Jesus - From Genesis to Revelations

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16 October, 2018

Genesis – Jesus is our Creator

Exodus – He is the Passover Lamb

Leviticus – High Priest

Numbers – Water in the desert

Deuteronomy – He is our Eagles wings of deliverance

Joshua – Commander of the army of the Lord

Judges – He is the Lord of Peace

Ruth – He is our Redeemer

1 Samuel –He is the Prophet, Priest and King

2 Samuel – Rock of Salvation

1 Kings – Builder of a temple that will never fall

2 Kings – He is the reigning King

1 Chronicles – Son of David that is coming to rule

2 Chronicles – the King who reigns eternally

Ezra – Priest proclaiming freedom

Nehemiah – the One who restores what is broken

Esther – Protector of his people

Job – Mediator between God and man

Psalms – He is our song in the morning and in the night

Proverbs – our Wisdom and Strong Tower!

Ecclesiastes – our meaning for life

Song of Solomon – Author of faithful love

Isaiah – He is our Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of
Peace

Jeremiah – the weeping Messiah

Lamentations – He assumes God’s wrath for us

Ezekiel – Son of Man

Daniel – He is the Son of God with us in the fiery furnace

Hosea – Faithful husband even when we run away

Joel – He is the baptizer of the Holy Spirit

Amos – delivers justice to the oppressed

Obadiah – He is Mighty to Save

Jonah – The great missionary

Micah – He casts our sin into the sea of forgetfulness

Nahum – He proclaims future world peace

Habakkuk – He crushes injustice

Zephaniah – He’s the Warrior who saves

Haggai – He restores our worship

Zechariah – He is Lord and King over all the earth

Malachi – Sun of righteousness who brings healing

Matthew – The Messiah who is King

Mark – The Messiah who is a Servant

Luke – The Messiah who is a Deliverer

John – The Messiah who is a God in the flesh

Acts – The Spirit who dwells in His people

Romans – The Power of God unto salvation

1 Corinthians – He is our conqueror over death; Our resurrection!

2 Corinthians – He is the down payment of what’s to come

Galatians – He is our inheritance

Ephesians – He is our peace at the right hand of the Father

Philippians – He is the God that supplies all our needs

Colossians – He holds the supreme position in all things

1 Thessalonians – He is our comfort in the last days

2 Thessalonians – He is our returning King

1 Timothy – He is our Crown of Righteousness

2 Timothy – He is Christ our Helper

Titus – He is our Hope

Philemon – He is a friend that sticks closer than a brother

Hebrews – He is our High Priest

James – He is the Great Physician

1 Peter – He is our hope in times of suffering

2 Peter – He is the restorer of all things

1 John – He is our Love and Light

2 John – He is Christ come in the flesh

3 John – He is our prosperity, health and peace

Jude – Jesus is the Lord coming with 10,000 of his believers

Revelation – Jesus is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords,

The Alpha and the Omega, The Beginning and the End, and

He is coming again and the One who makes all things new!

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Jesus in all the books of the Bible Genesis to Revelation

Jesus is seen in every book in the Bible. How is Jesus revealed in all books
from Genesis to Revelation?
The Bible is about Jesus. He is pictured or prophesied about in each of the 66
Bible books, from Genesis to Revelation.
He is also seen through types in the lives of different characters in the Bible.
Below is a breakdown of how He is shown through types, prophecies, titles
and names in all the books of the Bible, Genesis to Revelation.
Old Testament Book Main Revelation Types & Prophecies of Jesus

Messiah would be born of the seed of a woman (Gen 3:15, Lu

Messiah would be a descendant of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob (G
Messiah would be a king in the line of Judah (Gen 49:10, John
Genesis The Seed of the Woman
Typified in the person of Melchizedek (Gen 14:18)
The life of Isaac - the sacrificed son (Gen 22)
The life of Joseph - the rejected brother (Gen 37)

