Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "The Road To Revival" II Corinthians 4:8-112Co 4:8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed,
but not in despair;
2Co 4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
2Co 4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that
the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
2Co 4:11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake,
that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
Revival is the life of the Lord Jesus poured into our human heart
He is never hateful but always Loving
He is never fearful but always Courageous
He is never overcome but is always Victorious
He is never condemning but always Forgiving
He never fails but is always Faithful
He is infinitely powerful.
And we, on our part, have only to get a right relationship with Him, and we
shall see His power being demonstrated in our hearts and lives and service,
and victorious life will fill and overflow through us to others. This is
Revival in it’s essence. But if we will come into this right relationship with
Him we must first learn that our wills must be broken to His Will. And to
be broken is just the beginning of Revival. It is painful and humiliating but
it is the only way. ”Not I but Christ” Gal 2:20 A ‘C’ is a bent ‘I’ We must
surrender all before Christ can have all and be all in us. It is dying to one’s
self.
The fruit of the Spirit in Gal 5 (love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith, Meekness, temperance) with which God longs to fill us is the very
opposites of what is demonstrated through our unyielding, unbroken spirit
that professes itself to have been crucified.
This is both God’s work and Ours. God bears the pressure upon us but we
must choose to yield to His Will. That is, being willing to surrender our
rights and self interests to be replaced with the life of Christ.
This is not a one time event but a constant yielding. It will come to mean,
no plans, no time, no money, no pleasure of our own but a constant yielding
to those who are around us – for our yieldedness to God is measured by our
yieldedness to man. Every humiliation, everyone who tries and vexes us, is
God’s way of breaking us. Breaking us so that there is yet a deeper channel
in us for the Life of Christ. You see, the only life that please God and that
can be victorious is His Life- never ours, no matter how hard we try! That is
why the road to Revival starts in a broken spirit of self.
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