Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in Sidetracked In The Wilderness - # 48
Michael’s book is
available through:
Abiding Life Ministries
International
Littleton, Colorado
Notice: this email is part of a BLOG, called Getting Out of the
Wilderness. Why a blog? So that many can receive the weekly thoughts
I express on Michael’s writings in an easy manner.
Thinking
back on the past 30 years of studying, preaching, and pastoring, I know the lack
of sharing the “power of the Cross” other than for salvation has been one of my
biggest mistakes. Michael brings to the
forefront the great power God has given Christians at the moment we were
crucified with Christ, received Christ’s life…were Born Again.
THE MOMENT
BY MOMENT CROSS – Part 1
excerpt
from pages 139-142 of SIW (5th printing,
March 1998)
excerpt
from pages 138-141 of SIW (14th printing,
March 2012)
(used with permission from
ALMI):
Michael begins this section by sharing his
indebtedness to Andrew Murray, Jessie Penn-Lewis, Watchman Nee, and F. J.
Huegel for their teachings which the Holy Spirit used to make real the
teachings of Romans 6 to Michael.
…Ask
the Holy Spirit to open the eyes of your heart that He would make the
foolishness of the cross not understandable teaching, but revelation, for with
revelation comes faith and power to experience what is taught.
…Watchman
Nee uses an appropriate analogy when he asks the question, “Am I a Nee because
I was born a Nee, or am I a Nee because of my behavior?”…Nee concludes, “I am a
sinner because I am born in Adam. It is
a matter not of my behavior but of my heredity, my parentage.”
…There
is no way out unless we can somehow change our parentage or line of existence!
God’s
solution to the person with faith is complete removal of that life that was
with Adam and is cut off from God, that life controlled by sin. He replaces it with Christ’s life! As Jessie Penn-Lewis (a great teacher of Cross
truths) so often points out in her writings, there is only one way out of Adam,
and since we came in by birth, we must go out by death. Bondage to sin came by birth; deliverance
from sin comes by death. And now just as
in Adam we received everything that is true of him, in Christ we receive
everything that is true of Christ…
What
glorious news that the “old me” I have worked so hard to change was put to
death on the cross with Christ…It happened the day I came to Christ!
Those
are great words, aren’t they: “not understandable teaching, but revelation, for
with revelation comes faith and power to experience
what is taught.” Wow!
It
may be that in wanting to “abide” we have neglected the power of the Cross to
free us from sin that keeps us at least thinking we are defeated instead of
overcomers. And if we accept that, then
how are we going to “abide” in such a way as to experience Christ’s life? God has told us that we are to take His word “precept
upon precept, line upon line.” Getting
things out of order leads to trouble down the line.
What
I hear Michael telling us is to:
Reckon
ourselves “dead to sin
& possessing Christ’s
resurrection
life.”
Appropriate
Christ’s “death to sin & resurrection life”
to THE sins in our life, and
see His power take them away.
Of
course we have to know what “reckon”
and “appropriate” mean…
Well,
amen.
There
is more “power” to come next time…
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