The Road to Calvary, Part I
It is a road that gives up self, where you surrender completely to Jesus, just as He surrendered to His Father unto Calvary, the cruel cross. How much of self is in us? The part of us that gets irritable, envious, resentful, critical, and worried. It is self who gets hard and unyielding in our attitudes to others. Also it is self who is shy and self conscious and reserved. No wonder we need breaking. As long as we are in control, God can do little with us. He longs to fill us completely, with a broken spirit so self can be crucified within us. We should be as a servant, just as Jesus became God’s servant and man's servant.
Galatians 5
1-Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
2-Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
3-For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
4-Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you is justified by the law; ye have fallen from grace.
5-For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
6-For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, not uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
7-Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
8-This persuasion cometh not of Him that calleth you.
9-A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
10-I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
11-And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the offence of the cross ceased.
12-I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
13-For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
14-For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
15-But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
16-This I say then, walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
17-For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
18-But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
19-Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20-idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21-envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in the past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22-But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23-meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24-And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
25-If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26-Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.