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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b>2009-07-02
- THE CONDITIONS OF DISCIPLESHIP</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b>(From:
“My Utmost for His Highest” - Oswald Chambers)</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><b>Luke
14:26-27; 33 (14:25-35) “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate
his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes,
and his own life also . . . . And whoever does not bear his cross and
come after Me . . . . So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake
all that he has cannot be My disciple.”</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><b>If
the closest relationships of a disciple's life conflict with the
claims of Jesus Christ, then our Lord requires instant obedience to
Himself. Discipleship means <u>personal, passionate devotion to a
Person - our Lord Jesus Christ</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion
to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause - He
proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. To be a disciple is to be a
devoted bondservant motivated by love for the Lord Jesus. Many of us
who call ourselves Christians are not truly devoted to Jesus Christ.
No one on earth has this passionate love for the Lord Jesus unless
the Holy Spirit has given it to him. We may admire, respect, and
revere Him, but we cannot love Him on our own. The only One who truly
loves the Lord Jesus is the Holy Spirit, and it is He who has “</span><u>poured
out in our hearts</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">” the very
“</span><u>love of God</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">”
(Romans 5:5 - 5:1-11). Whenever the Holy Spirit sees an opportunity
to glorify Jesus through you, He will take your entire being and set
you ablaze with glowing devotion to Jesus Christ.</span></b></p>
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<b>The Christian life is a life characterized by true and spontaneous
creativity. Consequently, a disciple is subject to the same charge
that was leveled against Jesus Christ, namely, the charge of
inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent in His
relationship to God, and a Christian must be consistent in his
relationship to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to
strict, unyielding doctrines. People pour themselves into their own
doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas
before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.</b></p>
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<h2 style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">Wednesday, June
14, 2006</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="115026314086312563"></a>
<strong>The Holy Spirit as the Dynamic of the New Covenant.</strong><br><br><em>I
actually came across this particular manuscript quite by chance. It
wasn't in Ern Baxter's section on the Holy Spirit - it was in a very
detailed unpublished book he wrote on Israel. However it couldn't be
more relevant (I would argue) for this series I am putting together
on; "<a href="http://ern-baxter.blogspot.com/2006/05/kingdom-of-god-becomes-reality-through.html">The
Kingdom of God only becomes reality through the Holy Spirit</a>".
Here he examines the foundation for everything we believe in - the
Cross but moves on to argue that we need desperately the vitality
that the Holy Spirit brings to make it life. It is a short but
powerful piece.</em><br><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/52/1227/1600/Ern%20Life%20on%20Wings%201.jpg"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/52/1227/320/Ern%20Life%20on%20Wings%201.jpg" name="graphics1" align="right" border="0" height="320" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="240"></a><br>
<u>The
Holy Spirit - the Dynamic of the Covenant.</u><br><br>That is another
of my present emphases: the manner in which we treat the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit, not the blood, is the dynamic of the New Covenant. I
am legally saved by the blood but I am functionally saved by the
Spirit. I think we have become side-tracked on the blood. Whoever
said that there is power in the blood? I don’t want to be
irreverent here. I want to be drastic.<br><br>The blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ does not have an active ingredient but the blood
releases the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who convicts me,
converts me, regenerates me, illuminates me, heals me, leads me,
guides me, quickens me and eventually will translate me, all on the
basis of the blood. But if we talk about the power in the blood and
are all taken with the blood, we are taken up with our legal release
but we haven’t entered into our vital release. The vital release
comes by the Spirit. The Spirit is the dynamic of the New Covenant.
When He promised the New Covenant, He said, “I will put My Spirit
in you; I will write My laws in your heart”.<br><br>Many people who
are theoretically correct on the New Covenant are dynamically
impotent because they have rejected or neglected or ruled out the
Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the One who makes the Covenant work
and it is in the blood. In the New Order, the New Covenant replaces
the Old.
