CLASSIC SERIES " PURE GOLD " THE TRAVAIL TO RESTORE CREATION THE TRAVAIL TO RECREATED MAN The Principle of Travail The seed plot of this series : “And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God” Galatians 6:16 “Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied” Isaiah 53:10,11 “Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children” Isaiah 66:8 “Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the residue of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel” Micah 5:3 “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And… we ourselves groan… waiting for… adoption… the redemption of our body ” Romans 8:22,23 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world” John 16:20,21 “My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you…” Galatians 4:19 Now let us : bring together particularly that phrase from Galatians 6:16: “The Israel of God”, and the fragments in Isaiah 53:10 and 11: “He shall see his seed”; “He shall see of the travail of his soul”. “His seed… the travail of his soul”. We have before us a very full, deep and far-reaching matter: nothing less than that of the producing, securing, training, and using of a spiritual seed — a new spiritual Israel. We begin with a brief consideration of a principle, found in a word occurring in all but one of the above passages — the principle of travail. Travail Implies Something Costly Just go through the Bible and see the great number of connections where struggle and conflict and pain and anguish presages the emergence of some tremendous new thing of God. All Divine Operations Effected Through Travail (a) Initiations This law is carried through from nature to the purpose of God, to the divine purpose, (b) Enlargements Whenever God sets Himself for increase, for enlargement, to get something more than that which He has already got, it seems that He plunges things anew into travail. (c) Consummation When these things begin to come to pass, lift up your heads; because your redemption draweth nigh a great travail i church and creation, Travail has Universal Significance It is a value secured for the Body of Christ beyond anything merely earthly and parochial. That is the principle of His travail, which is placed at the centre of the universe; and to share that does mean such enlargement, such release. You see, we come back to that again: release, enlargement, expansion, fullness, reproduction — use what words you will. The law is always the law of travail. Travail Reveals “Heart” or “Hollow” The Lord allows travail — indeed, He not only allows it, but appoints it — in order to find out whether really there is a heart-relationship to His things. The Two “Israels” Now this comprehends God’s whole conception of a spiritual Israel. Why have we taken that fragment — “the Israel of God”? You know, Paul was almost invidious when he used that phrase. If you look at the letter to the Galatians, you will see that he is dealing with two Israels, and in that phrase he is saying that there is a true Israel and a false. AUSTIN SPARKS FOUNDATION EDITORIAL LIVEMAN DEE 2020 https://www.austin-sparks.net/english/books/000893.html