Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in Sidetracked In The Wilderness - # 36
Michael’s book is
available through:
Abiding Life
Ministries International
Littleton, Colorado
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Wilderness. Why a blog? So that multitudes can receive the weekly
thoughts I express on Michael’s writings in an easy manner.
Why
can’t Christianity get it settled once-and-for-all: the Adam-life has been put
away with our crucifixion with Christ.
Goodness gracious…it is a simple truth of the Word of God.
Why?
Because the focus has been on the physical (sins) instead of the
spiritual (truth). The choice is never between
“truth and error,” but between “truth and sin.”
The “seen” is always more appealing to the flesh than the “unseen.”
NEW CREATION
excerpt
from pages 106 of SIW (5th printing,
March 1998)
excerpt
from pages 103-104 of SIW (14th printing,
March 2012)
(used with permission from
ALMI):
The
spiritual reality of participating in His death is great, for through it we
have actually become something new, with the Adam-life put away…
You
may not know it, feel it, or experience it, but the day you came to Christ your
old nature was removed and replaced with Christ’s life. What is the significance of this?
In
Galatians 2:20…Paul makes it quite clear that something died, and yet he is
more alive than he has ever been. The
advantage of our death with Christ is great, for the Adam-life that was so
self-centered, insane, and controlled was put to death. When the Holy Spirit reveals this truth, the
release is tremendous.
For
instance, the man who had been controlled all his life by the past event of
being molested realized that his old self had been put to death. Not only could he no longer be controlled by
the past, but he saw God had even given him a new self that had never been
molested. He had grasped the truth that
what had happened to his old man had not happened to his new man.
So,
here’s the problem: Scripture says, “The truth shall make you free…If the Son
therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” Truth is spiritual. The Son is the Truth. The Son is the only one who can free us from
the past. As Michael says, it is a “spiritual
reality.” Those who don’t want to
believe that the Son can make them free from the past will live on with their
past…in defeat.
Michael
Wells makes it so experiential what Scripture has made so clear. I remember the first thing our pastor told my
wife and I when we had just prayed to receive Christ in his office, “Let me
show you a great scripture that tells you what has just happened…2 Corinthians
5:17…you are both a new creation in Christ.”
And for 15 years I was so excited about the New Me…who I was in
Christ. I am still excited, 34 years
later, but almost 20 years ago Michael Wells introduced me to who Christ is in
me! I had 2 lives to be excited about!!! Well, let’s not get ahead of where Michael is
going in coming chapters!
So,
if you are going to go on with Michael and get out of your wilderness, you must
believe in the spiritual reality of the new birth, and that the new you IS free from the past!
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