Identified in Christ
Immanuel Sun opens the meeting by talking about the sin of a spiritual man believing that God’s purpose is for the personal fulfillment of one’s own calling. This is not true. In fact, it’s a sin to approach God in such a self-centered mindset. God’s purpose is for his people, not for your personal fulfillment in your calling. It makes very little difference if God made you an Abraham, a Moses, a David, etc. if the purpose of God, in your understanding, forsakes the fact that God’s primary concern is for his people. Our desire should never be to embrace the call of God for the sake of our own personal fulfillment. A mature son of God would know better. God had to reduce Elijah because he had a mindset that lead him to believe that “I’m the one!” This is the wrong motivation to engage in the work of God.
Immanuel also shares about some life changing experiences in the early days of his walk with the Lord, wherein significant humbling took place. In order for us to mature in God, and be raised up in His household, it is essential that we completely lose our own identity. This is not something that we can do on our own. It takes a submission to the way of God in how he deals with a man to strip him of the identity he has given to himself. It is as if we have to agree to lay ourselves down on the operating table to let the Father perform the “surgery” in his way that is necessary to cleanse us of our misguided understanding of our own identity. The only identity that is of any value to God is our identity in Christ. It doesn’t matter how much you know, how gifted you may be, how good others believe you to be- the only thing of any value to God is our identity in Christ. All else is nothing more than filthy rags in the sight of God. By God’s design and intension, this is a very humbling reality to the son of God who has not submitted himself to this process.
Group Fellowship Meeting – March 5, 2017
Kingdom Age
www.kingdomage.org
Port Angeles, WA
Olympic Peninsula
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