Meditation Chip Brogden

May 3
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"They were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia.
After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but
the Spirit did not permit them."
ACTS 16:6,7

Our destination, as well as our departure, must be governed by the
Spirit. How intriguing that the Spirit actually forbade them to
preach the word in Asia and Bithynia! This ought to be proof enough
that "need," in and of itself, is insufficient guidance. The only
thing that matters is being sent, and it is critical that we go
only where the Spirit sends us.

The apostles were indeed sent forth by the Spirit, yet that same
Spirit did not permit them to just go wherever they pleased. Later
we see that Paul indeed went to Asia and a tremendous work was
founded. This tells us that a "no" today does not mean a "no" is
forever; nevertheless, when the Spirit forbids us, we dare not take
matters into our own hands and go where we have not been sent.

Source: "Embrace the Cross" by Chip Brogden
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May 1
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see."
JOHN 9:25

We are the man born blind in John 9. It is not that he can improve
himself, or gradually come to the place where he can see something.
He is BORN blind, and he can see nothing but darkness until the
Lord, the Light of the world, makes him see.

So many blind people hope to improve their seeing through sermons,
meetings, and more teachings. But one moment of seeing is worth ten
thousand years of learning. It is better to sit at the feet of an
ignorant man who has seen the Lord than it is to be instructed by
the most educated Bible teacher who is blind to the things of God.

Source: "Lord of All" by Chip Brogden
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April 30
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"All things were created through Him and for Him."
COLOSSIANS 1:16

In the beginning, when man walked with God, there was an obvious
Heavenly Order in the earth. This simply meant that Christ was in
His rightful place. When Christ has the preeminence, when He has
the centrality and the supremacy, then all is well.

God created all things "by Him and for Him" and installed Him as
Lord of All. With Christ in His rightful place the rest of creation
could proceed. Six times in the Book of Genesis God declared that
what He had just made was "good." When the work was finally
completed, God judged the final state of things to be "very good"
(Genesis 1:31) and by far the greatest benefit of living under this
Heavenly Order was the spiritual condition of man before the fall.
Spiritually he was at peace with himself and at peace with his God.
In a word, the state of things as they existed in the Heavenly
Order was perfect. It was, quite literally, heaven on earth.


Source: "The Irresistible Kingdom" by Chip Brogden
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April 29
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are
complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power."
COLOSSIANS 2:9,10

Everything God has done, is doing, and will do is aimed at bringing
us deeper into Christ, to finish what was begun in us when we first
received Him. God is the One Who brings us through the Gate, and
God is the One Who leads us along the Path.

Everything God has done, is doing, and will do has the same
purpose, and that purpose explains everything you have been
through, everything you are going through, and everything you will
go through.


Source: "The Irresistible Kingdom" by Chip Brogden
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April 28
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"As many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ."
GALATIANS 3:27


What does it mean to be baptized? It is to go down into death and
to come back up into Life. We were baptized into Christ. The water
of baptism does not merely signify the washing away of sins, but
the death of the sinner. We go down into the water, and we are
brought up out of the water. If we were to stay under the water for
long we would surely die. But we are quickly lifted back up out of
the "grave." This represents death and resurrection.

The outward sign of water baptism is meant to represent an inward
spiritual truth - that I am baptized indeed, not into water only,
but into Christ. I died with Him, and I was raised with Him. If I
am one with Him then His death is my death; when He is raised, I
too am raised. God has placed us in Christ, and since we are joined
to the Lord, we are one spirit with Him. The Branches will go the
way of the Vine. The Body will go the way of the Head.


Source: "Embrace the Cross" by Chip Brogden
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April 26
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for
themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again."
2 CORINTHIANS 5:15

Not I, but Christ. That is the goal, and the Cross is where the
process begins. The crucifixion of Christ is inexorably,
inescapably linked to the crucifixion of the disciple. It cannot be
otherwise. This is where everything that is Christ's becomes ours
as well. On the Cross the two are made one, and the destiny of the
One is linked forever with the destiny of the Many.

There in the Cross the Head is joined to the many members of the
Body; the Vine is made one with the many branches. "He who is
joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him" (1 Corinthians 6:17).
Where are they joined? At the Cross. Paul was not there physically
when Christ was crucified; yet Paul says, "I am crucified with
Christ." Obviously this is a spiritual union, a spiritual oneness.


