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#56 / 01 Feb 2003 Positive Words Newsletter
Editor: Peter Wade ----- http://www.peterwade.com ----- ... the realities of Christ in you and you in Christ! ----- http://www.inChristRadio.net ----- Positive biblical teaching 24 hours, 7 days a week Online now... The keynote teaching by Peter Wade from the 2003 International Bible Conference, Halls Gap, Australia. "Buyers, Renters, and Squatters" -- 30min 54sec in 2 segments. Introducing the conference theme of "Dead to Sin and Alive to God". Listen now! (Requires the FREE RealOne Player 2.0.) Still available... get your copy of "Four Keys to Prosperity" from our Home Page. Our previous issue... Our stats show that 70% of our readers did not get to see the articles from our Janaury issue. You can read them online here. If you unsubscribed and are still receiving issues, please send another email (see below), as many emails are being lost in cyberspace due to overzealous filtering by internet service providers. Insights from my writing... The Purpose of Renewing the Mind "... that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God" (Romans 12:2). The word "prove" is rendered "test" in a number of recent translations and this word helps the meaning of the phrase. The will of God is tested by acting on a renewed mind. Here is a simple example. Romans 10:9,10 gives the "how" of salvation. The unsaved person is commanded to "... confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, and you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." I have no way of knowing if God did raise Jesus from the dead by the information gained by my five senses. I was not there, and the only extended description of the event is contained in the Bible. How can I prove or test that God did raise Jesus? By acting upon the statement! Believing is an assumption (Hebrews 11:1 Concordant Version), and if I assume that God did in fact raise Jesus from the dead, and with my mouth I confess Him as my Lord, I will be saved. Then will come an inward witness –- the proof! The Christian life is to be lived on this same basis. Colossians 2:6 tells us, "As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him." How did I receive Christ? By believing and confessing. How do I continue to live [walk] in Him? By the same principle, proving and testing the will of God by believing action. Ephesians 1:3 reads "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ." How do I prove and test it? By acting as if it were true –- and it is! I assume it to be true, I act as if it were true, and I prove that it is true by the results. (From "Renewing Your Mind", Chapter 3, by Peter Wade, adapted by Hildy Matthews.) Affirmation: Today I will live as a child of God. God chose me to live my life in His image and today I will test His command by action. I will read God’s Word today and renew my mind to His will for me. Insights From Every Book Of The Bible... G. Campbell Morgan was a well-known preacher and writer of over 60 books from the first half of the 20th century. In each issue he gives a comment from one verse in every chapter of the Bible. We continue with Paul's second letter to the Corinthians. "Anxiety for all the churches" (II Corinthians 11:28). That was the central anxiety, burden, care, of this great Apostle. As we have seen more than once in reading this letter, he knew much of affliction. There were many causes for anxiety. In this chapter another paragraph occurs in which he referred to perils and travails connected with the work of the ministry. Then he described them as "those things that are without," or as an alternative marginal reading has it, "the things that come out of course." They were incidental things. That which pressed upon him daily, from which he had no escape, which constituted the central anxiety of all his days, was the need of all the churches. What that meant in the case of Paul is understood as we think of the churches he had planted, and of those to whom his letters were written. They were widely scattered, and very diversified in their experiences, attainments, needs; but he carried them all in his heart, and laboured for them in prayer, and in every way possible. That is true Christian ministry. We make a modern application of the principle by saying that while denominational loyalty may be, and within limits certainly is, an excellent thing, it must never be allowed to exclude other churches from our spiritual anxiety. In matters of ecclesiastical government, and of theological opinion, we may be separated from other communions; but in the deepest fact of the unity of the Spirit, we are one with them. Therefore we must pray for all, and so far as is possible, labour for all. -- G. Campbell Morgan This email was launched into cyberspace to bless you. There is no paid advertising in this newsletter, only content-rich, inspirational material. Subscription information: To contact us or subscribe, go to our Home Page http://www.peterwade.com. To unsubscribe, please send an email to admin@peterwade.com. This newsletter is never sent unsolicited. You are receiving it because you subscribed. *** Past Issues: http://www.peterwade.com/archive (c) 2003 Peter Wade http://www.peterwade.com http://www.posword.org http://www.inChristRadio.net |