Zac Poonen - Brokenness Through Failure | New 2014

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I thank God for the liberty I've had these last two days. And I've felt that where I have liberty, this means there are responsive hearts open to the voice of the Holy Spirit.

I want to read a verse first in James, chapter 4, verse 5. It says, "Do you think the scripture speaks to no purpose? He (that is God) jealously desires the spirit which He has made to dwell in us." When God made man, He breathed into him and made Him a living soul. And man became a trinity - spirit, soul and body, we read in 1 Thessalonians 5:23. It's referring to that spirit, in this verse, that spirit that He made to dwell within us; He jealously desires that. That means, it's like a husband jealously desires the love of his wife, so that she loves no one else - our heavenly bridegroom jealously desires the spirit within us.

In speaking here about the previous verse about adulteresses, who are friendly with the world. And it's in that context he says this. If that woman loves another man, she's an adulteress. An unmarried woman is in a different position. She's not committing adultery against a man, because she's not married to a man. One who is not married to Christ, cannot be an adulteress; the heathen, the godless people. They're not adulteresses. They're married to the world, they're faithful to the world, they're married to money, and they are faithful to their "husband". But when one claims to be married to Christ, and then has other loves - then he or she is an adulteress. And it's in that context that the Holy Spirit says, "He jealously desires that spirit within us," that it might be exclusively His. When someone asks Jesus, "What was the greatest commandment?" He said, "The greatest commandment was to love God with all our heart, soul, strength and mind." And when I love God with all my heart, how can there be place in my heart for anyone else? It's not possible. And that's the first commandment. No one can say he is a disciple of Jesus, if he hasn't come to this place. I find the trouble with Christianity every place I've been is that people have trusted in Jesus, but they have not become disciples. They've not understood, that to be a disciple one must hate father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, possessions, and one's own life. What does that mean? It means that in my heart there is no place for all these...because if I love God with all my heart, there is no place in my heart, for father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, possessions or my own self, and it's interests and it's reputation and prestige and all these things. And Jesus said to his disciples that they were to go into all the world and make disciples - bring people to this place. Where they have no place in their heart for their father, or mother, or wife, or children, or brothers, or sisters, or their possessions, or their own dignity, or prestige, or reputation. Then you've made them disciples. And when people make converts, it's like making the legs of the table. And you make another convert, and you make another set of legs. Think of a carpentry shop, with thousands of legs, and no completed table. That's the condition of a lot of churches. Here and there you see one completed table, one disciple. And does this mean that we will not respect our parents or love our wives? I've discovered that when we make people disciples and they love God with all their heart and do what Jesus said, that there is no place for any of these in their heart, they respect and honor their parents more.

They love their wives far more then they would if they loved their wives without loving Christ with all their hearts. The human love is dependent upon response. I love a brother, he loves me. If he's good to me, I'm good to him. And you love your wife - she responds. ....

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