Source: "Embrace the Cross" by Chip Brogden
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April 25
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"By this My Father is glorified,
that you bear much fruit."
JOHN 15:8

An orange tree is an orange tree as soon as it is planted, even
before it produces fruit. It is not an orange tree because it
produces oranges; it produces oranges because it is an orange tree.
The fruit is the evidence of what it already is. If it were to
suddenly produce rotten apples then we know for certain that it is
not what we thought it was. The one who has really been saved will
produce "much fruit" and will "walk worthy" of their calling
(Ephesians 4:1).

That is to say, the evidence of a "born again" person is not in
what they say they believe, but in how they actually live. Even the
phrase "born again" indicates more than just a change of heart; it
represents a spiritual death, burial, and resurrection; a new life.
Thus, no one can be truly "born again" until and unless they
embrace the Cross, die with Christ, and are raised to Life in Him.


Source: "Embrace the Cross" by Chip Brogden
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April 24
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"Always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the
truth." 2 TIMOTHY 3:7

If in our quest for spiritual growth our idea is only to learn a
few facts about the Bible, glean tidbits of information from this
preacher and that teacher, fill our brains with facts and fill our
libraries with more books and magazines, we run the risk of fooling
ourselves into thinking that we know and understand God - when it
could be that we are ever learning "truths" without knowing the
Truth.

Have you met someone like this? They seem to have all the right
answers, but they have the wrong spirit. They tenaciously cling to
their minute opinions and cannot be persuaded otherwise. Their
knowledge has not changed them, except to make them worse: for now
they are puffed up in the vanity of their own mind (1 Corinthians
8:1,2). True spiritual growth is characterized by grace (not works)
and an increased knowledge of Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18). And, we
maintain that this knowledge of Jesus Christ cannot be obtained by
study, but is only granted by way of revelation.

Source: "Embrace the Cross" by Chip Brogden
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April 23
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, 'It is finished!'
And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit."
JOHN 19:30

The phrase "it is finished" here is a single word in the Greek:
teleō. It means, "paid in full," which certainly confirms that
Christ has paid the debt of our sins in full. But teleō also means
the process is completed; the work is fulfilled; in other words, "I
have accomplished the purpose for which I came." God is wholly and
completely satisfied forever by the one sacrifice of Christ on the
Cross. May we never be satisfied with anything less.

Let us lay hold of the complete victory afforded us through
Calvary! Let us endeavor to enter into the height, depth, length,
width, and breadth of this Cross of Jesus Christ!

Source: "Embrace the Cross" by Chip Brogden
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April 22
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"In Him dwells all the fullness
of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him."
COLOSSIANS 2:9,10


I am afraid that we do not truly appreciate the fact that God has
never given us THINGS, but has summed up everything into Christ,
having poured Himself into His Son. Having the Son, possessing the
Son, being one with the Son, we have and possess everything God is.
It never has been a question of seeking ten, one hundred, or one
thousand different things from God.

If we do not know from our experience, we should at least know from
the Scriptures, that CHRIST IS THE GIFT OF GOD. Then our experience
will come into line with God's Thought. If you are used to seeking
spiritual "things" (love, joy, peace, anointing, power, blessing,
etc.) then this message is particularly for you, but we all stand
to benefit from being reminded constantly that Christ is God's One
Gift.

Source: "Lord of All" by Chip Brogden
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April 21
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

You were... buried with Him in baptism,
in which you also were raised with Him."
COLOSSIANS 2:12

We can talk about the forces of nature, observe its effects, and
sometimes even predict what it will do; but we cannot control it
nor do anything about it. Similarly, we can observe the spiritual
truths, principles, and laws that make up the Heavenly Order, but
we cannot control them or manipulate them to achieve our own ends.
In actual experience the invisible seasons of spiritual growth may
not be so cut and dry as the visible elements of our world.

Our spiritual journey will probably not correspond with the timely
arrangement of the natural seasons. But the periods of life, death,
burial, and resurrection in our spiritual walk are as vital to our
spiritual growth as the four seasons are necessary to the life of
creation. The Heavenly Order exists for our continued spiritual
growth and maturity.


