across the soul, entering 00:05:10.459 --> 00:05:14.519 the realms of the spirit and life divine, begins 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:17.720 to banish all the darkness from our understanding. 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:21.939 Oh, child of God. You who have been redeemed 00:05:21.939 --> 00:05:26.079 through his precious blood. I beg of you, don't 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:31.920 allow circumstances to become your master. Don't 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:37.420 allow your environment to be your master or to 00:05:37.420 --> 00:05:43.259 master you. Do not let your sorrow master you. 00:05:45.379 --> 00:05:50.470 Do not excuse your imperfection. by pleading 00:05:50.470 --> 00:05:53.509 the limitation of your human nature and the weakness 00:05:53.509 --> 00:05:57.970 of your human powers. Know ye not that the resurrection 00:05:57.970 --> 00:06:02.269 life is according to the eternal possibilities 00:06:02.269 --> 00:06:06.850 of divine nature and not according to the limitations 00:06:06.850 --> 00:06:14.129 of your own? The Spirit of Him that lifted up 00:06:14.129 --> 00:06:19.800 Jesus. The spirit of him who raised Jesus from 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:26.980 the dead is dwelling in you. And you are no longer 00:06:26.980 --> 00:06:33.000 to live on the plane of anxiety, of fear, of 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:39.920 worry, of depression. All of these things come 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:43.959 into the mind and the life of people who are 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:51.029 living on the... lower plane. If we are exercising 00:06:51.029 --> 00:06:56.329 our privileges, we are actually made partakers 00:06:56.329 --> 00:07:01.550 of the divine nature. And before long, imputed 00:07:01.550 --> 00:07:05.750 righteousness becomes personal righteousness 00:07:05.750 --> 00:07:15.110 through the power of his own imparted life. I 00:07:15.110 --> 00:07:25.290 am only righteous as my righteousness is imparted 00:07:25.290 --> 00:07:31.910 by Him through my life. I have no righteousness 00:07:31.910 --> 00:07:36.629 of my own. Neither have you. It's His righteousness. 00:07:36.769 --> 00:07:42.930 It's His perfection. Jesus gave His life for 00:07:42.930 --> 00:07:50.649 us. actually gives his light to us. Take it. 00:07:51.550 --> 00:07:59.290 Take it right now. You've never dared to claim 00:07:59.290 --> 00:08:04.170 your inheritance as a child of the king. Receive 00:08:04.170 --> 00:08:08.769 it. It's yours. He's standing at the door knocking. 00:08:08.990 --> 00:08:12.730 He wants admission. He wants you to stop your 00:08:12.730 --> 00:08:16.279 struggling to be like him. and doing your best 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:22.360 to imitate him. That's not sufficient. That absolutely 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:31.040 is not enough. He wants to enter the corridor 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:35.799 of your being. Never mind your imperfections. 00:08:36.940 --> 00:08:40.759 He'll take care of all that. Never mind your 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:43.799 shortcomings. They're nailed to the cross with 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:49.059 him. Never mind your limitations. You'll find 00:08:49.059 --> 00:08:52.639 yourself doing what it is impossible for you 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:59.259 to do of yourself. When you commit yourself completely 00:08:59.259 --> 00:09:07.320 unto him. For he brings with him and his eternal 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:15.019 indwelling spirit the limitless life. It's eternal. 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:25.700 He wraps you in it. He clothes you in it. Actually, 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:32.600 your life is hid with Christ in God. Your resurrected 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:36.159 Jesus brings the life abundant to your soul. 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:43.600 That's it. Life. Abundant life. He came that 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:48.840 we might have not only life, but that we might 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:55.019 have it more abundantly. You are not made for 00:09:55.019 --> 00:09:59.720 defeat. When he rose triumphant over the grave, 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:09.639 he struck the words defeat and impossible out 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:16.710 of the dictionary of the redeemed. Did it ever 00:10:16.710 --> 00:10:19.809 occur to you that every time he worked America, 00:10:20.169 --> 00:10:27.110 he did more than give the petitioner something 00:10:27.110 --> 00:10:32.690 for which he asked? I never asked one thing of 00:10:32.690 --> 00:10:35.769 him, but what he has always given me, more than 00:10:35.769 --> 00:10:41.490 I have asked, always. When he gave the blind 00:10:41.490 --> 00:10:46.539 sight, He gave the blind man part of himself. 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:51.059 When he opened the eyes of blind Bartimaeus, 00:10:51.080 --> 00:10:55.340 he gave Bartimaeus something more than just the 00:10:55.340 --> 00:11:01.720 sight in his eye. He gave to Bartimaeus a part 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:08.559 of himself. That's the reason. We have witnessed 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:14.929 thousands of miracles of healing. Terribly. When 00:11:14.929 --> 00:11:17.389 that one is giving the testimony of the healing 00:11:17.389 --> 00:11:20.029 of their sick body, they'll always say, but there 00:11:20.029 --> 00:11:22.950 was something more, something even greater than 00:11:22.950 --> 00:11:27.830 the healing of my physical body. Oh, what I got 00:11:27.830 --> 00:11:33.549 spiritually. Oh, the spiritual miracle that took 00:11:33.549 --> 00:11:37.929 place was far greater than even the physical 00:11:37.929 --> 00:11:45.360 healing. That's scripture. Jesus not only gave 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:49.340 you the miracle of healing, but at the same time, 00:11:49.379 --> 00:11:57.039 he gave you a part of himself. I've never seen 00:11:57.039 --> 00:11:58.940 a person who's been healed by the power of God 00:11:58.940 --> 00:12:01.879 physically who was ever the same person again. 