Typified in the life of Moses - the deliverer

The Passover Lamb (Ex 12, John 1:29,36)
Exodus The Passover Lamb The Manna from Heaven (Ex 16, John 6)
The Rock struck at Horeb (Ex 17, 1 Cor 10:4)
The Tabernacle (Brazen Altar, Lampstand, Table of Showbread

Typified in the sacrifices and offerings (Lev 1-7)

In the Jewish festivals (Passover, Atonement, Lev 16, 23)
Leviticus The High Priest
In the scapegoat (Lev 16:7-9)
In the person and duties of the High Priest (Lev 16)

Messiah would be a King (Num 24:17)

Numbers The Cloud and The Fire Typified in the bronze serpent (Num 21:8-9)
The Water from the Rock (Num 20)

Messiah will be a prophet (Deut 18:15-19, John 6:14)

Deuteronomy The Prophet Like Moses Messiah would be worshipped by angels (Deut 32:43, Luke 2:
Typified in the cities of refuge (Deut 4:41)

Joshua The Captain of Our Salvation Typified in the person of Joshua (our leader into the promised
 In the Promised Land
In the Commander of the Army (Josh 5:13-15)

Judges The Judge And Lawgiver Typified in the Judges (for He is true Judge of the living and th

Messiah would be a descendant of Boaz and Ruth (Ruth 4:12-

Ruth The Kinsman Redeemer
Typified in the life of Boaz - The Kinsman Redeemer (Ruth 2:1

Messiah exalted by God with power (1 Sam 2:10, Matt 28:18)

Messiah would be a descendant of David (2 Sam 7:12-16, Matt
1 & 2 Samuel The Prophet of The Lord Messiah would be the 'Rock' (2 Sam 23:2-3, 1 Cor 10:4)
Typified in the life of David - The King in Exile (1 Sam 22)
The life of Jonathon - the faithful friend (1 Sam 18:1-4)

Typified in the life of Solomon (the Millennial Reign)

1 & 2 Kings The Reigning King
In the life and miracles of the prophet Elisha (multiplying brea

Messiah would be from the tribe of Judah (1 Chron 5:2, Luke

1 & 2 Chronicles The Glorious Temple Typified in Solomon's temple
In the Wisdom of Solomon (2 Chron 9:22)

Ezra The Faithful Scribe Typified in person of Zerubbabel, the rebuilder of the temple

Nehemiah The Rebuilder of the Walls Typified in the person of Nehemiah , the rebuilder of the wall

Esther Mordecai Typified in the person of Mordecai

Job The Dayspring From on High Typified in the sufferings of Job and the blessings that would f

Psalms The Lord Who Is Our Shepherd Messiah would be the Son of God (Ps 2:7, 12, Matt 17:5)
Messiah would be resurrected (Ps 16:8-10, Acts 13:30-37)
Messiah would be despised & crucified (Ps 22:6-8, 14, Luke 2
Messiah would be hated without cause (Ps 69:4, Luke 23:13-
Messiah would be Lord, seated at the right hand of God (Ps 1
Messiah would be in the line of Melchizedek (Ps 110:4, Heb 6
 Messiah would be the 'stone' rejected by the Jews (Ps 118:22
Key Messianic Psalms: Chapters 2, 8, 16, 22, 45, 69, 89, 109, 1

Messiah would be from everlasting (Prov 8:22-23, John 17:5)

Proverbs &
The Wisdom of God Messiah would be the Son of God (Prov 30:4, Matt 3:16-17)
Ecclesiastes
Typified in the Wisdom of God (Prov 8:22-31)

Song of Solomon The Lover & Bridegroom Typified in the Bridegroom's love for, and marriage to, the bri

Messiah would be born of a virgin (Is 7:14, Luke 1:34-35)

