The Way of Escape (Ever Increasing Glory Book 2)

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Lisa Taylor is a single mom who relies on God to get her through her everyday trials of which there are many. Still, she is secure in the love of Jesus. Then one day he finds a purse while jogging past the football field. Hidden in a Field is about romance. Hidden in a Field is about mystery. Hidden in a Field is available from Kindle or Nook. Greg Taylor has a problem. He is crazy about Chauncette Dupree and she is everything wrong for him. Chauncette has a problem. But that is not what the psalmist is talking about.

He knows that this keeping, sanctifying, yearning, loving Spirit will never let him go should the psalmist try, at a time of sinful abandon, to flee from him.

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God met him in a storm. Yes, God is everywhere, but God is present in grace and blessing in certain places, in the heart of the believer, and where two or three are gathered in his name, and in the means of grace, in the gospel offer and in heaven. That is what Paul is talking about here. We sing the hymn of John Fawcett:. Thy presence, gracious God, afford: Prepare us to receive Thy word: Now let Thy voice engage our ear, And faith be mixed with what we hear.

Thus, Lord, Thy waiting servants bless, And crown the gospel with success. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there the captive leaps to lose his chains. It is an absolutely basic New Testament assertion. This is the birthright of every single Christian. Wherever the saving Spirit of Christ is found there is freedom. Now, it is true that not every Christian understands or realises that he is free. When the American slaves were granted freedom they had to be told clearly and forcefully about this reality.

They had been slaves for so long that their biggest problem was an on-going slave mentality. The New Testament letters are telling Christians constantly of the privileges that are theirs which they are not enjoying because they are ignorant of them. All the privileges and the implications for their lives are being opened up. If you are a Christian, that is, if you are made alive and indwelt by the Spirit of God, you are a free person. What does that mean? He look at his fellow Jews, his kinsmen according to the flesh, and he pitied them.

If they were conscientious they were off to Jerusalem three times a year. They would use their time there to make sacrifices for their sins. It was the only place where there was an altar. So they accumulated guilt until they could get to the temple and buy the animal for sacrifice. Then there was circumcision and there were the food laws.

They were total failures, and the next visit to the temple was the only place of confession of sin where sacrifice could be offered. But it never ended, that pattern of new sin and guilt and new sacrifices. Wales has been looking, at the beginning of , at 50 million people in India thinking that if they had washed themselves in the river Ganges at such times in a stellar calendar their personal guilt could be washed away. Slaves to a false religion. They had jettisoned all their religion, but that had given them no more freedom to love and serve God and man. Then the Messiah comes and established a new covenant by his life and death.

What freedom he provides:.

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All that those symbols had once represented he has, all by himself, fulfilled. That bondage has come to an end. You are free from all of that. There is absolutely none left. No anger and no wrath. So fear and unbelief are banished from our minds. From whence this fear and unbelief?

Hath not the Father put to grief His spotless Son for me? And will the righteous Judge of men Condemn me for that debt of sin Which, Lord, was charged on Thee? He cannot condemn guilt which has once and for all been dealt with totally by Christ. Look to Christ for this. Let me give you four words of exhortation, originally given by William Jay of Bath: Once sin had dominion over us. It told us to ignore God, and live without Christ, and think nothing of the Bible, and forget about death — and we obeyed sin.

We were slaves of sin. But when Christ came by his Spirit into our lives he snapped the chains that bound us to our old master, and he set up his throne in our hearts. I am going to church every Sunday. The Spirit of Christ gave us strength to freely serve our wonderful Master. The Christian is a free man who bows the knee to Christ. A new kingdom of grace has been established on this planet, and all its citizens have overcome the bondage of sin in King Jesus.

William Sloan was a Christian fisherman and preacher in the Faroe Islands north of Scotland who died in One day he was rowing out in his boat in Torshvn harbour to visit the sailors on a large ship. He was a ship visitor for Christ. He was rowing past a new boat and he noticed its name.