Source: "The Irresistible Kingdom" by Chip Brogden
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April 20
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"Jesus said to him, 'Are you the
teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?'"
JOHN 3:10

When you read the Gospels two things become quite clear. First,
Jesus is undeniably, unquestionably GOD IN THE FLESH, Wholly Other.
Second, the more religious you are, the less likely it is that you
will see, recognize, and appreciate Him for Who He really is.

Sinners, on the other hand, had little trouble recognizing Him. The
Samaritan woman may have been a despised outsider to the Jew's
system of religion, but it only took her a few minutes to realize
that she had found the Messiah. The Roman centurion, an unworthy
Gentile, nevertheless knew where to go when his servant was sick,
and Jesus said this man's faith was greater than anyone in Israel.
The Syrophoenician woman had enough faith to ask Jesus for only a
few crumbs from the table, and even though she was technically not
a Jew, Jesus gave her everything she asked for. Yes, Jesus was
indeed a friend of sinners, publicans, tax collectors, and women
caught in adultery.


Source: "Lord of All" by Chip Brogden
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April 19
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"[God] has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly
places in Christ." EPHESIANS 1:3

All we have and all that we are as Christians is based upon our
union with Christ. Apart from Him, we have nothing, and we are
nothing. But in Him we are blessed with every spiritual blessing.

Think upon the ramifications of that. If this is true then we have
very little to ask God for, and very much to praise God about.


Source: "Lord of All" by Chip Brogden
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April 18
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"[God] raised us up together, and made us sit together in the
heavenly places in Christ Jesus."
EPHESIANS 2:6

Just as certainly as the Vine was crucified, dead, buried,
resurrected, ascended and seated, so the Branches were crucified,
dead, buried, resurrected, ascended and seated. The whole issue is:
will we abide in the Vine and share in the overcoming, or not?
Overcoming is bound up with abiding. The Lord says, "Live in Me,
and I will live in you."

Now the Lord says that overcomers will sit with Him in His throne.
How is that possible? Because we are in Him, and He is in us: "He
who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him" (1 Corinthians
6:17), and "The two shall become one" (1 Corinthians 6:16).

Source: "Lord of All" by Chip Brogden
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April 17
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"Reckon yourselves to be dead indeed
to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord."
ROMANS 6:11

We do not reckon something to be so after we see it happen, but
before we see it happen. What happens if, right after we reckon
ourselves dead to sin, we fall back into sin? Does this nullify the
Word of God? Does this make God a liar? We can become disappointed
and quit (which is what most people do), or we can repent and go
right back to reckoning.

Here's what happens: God rewards our reckoning. He delights to see
us believing in His Word when it seems impossible! And so He says,
"Very well, you have believed having not seen; now you will begin
to see the truth of what you have been reckoning!" And eventually
we begin to see our reckoning begins to produce fruit. Sin will be
broken, not just in theory, but in actual practice. Victory will be
ours, not just in principle, but in fact.

Source: "Embrace the Cross" by Chip Brogden
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April 16
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains
alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain."
JOHN 12:24

Everything accomplished by way of the Cross brings the fullness of
Christ and His Irresistible Kingdom into the heart of every person
who believes that He "has blessed us with every spiritual blessing
in the heavenly places in Christ" (Ephesians 1:3). This great Gift
of Christ has been deposited into the depth of the disciple the
same way as a precious seed is buried into the soil. Contained
within that seed is a bountiful harvest of rich fruit. But one does
not plant a seed on Sunday morning and expect to find fruit on
Monday.

The seed must surrender itself to the process of growth before it
can mature into something that bears fruit. This amounts to a
death, burial, and resurrection.

Source: "The Precious Seed" by Chip Brogden
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April 15
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"Martha, Martha, you are worried
and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed,
and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not
be taken away from her."
LUKE 10:41,42

This One Thing relates to Christ filling all things as the
Preeminent One. If we see that God is working all things together
according to this Purpose of summing up everything into Christ,
towards the One Thing, then we will naturally seek those things
which are conducive to this, and we will naturally shun those
things which are not.

Later we see Martha continues serving, but everything is all right
- there is no complaining about Mary, and everything seems to go on
as it should. It is not that service, fellowship, or preparing
meals is a bad thing: it simply has to be in the right order. It is
not that we cannot perform many good works and spiritual duties,
but the work of the Lord must never have preeminence over the Lord
of the work.

