glory to GOD FOR TRUTH Amen ! BY GOD The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. AND THE PARCHED GROUND SHALL BECOME A POOL, and the thirsty land springs of water (Isa. 35:1,6-7). Abundance may mean: a good rain as compared with a dry season. Now if it keeps on steadily, that abundance becomes super abundance - more than enough. And, more-than-enough is floods (Isa. 44:3). But again the term floods can mean: a wonderful, wonderful abundance, almost unknown, as compared with a characteristic dryness of long, long standing. That is what more than means in Gods Word: FLOODS - overflowing, super-abounding! And what has god promised? The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it MORE ABUNDANTLY (Jn. 10:10). LIFE - more abundantly. The root of the word abundant or abound is the Latin abundare meaning to overflow; to rise in waves; that motion of which the wave is a figure - a breaking over, a going beyond limits, a flowing over. Isnt that glorious? LIFE - more abundantly. More than more-than-enough. Floods. To the uttermost! The very image of Gods love and His desire and will. LIFE more-than-enough. Life to swallow up every vestige of the curse in us. Life beyond the life Adam had in the beginning. Redemption - and MORE THAN. All that Adam possessed - plus! Life beyond angelics life. The eternal, holy, divine LIFE OF GOD HIMSELF. Life floods. Floods of life; floods of God! To the dry, and thirsty, and parched ground of human hearts - FLOODS...blessed be the name of the Lord! I suppose that all the arguments and persuasions in the world will not convince some saints of the incontrovertible truth of the words found in Rom. 5:19-20. For just as by one mans disobedience the many were constituted sinners, so by one Mans obedience the many WILL BE CONSTITUTED RIGHTEOUS - made acceptable to God, brought into right standing with Him. But then Law came in, only to expand and increase the trespass (making it more apparent and exciting opposition). But where sin increased and abounded, GRACE HAS SURPASSED IT AND INCREASED THE MORE AND SUPERABOUNDED. The King James Version says simply, Where sin abounded, GRACE DID MUCH MORE ABOUND. No one will dispute that SIN abounded, or that it overflowed, spilling out of Edens fair garden and saturating the whole earth and all men. Abound means overflow - constantly filling and running over like a spring of water or ocean wave. Ah, yes, sin overflowed, flowed all over, flooded the world, permeated the minds and temperaments and nature of all men everywhere, until the seed of Adams disobedience has grown and increased through six long millenniums in the field of the world and has now come to horrible fullness. Wicked man and seducers are waxing worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. The grapes of wrath are not only ripe, but they are over-ripe, as the original implies in Rev. 14:15. The fullness of sin and death is such that no flesh could survive the desolation that lies ahead unless the Lord Himself were to cut the days shorts. We recognize this fact. Men in all walks of life recognize it. Men in high places recognize it. The hearts of men who know what the score really is in this treacherous hour are failing them for fear, as they contemplate the things that are about to come upon the world in this generation. But what about that order seed that was cast into the earth, the second man, the last Adam, the OBEDIENT SON? Are we going to credit the disobedience of Adam with having more power and authority than the Christ? Are we going to infer that the law of sin and death has even greater potential than the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus? Are we going to believe that the law of sin and death has the power and ability to stretch forth its poisonous tentacles into every area of human-kind, to the complete perversion of body, soul, and spirit, and then at the same time draw back in unbelief at the revelation of the Word concerning the law of the Spirit of life (more abundantly) in Christ Jesus? Five times in Romans 5 does the apostle Paul use the expression much more relative to the POWER OF GRACE OF GOD, IN CONTRAST TO THE SIN OF ADAM. Shall we not believe that there is a much greater and a much more potential in the redeeming grace of Christ, than there is in the law of sin and death? Is there not a much more effectual working of grace of God in the last Adam, than there was of the power of disobedience in the first Adam? In other words, are we going to honor the power of Adam and Satan ABOVE THE REDEEMING POWER OF CHRIST?
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:39:19 +0000
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