Messiah would be Immanuel "God with us" (Is 7:14, Matt 1:21
Messiah would be God and Man (Is 9:6, John 10:30)
Messiah would have the 7-fold Spirit upon Him (Is 11:1-2, Ma
Messiah would heal the blind, lame, deaf (Is 35:5-6, Mark 10:
Isaiah The Suffering Servant Messiah would be proceeded by a forerunner (Is 40:3, Luke 1
Messiah would be a light to the gentiles (Is 42:6, John 8:12)
Messiah would be despised by the Jewish nation (Is 49:7, Joh
Messiah would be whipped and beaten (Is 50:6, Matt 26:67,
Messiah would die as a guilt offering for sin (Is 53:10, John 1
Messiah would be resurrected and live forever (Is 53:10, Ma

Messiah would be God (Jer 23:6, John 13:13)

Jeremiah &
The Weeping Prophet Messiah would be a righteous Branch (Jer 23:5)
Lamentations
Messiah would be our righteousness (Jer 23:6, 1 Cor 1:30)

Ezekiel The Son of Man Messiah would be a descendant of David (Ez 34:23-24, Matt 1

Messiah would be 'a son of man' given an eve

Messiah would come 483 years after the decr
Daniel The Son of Man coming in the clouds of Heaven Messiah would be killed (Dan 9:26, Matt 27:3
Revealed as the 'stone' (and His kingdom) tha
Typified in the 4th man in the fiery furnace - o

Hosea The Bridegroom Typified in Hosea's faithfulness to his adultero

Joel The Baptizer With The Holy Spirit Messiah will offer salvation to all mankind (Joel 2:32, Rom 10:1
 Messiah would baptize people with the Holy Spirit (Joel 2:28-3

Amos The Burden Bearer God would darken the day at noon during Messiah's death (Am

Obadiah The Mighty Savior

Jonah The Forgiving God Typified in Jonah being 3 days and 3 nights in

Messiah would be born in Bethlehem (Mic 5:2

Micah The Messenger With Beautiful Feet
Messiah would be from everlasting (Mic 5:2, R

Nahum The Avenger of God's Elect

Messiah would come from Teman at His return , full

Habakkuk The Great Evangelist, Crying For Revival
Typified in the life of Habakkuk (his intercession and p

Zephaniah The Restorer of the Remnant

Haggai The Cleansing Fountain Messiah would visit the 2nd temple (Hag 2:6-9, Luke 2:27-32)

Messiah would be Priest and King (Zech 6:12-13, Heb 8:1)

Messiah would be ride into Jerusalem on a donkey (Zech 9:9, Ma
Zechariah The Pierced Son
Messiah would be God (Zech 11:12-13, John 12:45)
Messiah would be pierced (Zech 12:10, John 19:34-37)

Messiah would appear at the temple (Mal 3:1, Mark 11:15-16)

Malachi The Son of Righteousness
Messiah's forerunner would come in the spirit of Elijah (Mat 4:5,

How is Jesus seen in the books of the New Testament?

New Testament Book Main Revelation Titles / Names Revealed of Jesus

 The Son of David (Matt 1:1)
The King of the Jews (Matt 2:2)
Matthew The Messiah
The Son of God (Matt 2:15).
The Bridegroom (Matt 9:15)

The Holy One of God (Mark 1:24)

Mark The Miracle Worker The Servant (Mark 10:45)
The King of Israel (Mark 15:32)

The Horn of Salvation (Luke 1:69)

Luke The Son of Man
The Consolation of Israel: (Luke 2:25).

The Only Begotten Son: (John 1:14,18)

The Lamb of God (John 1:29,36)
The Bread of life (John 6:35)
The Light of the World (John 8:1)
The I AM! (John 8:58)
John The Son of God
The Door of the Sheep: (John 10:7,9)
The Good Shepherd (John 10:11)
The Resurrection and life (John 11:25)
The Way, the Truth, the Life (John 14:6)
The True Vine (John 15:1)

The Prince of Life (Acts 3:15)

The Judge of the living and the dead (Acts 10:42)
Acts The Ascended Lord
The Just One (Acts 7:52).
The Hope of Israel (Acts 28:20)

The Rock of Offense (Romans 9:33)

