These words mean the breaking and collapse of my independence
brought about by my own hands, and the surrendering of my life to the
supremacy of the Lord Jesus. No one can do this for me, I must do it
myself. God may bring me up to this point three hundred and sixty-five
times a year, but He cannot push me through it. It means breaking the
hard outer layer of my individual independence from God, and the
liberating of myself and my nature into oneness with Him; not following
my own ideas, but choosing absolute loyalty to Jesus. Once I am at that
point, there is no possibility of misunderstanding. Very few of us know
anything about loyalty to Christ or understand what He meant when He
said, “. . . for My sake” (Matthew 5:11). That is what makes a strong saint.
Has that breaking of my independence come? All the rest is religious
fraud. The one point to decide is— will I give up? Will I surrender to
Jesus Christ, placing no conditions whatsoever as to how the brokenness
will come? I must be broken from my own understanding of myself. When I
reach that point, immediately the reality of the supernatural
identification with Jesus Christ takes place. And the witness of the
Spirit of God is unmistakable— “I have been crucified with Christ . . .
.”
The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my
own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I
will not begin to be a saint.
One student a year who hears God’s call would be sufficient for God
to have called the Bible Training College into existence. This college
has no value as an organization, not even academically. Its sole value
for existence is for God to help Himself to lives. Will we allow Him to
help Himself to us, or are we more concerned with our own ideas of what
we are going to be?
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