FW: THE ABIDING BELIEVER

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From: DAVID WILKERSON TODAY
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Subject: THE ABIDING BELIEVER

 

David Wilkerson Today

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TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2013



THE ABIDING BELIEVER

by David Wilkerson

[May 19, 1931 - April 27, 2011]



"If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my

Father's commandments, and abide in his love" (John 15:10). Jesus faithfully

obeyed every commandment of His Father and He called that abiding.



Some Christians think they can pick and choose which commandments of Christ to

obey. If they don't like what is commanded, they simply ignore it or explain

away their disobedience with, "I just don't see it that way; I don't believe it

like that." If people do not like a pastor’s call to be holy, they just leave

and go looking for a pastor who will accentuate the positive. That is why the

terrible plague of apathy is sweeping over the church today. We have been so

afraid of works, so riled up about legalism, that we have given obedience a bad

name.



How is it possible for a branch in Him not to abide? Jesus said: "If a man

abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather

them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned" (verse 6). Can it be

any clearer? Abiding includes rest and responsibility. It is possible to be in

Him, connected to the vine, and not have a flow of life with which to bear

fruit. Abiding has to do with absolute obedience to the commandments of Christ

because every branch has a free will—a life force in it. The branch is not

passive; it must draw out the life from the vine. "If ye abide in me, and my

words abide in you" (verse 7). This brings out that the Word is the Father's

pruning knife. How can any branch bear fruit if the Word of the Lord is

ignored, unknown, neglected?



We see the fruits of dryness springing up all over the Lord's

vineyard—adultery, fornication, drinking, drugs—because the pruning process

has stopped with so many. The word of God is His knife, a two-edged sword. The

majority of Christians today do not know the Word of God because they do not

read it. It is impossible to bear the fruit of righteousness without His Word

abiding in you. Neglect of the Word is causing barrenness and bringing a

terrible withering to God's people.



The abiding believer is one who loves and fears God, who hungers for the Word

and trembles at His power of conviction. He delights in having the Word prune

away all hindrances, prays that the very life and likeness of Christ will be

ever-increasing in him, and grows more and more mature in obedience and love.

 







Read this devotion online: http://www.worldchallenge.org/en/node/22101?src=devo-email





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http://www.worldchallenge.org/en/node/2258?src=devo-email



Demonstration of the Spirit and of Power, 10.02.05

http://www.worldchallenge.org/en/node/2402?src=devo-email





                               

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