GOD + O = GOD

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Red33

Red33

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This is the equation for (Jn 3:30)... 'He must increase but I must decrease'. God has a plan to reduce us to nothing so that He can use us in His plan. If our flesh is out of the way, then God can do as He wills without having to deal with us. How many times has God wanted to minister His life in a situation but we were in the way, because of what we wanted and desired to see happen. Paul said it this way in (Gal 2:20)...

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

We must be out of the way for God to minister His life through His Son. We must die daily and be delivered unto death so that Christ can live in our mortal bodies (1Cor 15:31, 2Cor 4:11)... we are ALWAYS being delivered unto death through the plan of God. Sometimes we are so humanly oriented to Christ that we forget that life comes forth out of death. We put human goodness ahead of what God wants to do through the cross in our life. We postpone death in areas of the flesh by making a provision for it so that we can serve God comfortably on our own terms without a cross. There is not a believer that can live as a disciple without a cross. Without Him we can do nothing and through His cross we are reduced to nothing so that Christ becomes all things to all people.
 
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Laodicea

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Even Christ humbled Himself
Philippians 2:5-9
(5) Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
(6) Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
(7) But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
(8) And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
(9) Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

We should humble our self as well
Luke 18:13-14
(13) And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
(14) I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

 
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Forest

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Red33 said:
This is the equation for (Jn 3:30)... 'He must increase but I must decrease'. God has a plan to reduce us to nothing so that He can use us in His plan. If our flesh is out of the way, then God can do as He wills without having to deal with us. How many times has God wanted to minister His life in a situation but we were in the way, because of what we wanted and desired to see happen. Paul said it this way in (Gal 2:20)...

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

We must be out of the way for God to minister His life through His Son. We must die daily and be delivered unto death so that Christ can live in our mortal bodies (1Cor 15:31, 2Cor 4:11)... we are ALWAYS being delivered unto death through the plan of God. Sometimes we are so humanly oriented to Christ that we forget that life comes forth out of death. We put human goodness ahead of what God wants to do through the cross in our life. We postpone death in areas of the flesh by making a provision for it so that we can serve God comfortably on our own terms without a cross. There is not a believer that can live as a disciple without a cross. Without Him we can do nothing and through His cross we are reduced to nothing so that Christ becomes all things to all people.
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We were nothing before the cross, Isa 64:6 and Ps 14:2. Through the cross we are made Holy and without blame, not reduced to nothing. After the cross Cod says that our sins are as far away as the east is from the west and he remembers them no more.Ps 103:12.
 
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