Source: "Lord of All" by Chip Brogden
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April 14
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"When it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and
called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me."
GALATIANS 1:15,16

People sometimes ask me what they have to do to obtain this great
revelation of Christ. They think it is God's way of rewarding us
for a lot of hard work. Nothing could be further from the truth.

To have one's eyes opened is simply an act of grace, and God alone
can do it, and will do it, if we will only ask Him. At the risk of
making it sound "too easy," I dare not make it any more difficult
than that!

Source: "Lord of All" by Chip Brogden
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April 13
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
MATTHEW 6:10

The chief objective of prayer is to bring us into cooperation with
the Father so that we are harmonious with Him - with respect to our
love relationship as well as our working relationship. Much time
and effort in prayer is spent trying to get God involved with OUR
agenda, with OUR plans, with OUR goals, with OUR cause, with OUR
needs, real or imagined. But after all, who is the Master? Who is
the servant? Whose will are we seeking anyway: ours, or His?

If our agenda is not harmonious with His then our agenda has to go.
Most of our prayers are simply too small, too narrow-minded, and
too constricted. We do not see anything beyond our present
surroundings. We have not seen the big picture. We do not have a
heavenly perspective. So to begin with we must empty ourselves of
all preconceived ideas and seek the Lord's Will and the Lord's
Kingdom when we pray, for this truly honors the Father.

Source: "The Irresistible Kingdom" by Chip Brogden
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April 12
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden
"That in all things He may have the preeminence."
COLOSSIANS 1:18

The unavoidable, inevitable conclusion is that Christ will have the
preeminence - not just in some things, but in all things. To
achieve this, He works one-on-one with His disciples. He then
gathers all His disciples together into a spiritual family where
they grow and learn together. This spiritual family then invites
the rest of the world to join them in giving Christ the preeminence
in all things, so that "God may be all in all" (1 Corinthians
15:28).

At the risk of over-simplifying the process, that is the essence of
this great movement of God. The point must be reiterated that Jesus
is the atoning sacrifice for all sins: "not for ours only but also
for the whole world" (1 John 2:2) and He has sent His
representatives into "all the world" to "preach the Gospel to every
creature" (Mark 16:15).


Source: "The Irresistible Kingdom" by Chip Brogden
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April 11
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"Not My will, but Yours, be done."
LUKE 22:42

The Cross demonstrates that we do not gain by trying to get, but by
losing in order to gain. We cannot really receive from God until we
have learned to give up to God. It is the spirit which cries, "Not
my will, but Yours be done" and "Father, into Your Hands I commit
my spirit."

These words are easily uttered, but we cannot appreciate them or
really experience them until we have been through our Gethsemane
experiences and our Golgotha experiences. Until that time we are
merely reciting some words, but we do not truly know what it means
to give ourselves up to God, to be completely consecrated and
submitted to Him. The Cross prepares us to receive by first forcing
us to give up. Therefore, the Cross is gaining through losing.


Source: "Embrace the Cross" by Chip Brogden
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April 10
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made me free
from the Law of Sin and Death."
ROMANS 8:2

Two laws are mentioned in this passage of Scripture: the Law of
Life, and the Law of Sin and Death. We who are in Christ Jesus have
been delivered from the Law of Sin and Death and are under a new
law, which is the Law of Life. The difference between a theoretical
walk with Christ and a practical walk with Christ hinges upon being
able to differentiate between the Law of Life and the Law of Death.
In the Garden the choice was between the Knowledge of Good and Evil
(Law of Death) or the Tree of Life (Law of Life).

We must make the same choice today. Christians are much exercised
in trying to discern between good and evil, right and wrong, Spirit
and flesh. It seems the more we try to figure this out the more
frustrated we become. Instead, God would have us come to the Tree
of Life. This Life will instruct us in all things, including what
is right and what is wrong, yet it is deeper than mere knowledge.


Source: "Lord of All" by Chip Brogden
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April 9
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and
His clothes became as white as the light."
MATTHEW 17:2

To be clothed with the Lord Jesus is to be transfigured. For too
long we who claim a heavenly calling, a heavenly citizenship, and a
heavenly birth have lived as earthly men. What light we have is
hidden beneath a bushel; there is no glory that surrounds us. We
are not talking about an outward display, or something fleshly, but
a Light and a Life which demonstrates the presence of Christ. "In
Him was Life - and the Life was the Light of men" (John 1:4).

