THE REST OF THE GOSPEL

A friend gave me this book about 3 weeks ago. I have just finished reading it for the second time (unusual for me). If you want to realize the reality of Christ being your life, in real time, right now....I overwhelmingly recommend it, from Amazon (with free shipping) it is $10.40. 

It was written by Dan Stone in 2000. Stone was a Baptist pastor for some 21 years before he actually learned that he could not live the Christian life, that Christ was his very life, that he was really "dead to sin" and that he could trust what God said. It is absolutely fundamental to know that you died to sin, and that you have died to the law, and to yourself. It is the foundational truth of the Christian life. Its not your striving that releases Christ's life through you, its your trusting.

The really good news is that He is in us, living His life through us, as us! We are not deity, but we contain deity. That means that we don't have to live the life, He lives it in us, and He will do it. To the Galatians Paul said, "I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me." To the Colossians he wrote, "It's Christ in you that's your hope of glory." To the Philippians he said, "For me to live is Christ." Who is doing the living? Christ, but if you looked right at him, you would see...Paul.

Our part is simply to be willing...to trust His Word.

All this is explained in adequate detail in Stone's book. It has been of great help to me, and I trust.. to you as well very soon,.

bh October 6, 2007
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