"Walk With The King" Program, From the "Apostle" Series, titled "Giving Christ Complete Control"

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"Walk With The King" Program, Practical & Encouraging Messages From The Ministry of Dr. Robert A. Cook.
From the "Apostle" Series, titled: "Giving Christ Complete Control" (Broadcast #7203)
Scripture References: 2 Peter 1:1, Philippians 2:13, Philippians 4:13, Romans 6, 2 Corinthians 10:5, Acts 2:39

Learn about Dr. Cook's ministry at https://www.walkwiththeking.org/

Transcript

Alright. Thank you very much and hello again, radio friends. How in the world are you? You’re doing all right? Oh, I’m fine. Thank you. I’m happy in the Lord. Just been talking to my Heavenly Father, and I told Him that I wanted somehow that His love and compassion and truth and inspiration and power might be built into the words that I speak now and even the tone of my voice. I trust that may be so.

You know it’s a wonderful thing that you and I can exchange our needs for what Christ has. Christ has made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know. Righteousness is being spontaneously good. Sanctification is being set aside for God’s use without being sanctimonious. And redemption is revving up the whole package of life and making it an adventure with deity. Christ becomes all of that to you by faith. You can take by faith. It’s what Wendell Loveless used to call the “exchanged life.” You exchange all of your needs and weaknesses for his strength and power. Hallelujah! Well, I trust God may bless somebody especially today through these few moments that we invest together around the Word of God.

If it’s all right with you I’m going to go right on into II Peter. We just finished I Peter, and if you don’t mind we’ll just keep on. I love the Word of God, don’t you? I like to walk around in it and see what it says. Well, Peter, signs his name, first of all, and identifies himself as a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ. Word “servant” is our word “slave.” Greek word, “doulos,” slave. Now, that has an unpleasant connotation to us in this culture and it should obviously. We were officially done with slavery more than a century ago in this country. There still are some countries where people are bought and sold but not all that many anymore.

When the New Testament was written and Holy Men of Old spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, they lived in a culture where buying and selling people was a common practice. And so when Peter used this word “slave,” everybody understood what he meant. He meant “I belong to somebody else” and that somebody is Jesus. And because I belong to the Lord Jesus, I don’t have any will of my own, any opinions of my own, any plans of my own, any future of my own, any possessions of my own nor do I have any rights of my own. It all belongs to Him. All of this is not to say that you become an automaton or a robot, that you are not responsible for your thoughts or actions. Indeed we are. But it is to say that the Lord Jesus Christ owns and controls it all and the more He controls you, the better is your life and the more effective is your service. Simon Peter, a slave of Jesus.

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Isaiah 55:11:
“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”