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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b>Jim
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b>2008-10-09
Oswald Chambers - Building on the Atonement</b></font></p>
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"My Utmost for His Highest")</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left">"<font size="3"><b>...
present ... your members as instruments of righteousness to God."
(Romans 6:13)</b></font></p>
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<font size="3">I cannot save and sanctify myself; I cannot make
atonement for sin; I cannot redeem the world; I cannot right what is
wrong, purify what is impure, or make holy what is unholy. This is
all the sovereign work of God. Do I have faith in what Jesus Christ
has done? He has made the perfect atonement for sin. Am I in the
habit of constantly realizing it? The greatest need we have is not to
<i>do</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> things, but to </span><i>believe</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
things. The redemption of Christ is not an experience, it is the
great act of God which He has performed through Christ, and I have to
build my faith on it. If I construct my faith on my own experience, I
produce the most unscriptural kind of life - an isolated life, with
my eyes focused solely on my own holiness. Beware of that human
holiness that is not based on the atonement of the Lord. It has no
value for anything except a life of isolation - it is useless to God
and a nuisance to man. Measure every kind of experience you have by
our Lord Himself. We cannot do anything pleasing to God unless we
deliberately build on the foundation of the the atonement by the
Cross of Christ.</span></font></p>
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<font size="3">The atonement of Jesus must be exhibited in practical,
unassuming ways in my life. Every time I obey, the absolute deity of
God is on my side, so that the grace of God and my natural obedience
are in perfect agreement. Obedience means that I have completely
placed my trust in the atonement, and my obedience is immediately met
by the delight of the supernatural grace of God.</font></p>
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<font size="3">Beware of the human holiness that denies the reality of
the natural life - it is a fraud. Continually bring yourself to the
trial or test of the atonement and ask, "Where is the discernment
of the atonement in this, and in that?"</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><u><b><span style="font-style: normal;">NOTE</span></b></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">:
Through the years (since 1962) I have noted the unusual
understanding Oswald Chambers had of God and man, and the things
pertaining to them both. He died at 43, with some 50 books under his
belt, over 47 of them published posthumously by his wife Biddy.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">Redemption</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
based on Atonement is the great theme around which he built his
understanding. Obedience - complete obedience to God - on his part -
established a conduit through which God could reveal simple but deep
insights.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<font size="3">Through the years I have marveled at the extraordinary
insight God was able to reveal to this man. He died in 1917 serving
as a YMCA chaplain to British troops in Zeitoun, Egypt. By all means
read his biography by David McCasland, "Oswald Chambers: Abandoned
to God."</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Soldiers,
students and believers who set themselves to understand and walk in a
parallel path with God as this man, likewise entered into a dimension
far about the average. Our age in America desperately needs to let
God lift it up by its bootstraps into that same level of
understanding, that Chambers reached. He reached it through travail
of soul almost unto death. But - isn't </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">this</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
what Jesus said was necessary for a true disciple? </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>"If
any would</b></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>come
after me, </b></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><b>let
him deny himself</b></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>,
and take up his cross, and follow me" (Mark 8:34b, NNT). - </b></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Jim
Watt</span></span></span></font></p>
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