Our Weakness is God's Strength

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BradC

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Concerning Christ... For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you (2 Cor 13:4).

1 Pt 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

Christ was crucified in weakness because of his humanity and we are weak in him because of our humanity, but we live with him by the power of God. The outer man (our humanity involving flesh and blood) is perishing and the more it perishes the more we will have a tendency to live in weakness and frailty. This is why it is a good thing to embrace weakness so that we might receive grace and live by the power of God. To live by the power of God is to be quickened by the word and Spirit in our mortal bodies (Rom 8:11)...

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

1 Cor 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

Rom 4:17 (being dead in trespasses and sins - Eph 2:1,5)
who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

David was a man who was acquainted with human weakness and is found multiple times in the Psalms asking God to quicken him (9 times in Psalm 119, & 71:20, 143:11). This quickening had to do with his spirit, his soul and and his body and is how we are to preserve (attend to carefully) our spirit, soul and body unto the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ (1 Thes 5:23).

John 6:63
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Matt 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God (the quickening breath of God - Job 32:8).

We are born anew as a quickened spirit and we are to live and walk and be led in the Spirit, quickened by the word through the weakness and frailty of our humanity and flesh. As we sow to the Spirit in this way we shall reap of the Spirit everlasting life (Gal 6:8). God's strength that is made perfect in our weakness is the continuation of our lives being quickened and made alive. The prodigal son left that life but returned to it and his father said this in (Luke 15:32)... for this thy brother was dead and is alive (made alive) again (Rom 6:13 as those who are alive from the dead).






 
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Amen and that word perfect means complete.....His strenght is made complete in our weakness....gives hope to all who know they fail occasionally!
 
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BradC

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Amen and that word perfect means complete.....His strenght is made complete in our weakness....gives hope to all who know they fail occasionally!
...and to those who fail much.
 
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FreeNChrist

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"When Christ is within, His strength is ours. Weak in ourselves we are "strong in the Lord and in the power of His might." We are "strong in the grace that is Christ Jesus." Concerning every victory won or work accomplished we thankfully acknowledge, "It is not I, but Christ who dwelleth in me." Concerning every failure and defeat we sorrowfully acknowledge, "It is not Christ, but sin that dwelleth in me." The discouragement arising from futile attempts to live the Christian life is traceable in every case to a lack of dependence upon the power of the Indwelling Christ.”

- JAMES M. CAMPBELL
 

mcubed

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There is a wonderful scripture that says that the rain falls on the just and the unjust. Sometimes I wish that scripture was not true… sometimes I just wish life was the way I wanted it when I want it. There are many hard realities in scripture, for example, when Y-shua you must drink of my blood and eat of my flesh, and those that followed Him said these are hard sayings. Yet each of us knows how hard it can be to live righteous and holy and by faith, even when we are prosecuted, laughed at for His name sake. My biggest weakness is I want to withdraw from life when I don’t like how it treats me. And I don’t mean all holy like, like Y-shua did to get alone with G-d. This is a great post! It reminds me of the great Psalm that that says I will run towards the troop, I can scale the wall (ps. 18:29). This thread came at a great point in time… I do not like my job today, I started a new shift with a new team. They say “we are like a family”…. I feel like the illagenament child of this new family…lol and I had the same 20 yr conversation with my sister today how I stopped being a Jew because of this jesus. I just wish my sister knew this jesus was Y-shua the Messiah. Well, enough of that…;)… weeping only last for the night (my paraphrase… self-pity last for the night) and THANK G-D GOY COMES IN THE MORNING!!!! My great weakness is I want to run and stop living in reality… that’s why this is a great thread, tomorrow reality will still be there but so will this great promise 2 Cor 12:9, 10 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. And JOY WILL COME IN THE MORRNING!!!!! Well… I will go to work in the morning and get paid (always joy there) and not talk to my sister for a good 6 months or more…lol;)
 

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All this sounds neatly packaged, but when God brings us to the end of ourselves to where we abandon hope in self, well...IT HURTS!!!
 
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FreeNChrist

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All this sounds neatly packaged, but when God brings us to the end of ourselves to where we abandon hope in self, well...IT HURTS!!!

Sure does! Grace offends the Pharisee in all of us.

"Grace is the hardest thing for us to be reconciled to, because it implies the renouncing of our pretensions, our power, our pomp and circumstance. It is opposite of everything our 'religious' sentiments are looking for...Grace reveals our natural pride of self-sufficiency, as well as the pride of spiritual progression. Nothing is more devastating to spiritual pride than grace."

- Jacques Ellul