Aug 5th, 2001: Fiery Trials

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The Staff and Sword Ministry

August 5, 2001

FIERY TRIADS PART VII By Nancy-TOM 'Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing has happened to you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, tv^iert his glory s hall be revealed, ye may be glad also with excee ding joy." (I Peter 4:12-i3)

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"He that saith he abideth in him (Jesus) ought himself also to walk, even as he walked. (I Jolin 2:16)

"If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love." (Jesus in John 15:10) In the last "Fiery Trials" article I was led to begin to address what it means to "ABIDE IN CHRIST". As I prayed about what to write about this time I was led to begin reading Andrew Murray's book, LIKE CHRIST, an d found a rather challenging and intriguing insight he shared showing a direct connection between ABIDING and WALKING IN CHRIST. Mr. Murray saw that when Jesus was saying, "Ifye keep nay commandments, ye shall abide in my love," that Jesus was really saying this: "the surrender to walk like Me is the path to the full abiding in Me." Mr. Mur r ay then went on to explain two basic lessons we can learn from not only Jesus' words but from John's in I John 2:16, "He that saith he abideth in him (Jesus) ought himself also to walk, even as he walked" One lesson is that he or she who seeks to abide in Christ must also walk even as He walked. The other lesson is that he or she who seeks to walk like

Christ must also abide in Christ. My own way of understanding this insight is that one cannot fully enter into one without the other for to abide but not walk is to be stagnant and to remain in one's self. On the other hand, to seek to walk without abiding is also to walk in self and not in Christ. As I pondered this fu rther in prayer I began to see that in a lot of ways these scriptures brought up a more foundational issue an d that is: What is your motivation or purpose for


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