SPECIAL MESSAGE TO WGM TEAM PARTNERS:
April 22, 2024
THIS SPIRITUAL DISEASE IS NOT HOPELESS – Part 30 (No. 12)
That is, only If the Bible-reading Christian, who professes faith in Christ but in fact and truth, is afflicted and infected by this seventh and last condition (Rev. 3:14-17)—-realizing that the prophesied “hour of temptation which shall come upon the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth” (Rev. 3:10), with the final test of faith, obedience, and true worship of God Creator (Revelation 13, 14), bringing on the “fiery but necessary ordeal of the final sifting” that separates “the chaff from the golden wheat,” finally revealing the church triumphant of the ages, and that on the most sobering, individual level, “his soul may be required of him this night” (Luke 12:20) hastens to do the following by the empowering grace of God in Christ, imparted by the Holy Spirit:
—fully and without any excuses, murmuring, or complaints humbly confesses these sins with its guilt, as revealed in the chastening rebuke of the Faithful and True Witness
—unconditionally surrenders his self-pride and self-righteousness that blinded the eye of faith to Christ’s perfect and perfecting righteousness
—completely submits and yields his will to be swallowed up only in God’s will, as clearly revealed in His law magnified by His life and death, the transcript of His character, the rule of His government, and the foundation of His everlasting throne of perfect and everlasting love, light, truth, mercy, righteousness, and justice, verily the law of life
—“exercises” “godly”
“repentance towards God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.” Acts 20:21; 2 Cor. 7:9, 10).
—pleads for mercy and pardon (justification) by humbly claiming exclusively the merits of Christ’s sacrifice and atoning blood shed at Calvary’s cross—not by any good works he has done in Christ’s service and in His name, or even his perceived faithful commandment-keeping
—renounces these sins of spiritual ignorance and blindness caused by pride of self-righteousness and Peter-like, fatal self-confidence and all others revealed by the conviction of the Holy Spirit upon his conscience through the written or spoken Word of “the law and testimony” (Isa. 8:20; 28: 9-13, etc).
—renews his covenant with God, praying like David, “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from Thy presence; and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation; and uphold me with Thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors Thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto Thee. Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, Thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of Thy righteousness.”
(Ps. 51: 10- 14, A.V.).
—re-consecrates his mind and heart and dedicates his time and energy to henceforth, diligently study and understand and faithfully obey and “fill the fullest” all that the divine Physician has prescribed and clearly described as “it is written” in Rev. 3:18, then 19-22. Read them again with the foregoing thoughts only as a background, if you please.
We shall address these in and with more Scripture-detail in the succeeding MWM editions, God willing. Bless all, NMF.