Don’t spend all of your time bemoan ing difficulties and problems. Don’t get so w o r r ie d about yourself, worked up because of your difficulties that you are totally incapable of do ing anything for God. The Lord is present with you and you have His resurrection power to perform for the glory of God. The Lord wants to set wretched men free. He does it through the indwelling Holy Spirit. When He is the operative dynamic of your existence, He sets you free from the law of sin and death. Do you know who He really is? Then, do you know where He is? Verse 9 tells us, “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit.” If you are a Christian, the Holy Spirit is in you. God doesn’t give you any alternative. Either the Spirit of Christ is in you, or you are not a Christian. There are no two ways about it. Then ask yourself, “Why is the Holy Spirit within me?” His simple purpose is continually to set you free from the law of sin and death. God expects you to live in the good of all that the indwelling Holy Spirit is. In one of my meetings over here, a man came up after a message and
the Spirit of life. This only operates in Christ Jesus. While I was ministering in New ark, New Jersey, some riots broke out. An untold amount of damage was done to property and life. The law that had been operating there was overridden and counteracted by a law that had no right to exert it self. To use a good American word, the law was constitutional. For the Christian, there is only one princi ple or law in our lives that is consti tutional. The only one recognizable by God in Christ Jesus is the law of the Spirit of life. Some Christians have never come face-to-face with this. It is like living in New Jersey under mob rule instead of under the proper law of the land. Whenever we fail to live under God’s proper principles, death and defeat will al ways result. When we as Christians let sin rule and reign rampant with in our hearts, sin and death will have the upper hand. It is an excit ing possibility to know that you can be emancipated from the power of sin when you let the life of the Spirit of God cut loose in your life. There are many descriptions of the Spirit of God, particularly in this eighth chapter of Romans. I would encourage you to do a study of this. His title, often neglected, is in verse 11, “But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quick en your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.” One of the things that gets me really excited about the Christian life is that God raised up Jesus from the dead. I don’t know how He did it, but it was a tremendous dynamic. This same power is available to every single Christian. While we have troubles with ourselves, the Bible teaches that we can die to these things because Christ now lives within us. We no longer have an obligation to sin. Our requirement is to live under the domination of the Spirit of God.
Mr. Terry Rose (right), Biola faculty member and freshman counselor, with his wife, talk to three of the new students attending Biota. They are Susan Valladao and Ruth Biggs, of Fairfield, California, and Sharon Forrest,of Oregon.
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