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Attack Your Lack - Oral Roberts

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<strong>Attack</strong> <strong>Your</strong> <strong>Lack</strong><br />

as it is this day."<br />

This young man had kept the covenant made<br />

by God with Abraham. He had kept the<br />

commandments God had laid down for His<br />

people.<br />

Let me point out to you that there is no<br />

substitute for your keeping God's<br />

commandments.<br />

Jesus said He came to fulfill the law, not to<br />

replace it. (See Matthew 5:17.) Think about that<br />

word fulfill. It means what it says, "FULL-FILL,<br />

fully filled, no lack." Jesus supplied the missing<br />

parts that made the law FULLY FILLED, without<br />

lack. God's commandments are still necessary for<br />

your provision and prosperity. (See Romans<br />

7:12.)<br />

Through obeying the commands of God this<br />

young ruler had become very prosperous. But<br />

now something has gone wrong. He feels lack, a<br />

lack that is keeping him from receiving the<br />

fullness of Jesus' life in his being.<br />

Read on: "Then Jesus looking at him loved<br />

him." Jesus didn't stop loving him because he had<br />

money. Jesus is not against people having money.<br />

He's the one who gives the ability to earn money.<br />

As Moses said, "He gives you power to get wealth<br />

that he may establish his covenant with you." In<br />

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