Living in Peace: The Transformative Power of the Spirit

The Christian is a man who's arrived. I'm not seeking for truth in this pulpit this evening. I'm here because I found it. Can the blind lead the blind? Of course not, as our love says, they'll both fall into the ditch. The Christian's not an end of seeking for truth. He's a man who's found it, found by it if you like. I don't get but all I know is that he's found it. [00:25:38]

The Christian is a man who is living at the center of a hurricane. I understand it at the center of the hurricane there is a point of complete rest. Everything's twirling round and round, not at the center. That's fixed. So is the Christian. So the Apostle Paul is able to say in nothing be anxious. [00:29:58]

The Christian is a man who can please God and who does please God. In other words, he is just repeating what he said in the first half of us for that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us right the people in whom the righteousness of the law is fulfilled the people who please God. [00:37:20]

The Christian is a man who has come to see and to know God, God as He is, God as He has revealed Himself. And the result of that is that he loves God. No man can be a Christian without realizing this, that in spite of his having been the rebel that he was, in spite of all that was so true of him in sin, the perversion and the thousand sins, the pollution, in spite of the fact that he deserved nothing but hell, that God so loved him. [00:13:46]

The Christian is a man who has got life and peace, yes, and primarily peace with God. What does that mean? It means this: here is a man who really has come to a knowledge of God as God is. The first thing that is true about the Christian is that he is the only man who has a true conception of God. [00:11:09]

The Christian is a man who is being sanctified. He's already sanctified in Christ Jesus, but he is progressively and increasingly being sanctified, and he is one who, because he is in Christ, will finally be completely sanctified, entirely sanctified. He will be faultless, he will be blameless, he will be without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. [00:42:35]

The Christian is a man who has found this place of rest and of peace as regards his essential personality. There's no longer any division there. Very well then, he has peace with God, and he has peace within, but he also has peace with others. [00:35:52]

The Christian is a man who delights in the law of God. Did you notice 1 John 5:3? His commandments are not grievous, says John. That's the Christian. His commandments are not grievous. They are grievous to everybody else, but they're not grievous to the Christian. A man who objects to the Ten Commandments is not a Christian. [00:18:13]

The Christian is a man who has got an inner tranquility. Life and peace. What do you mean? Well, I mean this: the Christian is a man who is living at the center of a hurricane. I understand it at the center of the hurricane there is a point of complete rest. Everything's twirling round and round, not at the center. That's fixed. [00:30:13]

The Christian is a man who has found rest in the truth. That's the glorious thing about it. A Christian is a man who's arrived. I'm not seeking for truth in this pulpit this evening. I'm here because I found it. Can the blind lead the blind? Of course not, as our love says, they'll both fall into the ditch. [00:22:50]

The Christian is a man who is no longer in the position of Romans 7:24, "Oh wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me?" Now that's a central division, as the Apostle pointed out to us. With the mind, you see, I serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin. [00:32:28]

The Christian is a man who is at peace with God and because he's at peace with God, there is this wonderful possibility of the righteousness of the law being fulfilled in him, but only in him, which is exactly what Paul had said in verse 4, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. [00:35:52]