The Deliverer (Romans 11:26)
Romans The Justifier
The Lord of the dead and the living (Romans 14:9)
The Root of Jesse (Romans 15:12)

The First-fruits (1 Corinthians 15:23)

1 & 2 Corinthians The Last Adam
The Last Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45)
Galatians The One Who Sets Us Free The Lord Jesus Christ (Gal 1:3)

The Head over All Things (Ephesians 1:22)

Ephesians The Christ of Riches
The Cornerstone: (Ephesians 2:20)

The God Who Meets Our Every

Philippians The Name above all names (Philippians 2:9)
Need

The Image of the Invisible God (Colossians 1:15)

The Head of the body (Colossians 1:18)
Colossians The Fullness of The Godhead The Beginning (Colossians 1:18)
The Firstborn from the dead (Colossians 1:18)
The Hope of Glory (Col 1:27)

1 & 2 Thessalonians The Soon Coming King The Lord of Peace (2 Thessalonians 3:16)

The Mediator Between God And The King of Ages (1 Timothy 1:17)
1 & 2 Timothy
Man The Mediator (1 Timothy 2:5)

The Blessed Hope (Titus 2:13)

Titus The Blessed Hope
The Great God and Saviour (Titus 2:13)

The Friend, Closer Than a

Philemon The Lord Jesus Christ (Philemon 3)
Brother

The Heir of All Things (Hebrews 1:2)

The Blood That Washes Away
Hebrews The Faithful High Priest (Hebrews 2:17)
My Sins
The Author and Finisher of our Faith (Hebrews 12:2)

The Lord of Glory (James 2:1)

James The Great Physician
The Judge at the door (James 5:9)

The Living Stone (1 Peter 2:4)

1 & 2 Peter The Chief Shepherd
The Chief Shepherd (1 Peter 5:4)
 The Eternal Life (1 John 1:2)
1 & 2 & 3 John Everlasting Love
The Righteous (1 John 2:1)

Jude The God our Saviour The Only Wise God our Saviour (Jude 25)

The Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last: (Revelation 1
The Lion of the Tribe of Judah (Rev 5:5)
The King of Kings and the Lord
Revelation The Word of God (Revelation 19:13).
of Lords!
The King of Kings and Lord of Lords (Revelation 19:16)
The Bright Morning Star (Revelation 22:16)

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Andrew Murray :: Impossible with Man, Possible with God

"And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God" (Luke
18:27).
Christ had said to the rich young ruler, "Sell all that thou hast... and come, follow me."
The young man went away sorrowful. Christ then turned to the disciples, and said: "How
hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!" The disciples, we
read, were greatly astonished, and answered: "If it is so difficult to enter the kingdom,
who, then, can be saved?" And Christ gave this blessed answer:
"The things which are impossible with men are possible with God."
The text contains two thoughts-that in religion, in the question of salvation and of
following Christ by a holy life, it is impossible for man to do it. And then alongside that is
the thought-What is impossible with man is possible with God.
The two thoughts mark the two great lessons that man has to learn in the religious life.
It often takes a long time to learn the first lesson, that in religion man can do nothing,
that salvation is impossible to man. And often a man learns that, and yet he does not
learn the second lesson-what has been impossible to him is possible with God. Blessed
is the man who learns both lessons! The learning of them marks stages in the
Christians life.
Man Cannot

