Kindle Notes & Highlights
Read between
May 20 - May 26, 2020
a transformed believer has moved to a new location.
In Matthew 11:28-30 Christ refers to both kinds of rest. “Given rest” is experienced when one simply comes to Jesus. “Found rest” is experienced after taking His yoke, His rule, over one’s life and learning Christ within the new state. There are two invitations in that passage. The first one is to come to Christ and receive the rest He gives. It is temporary in nature. The second invitation is to “take [His] yoke upon” your life where one finds rest within his or her soul. The rest the believer has labored to enter is too delightful to disturb with worry or hurry. Nor does a transformed
...more
The Transmuting Power of Light
Light wants to come in because that is its nature. You do not have to beg sunlight into your home--you only have to part the curtains. The same is true with Christ’s Light. All you have to do is allow God to have His way with you and in comes the Light. The curtains of the carnal-mind do not part easily because “the carnal-mind is enmity against God” (Rom. 8:6). The problem is not with the Light, but with the curtains. When one is deeply changed, the “curtains” part through the vastly superior power of the new spirit.
Willpower is part of the unrenewed soul.
The curtains are parted by the effect of God’s grace operating in the renewing soul. Light penetrates the soul by the Light shining forth from the believer’s spirit where everything is already new and where godly desires originate (2 Cor. 5:17).
He is waiting for your acknowledgement of your weakness before He reveals to you His strength (2 Cor. 12:9).
You have the choice to submit or to resist.
It is when you truly give up and let God have His way that you become childlike before Him. Passive in His Presence you become still inside.
When the soul becomes passive through inner stillness, God can work on it.
Real change cannot come from you no matter how hard you may try to change. All true change, the kind that brings eternal reward, is the work of God inside the one being changed. It is divinely initiated work creating the desire to change as we simply allow the Holy Spirit to do whatever He wants. John observed that darkness is weaker than light (John 1:5 WNT). Jesus said, “Without Me you can do nothing” (John 15:5). In the Greek the word “nothing” means nothing. The same as it means in life. We are helpless without Him.
The Light of Christ not only transforms but also transmutes.
That is, as the Light of Christ transforms the sin-principled soul wherein lies darkness, it transmutes the darkness in the soul into Light. The result is an enlightened...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
Where there was once prolonged regret for the stubble and chaff, there is now gratitude for everything gone through to obtain the One Pearl of Great Price
In doing so, this man experienced the reality of the Kingdom of God.
What do you have to sell that is of any spiritual value? Nothing.
To the unrenewed you, however, this garbage is highly valuable, just as the homeless in our society value other people’s trash.
What Do You Exalt in Your Heart?
All these things are detestable in God’s sight. Why does He detest them? It is because these are the very things for which men sell their souls. They gladly give up eternal reward for temporary gain—what loss!
What he gave up gladly was exchanged for the joy of intimately knowing Christ more deeply within his spirit.
Because Paul allowed his soul to be transformed, Christ was magnified through his body (Phil. 1:20).
Identification with Outward Functions P...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
One gives up inner attachment to everything that is exalted among self-ruled men.
Mammon is not only money obtained through greed, but anything you esteem as valuable, but is merely wood, hay, and straw.
Inner Attachments Produce Suffering
It is a matter of the heart in every case. God knows what is in each of our hearts, and will tolerate no competitors for His people’s affection--no idols--if they want to enter His Kingdom.
Where is Your Treasure
We know we have been raised with Christ and are seated with Him (Col. 3:1, 2).
Attachments to Mental Goals Produce Misery
When old age approaches, most people realize they have ended up the same way their parents had.
Disillusionment is based, as the word suggests, on illusion. The “dreams” people pursue are illusions, not truth. Dreams turn into nightmares as loss is experienced in one or more of its various forms.
Have you had enough of surface life to know that it is, in itself, ultimately unfulfilling?
loss provides a great opportunity for Kingdom advancement,
Heaven is not the realization of earthly ambitions!
Heaven’s wealth is the Being of God and our union with Him.
You can experience the reality of Heaven now in your spirit. You do not have to wait until your body has died. You do have to wait until self has died in your soul.
Inner attachments to outward things--possessions, achievements, health, and others’ opinions of you--are yielded up to God in the surrendered state of spiritual life.
all that is “under the sun” is an illusion of reality but not authentic reality.
Hebrews says the external realm of earthly life is “a shadow” and Paul says Christ is “the substance” of present life (Col. 2:17; Heb. 10:1).
How is a shadow, which is all surface life is, capable of fulfilling the deep yearning...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
The reality is that your lovely home is dust in another form—temporary and not permanent.
What is there in all of material creation to be attached to? Nothing.
Give up Nothing for Everything
When you relinquish your identity of who you are based on your function or role in surface life you are free to gain the true knowled...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
nothing can compare to the present daily state of my soul in this Kingdom realm of transformed life.
How I desire that every believer come into his or her inheritance in the present reality of Christ’s Kingdom.
You Can Go Deeper
The greater your letting go of temporary identities and heart attachments to all external things, including inner dependency upon all its dearest persons (family and friends), the deeper your spirit penetrates the Eternal.
you have lost nothing, because you truly had nothing permanent in surface life.
Why not give up your attachment to it and end your misery?
