Frustrated....

[Jermyn Davidson]

Who wants to be broken?

I would rather be whole!

[mfblume]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

Who wants to be broken?

I would rather be whole!

Without brokenness, there can be no subsequent wholeness that God wants in us. That is why we take up our crosses and follow Him in self-denial. The brokenness is in regard the flesh barrier in our lives. We are like the alabaster box. There is the Spirit inside us that is hindered from coming forth like sweet perfume to the world around us. But the flesh of the box stops that from happening. When it is broken -- the outward man perishing -- the inward man (spirit) is renewed and comes forth to touch lives around us.

2 Cor 4 teaches that God shone his light of knowledge of Jesus in our hearts. And He said this is a TREASURE... the light in us. But the treasure of this light is in earthen vessels.

2 Corinthians 4:6-7 KJV (6) For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (7) But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.


So what has to happen with light in earthen vessels? Remember Gideon and the torches inside the clay jars. What had to happen for the light to shine out of those torches? the clay jars had to break. That's just what troubles in life do for us... in a beneficial way!

2 Corinthians 4:8-10 KJV (8) We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; (9) Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; (10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

Our outward man is the fleshly jar that experiences the dying of Jesus so that HIS LIFE -- the treasure of light in us -- might shone out!

The light is Jesus' life inside the body. And the body experiences hardships so the LIGHT LIFE can shine out!

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by mfblume

Without brokenness, there can be no subsequent wholeness that God wants in us. That is why we take up our crosses and follow Him in self-denial. The brokenness is in regard the flesh barrier in our lives. We are like the alabaster box. There is the Spirit inside us that is hindered from coming forth like sweet perfume to the world around us. But the flesh of the box stops that from happening. When it is broken -- the outward man perishing -- the inward man (spirit) is renewed and comes forth to touch lives around us.

2 Cor 4 teaches that God shone his light of knowledge of Jesus in our hearts. And He said this is a TREASURE... the light in us. But the treasure of this light is in earthen vessels.

2 Corinthians 4:6-7 KJV (6) For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (7) But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.


So what has to happen with light in earthen vessels? Remember Gideon and the torches inside the clay jars. What had to happen for the light to shine out of those torches? the clay jars had to break. That's just what troubles in life do for us... in a beneficial way!

2 Corinthians 4:8-10 KJV (8) We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; (9) Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; (10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

Our outward man is the fleshly jar that experiences the dying of Jesus so that HIS LIFE -- the treasure of light in us -- might shone out!

The light is Jesus' life inside the body. And the body experiences hardships so the LIGHT LIFE can shine out!

Excellent teaching!