Manifesting the Life of Jesus
Manifesting the Life of Jesus
(Releasing the Life of Jesus)
David Wilkerson
Think of it. His very purpose in coming to this earth as a servant to die and be resurrected was to release in all of us His own life.
Paul the apostle spoke very much about being delivered unto death.
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus Christ …
(2 Corinthians 4:10)
For we which live are always delivered unto death …
(2 Corinthians 4:11)
That word ‘delivered’ in Greek is, (we’re) constantly being yielded up to or surrendered to death.
In fact, he said, “we have the sentence of death on us.” (2 Corinthians 1:9)
The sentence means ‘I’ve already doomed it. That thing of the flesh comes up, before even it comes up I have already got sentence of death against it.’
I live with this sentence of death over everything that’s of the flesh, everything that’s unlike Jesus. I’ve declared that I walk with the Lord and I walk with the sentence of death on everything that’s unlike Christ everything of the flesh.
He said, “I die daily.”
(1 Corinthians 15:31)
“I’m delivered constantly every waking hour of the day,
I’m delivering everything that arises in my flesh to death,
that the life of Jesus Christ may be birthed in me and come forth.”
To Paul the cross that he took up to follow Jesus was this daily crucifixion and I call it ‘The final no’.
When that thing that you do toy with, that thing you do fraud with, that thing that you justify, that thing it’s always cropping up, trying to take sentence in your life.
You look out and say, “No, that’s under the sentence of death.”
There’s no way I can serve Jesus and have this in my life.
And you have your funeral. It’s crucified. You take the word of God which is the knife and you slay it.
It’s a final no.
No!
That’s it!
I tell you.
You give the final no, and the crucificxion takes place, and flows the life of Jesus Christ.
Here’s Paul’s secret ‘delivered unto death so that’ (2 Corinthians 4:11).
That’s the secret.
‘delivered unto death so that’
I’m so glad he put that in there.
That word is ‘so.’
It changes everything.
It’s the whole secret.
I’m delivered unto death.
I’ve put to death everything unlike Jesus in my life so that or for the purpose of manifesting in my mortal physical body the life of Jesus.
You’re not supposed to have the life of Jesus just in your spirit but in your physical body.
This body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.
I said, “Lord I want a release of life in me.”
Then the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart “Are you ready to die for it?
Do you want that special grace, that I give to some that walk with Me, that it’s just a joy to be around?”
You’re not having the proof of anything to anybody there’s just settled peace with the Lord in his life is flowing.
I said, “Lord, I want that.”
“Well then, You’re gonna die for it.”
That kind of life flows in it through only those who have been crucified.
How do we come into this place where the life of Jesus is flowing?
Mortify (,that means put to death) therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Colossians 3:5
And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Galatians 5:24
Paul said, “Sin reigns unto death.”
(Romans 5:21)
The Bible also says, “he that is dead is freed from sin.”
(Romans 6:7)
That’s not just a one time thing. You come to Jesus. You’re just dead. That’s it. You’re free from sin. No.
Everytime sin raises a head, everytime the flesh rises up, You do what Paul did, you die daily.
You die, if you have to, a dozen, fifteen, sixty, seventy times a day, everytime the flesh hold up, lust rises up, You take them life to it.
God told Abraham
“You take your son that you love so much.
You take him up to the mountain.”
I have tell you about.
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only [son] Isaac, whom thou lovest,
and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering …
Genesis 22:2
Abraham rose up. He didn’t quest it.
If you’re like a lot of Christians, they say,
“I can’t do that. I can’t do it. It’s too much for me. This thing has a hold on me. This boy got a hold on me. I love it so much. I can’t do it.”
That’s what the churches have been telling people now for hundreds of years,
“You can’t do it. You don’t have the will. You don’t have the power.”
So we turned everything over to God and say,
“God I’m here waiting.”
He could’ve sit there and waited for God to give him the courage.
No.
He had to take the fire in his hand.
He had to take a knife in his hand.
And he himself had to get up and make the sacrifice.
Paul the apostle said,
“You mortify the flesh.
You cut it.
You do it.”
God does the life. It is the life that is the light.
But you’re not gonna get that life until you set your heart and your mind and said, “No! Final No!” to it.
When God spoke that to my heart, I’ve learned that.
There comes a time you look that thing right in the flesh and face it and say, “No! Final! That’s it! No!”
When that final no is made the crucifixion takes place, oh what victory there is a heart after that.
You know what real worship is, people have been to the cross, they’ve been crucified and there’s a life flowing to me. It’s spontaneous.
I’m breaking the life of Jesus Christ. That’s worship. That’s the only thing to please the Lord.
I want the beauty of Jesus to flow in and through me. When Jesus’ life is released in us you move into rivers of pleasure.
Rivers of pleasure (Psalms 36:8 KJV).
It’s only those who died to sin that entered into these great riches of His pleasure.
Are you happy in Jesus?
Have you been drinking that river of pleasure? Rivers of pleasure.
Why? Because we have a people dying to themselves, dying to sin, dying to lust so that the life of Jesus Christ may be manifested or released in this physical mortal body.
I wanna be crucified with Christ.
I’m gonna pray that God will release the life of Jesus in you, that you will be changed that the Christ of you will not be the Christ of no effect, that He’ll have power and authority in your life.
I’m inviting you to your funeral, inviting you to lay everything down once and for all.
You look this thing right in the eyes and say give it final no right now.
“Lord Jesus, it can’t happen. It can’t go on anymore. This has to stop. This is it.”
I tell you what God knows when you give that final no. That’s when the life springs up. That’s where He moves your will, He moves on your life with such exuberant power and life.
People won’t even know the change. You’ll see it. You don’t have to tell him that.
The greatest witness You can ever have is the witness of His life flowing abundantly in and through you.
Lord Jesus, let the life begin to flow. Ask for him that life now. That abundant life, let it flow into me. Give me the strength now to follow through the path of life.