Source: "Lord of All" by Chip Brogden
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April 8
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"It is the truth concerning Jesus
that inspires all prophecy."
REVELATION 19:10 (Knox)

The prophetic word is given to point us to Jesus. Everything the
Holy Spirit would speak, reveal, teach, and show us is towards this
same end, which is CHRIST.

We do not need to mull over every dream, vision, word, or prophecy,
trying to exegete its hidden meaning, struggling to extract some
spiritual significance where none exists. If what we see and hear
does not point us to Jesus then it is not prophetic and should be
discarded. This simple test will keep us from distraction.

Source: "The Irresistible Kingdom" by Chip Brogden
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April 7
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all,
how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?"
ROMANS 8:32


Everyone who looks does not see. Everyone who hears does not
listen. What are we looking for? What is it that we need to see?
What would God reveal to us? There is but one desire of God for us,
and that is that we may see Christ. God does not reveal one
hundred, one thousand, or one million things to us. He is pleased
to give us His Son, and He delights for us to look only to Him. Not
even to the things He gives, but to Him Who is the Gift. We may
pray for revelation into a great many matters, but only one thing
is important to God, that is, that we may have revelation into the
Son.

If we know the Son, if we possess the Son, if we see the Son, we
know and possess and see all that God has and is, for He has
deposited all of Himself into His Son, and all of His Son He
deposited into us.

Source: "Lord of All" by Chip Brogden
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven,
that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven."
JOHN 3:13

No one has ascended because no one can ascend. Rest assured that if
it were possible, someone would have done it! But just as we cannot
make ourselves acceptable to God on the basis of anything we have
done, so too we cannot ascend and seat ourselves at the right hand
of God. We are accepted only in the Beloved; we are saved only in
the Beloved; and only in the Beloved can we be raised from the
dead, ascend and be seated in the heavenlies.

Source: "Embrace the Cross" by Chip Brogden
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April 5
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"If we have been united together in the likeness of His death,
certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection."
ROMANS 6:5

It is impossible for us to take up the Cross and not be
resurrected. I am almost afraid to make it so plain lest we fail to
appreciate its mystery, but it is all there in the Scriptures. We
cannot ascend until we have first descended.

Can we embrace the Cross, and love the hands that nail us to it,
and hold nothing against the One Who put us there? Can we commit
our spirit into His hands and give up Self, looking beyond the
present suffering to see the joy that is set before us? This is the
way of the Overcomers.

Source: "Embrace the Cross" by Chip Brogden
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden

"[Paul and Barnabas] returned... strengthening the souls of the
disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, 'We
must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.'"
ACTS 14:22


Our idea of overcoming is to avoid tribulation, not pass through
it. We certainly do not connect entering the Kingdom with going
through tribulation. We think having the victory means eliminating
all tribulation. Nothing could be further from the truth.

In order to enter the Kingdom there must be an increase of Christ
and a decrease of Self. This is an ongoing process, and by it we
judge how far along the Path we have progressed.

But how is Self decreased? The answer is in our circumstances and
trials. They are sufficient to decrease us. We need not do anything
but wait for them to come, and see them as our opportunity to have
Self decreased and Christ increased.

Source: "The Irresistible Kingdom" by Chip Brogden
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April 3
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Today's Message from Chip Brogden
"I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one."
JOHN 17:23

When a symphony performs, each musician has something different to
contribute. The title of each piece of music is the same, but there
are many different parts that make up that one piece. A musician
may be an extremely talented soloist, but playing in harmony with
others requires a great deal of practice, preparation and group
rehearsal. It also requires each musician to submit to the
direction of the conductor. If that means playing "second fiddle"
then so be it. Working together takes time and patience - two
things that most people do not have an abundance of.

I trust you can see that even in this simple illustration, pride,
egotism, and an unwillingness to work with others disqualifies even
the greatest musicians from becoming viable members of a symphony.
Christ, the Master Conductor, seeks a spiritual harmony among all
His disciples: "that they all may be one... that they also may be one
in Us" (John 17:21).

Source: "The Irresistible Kingdom" by Chip Brogden
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