Overcoming trials with the Cross
Overcoming trials with the Cross
(The Victory of the Cross of Christ)
David Wilkerson
Sometimes after we’ve been quite confident of our faith and we figured it out, then we have focused ourself even with Scriptures. But then there comes an overwhelming tremendous crisis.
There comes a time when a furnaces heated seven times hotter. There comes the test of all tests to your life. And overwhelming crisis strikes your home and your family.
The question will come
“Am I paying for my past sins?”
Now there are consequences to sin. There’s judgement against those
who don’t judge their sins in the fear of God. The truth is there’s little fear of God left in the world today.
There are consequences if we don’t humble ourselves before God,
if we don’t have a broken spirit and a contrite heart.
The Bible says, God says,
“I’ll chasten all my sons and daughters.”
(Hebrews 12:6)
He said,
“If you’re without chastening, you’re not a son, you’re not a daughter.”
(Hebrews 12:8)
“It’s times of grievous.”
“But I’m working something out in you.”
He’s working something out in us under chastening. We have to stand by sometimes when we see the judgements of God. His judgements are melted and mended with great mercies.
But listen to me.
If the enemy is coming to you now, tell him
… whom He loves He chastens …
(Hebrews 12:6)
You’d never more loved than when you’re under chastening.
… Whom the Lord loves He chastens …
(Hebrews 12:6)
You can stand still and say
“No, I will not take these lies.”
And you begin to stand on these words.
We are justified freely(Romans 3:24).
We’re redeemed by grace through faith in His blood(Ephesians 1:7).
We declared His righteousness for the remissions of sins that are passed through His forbearance meaning for His patience.
(Romans 3:25)
All guilt, all condemnation are lifted, when you come to the blood of Jesus Christ. And you believe what He promised.
There’s now therefore no condemnation to them that be in Christ Jesus …
(Romans 8:1)
The great victory of cross to is that He bore all our grieves and all our sorrows.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised,
and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isaiah 53:3-4
That word grief in Hebrew is pain, weakness, weariness, sickness, sorrows.
Nothing can pierce the pain until we begin to cry out to the Holy Ghost until the Holy Ghost comes.
Thank God for caring people.
Thank God that I’m secure in Christ.
Thank God that He’d taken care of my regrets and brought peace.
His mercy took on a faith that was touched with the feelings of my infirmities (Hebrews 4:15).
He knows my grief. He knows my sorrows. He knows my pain.
He’s been there. He’s been through it.
He says,
“I can’t stop but yet, because if you’re coming to me you’re gonna fulfill your eternal purpose.”
“I have to take you through the fire.”
“I have to take you through the flood.”
“If I don’t, your best has been aborted.”
“I have to do this. Because I want you to glorify me
all through eternity.”
“I can’t explain it to you.”
And I know the Lord wish I loved to pull back the curtain
“I’d like to tell you why
But I can’t.”
He never will. That’s how important faith is now.
This is how important it is that we stand strong, no matter what happens, to lay down our lives even at the cross, to be willing to die, willing to be a martyr.
“Whatever it takes, Oh God, I’m gonna trust You in the fire and though You slay me yet will I trust You.”
Though, without the Holy Spirit coming down upon us, without an outpouring of Holy Spirit, without a daily infusion of Holy Spirit this is impossible!
We can’t set on our hearts. We can’t build our own faith. There has to be a cry comes the body of Christ Jesus. There has to be a cry that comes from the body.
Oh Holy Ghost, you will be sent to comfort me, you will be sent to heal me. You will be sent to take me through my grief and my sorrows.
Holy Ghost, come down. Lift your hands and say,
“Holy Ghost, come upon me right now.
Refresh me. Touch me.”