HE Left Everything !

The Association of the Covenant People - Burnaby, B.C. Canada

November 2013

HE LEFT EVERYTHING

by Joyce Allen

Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 4:7 that if we have accepted Jesus Christ to dwell in us, our body, the earthen vessel, is the abiding place of the Holy Spirit and that we show forth His power, not our own.

How can we have the complete filling of our lives with this power? The desire of every sincere Christian is to be able to live victoriously for Him and be freed from the bondage of sin. Jesus says: "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled."  So our desire must be to hunger and thirst after righteousness before everything else, it must be our daily prayer, and He has promised we shall be filled. 'Ask and it shall be given,' He tells us.

Just as our salvation is promised to us (John 1:12) and we accept in faith that He has forgiven and saved us, so He has promised us all things that pertain unto life and godliness by His divine power (2 Pet. 1:3); and we must accept this if we want the complete filling of our lives with the Holy Spirit, If we truly desire Jesus to dwell in us and make His abiding place in us, then our earthen vessels must be presented empty and clean.

Take a jug half filled with mud and stone, try to fill it with fresh clear water and it is only possible to fill it in part, for it is already half filled with something else. So it is with our earthen vessels; we must let Him root out sin and self completely so that we can come to Him to receive the full measure of the Holy Spirit that God has promised. We identify ourselves with Christ on the cross so that we can say with Paul: "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me" (Gal. 2:20).

When Christ came down to earth to save fallen man He divested Himself of every divine right and He "emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, be-

coming obedient even unto death, yea, the dfeath of the cross" (Phil. 2:7,8).     

In these verses we realize what it meant for Him to save us. He left everything and became empty that He might give us eternal life through His obedience unto the death on the cross. So we must cling to nothing and no reservations if we desire to be filled and to be satisfied with the fullness of the Spirit Jesus said: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" (Matt 5:48). The Greek word used is "telios" and it means complete. When Christ dwells in us we have the perfect and complete relationship with Him so that we can have the power to bring forth fruit to perfection (completion). It is not, then, sinless perfection but completeness with Him: "Ye are dead, and your life is hid,with Christ in God" (Col. 3:3)1 In the parable of the vine we learn what the result is if He dwells in us and we in Him. We bring forth fruit (Eph. 5:9), and we see that the fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance (Gal. 5:22,23), and our lives should show forth these fruits by the power of His Holy Spirit Who dwells in us and makes us perfect.

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THERE  IS  A  FALSE  DOCTRINE  GOING  AROUND, EVEN  IN  SOME  OF  THE  7TH  DAY  SABBATH  CHURCHES;  IT  IS  A  HERESY  TO  PUT  IT  BLUNTLY! 

IT  IS  THE  TEACHING  THAT  JESUS  WAS  NOT  "GOD."  IT  IS  THE  TEACHING  THAT  THERE  IS  ONLY  ONE  INDIVIDUAL  KNOWN  AS  "GOD."  IT  IS  THE  TEACHING  THAT  JESUS  WAS  A  MERE  MAN  FILLED WITH  MORE  OF  THE  SPIRIT  THAN  WE  HAVE.  THIS  TEACHING  GOES  AS  FAR  AS  SAYING  JESUS  NEVER  EXISTED  UNTIL  CONCEIVED  IN  MARY'S  WOMB.

THE  CHURCH  OF  GOD  SEVENTH  DAY  OUT  OF  DENVER,  TAUGHT  THIS  IDEA  FOR  100  YEARS  AND  MORE,  UNTIL  THE  MIDDLE  1980s.  THEN  THEY  CAME  TO  SEE  THEIR  ERROR.  THEY  WROTE  A  VERY  FINE  BOOKLET  ON  THE  SUBJECT,  CORRECTING  THEMSELVES  AND  OTHERS  WHO  HOLD  THIS  FALSE  HERESY.  THEY  WILL  SEND  IT  TO  YOU  FREE  OF  CHARGE.

THE  MESSIAH  WAS  TO  BE  CALLED  "IMMANUEL"  IN  THE  BOOK  OF  ISAIAH.  IMMANUEL  MEANS  GOD  WITH  US!

JESUS  DID  EXIST  WITH  GOD  AND  WAS  GOD (JOHN 1),  AND  HE  BECAME  FLESH.  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT  SPEAKS  OF  A "GODHEAD"  -  GOD  THE  FATHER  IS  GOD,  AND  JESUS  THE  CHRIST  IS  GOD.  LET  ME  PUT  IT  THIS  WAY.... BOTH  HAVE  THE  SURNAME  "GOD"  YES  TWO  INDIVIDUAL  BEINGS  OF  THE  GODHEAD,  BOTH  WITH  THE  NAME  "GOD,"

ALL  OF  THIS  I  PROVE  WITH  IN-DEPTH  STUDIES  "ALL  ABOUT  GOD"  ON  MY  WEBSITE.

ONLY  A  GOD  BEING  COULD  TAKE,  ATONE  FOR  THE  SINS  OF  EVERYONE  WHO  HAS  EVER  LIVED  ON  THIS  EARTH.  ANYONE  LESS  THAN  GOD  COULD  ONLY  ATONE  FOR  HIS  SINS,  OR  PUT  ANOTHER  WAY,  COULD  ONLY  ATONE  FOR  ONE  PERSON'S  SINS  AND  NO  MORE.

THE  GOD  MEMBER  OF  THE  GODHEAD,  WAS  WILLING  TO  PUT  ASIDE  THE  POWER,  THE  GLORY,  THE  ETERNITY,  OF  BEING  GOD,  AND  CAME  IN  THE  FLESH [GOD  WITH  US - IMMANUEL]  TO  LIVE  A  SINLESS  LIFE,  TO  DIE,  SHED  HIS  BLOOD,  FOR  ALL  SINS  EVER  DONE  BY  ALL  PEOPLE.

YOU  NEED  TO  KNOW  THE  TRUTH  ABOUT  GOD  -  THE  GODHEAD  WANTS  YOU  TO  KNOW  ABOUT  THEMSELVES.  YOU'LL  FIND  THIS  WONDERFUL  TRUTH  ON  MY  WEBSITE.

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