Page 63 - Christ in You - The Hope of Glory

code of the Law kills, but the Holy Spirit makes alive.
[Amplified Bible]

This present life serves as a training ground for the sons of God. Yahweh must bring
His sons to an end of independent living. He must break them of making decisions that
arise from the soul. He seeks sons who are intent upon His will and desire only. He does not
want any man to presume that he knows what God would do in a particular situation.
Yahweh wants all His sons to look to Him in all things. We are to see what works He is
doing, and we are to do them in like manner. We are to hear His judgment in every matter,
and then judge the same. We must not seek our will, but live for our Father’s will and
pleasure.
A large part of our problem in arriving at God’s mind is that our priorities and goals
are not the same as His. When we encounter great trials our immediate thought is to be
delivered from the distress, sorrow, or injury. When we are brought to a Gethsemane, our
soul will say, “Father, let this cup of suffering pass from me.” It is at this point that we must
yield to the Spirit and declare, “Yet not my will, but Your will be done.” Yahweh is looking
to what we will one day be, and He chooses our circumstances, trials and cross to best
promote our growth as sons.

Isaiah 55:8-9
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways," declares
Yahweh. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than
your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

Some have adopted a mindset where they believe they are to study the Scriptures that
they might become adequate in themselves to make life decisions. Some have become so
arrogant in this that they begin to demand of God that He do their bidding. They think this
attitude is pleasing to the Father, yet such an attitude is foreign to the life of Christ.
Yahshua was meek and humble, and He only did those things the Father commanded Him
to do. He made no demands Himself.
We are not to do any works arising out from self. We are to allow the indwelling Spirit
of Christ to reveal to us God’s will, and provide the power to do that will.

John 14:10
The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father
abiding in Me does His works.

As sons of God in training to share the glory, power and authority of our Father in
heaven, we must die to our own soul’s leadership and direction. We must become sons in
whom the Father abides and performs His works. This He seeks to do through the
indwelling Spirit of Christ.

Galatians 2:20
"I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ
lives in me...”

This verse has been quoted often in Christendom, but it is rarely experienced. At the