The one stage is when a man is trying to do his utmost and fails, when a man tries to do
better and fails again, when a man tries much more and always fails. And yet very often
he does not even then learn the lesson: With man it is impossible to serve God and
Christ. Peter spent three years in Christs school, and he never learned that, It is
impossible, until he had denied his Lord and went out and wept bitterly. Then he
learned it.
Just look for a moment at a man who is learning this lesson. At first he fights against it;
then he submits to it, but reluctantly and in despair; at last he accepts it willingly and
rejoices in it. At the beginning of the Christian life the young convert has no conception
of this truth. He has been converted, he has the joy of the Lord in his heart, he begins to
run the race and fight the battle; he is sure he can conquer, for he is earnest and
honest, and God will help him. Yet, somehow, very soon he fails where he did not
expect it, and sin gets the better of him. He is disappointed; but he thinks: "I was not
watchful enough, I did not make my resolutions strong enough." And again he vows,
and again he prays, and yet he fails. He thought: "Am I not a regenerate man? Have I
not the life of God within me?" And he thinks again: "Yes, and I have Christ to help me, I
can live the holy life."
At a later period he comes to another state of mind. He begins to see such a life is
impossible, but he does not accept it. There are multitudes of Christians who come to
this point: "I cannot"; and then think God never expected them to do what they cannot
do. If you tell them that God does expect it, it appears to them a mystery. A good many
Christians are living a low life, a life of failure and of sin, instead of rest and victory,
because they began to see: "I cannot, it is impossible." And yet they do not understand
it fully, and so, under the impression, I cannot, they give way to despair. They will do
their best, but they never expect to get on very far.
But God leads His children on to a third stage, when a man comes to take that, It is
impossible, in its full truth, and yet at the same time says: "I must do it, and I will do it-it
is impossible for man, and yet I must do it"; when the renewed will begins to exercise its
whole power, and in intense longing and prayer begins to cry to God: "Lord, what is the
meaning of this?-how am I to be freed from the power of sin?"
It is the state of the regenerate man in Romans 7. There you will find the Christian man
trying his very utmost to live a holy life. Gods law has been revealed to him as reaching
down into the very depth of the desires of the heart, and the man can dare to say:
"I delight in the law of God after the inward man. To will what is good is present with me.
My heart loves the law of God, and my will has chosen that law."
Can a man like that fail, with his heart full of delight in Gods law and with his will
determined to do what is right? Yes. That is what Romans 7 teaches us. There is
something more needed. Not only must I delight in the law of God after the inward man,
and will what God wills, but I need a divine omnipotence to work it in me. And that is
what the apostle Paul teaches in Philippians 2:13:
"It is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do."
Note the contrast. In Romans 7, the regenerate man says: "To will is present with me,
but to do-I find I cannot do. I will, but I cannot perform." But in Philippians 2, you have a
man who has been led on farther, a man who understands that when God has worked
the renewed will, God will give the power to accomplish what that will desires. Let us
receive this as the first great lesson in the spiritual life: "It is impossible for me, my God;
let there be an end of the flesh and all its powers, an end of self, and lot it be my glory
to be helpless."
Praise God for the divine teaching that makes us helpless!
When you thought of absolute surrender to God were you not brought to an end of
yourself, and to feel that you could see how you actually could live as a man absolutely
surrendered to God every moment of the day-at your table, in your house, in your
business, in the midst of trials and temptations? I pray you learn the lesson now. If you
felt you could not do it, you are on the right road, if you let yourselves be led. Accept
that position, and maintain it before God: "My hearts desire and delight, O God, is
absolute surrender, but I cannot perform it. It is impossible for me to live that life. It is
beyond me." Fall down and learn that when you are utterly helpless, God will come to
work in you not only to will, but also to do.
God Can

