SANCTIFICATION IS A PROCESS
Greetings in Jesus:
There is a process that God uses to set aside someone for the Kingdom of Heaven, and for some reason most Christians do not understand their role in it.
We often read various verses that point to the fact that we must bare fruit of the Spirit, or show growth in our lives in various ways in order to have any hope of the Kingdom of Heaven. We see Christ referring to being grafted into the vine as a branch that must bare fruit or be cut off. It seems that the only message that most church's are giving today is the old once saved always saved concept that all we have to do is accept Jesus as Lord of our lives to be saved for all time, and that we can pretty much go ahead and live our lives any way we want as long as we ask for forgiveness.
We all know that nobody is perfect and that we all sin, but there is a real difference in those who make mistakes while trying to live for Christ and those who are deceitfully using Christ to cover a sinful life that is not repentant in the intent of their heart. We will be talking this week about this practice of using Christ and the practice of coming to Christ from time to time to ask for forgiveness without really repenting from sin.
First I want to tell you that there are several teachers out there who will say that what I say is wrong...that all we need to do is ask and it will be done because of God's tremendous love for us, and that growth does not matter to God...only the act of accepting Him. I happen to believe there is much more to our relationship with God than that mere confession that Christ is Lord. In fact when Paul was writing to the Colossians in Colossians 2:8 " see to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principals of this world rather than on Christ" I have a great fear that for many of those who are being taught within the church today the ideas of salvation for them are being twisted by a tradition that says that God will accept any kind of Christian walk that we choose to give to Him. In our hearts we know that cannot be true unless we are transformed into a new creature we shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven...and that thought alone has me very worried for many people today who consider themselves to be in Christ. This week I want to concentrate on the process we need to go through in that change of who we are and into a creature that will fit into the Kingdom of God. Join me won't you...may you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
There is a process that God uses to set aside someone for the Kingdom of Heaven, and for some reason most Christians do not understand their role in it.
We often read various verses that point to the fact that we must bare fruit of the Spirit, or show growth in our lives in various ways in order to have any hope of the Kingdom of Heaven. We see Christ referring to being grafted into the vine as a branch that must bare fruit or be cut off. It seems that the only message that most church's are giving today is the old once saved always saved concept that all we have to do is accept Jesus as Lord of our lives to be saved for all time, and that we can pretty much go ahead and live our lives any way we want as long as we ask for forgiveness.
We all know that nobody is perfect and that we all sin, but there is a real difference in those who make mistakes while trying to live for Christ and those who are deceitfully using Christ to cover a sinful life that is not repentant in the intent of their heart. We will be talking this week about this practice of using Christ and the practice of coming to Christ from time to time to ask for forgiveness without really repenting from sin.
First I want to tell you that there are several teachers out there who will say that what I say is wrong...that all we need to do is ask and it will be done because of God's tremendous love for us, and that growth does not matter to God...only the act of accepting Him. I happen to believe there is much more to our relationship with God than that mere confession that Christ is Lord. In fact when Paul was writing to the Colossians in Colossians 2:8 " see to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principals of this world rather than on Christ" I have a great fear that for many of those who are being taught within the church today the ideas of salvation for them are being twisted by a tradition that says that God will accept any kind of Christian walk that we choose to give to Him. In our hearts we know that cannot be true unless we are transformed into a new creature we shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven...and that thought alone has me very worried for many people today who consider themselves to be in Christ. This week I want to concentrate on the process we need to go through in that change of who we are and into a creature that will fit into the Kingdom of God. Join me won't you...may you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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