Demonstrating the glory of God
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Demonstrating the glory of God
(Christ Our Everyday life)
David Wilkerson
Peter, James and John were given one of the most glorious visions that Christ has ever given to mankind. It’s a powerful vision. They see Jesus blazes with God’s glory.
The Mount of Transfiguration. They come of that mountain with joy and peace, vision and glory and they face a lunatic child.
There’s the devil waiting for them. It’s almost as if the devil looks at Peter, James and John coming down off that mountain top and he said,
“You, Peter.
You who walk with such vision and zeal.
You wanted to stay on mountain and live in the glory.
But now you’ve got to come down here
(and) face to everyday problems of life.
Down here, this is everyday world I want you to look.
Peter, this is a lunatic world.
I’m in control of it.”
It seems to be what the devil say to these men, especially to Peter. He’s saying,
“Now it’s heartbreak time. It’s war.
Now let’s see what your mountain top experience can do down here.”
These disciples, apostles who just came down from that mountain, they stood there timidly by.
But, how do you explain these three men who just come from the glory of God seeing and talking with Moses and Elijah, listening to them speak of divine things? And now there they are standing before the devil weak and helpless.
The greater your vision of Christ in His glory is, the more Satan is gonna challenge you in your everyday life.
The Lord called you one day, didn’t He?
You received the call out of lukewarmness.
You received the call out of sloven Christian living.
You received the call out of idolatry.
The Spirit of God came to you. You heard a message and it touched your heart. And you began to seek God. You’re praying like you’d never prayed. You’ve seen and tasted some of the glory of the Lord. And now you’re praying. You have a passion for the Lord. And everything in your life is changing. But I tell you something else but changes.
Your everyday life is changing much also. Your job is changing. Your reaction of people toward you is changing. Everything around you is changing. Because now you come down from Sunday night mountain and you go to the job on Monday, there’s always some kind of commotion the devil’s gonna stir up for you now. That wasn’t stirred before. There is right in front of you some kind of lunacy.
I mean a mountain of opposition and impossibility and even demonic activity against you. And sometimes it get so wild and hairy (that) you just have to sit there, put your hands and say,
“Wait a minute, Lord.
I’m still after the glory Sunday night.
I didn’t ask for this.
What’s going on?”
Satan’s design in all of that is to try to convince you that Jesus is not active in your everyday life, that the glory of mountains is not working on the job.
He wants you to be convinced that you’re two different people. You know you are a Sunday person and then you are a weekly person.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday…
You know Syrian said,
“Hey Look,
their God of Israel’s the God of the mountain.
Let’s fight them in the valleys.
The Lord is God of the hills.
But He’s not God of the valleys.”
(1Kings 20:28)
“He’s God of Sunday,
but He’s not God of Monday.”
Monday’s the valley. They call it Blue Monday. It shouldn’t be for Christians, but I’m sure it’s for a lot
I want you to know that you’ve got to underst
and Jesus Christ is more than just a spiritual experience. He must be our everyday life.
His life must come through on the job, at home and everywhere.
Look this way please.
Christ is our life.
Christ our life
(Colossians 3:4)
I don’t care how many wonderful spiritual highs you have with Jesus. I don’t care if you claim to hear the actual voice of God speaking to you. I don’t care how much revelation and knowledge’s that you claim to have.
If all of these spiritual experiences, all of these experiences in church or in secret closet of prayer, if that cannot be translated in(to) overcoming life Monday through Saturday, it has no meaning on Sunday.
It is to be translated into something people can see. That’s to be a witness.
The world has convinced that Jesus lives only in church. They see little of His life
in Christians everyday.
The sinner thinks church is a place where people go to study about historical Jesus
with a bunch of historical patriarchs who God once work for.
They know all about Daniel in the lions’ den. They know about the three Hebrew children. They know about all of that how God delivered Israel. They know all of that in fact. God is God of miracles back then.
The sinner preaching is just talk. That’s all that is. It’s talk. No meaning to this day’s problems. The average person out there, they don’t understand why you go to church. The sinner doesn’t understand.
They’re convinced that only power God has is right within four walls of this building.
And we just gather here and talk about historical Jesus who used to perform miracles.
Why is that?
Because the majority of Christians are not preaching Jesus by the way they live out there His power, not being demonstrating on the job.
Paul said,
“I live yet not I but Christ live within me.”
(Galatians 2:20)
“… Your life is with Christ …
for Christ is our life …”
(Colossians 3:3-4)
What does that mean in practical words? I don’t mean just religious theology. I mean in everyday life.
To me I’m seeing Christ living in me.
It means that everyday I’m totally dependent on Him.
Christ is involved in every little detail of my life. He’s involved. He’s not wanting you to just seek these various sudden blazes of glory.
He wants you to live seven days a week,
every waking hour, demonstrating the glory of God,
the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.