Now comes the second lesson. "The things which are impossible with men are possible
with God."
I said a little while ago that there is many a man who has learned the lesson, It is
impossible with men, and then he gives up in helpless despair, and lives a wretched
Christian life, without joy, or strength, or victory. And why? Because he does not humble
himself to learn that other lesson: With God all things are possible.
Your religious life is every day to be a proof that God works impossibilities; your
religious life is to be a series of impossibilities made possible and actual by Gods
almighty power. That is what the Christian needs. He has an almighty God that he
worships, and he must learn to understand that he does not need a little of Gods power,
but he needs-with reverence be it said-the whole of Gods omnipotence to keep him
right, and to live like a Christian.
The whole of Christianity is a work of Gods omnipotence. Look at the birth of Christ
Jesus. That was a miracle of divine power, and it was said to Mary: "With God nothing
shall be impossible." It was the omnipotence of God. Look at Christs resurrection. We
are taught that it was according to the exceeding greatness of His mighty power that
God raised Christ from the dead.
Every tree must grow on the root from which it springs. An oak tree three hundred years
old grows all the time on the one root from which it had its beginning. Christianity had its
beginning in the omnipotence of God, and in every soul it must have its continuance in
that omnipotence. All the possibilities of the higher Christian life have their origin in a
new apprehension of Christs power to work all Gods will in us.
I want to call upon you now to come and worship an almighty God. Have you learned to
do it? Have you learned to deal so closely with an almighty God that you know
omnipotence is working in you? In outward appearance there is often so little sign of it.
The apostle Paul said: "I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,
and... my preaching was... in demonstration of the Spirit and of power." From the
human side there was feebleness, from the divine side there was divine omnipotence.
And that is true of every godly life; and if we would only learn that lesson better, and
give a wholehearted, undivided surrender to it, we should learn what blessedness there
is in dwelling every hour and every moment with an almighty God. Have you ever
studied in the Bible the attribute of Gods omnipotence? You know that it was Gods
omnipotence that created the world, and created fight out of darkness, and created
man. But have you studied Gods omnipotence in the works of redemption?
Look at Abraham. When God called him to be the father of that people out of which
Christ was to be born, God said to him: "I am God Almighty, walk before me and be
thou perfect." And God trained Abraham to trust Him as the omnipotent One; and
whether it was his going out to a land that he knew not, or his faith as a pilgrim midst
the thousands of Canaanites-his faith said: This is my land-or whether it was his faith in
waiting twenty-five years for a son in his old age, against all hope, or whether it was the
raising up of Isaac from the dead on Mount Moriah when he was going to sacrifice him-
Abraham believed God. He was strong in faith, giving glory to God, because he
accounted Him who had promised able to perform.
The cause of the weakness of your Christian life is that you want to work it out partly,
and to let God help you. And that cannot be. You must come to be utterly helpless, to
let God work, and God will work gloriously. It is this that we need if we are indeed to be
workers for God. I could go through Scripture and prove to you how Moses, when he
led Israel out of Egypt; how Joshua, when he brought them into the land of Canaan;
how all Gods servants in the Old Testament counted upon the omnipotence of God
doing impossibilities. And this God lives today, and this God is the God of every child of
His. And yet we are some of us wanting God to give us a little help while we do our
best, instead of coming to understand what God wants, and to say: "I can do nothing.
God must and will do all." Have you said: "In worship, in work, in sanctification, in
obedience to God, I can do nothing of myself, and so my place is to worship the
omnipotent God, and to believe that He will work in me every moment"? Oh, may God
teach us this! Oh, that God would by His grace show you what a God you have, and to
what a God you have entrusted yourself-an omnipotent God, willing with His whole
omnipotence to place Himself at the disposal of every child of His! Shall we not take the
lesson of the Lord Jesus and say: "Amen; the things which are impossible with men are
possible with God"?
Remember what we have said about Peter, his self-confidence, self-power, self-will,
and how he came to deny his Lord. You feel, "Ah! there is the self-life, there is the flesh-
life that rules in me!" And now, have you believed that there is deliverance from that?
Have you believed that Almighty God is able so to reveal Christ in your heart, so to let
the Holy Spirit rule in you, that. the self-life shall not have power or dominion over you?
Have you coupled the two together, and with tears of penitence and with deep
humiliation and feebleness, cried out: "O God, it is impossible to me; man cannot do it,
but, glory to Thy name, it is possible with God"? Have you claimed deliverance? Do it
now. Put yourself afresh in absolute surrender into the hands of a God of infinite love;
and as infinite as His love is His power to do it.
God Works in Man

