I know you must be thinking… what is she talking about…. There is no “part c” in the Book of Revelation….. Well, I am thinking about this verse in chapter 12:11, And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives unto death.
I have heard songs and preaching on the first two stances of an overcomer, but not of third stance….. and they did not love their lives unto death.
Do you know why? I guess it is a hard saying from the Word of God…. Another one that is silent in today’s Christian slang is Galatian’s 2:20, I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Chapter 14:13 of Revelation states, then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.- Yes, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.
What does this all mean? We aren’t to work anymore? Didn’t Jesus say in John 15: 5, I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
There is a theme throughout the Word of God; it is written in Genesis 17:1, When Abram was ninety- nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.
This theme also is throughout the New Testament….. Find for yourself all the times the word blameless is found in the New Testament…..Then how are we to accomplish such an impossible task? Did our God provide a way or not?
Is there more that He is searching out in us than just believing in Jesus Christ that we won’t go to hell? Are we dead in the Lord? Are we still living in OUR ways and just need a Savior so we can go to heaven and not hell?
Do we mean business with God? What if your fame or what if your name or what if your bank account is counted dead to the world and to the christian world also? Will you still take this Lord to be your Heavenly Husband even beyond death to yourself, through rich and poor, through sickness and health…. beyond this death, because we will never part….
Do we want to take the third stance of Revelation 12:11 as our declaration of dependence on the ALL Sufficient One? Is this our allegiance to our Great Heavenly Husband? Is it?
Oh Lord, reveal our hearts as You, Mighty God, reveal Yourself to us…. May we see our hearts as You see them….. Give us the grace and courage to walk out on the waters in bodacious faith in a Awesome Radical King…. The Finisher of our Faith…. Our Jehovah Jireh… Our Great Provider in the Mount of the Lord.
Jesus Christ is the Finisher of our faith. The Salvation of God is complete. He left nothing undone from the affects of sin….. so if we have something in our lives that does not come from heaven…. What do we do? Accept it? Is it God’s will? Are we accepting less than His best? Or do we wrestle like Jacob did with the Angel of Lord until Jacob got the blessing.
Study Galatians 2:20…. Meditate on His Word today! Rise up sons and daughters of God!
