Back in 2009-2010 I compiled a collection of 50+ writings about overcoming, organic church and the concept of eternal rewards. All these documents, PDF files and such are all virus-free. I hope you find something interesting or at least thought provoking.
Overcomers are not people who view themselves as inherently
righteous or more righteous than the next bloke. Overcomers are people
that have in essence given up all hope on securing their own
righteousness.
Overcomers set aside all hope of living righteously on
their own strength by their "giving up" on their own self-righteous
flesh/soul and thus turn by faith to a daily cross of obedience by
acknowledging that only by Christ in them, by absolute denial of self
and cooperating humbly with the sanctifying Spirit of God will they ever
see the sanctification God wants.
Overcomers have finally taken a total reality check between
themselves and Jesus. They die daily, crucifying their soulish
strivings, and submit to God's will through a real type of trial &
suffering of obedience. IT IS WORK TO DIE! To learn how their Savior
learned to submit ALL to the the Father is not a walk in the park. But
setting one's face to the unseen city, the coming kingdom and the joy of
the Lord's rule -- ah, now that truly brings a certain fellowship with
Jesus -- that the weekly church pew session or sunday school
quarterly-driven class meeting rarely offers. You want life? You want to
taste the reality of the Spirit's closeness? Then walk the walk of the
Overcomer Jesus and die to yourself.
There's no bragging here, no self-righteousnes being
polished, no room to EVER say, "Yo look at my righteousnesses now
dudes." What righteouness is seen will be CHRIST's! His resurrection
life keeps the overcomer going day by day, whether suffering in a
communist prison cell like Watchman Nee or doing the olde 9 to 5
suffering mistreatment daily under an ungodly supervisor at work.
The Lord God of Israel sees it all and one day we will
stand before the Bema Seat of Christ and he will judge each of us for
the works of this righteous dieing to self. Some will suffer loss and
taste of the Lord's loving disciplinary exclusion. We reap what we sow.
Others, the overcomers will stand, reflecting the righteous obedience of
many sufferings they chose to accept in this life. Christ will already
know them in a special fellowship He too suffered right up to Calvary
itself. These overcomers that died to live will inherit the kingdom, now
full of servants made now to serve the nations, to serve their God as
Christ served the Father. The last are now the first. The meek inherit
the earth. The ruling and reigning is not an overcomer's goal. It is to
see their Lord face to face and see Him smile and hear Him say, "Well
done . . ." That is the joy of the overcomer! It's a love thing really, a
Bride thing, a Marriage thing. We are saved
not to wallow in grace but to become bondservants TODAY and HEAR and
KEEP and DO the will of the Lord -- daily. This is the overcoming faith,
that so great a faith.
Christ matured in us by obedience is the ONLY righteousness
that will stand. All the religious stuff we busy ourselves with after
we are saved just may count for one big fat zero -- think about it. The
Hebrews surely kept doing the religious gig in the wilderness but did it
get them into Canaan? No. Their unbelief and religion did not help them
inherit what was theirs. They refused to face death and believe God --
so most of them wandered their religious lives right into the dust of
the desert. Only Joshua, Caleb and the young generation entered into the
rest, the promised land that their stubbornly fearful and religiously
jaded parents were excluded from.
This is still happening today. Read Hebrews without a
paradigm in place and you will see overcoming and kingdom exclusion. It
is the best explanation of this confusing book.
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