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But one day every knee will bend to Jesus and every tongue will confess he is Lord. Where the Spirit of the Lord is — it may be on the deck of a ship — there is freedom. This is a wonderfully encouraging verse. He stands in solidarity with them. The weakest and the newest Christian here today is experiencing ever-increasing transformation. Under the Mosaic covenant just one man was outwardly transformed, but under the new covenant that blessing is the possession of all.

What exactly is happening? This is the means of our being transformed. We are overwhelmed as we consider our glorious Lord. We are in a living and loving relationship with this exalted Christ, and the affect of that is that we are steadily being transformed into his likeness. Surely this has to do with spirituality, with devotion and ardour and adoration — if such words have any meaning at all! The apostle is not looking back to the road to Damascus. This transformation is not because of a historical incident in his own personal story which no one else could possibly share, but this is something that every single Christian experiences.

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So Paul is not looking back. This is not past conversion. He is looking up. He is not remembering something here. He is concentrating as clearly as he can on the Lord, who is no longer the man of sorrows but the Spirit. He will have nothing coming between himself and Christ.

If it is merely, as it were, a veil on his face he will strip it away so that he can look unto Jesus with an unveiled face. Now you will acknowledge, I know, that there is a beauty in the pages of the New Testament that displays to us the glorious loveliness of Jesus. As we study this Book that it has a blessed sanctifying influence on our lives. Sometimes when we read it we are broken by its power and tremendously moved. Sometimes when we hear it preached we are deeply affected by it.

There is no doubt that we need fresh creative history-of-redemption puritan preachers who can make the Saviour we find in the gospels live again, so that our souls are stirred and our affection set on things above as we meet him in the preached word. May God raise up such ministers and bless his infallible word. We can be deeply moved by a new sight of the glory of Christ, and numbers attest to this. I have had other profound experiences which have moved me to the core of my being.

There was an enriching experience of the glory of God which Sarah, the wife of Jonathan Edwards, once passed through. I seemed to myself to perceive a glow of divine love come down from the heart of Christ in heaven, into my heart, in a constant stream, like a stream or pencil of sweet light.

The spiritual beauty of the Father and the Saviour, seemed to engross my whole mind. I never felt such an emptiness of self-love, or any regard to any private, selfish interest of my own. The glory of God seemed to be all, and in all, and to swallow up every… desire of my heart. Or consider that incident recorded in the life of John Flavel, the puritan preacher of Dartmouth who died in Such was the intention of his mind, such the ravishing tastes of heavenly joys, and such the full assurance of his interest therein, that he utterly lost all sight and sense of the world and all the concerns thereof, and for some hours he knew no more where he was than it had been in a deep sleep upon his bed.

Death had the most amiable face in his eyes that ever he beheld, except the face of Jesus Christ which made it so, and he does not remember though he believed himself dying, that he ever thought of his dear wife and children or any other earthly concernment. On reaching his inn the influence still continued, banishing sleep, still the joy of the Lord overflowed him and he seemed to be an inhabitant of the other world. He many years after called that day one of the days of heaven, and professed that he understood more of the life of heaven by it than by all the books he ever read.

But it is not only preachers, or their wives who can speak of experiences like this. His powers of logic are staggering. Plantinga tells how as a young man, he left home and went off to Harvard University. At Harvard, after all, there was such an enormous diversity of opinions about these matters, some of them held by highly intelligent and accomplished people who had little but contempt for what I believed. But it was there on the campus at Harvard that something happened. It was dark, windy raining, nasty. But suddenly it was as if the heavens opened; I heard, so it seemed, music of overwhelming power and grandeur and sweetness; there was light of unimaginable splendour and beauty; it seemed I could see into heaven itself; and I suddenly saw or perhaps felt with great clarity and persuasion and conviction that the Lord was really there and was all I had thought.

The effects of this experience lingered for a long time; I was still caught up in arguments about the existence of God, but they often seemed to me merely academic, of little existential concern. That was when I foolishly went hiking alone off-trail in really rugged country getting lost when rain, snow and fog obscured all the peaks and landmarks. That night, while shivering under a stunted tree in a cold mixture of snow and rain, I felt as close to God as I ever have before or since. You may not have had such astounding experiences at all. The Spirit of God moves in many different ways.

