Life on the highest plane - The consecrated life

Life on the Highest Plane[The Consecrated Life]

Albert Samuel Milton

What does Consecrate mean?

• To Set Apart for God to serve Him (to Devote, to Separate)

1) God Consecrates us 2) God told us to Consecrate ourselves

God Consecrates Us• I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that

my Name may be there forever. 2 Chronicles 7:16

God Consecrates Us – You Are The Temple

• Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 1 Corinthians 6:19

God Consecrates Us

• I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar and will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests. Exodus 29:44

God Consecrates Us – You are the Priest

• But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 1 Peter 2:9

God Consecrates Us – You are the Priest

• The Lord called Jeremiah when he was a young man (Jeremiah 1:5, 6) and said to him, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you. Before you were born I consecrated you and appointed you a prophet to the nations."

Only Cleaned Vessel Can be used – God created us and cleansed us

Consecrate Yourselves

• Joshua told the people, "Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do amazing things among you.” Joshua 3:5

• Turn your hearts to God, Trust Him, put your faith in Him, put away sin, be committed.


• It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men – Phillips Brooks


• Listen to me, Levites! Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the temple of the LORD, the God of your ancestors. Remove all defilement from the sanctuary.

2 Chronicles 29:5

What is the basis of Consecration?

LOVE

Love is the basis of Consecration

• For the love of Christ constrains us; 2 Corinthians 5:14


• Constrained means “pressed on from all sides,” tightly confined on all sides. Christ’s love binds us. Wrapped in His love.



• He who loves Jesus consecrates to Him all that he has, and feels it a delight that he may lay anything at the feet of Him who laid down his life for us – Charles Spurgoen


• When one touches the Lord’s love, consecration spontaneously follows.” (Watchman Nee)


• For the love of Christ constrains us; 2 Corinthians 5:14

Good Works – Like Good Tree with Deep Root (Love)

Dead Works – Like Good Tree with NO Deep Root (Love)

Consecrated SELF

• Jessie Penn-Lewis was a woman whose writings have helped many people understand the way of the cross.

• About ten years after her conversion, when seeking to be filled with the Holy Spirit, she tells of how she got a terrible revelation. She saw a hand holding up a bundle of filthy rags and a gentle voice saying, “This is the outcome of all your past service for God”.

Consecrated SELF

• She protested that she had been consecrated to the Lord for years. But the Lord told her that all her service had been merely consecrated SELF – the outcome of her own energy and her own plans. And then she heard one word spoken to her, “Crucified”.


• Consecration is putting Jesus absolutely first in our life, above all else, be ready, be prepared to serve him and do what He asks. Because we are in love relationship with our Lord! Jesus asks us to take up our cross daily. Luke 9:23 “Then he said to them all: Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.”


• Consecration means that we say, “Lord, You have given me the opportunity and the right to come before You and to serve You.” It is saying, “Lord, I am Yours. My ears were purchased by the blood; they belong to You. My hands were purchased by the blood; they belong to You. My feet were purchased by the blood; they belong to You. From now on I can no longer use them for myself.” (Watchman Nee)


Oil (Holy Spirit) Needed

Love Poured Out by Holy Spirit

Consecrated by Love

How can we Consecrate ourselves?

1. Seek First His Kingdom and His Righteousness. Keep God first in your life.

2. Be filled with the Holy Spirit. Abide in love.3. Examine your life, ask God to reveal you.4. Be willing and available to be used by God.5. Grow Spiritually, meditate God’s Word by

reading bible, pray and abide in Him.