Abide In Me

[jiggyfly]

Abide In Me by A.B. Simpson

Christianity may mean nothing more than a religious system. The Christian life may mean nothing more than an earnest and honest attempt to follow and imitate Christ. The Christ life is more than these and expresses our actual union with the Lord Jesus Christ. He is actually in us as the life and source of all our experience and work. This conception of the highest Christian life is at once simpler and more sublime than any other.

We do not teach that the purpose of Christ's redemption is to restore us to Adamic perfection, for if we had it we should lose it tomorrow. Rather, it is to unite us with the second Adam, and to lift us up to a higher plane than our first parents ever knew. This is the only thing that can reconcile the warring elements of diverse schools of teaching with respect to Christian life. The Spirit of God will lead us to have no controversy respecting mere theories. Rather, we are simply to hold to the person and life of Jesus Christ Himself and the privilege of being united to Him through living in constant dependence upon His keeping power and grace.

 

[stephen]

Abide In Me by A.B. Simpson

Christianity may mean nothing more than a religious system. The Christian life may mean nothing more than an earnest and honest attempt to follow and imitate Christ. The Christ life is more than these and expresses our actual union with the Lord Jesus Christ. He is actually in us as the life and source of all our experience and work. This conception of the highest Christian life is at once simpler and more sublime than any other.

We do not teach that the purpose of Christ's redemption is to restore us to Adamic perfection, for if we had it we should lose it tomorrow. Rather, it is to unite us with the second Adam, and to lift us up to a higher plane than our first parents ever knew. This is the only thing that can reconcile the warring elements of diverse schools of teaching with respect to Christian life. The Spirit of God will lead us to have no controversy respecting mere theories. Rather, we are simply to hold to the person and life of Jesus Christ Himself and the privilege of being united to Him through living in constant dependence upon His keeping power and grace.

we are simply to hold to the person and life of Jesus Christ Himself and the privilege of being united to Him through living in constant dependence upon His keeping power and grace.

Amen dear brother. We are more in Christ that we (mankind) ever were in Adam. All that Adam lost Christ has found....and much more, and we have it also....in Jesus.

"That I might know him" Paul said. And this is our desire lifelong. All else fades ......it may be good, giving joy and happiness, pleasure and satisfaction.....but without the foundation of knowing Him, it crumbles.

Jesus is foundational. Upon this Rock I will build my church

 

[Coconut]

The Christ life ... expresses our actual union with the Lord Jesus Christ.

What an expression!


Gal 2:20 "I no longer live, but Christ lives in me..." now thats union...thats LIFE.

John 15:4 "Abide in me, and I will abide in you.


So simple.

So POWERFUL!