The Spirit does not give to all the same kind of experience. But every Christian needs to be looking unto the same Lord, the same Word of God, and the same Saviour, and to be longing for this ever-increasing glory. You and I need faith in the Lord not faith in experiences. The Bible is true. Thank God for every baby step. What would Joni Eareckson Tada give to be able to make a baby step?

As a college freshman, at his first football practice, he broke loose for an yard touchdown run. His team-mates looked at him with awe. Life was going to be completely satisfying and rewarding. But what was his future? His football experience was disappointing. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts. There are going to be bad days. It is one of the means God uses to remind him of his weakness. They are avenues to beholding the glory of the God-man more widely and more deeply.

It is in the contemplation of the Lord Jesus Christ that transforming grace is given. Paul centred his thoughts and affections on the heavenlies. It was there that the Lord who is the Spirit lives and reigns, and where he is accessible to every one of his people. From there he sends forth the Spirit which changes sinners into his glorious likeness. As we behold him we are gradually transformed into the same image, even as by the Lord the Spirit.

But the transformation does not come by the length of time you spend in communion with God. Get thee to a nunnery! Transformation comes directly from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

It is only by the present power of Christ that the ever increasing glory is known. Think again of the apostle Paul praying for the whole Ephesian congregation and asking this: Surely he is not talking about memorising the gospels, or theological knowledge — important as these things are. It reaches up and up and up. The first-born seraph tries in vain to sound its depth. It is too deep. Its breadth is as far as the east is from the west. How extraordinary is the love of God, and we need power to grasp more of it.

A man once came to someone who was the very greatest preacher I ever heard. That I can sit and listen to what you have been saying, and be so unmoved. Some of these students were taking notes, and answering his examination questions, and yet were not being transformed by the process, still having a small view of God, and of his salvation and were being worldly-minded in their conversations — not that I benefited from that privilege as I should have.

I once heard a very great sermon, and I thought to myself that whenever there would be a true revival of religion that the preaching would be like that. But there were Christian people listening to it who remained unmoved and even critical. So it was on the day of Pentecost. There were some in Jerusalem who said that the apostles were full of new wine. So we are to be obeying what the New Testament says to every Christian again and again, to long for a closer walk with God, and for a pure heart, to be filled with the Spirit of God, to let the word of God abide in us richly, to present our bodies as living sacrifices to God, to be putting on the Lord Jesus Christ, to dress in the whole armour of God, and so on, and so on.

Those commands are amongst the clearest parts of divine revelation. And so you read that when they were taken desperately ill, or when bereavement and sorrow came, it did not disturb their equanimity, they were not finally upset. They were not inhuman, they did feel those things and they felt them very acutely; but they did not lose their balance.

They did not feel that everything was lost and gone. And when wars came, and trials and calamities, they did not feel that everything had collapsed. They went on and there was a kind of added sweetness and beauty about their lives and a still greater joy and peace. That is what you find as you read their biographies, and you will find their secret was that they spent a great deal of time every day in reading the Scriptures and in praying to God.

My dear friends, is this not the trouble with so many of us today? There is basic training for the Christian in the recollection of God. I am to do such things as to appropriate the Lord who is the Spirit at the beginning of a day, and I train my mind to turn to him whenever I can. Dr Lloyd-Jones again puts it quite simply like this: God is eternal being and life and reality. He is not a mere term or a philosophic concept — God is. He is a Person, and I want to go into his presence.

I want to know Him; I want to speak to Him. I am going to approach Him, as I may decide to visit a friend. Let me use this illustration. I am visiting a man in the hospital and we are talking intimately and happily together. Then suddenly I notice that his face has lit up, that he is beaming, that there is joy and brightness about him that was not there before. I am pleased, but realise that he is not looking at me. He is looking over my shoulder at someone who has entered the ward coming to him.