Page 61 - Christ in You - The Hope of Glory

How was the Father abiding in Yahshua? It was by the indwelling Spirit. Yahshua
yielded to the indwelling Spirit in all things, and so must all who would be a disciple of
Christ. Many who confess Christ as Lord are in great peril of being cast away as lawless.
The Scriptures provide numerous types and shadows to teach us this vital truth, and
to instruct us in the path that all the sons of God must take. As we have seen, the Israelites
in the wilderness serve as one profound type that has been cited by the author of the book
of Hebrews.

Hebrews 4:1
Therefore, let us fear lest, while a promise remains of entering His rest,
any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

How does one fall short of entering into His rest? By failing to cease from their own
works, those works that their soul would declare to them as being worthy and honorable.
We must die to the voice of the soul of man and be led by the by the indwelling Spirit after
the pattern of the firstborn Son of God. We have also seen that Joseph serves as a type of
those who attain to the number of the firstborn. Joseph’s slavery in the house of one of
Pharaoh’s ministers, and his later imprisonment in Pharaoh’s jail, is a type and shadow of
those whose natural choices and activities are ended, and they now live to do the will of
another. Only those who have been so trained to cease from their own works in order to do
the works God has prepared for them will be qualified to rule and reign after the similitude
of Joseph.
Another type and shadow of this same truth is observed in the words of Christ to
Peter.

John 21:18-19
"Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to gird
yourself, and walk wherever you wished; but when you grow old, you
will stretch out your hands, and someone else will gird you, and bring
you where you do not wish to go..." And when He had spoken this, He said to
him, "Follow Me!"

Although Yahshua was prophesying of the type of death Peter would die, His words
were also a spiritual parable. When a Christian is young and immature spiritually, they go
wherever they wish and do as they please. They are led of their own soul. In order to become
spiritually mature a believer must no longer do so. They must surrender to the will of God
in all things. They must yield to the Spirit and go where their own soul would not choose
to go.
Yahshua established the pattern. His soul did not choose the cross. God chose it for
Him. In Gethsemane Christ’s soul was brought to a place of death, and He fully surrendered
to the will of the Father.

Matthew 26:38-39
Then He said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death;
remain here and keep watch with Me."

Christ accepted the cross before Him, and there is a cross appointed to every disciple.