SATURDAY JULY 11, 2020.
SUBJECT: BECOMING GOD’S SUPERMAN!
Memory verse: "Most Assuredly, I say to you, He who believes in Me, the works that I do He will do also; and greater works than these He will do, because I go to My Father.” (John 14 vs 12.)
READ: Mark 11 vs 22 - 26:
11:22: So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God,
11:23: For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
11:24: Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
11:25: “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.
11:26: But If you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.
INTIMATION:
God's Superman is the “New Creation” man recreated in Christ Jesus; he confessed with his mouth the Lord Jesus and believed in his heart that God raised Him from the dead, and is saved (Romans 9 vs 10). He knows, and fully harnesses, his inheritance in Christ at recreation. It’s noteworthy that the recreated man (the believer) has that same spirit that was at work in Jesus, the Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead. And that same Spirit will be at work in him and enable him to do what Christ did and even more, working in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus said these things because there were no believers in the time while Jesus Christ was preaching. They were Jews under law. The believing ones came into being at Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit descended upon men. It means that a believer is a New Creation Man. The New Creation Man is a partaker of God's nature. He is really an incarnation. He has received the nature and life of God. Then he invites the Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead, who came the day of Pentecost, to make His home in his body. This man not only has God's nature, but has God actually living in him.
This believer, this new creation in Christ, is a child of Deity. He stands before the world as a very branch of the vine. He is taking the place of Jesus in the world. This man is with God's nature, and God is indwelling him. And he has been given a legal right, and the power of attorney to the use of the Name of Jesus, the name that is above every other name in heaven, on earth, and beneath the earth, and at the mention of the name every knee bows. If this doesn't constitute a superman, then I don't know what a superman is
In the passage we read today, Jesus used the illustration of moving the mountain to show that God can do the impossible with the ‘New Creation’ man. He has faith in God, hence he pleases God (Mark 11 vs 22; Hebrews 11 vs 6). God answers prayer of the believer when he prays in faith, believing in his heart that he will receive his petition, and his must be clean and free from grudges. And when his request is for the good of the kingdom, he receives his petition and much more is added to him. When you pray a selfless prayer that is good for the kingdom of God, you are praying according to His Will, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness” (Matthew 6 vs 33), and you rest assured you will receive your petition because you pray according to His Will (First John 5 vs 14 - 15).
Prayer: Abba, Father, thank You for all You wrought for me in redemption, and the gift of Your Holy Spirit. By grace You adopted me as Your son, and recreated me a superman in Christ Jesus to do exploits on earth. My faith is anchored in You. I pray that nothing will take away my trust and faith in You, in Jesus’ Name, Amen.
PRAISE THE LORD!
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