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b><u>DREAM:
RE “THE LOST CHORD”</u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> -
Thursday July 2, 2009</span></b></p>
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My daughter Anna was going to accompany me on the piano as I played
the above piece on the trombone. But - a woman tried to steal the
book that contained the music score, so she could know ahead of time
what I intended to do. I finally discovered it hidden in her sweater,
and recovered it.</p>
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<b>Interpretation: TTAQ. Title: “The Lost Chord”; Theme: “A
Frustrating Preparation”; Affection or Feeling: “Frustration and
Difficulty”; Question to Holy Spirit: “What was God's purpose and
thinking in giving me this dream?”</b></p>
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I am to link it with the above reading by Oswald Chambers for today,
and with W. J. Ern Baxter on the Holy Spirit and Covenant Versus
Blood and Covenant, for they have a common denominator. Can you find
it?</p>
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Bill Allan in Port Alberni prepared me to enter the Vancouver Music
Festival in 1940 for the Province of BC. He selected “The Lost
Chord” for me to enter the competition of brass instruments:
trombone in my case. He had been a Salvation Army Band Conductor in
his past, and because of his able help, I came off first in the
Province for trombone, and second for all of brass.</p>
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Arthur Delamont, conductor of the World famous Vancouver Kitsilano
Boys Band was quite upset, because I came ahead of his first trombone
player, who had not received the excellent preparation that Bill
Allan had given me. “The Lost Chord” was the favorite solo piece
that Arthur Delamont used with his trumpet on many occasions.</p>
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In 1942 when I attended the UBC (the University of British Columbia),
I played in the Varsity band under the leadership of Arthur Delamont.
Later in the Spring of 1943, because he was short 3 players in the
Kitsilano Boys Band, he invited me with 2 other ex-Kitsies in the
Varsity band to join them in their Spring Tour of Vancouver Island.
This fulfilled a boyhood dream for me. I had since 10 years of age
always wanted to play with the Kitsilano Boys Band, and here this
desire of my heart was fulfilled for me at the age of 19.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">:
Now - how do the above 3 events tie together? Shortly after Oswald
Chambers made a full surrender of his life to God in Dunoon,
Scotland, and after a 6-year death-like struggle for full surrender
and commitment to God, he made a round the world trip with a Japanese
believer being at the time temporarily in Britain. They passed
through Seattle, Washington on the way, which meant a great deal to
him. </span></span>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Ivan
Panin by insight, discerned the reality of “Neighborhoods” in
Bible Numerics. I felt the Spirit nudging me last night to apply this
“Neighborhood principle” to the 4 major Pacific Northwest cities
of Cascadia. Seattle is but 3 hours south of Vancouver, BC, linking
Chamber's World travels to “Seattle's neighbor to the north. Also
by “neighborhoods”, I am now 86 by taking my birthday on July 5,
1923, -3. </span></span>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">A
Russian lady had a vision following 1962, and saw a sign-post with
the name of a city on it pointing West. When she was asked what it
was, she could spell it, but not pronounce it. It spelled out
“SEATTLE”, but she pronounced it "SEEtle". She said
that God revealed to her that in the future, He would bring a
remarkable Visitation to earth preceding the return of His Son, and
its organization would have much to do with Seattle and its 3
surrounding cities! See my mailing under “Archives” on our
Website </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><<a href="http://www.2rbetter.org/">www.2rbetter.org</a>></span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
entitled “Revival Principles”, 2009-06-29. One of the items
touches on a revival principle concerning Samuel's 4 cities linked
with “Cascadia.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Quite
by chance last night I discovered a new Website directed to W. J. Ern
Baxter of Vancouver. For a number of years he pastored “Evangelistic
Tabernacle” of Vancouver, perhaps the largest congregation of the
city at that time. Within this website I came across an article he
wrote concerning the difference between God's covenant and blood, and
His covenant and the Holy Spirit. Baxter pointed out that the blood
aspect high-lighted the “legal” aspect of covenant, but the Holy
Spirit aspect, the </span></span><u><span style="">“vital”</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">.
He felt the average believer who recognized the importance of God's
New Covenant, was yet powerless, because he stayed with the blood
aspect of the Tabernacle's “Outer Court”, instead of going into
the Holy Place, where the Holy Spirit </span></span><u><span style="">vitally</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
brings forth “signs following” through the Gifts of the Spirit in
that Holy Place!</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Do
you agree with his insight? I do.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">So
these 32 events noted above, have the common denominator of
“</span></span><u><span style="">Vancouver,
BC</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">”,-
linking it with Seattle, Portland and Spokane. In August of this
year, key leaders committed to Revival, will be meeting in Portland
to consider God's present-day Revival Principles that will usher in
His last day Visitation to this region prior to the return of His
Son. - J.A.W.</span></span></p>
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