But again, we came to the question of absolute surrender, and felt that that is the want
in the Church of Christ, and that is why the Holy Ghost cannot fill us, and why we
cannot live as people entirely separated unto the Holy Ghost; that is why the flesh and
the self-life cannot be conquered. We have never understood what it is to be absolutely
surrendered to God as Jesus was. I know that many a one earnestly and honestly says:
"Amen, I accept the message of absolute surrender to God"; and yet thinks: "Will that
ever be mine? Can I count upon God to make me one of whom it shall be said in
Heaven and on earth and in Hell, he lives in absolute surrender to God?" Brother, sister,
"the things which are impossible with men are possible with God." Do believe that when
He takes charge of you in Christ, it is possible for God to make you a man of absolute
surrender. And God is able to maintain that. He is able to let you rise from bed every
morning of the week with that blessed thought directly or indirectly: "I am in Gods
charge. My God is working out my life for me."
Some are weary of thinking about sanctification. You pray, you have longed and cried
for it, and yet it appeared so far off! The holiness and humility of Jesus-you are so
conscious of how distant it is. Beloved friends, the one doctrine of sanctification that is
scriptural and real and effectual is: "The things which are impossible with men are
possible with God." God can sanctify men, and by His almighty and sanctifying power
every moment God can keep them. Oh, that we might get a step nearer to our God
now! Oh, that the light of God might shine, and that we might know our God better!
I could go on to speak about the life of Christ in us-living like Christ, taking Christ as our
Saviour from sin, and as our life and strength. It is God in Heaven who can reveal that
in you. What does that prayer of the apostle Paul say: "That he would grant you
according to riches of his glory"-it is sure to be something very wonderful if it is
according to the riches of His glory-"to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the
inner man"? Do you not see that it is an omnipotent God working by His omnipotence in
the heart of His believing children, so that Christ can become an indwelling Saviour?
You have tried to grasp it and to seize it, and you have tried to believe it, and it would
not come. It was because you had not been brought to believe that "the things which
are impossible with men are possible with God."
And so, I trust that the word spoken about love may have brought many to see that we
must have an inflowing of love in quite a new way; our heart must be filled with life from
above, from the Fountain of everlasting love, if it is going to overflow all the day; then it
will be just as natural for us to love our fellowmen as it is natural for the lamb to be
gentle and the wolf to be cruel. Until I am brought to such a state that the more a man
hates and speaks evil of me, the more unlikable and unlovable a man is, I shall love him
all the more; until I am brought to such a state that the more the obstacles and hatred
and ingratitude, the more can the power of love triumph in me-until I am brought to see
that, I am not saying: "It is impossible with men." But if you have been led to say: "This
message has spoken to me about a love utterly beyond my power; it is absolutely
impossible"-then we can come to God and say: "It is possible with Thee."
Some are crying to God for a great revival. I can say that that is the prayer of my heart
unceasingly. Oh, if God would only revive His believing people! I cannot think in the first
place of the unconverted formalists of the Church, or of the infidels and skeptics, or of
all the wretched and perishing around me, my heart prays in the first place: "My God,
revive Thy Church and people." It is not for nothing that there are in thousands of hearts
yearnings after holiness and consecration: it is a forerunner of Gods power. God
works to will and then He works to do. These yearnings are a witness and a proof that
God has worked to will. Oh, let us in faith believe that the omnipotent God will work to
do among His people more than we can ask. "Unto him," Paul said, "who is able to do
exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.... unto him be glory." Let our
hearts say that. Glory to God, the omnipotent One, who can do above what we dare to
ask or think!
"The things which are impossible with men are possible with God." All around you there
is a world of sin and sorrow, and the Devil is there. But remember, Christ is on the
throne, Christ is stronger, Christ has conquered, and Christ will conquer. But wait on
God. My text casts us down: "The things which are impossible with men"; but it
ultimately lifts us up high-"are possible with God." Get linked to God. Adore and trust
Him as the omnipotent One, not only for your own life, but for all the souls that are
entrusted to you. Never pray without adoring His omnipotence, saying: "Mighty God, I
claim Thine almightiness." And the answer to the prayer will come, and like Abraham
you will become strong in faith, giving glory to God, because you account Him who hath
promised able to perform.
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