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That We May Attain
Victor Hall with Murray Wylie
In his letter to the Philippians, Paul spoke of pressing on to ‘attain’ and lay hold of the goal of life. He knew that Christ had laid hold of him for a purpose. Like all men, there was an upward call from God upon his life. Paul understood this goal to be the ‘resurrection from the dead’. However, what does this mean for us? How do we attain it? What is the pathway of life that leads to this goal? These questions were the pursuit of Paul’s life and ministry. He finished describing his own pursuit of this pathway by saying, ‘If by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead’. Phil 3:11.
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Excerpt from That We May AttainOur study can be summed up in several short statements.- How to focus the basic aim of the gospel
- How to understand and practise the true nature of fellowship
- How to function in genuine fellowship so that the blood ofChrist cleanses
- How to interpret the gospel process into daily house-to-houselife
- How to interpret suffering
- How to see suffering as a fellowship
- How to forfeit our own righteousness and be found with His
- How to walk on the path of life, and attain resurrection life by the steps, by the means, that Paul lays out in Phillippians 3: 9-11: knowing Him, knowing the power of His resurrection, the fellowship of His sufferings, knowing conformity to His death, attaining exanastasis
- How to understand what Paul calls ‘the foolishness of God’ in including us in the fellowship of the cross
- How to understand the mystery of fellowship, where we receive and live in the testimony of Christ
- How to appropriate the power of Eternal Spirit in relation to suffering
- How to break the iron yoke of law by the anointing
- How to appropriate the ‘acceptable year of the Lord’ and find deliverance, healing, sight
- How to maintain the basic viability of our church fellowships, where the will of God can be proclaimed collectively, and apprehended individually, house-to-house, within a fellowship in the anointing
- How to achieve a fellowship model for church life, where the blood cleanses
- How the participation view of the gospel differs from a substitution view
- How to preserve a participation model, and guard against the substitution model
- How a substitution view, without participation, can make the cross of no effect
- How it is that the Christian church can be sidetracked in the attempt to achieve genuine fellowship
- How to activate the function of the five-seven angelos administration that maintains the lampstands in the anointing.
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