Week 28:
Being Stripped of All!
Isn't it horrible when we try and subsidize Gods cause with a few dollars here, in a collection there, and something else. Now, either God is God, or he isn't. As I've said before, this book is either absolute or its obsolete. There is no middle course. It either has all the answers or it has no answers. I've got to get to the place where I say, "Lord, you can strip everything else away from me, and, On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand". I'm not going to steady the ark. I'm convinced God is going to do a new work. I've talked the last few days with a brother I love very dearly, and he's at a crossroads in his life, and I know others who are men that you think are at the top of the tree. You think they should be satisfied with what they've got. And they're not. They are men who don't try to steady the ark by organization and saying you must do it this way and you must do it that way. They are suddenly realizing there is a new dimension that God wants to bring to our generation. A new revelation. A new unfolding of the Word of God.
Before long, you remember, that David went and slew the oxen and they took the fatlings, and they made a sacrifice to God. And then he danced before God. Why? Because he got rid of many of his obstructions. The Lord is very merciful. Do you know how merciful he is? He's so merciful, He'll strip us right down to the place where we haven't a thing to stand where we haven't a thing to lean on - the place where we are in nakedness and in despair.
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