THE SUBJECTIVE LIFE--Part 7

MARK 1;40-42--''And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him,If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will;be thou clean. And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.''
Leprosy pictures the character and consequences of sin.

Although the men in The Synagogue, refused Divine Sovereignty,the leper submitted to it.
This event followed Christ's Baptism-The people maravelled at His Word-look with me at Luke
4;24-27-[Turn].

Now, a message on Grace, in general, will be tolerated almost everywhere. But a message on
Grace, in Particular, is hated by everyone, who embraces Decision, or Gospel Regeneration-

Proof-Luke 4;28-[TURN].
The leper knew God was able to heal him-but didn't know that He was WILLING TO HEAL HIM.

Luke 5;12--''And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy who seeing Jesus, fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.''
His healing depended on God's Will, NOT HIS OWN.

Luke 4;29--''And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill, whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down head long;''--
This shows the hatred of the Religionists, for The Doctrine of Election of Grace.

The leper, by God's Grace, had surpassed the religious training of Christ's enemies.
Unlike Those, who are the corrupt fruit of easy believingism, the leper didn't presume anything;
but he learned experientially, that he had been cleansed.

By Grace, he knew that, The Old Sin Nature had been born out of the source of the flesh-
Luke 5;12-13--[TURN].
His Physical Healing demonstrated His Spiritual Cleansing, on the basis of Jesus Christ's Sacrifice, to be made upon The Cross-

Mark 1;43-44-''And he straitly charged him, and forthwith sent him away; And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man; but go thy way; shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.''
The things presented to the priest, had the same relation to the cleansed leper, as gladly receiving The Word, Baptism, and continuing in Doctrine.

The Person, who has been born out of God, can testify that he has a spiritual nature, existing in a continuous state.
John 3;6-[Turn].

Roman Catholicism has a doctrine, called ''Immaculate Conception,'' which means Mary didn't have a depraved human nature, for she had no original sin.
But, The Bible proves Mary rejoiced in God, Her Saviour-Luke 1;46-47-[Turn].

If Mary was free from Original Sin, why did she speak of her purification-
Luke 2;21-22--''And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcizing of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;''

Mary, like us, was associated with that which is ''born of the flesh is flesh.''
Apart from The Holy Spirit coming upon her, Mary never could have conceived, and brought forth The Sinless Person, Who assumed human nature, in her womb.
Christ's human nature was from God The Father, through The Son, and by The Holy Spirit.

The Holy One came into Personal contact with sins, only by Divine Imputation, in Gethsemane, and on The Cross.
Upon The Cross, Jesus Christ, vicariously and sacrificially bore sin and sins, on behalf of The Elect.

A Person, with God-given Faith, believes, but cannot comprehend it, by reasoning.

According to Luke 1;26-35, Mary had to be informed, of The Gift of Grace.
And its significance was confusing to her, as it is, to all, who receive God's undeserved favor.

GRACE IS NOT A REWARD FOR FAITH, BUT IT PRODUCES FAITH.
To miss The Meaning of Grace, is to miss The Total Revelation of God to Man.

Christians can relate to being born of the flesh and of the Spirit.
Having been born of the Spirit, we have a new nature;
however, we still have our old sin nature, which by Grace, we are not under its dominion.

Flesh alone satisfies flesh; Spirit alone, satisfies Spirit.

The more Spiritual. the worship by Christians, the less attractive, it is, to the flesh.

ORDER OF WORSHIP

I. Prayer is 1st, because by The Spirit of Adoption, we cry, ''Abba, Father'' [Romans 8;15].
We approach God by agency of The Holy Spirit within-Romans 8;26-27-[Turn].

II. Worship is not in the realm of Spiritual Things-John 4;20-27-[Turn].
It is in the sphere of The Renewed Spirit of Man.

III. Worship is the source of power for service and warfare-its absence signifies the absence of acceptable service.

The Son came to seek and save the lost.
The Holy Spirit regenerates the ones, for whom Christ died.
The Father seeks true Worshipers.

Worship signifies reverence, honor, and adoration. It agrees with Him, Who is worshiped.
The Spirit Alone, can give the renewed Person, the knowledge of what is right or wrong.


Worship is Spiritual, when the door of the new heart is closed to all intruders, and open to God's
Truth.