00:12:02.259 --> 00:12:05.159 You just cannot be the same person. You can't. 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:08.460 Because in receiving that miracle of physical 00:12:08.460 --> 00:12:17.919 healing, He did not stop there. He gave you literally 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:22.220 a part of himself when he called Lazarus from 00:12:22.220 --> 00:12:28.720 the grave. He did not pick the lost life of Lazarus 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:34.600 from somewhere and hand it back to him. He gave 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:42.519 Lazarus part of his own resurrection life. The 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:46.860 truth is that when men receive healing, they 00:12:46.860 --> 00:12:53.539 actually receive the healer. He's the Christ 00:12:53.539 --> 00:12:58.159 of the new creation. He's the power of his resurrection 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:03.879 and secures for every one of us a full and a 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:08.720 free salvation sustained continuously in the 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:10.759 power of his presence and in the strength of 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:19.279 his might. Being raised with him, we walk from 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:25.820 that moment with newness of life. If we will 00:13:25.820 --> 00:13:30.500 recognize him, if in our ways we will acknowledge 00:13:30.500 --> 00:13:34.539 him, then there will come the direction of our 00:13:34.539 --> 00:13:37.799 paths and the guidance of our lives into the 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:41.460 ways of the divine will. Oh, that we might know 00:13:41.460 --> 00:13:48.399 him. And the power of his resurrection. Not in 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:57.340 the future alone. But now. Why am I saying these 00:13:57.340 --> 00:14:01.960 things? Because they're a part of your inheritance. 00:14:03.940 --> 00:14:06.360 When you and I get home to glory and we see what 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:09.379 might have been ours. What we could have had. 00:14:11.850 --> 00:14:16.129 And we were too blind to receive it, too ignorant 00:14:16.129 --> 00:14:26.490 to enjoy it. Oh, even with all that I know and 00:14:26.490 --> 00:14:30.970 the life that I now live, I still believe that 00:14:30.970 --> 00:14:35.529 when I get home to heaven and see Jesus, I'll 00:14:35.529 --> 00:14:38.610 realize for the first time that I could have 00:14:38.610 --> 00:14:43.860 had so much more. There was so much more for 00:14:43.860 --> 00:14:50.360 me, and I was too stupid to see it. To take it. 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:59.460 To enjoy it. When there is an inclination for 00:14:59.460 --> 00:15:04.100 us to just sit back in smug satisfaction, as 00:15:04.100 --> 00:15:08.080 we contemplate the services we've rendered and 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:11.440 the deeds we've done, Let us never forget that 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:16.460 Jesus is the only door by which we can approach 00:15:16.460 --> 00:15:18.080 the presence of the Father. There's no other 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:24.500 way. The difficulty is that the spirit of morbid 00:15:24.500 --> 00:15:28.200 materialism, which penetrates this present evil 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:34.320 age, has infiltrated the church until we have 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:38.320 substituted religious education for regeneration. 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:45.080 and good lives. We've substituted good lives, 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:53.399 goodness, morality, for the life that is hid 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:59.980 with Christ in God. We're making substitutions 00:15:59.980 --> 00:16:05.559 every day of our lives. It ought not be so. There 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:07.759 is a way, the Scripture says, that seemeth right 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:11.029 unto man, but the... end of the road is death. 00:16:12.250 --> 00:16:19.029 The whole Bible is Christ from Genesis to Revelation. 00:16:20.090 --> 00:16:26.570 The whole Bible is the revelation of one person. 00:16:28.190 --> 00:16:33.289 There's a difference between what we think to 00:16:33.289 --> 00:16:38.080 be the will of God for us and the will of God 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:48.000 being wrought in us. Know that. Can you not hear 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:54.679 the angels singing? Look up, look up, his child. 00:16:54.980 --> 00:17:02.240 Your redemption draweth nigh. Know ye not that 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:06.920 this is the hour of the unfolding? of the revelation 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:13.980 of Christ. Know ye not the importance of this 00:17:13.980 --> 00:17:21.380 hour? Be not satisfied to live on the lower plane. 00:17:22.619 --> 00:17:31.220 Be not satisfied with God's second best. Live 00:17:31.220 --> 00:17:37.420 on the highest plane possible. Do not be satisfied 00:17:37.420 --> 00:17:40.900 until you know that you're receiving from him 00:17:40.900 --> 00:17:45.480 his very best, your full inheritance in Christ 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:56.400 Jesus. Oh, my friend. The secret? Surrender. 00:17:57.500 --> 00:18:09.400 That's all. Just surrender. Trying so hard to 00:18:09.400 --> 00:18:18.119 stop struggling. You sit there agonizing. How 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:20.900 often in a miracle service I've seen folks sitting 00:18:20.900 --> 00:18:28.980 there, their fists clenched, struggling as though 00:18:28.980 --> 00:18:35.359 they could heal themselves. Open your hands. 00:18:36.430 --> 00:18:43.390 Release your fingers. Raise both arms just now 00:18:43.390 --> 00:18:53.769 as a token of full surrender. Let him live his 00:18:53.769 --> 00:18:57.410 life through you.