Christ in me
Christ in me
(Christ Our Everyday Life)
David Wilkerson
I want to show you three areas which this (living Christ’s life everyday) is very very powerfully demonstrated by the Scripture.
First of all, God has given to you and me an even greater revelation of His glory, of the glory of Christ than He gave three apostles on the Mount of Transfiguration.
You say, “That was marvelous!”
The Lord has given you and me a greater revelation. You say, “What could be more glorious than seeing the glory, a kind of glory of the Father shine through the Son? Jesus look like a blazing sun. What could be more glorious than hear the audible voice of the Father?”
God has given Paul a revelation about great mystery that’s never been understood until the Cross and God gave it to Paul. That is not Christ walking among us now. It’s not one blaze of glory, just one glimpse on a mountain.
But that glorified man is in heaven now. He is at the right hand of the Father, and He’s inherited the glory. He has the full glory.
The fullness of Godhead bodily dwells in Him
(Colossians 2:9)
And now He did not just dwell among us. He lives in us. The glory of the Lord is in us for He possesses that glory. That means that you carry the glory of Jesus wherever you go. The glory of the Lord abides. What is the glory of God? It’s Jesus manifested.
Jesus is the glory. The presence of God’s glory changed the very appearance of Jesus’ face also His clothing.
And while He was praying the appearnace of His face became different (Luke 9:29). And His clothing became white and glistening, glimming. His face actually changed.
Can you imagine what that must’ve been like for those apostles to see the face of Jesus change? Can you imagine any picture of more peace, more glory?
Because He was with His father and the Skekhinah glory was upon Him. And His face changed. His very raiment was sparklling and glisterning white as bright as the sun.
What expectance of the face of Jesus? What glory His Father’s presence manifested in and through Him? Let me talk about your face and mine. I want to talk about your ‘everyday face.’ I’m not talking about your ‘Sunday face.’
Even His clothes were changed. That means character. That represents behavior. You can’t tallk about reaching unsaved loved ones, you can’t talk about reaching the world until you talk about God’s power in your everyday living and on the job.
We’re not approaching our everyday life with trust and confidence He wants us to have in Him.
Secondly, the Lord has given power to overcome everyday problems. There is power in Jesus Christ to conquer every problem that faces you Sunday through Sunday, all in between it.
for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you
Matthew 17:20
I want God to make this very clear that the Lord’s not looking for a church of mystical experience. I don’t want to hear dreams. I don’t want to hear revelations. I want to hear people say,
“The Lord was with me all week. The Lord saw me through problems that looked impossible. The Lord met me on the job. I witnessed on the job. They saw Jesus in me on the job.”
Christ in me means that He has all power. If He abides in me, that power’s at my disposal.
“You shall speak to the mountain and it shall remove. It shall be gone.”
(Matthew 17:20)
You see often.
We face a crisis on the job during the week in our home, we go crazy, and we fall apart. You know what you’re saying to the whole world and to every demon and hell.
I say to the world that I have Jesus abiding in me and yet you ignore His power and His glory.
You don’t call on Him. You don’t trust Him to see you through it.
Jesus, He takes His temper to the Lord and the Lord closes His temper.
He takes He anger against His mates and those who around them, His depression, His hurt feelings.
What kind of testimony is this if you do not practice in His presence?
You don’t believe He can meet you everyday of your life.
Let me tell you what I belive is a true deliverance church. It’s a church who’s whole body is out there seven days a week living Jesus, practicing Jesus, where everybody knows.
I don’t know where they go to church. I don’t know what kind of message they’re leaning on. But there’s some kind of streningth that’s something there keeping them, exalting them above, lifting them above the problems.
They go through the same thing, but they react differently. They don’t come apart. There’s a people rooted and grounded in something. They’re convinced that Jesus loves them.
Finally, Jesus abides in us because I believe He’s interested in every little detail of our human experience.
Before we were born He had a book and He numbered all parts
(Psalms 139:16)
We are called from the fountain of the world
(Ephesians 1:3)
He numbered every hair on our head
(Matthew 10:30)
We have Saviour who abides in us and He wants to live in us because He’s interested in every little detail.