Since God is Spirit, we must worship Him with our renewed spirits, according to God's Revealed
Truth. God is Spiritual by nature.
He is nonmaterial substance of a pure, unmixed essence, and not limited by material substance, or nature.
His essence is Indivisible.

Since God is Spirit, our approach and apprehension of Him, must be spiritual in its character;
I.E. Must have A Spiritual Nature-Must be born again.

THE THEORY THAT MAN COOPERATES IN BEING BORN AGAIN BY BELIEVING IS HERESY.
Two persons cannot cooperate, unless they are equal in rank, and occupy the same relative position.
Therefore God and Man can never work together, in either the purposing, purchasing, or applying of Christ's Redemptive Work.

6. NECESSITY FOR REGENERATION
John 3;7-8-[Turn].
There are 3 basic views of The New Birth;
1. PELAGIAN-What must I do, to be saved/
2. CONCURRENT-Man cooperates with God to bring it about.
3. FREE GRACE-Salvation is all of God.

Christ didn't teach, doing and leaving undone. His principle was of being and receiving.
The new work is created, before it can be lived.

There's nothing in John 3;1-8 that says that Christ changes the old nature.
Regeneration IS NOT CHANGING THE OLD NATURE, BUT IT IS THE IMPARTATION OF A
GOD-LIKE NATURE.

The Lord gave us The Principle of Spiritual Life, in The New Birth, and by the power, of that life,
He enables us, to overcome The Old Nature, that remains in Sin.

John 3;7--''Marvel not that, I said unto thee, ye must be born again.'' The Word, ''MUST, is used in connection with Man's Duty.

But man has no more to do with His Spiritual Birth, as he did, with his Physical Birth.

Every physical birth, produces a life, that didn't previously exist, except in purpose.

The Birth out of The Spirit is a person's coming into existence, as a Christian, who didn't exist before, except in God's Eternal Covenant of Grace.
Birth from above is supernatural, instantaneous, invisible, and eternal.

Now, Get this truth; NO WHERE DOES THE BIBLE SAY, TO BE ''BORN OF GOD'' IS MAN'S
DUTY.
Confusion about the subjects of God's Sovereignty and Man's Birth from Above, is evidenced, by
people who say, ''The Sinner must invite Christ into his heart,'' and ''Open Your Heart's Door, and let Christ come in.''
These Statements are totally UN-SCRIPTURAL, but not as absurd as that, given by these, who give lip serviced to God's Sovereignty in Regeneration.
''Don't wait to think about The New Birth until you understand it, as Nicodemus did, or you may never experience it''.

The 1st statements are made by people, who believe, that the lost sinners are active, in The New
Birth.
The last statement is declared by those who say, God takes the initiative in The New Birth, but they refute their declaration in discussing it. These talk out of both sides of their mouth.

In Verse 7, Christ said in effect, to Nicodemus, ''Don't wonder because I said unto you; it's necessary for all of you to be born from above.''
VERSE 7 DOESN'T REFER TO MAN'S DUTY, BUT IT REFERS TO GOD'S PURPOSE.

All of God's Chosen Ones will be born from Above, thus making one flock with one shepherd of both Jews and Gentiles.

ACTS 13;48-[TURN].
God's Purpose determines that The Elect shall believe, and His Purpose shall be fully accomplished.

The Lord closed His discourse on The Necessity of The New Birth by showing how sovereignly and mysteriously, it is accomplished-John 3;8-[TURN].
As God breathed physical life into man, formed out of dust [Genesis 2;7] so The Holy Spirit breathes spiritual life, into whom He desires.

You see, Heaven is a prepared place for a people, purposed by God, in Eternity Past.
Christ's work on the cross in time, was God''s provision for accomplishing His Purpose.
The application of the purpose by The Holy Spirit, is the beginning of Spiritual life, in the sheep.

Regeneration is not the result of The Spirit's use of means [Conversion is].
No desire for the Word exists in the spiritually dead person.
The new life is not implanted because man perceives God's Truth, but he perceives it for his life.

GOD'S PURPOSE does not begin when one understands truth.
Regeneration; is the result of God's Purpose, is complete in itself, as a single act, and is never repeated. it's synoyms are quickening, awakening, make alive, the new birth.