Radical And Invasive Surgery

Radical And Invasive Surgery

Every one in today's age and vernacular understands for the most part, how the medical field does with tumors, heart disease, and cancer. They attack it! The get inside, cut, remove, examine, and take preventive measures. Measures such as, open heart surgery. Cut through the flesh, saw the sternum in two halves, take a medical device and spread open the chest, to get room to work on the heart. Once they see which arteries are blocked, or valves are failing the can attempt to repair the heart. Restoring life flowing blood throughout the body. This isn't too different from the Holy Spirit's work in sanctifying we Christians, WHEN we don't grieve, resist, or ignore Him:

"21 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

2 And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;

3 And said, O Lord God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?

4 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

5 And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the Lord? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the Lord to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

8 And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the Lord? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.

9 For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.

10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.

11 And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan." (Judges 21:1-12 KJV)

   Here we see from the two previous chapters, the radical invasive surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy of a people to remove the cancer of sin, they literally for all intensive purposes plucked the eye out, cut the right hand off, to keep the body from sinning. We come to Jesus, He blots out our sin, our transgressions, and iniquity. Then in the walk of faith, in the Holy Spirit, we grow from grace to grace as we purposefully make Godly choices enabled by He, the Holy Spirit. We choose not to sin, because of grace, because of mercy, because He first loved us! I know I deal with the flesh on a moment by moment basis every day. So do you Christian.

"12 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:" (Hebrews 12:1-14 KJV) The New Covenant parallel of what the 11 tribes of Israel did in removing sin, and laying it aside.