When you become afraid
Greetings in the name of Jesus:
Today the enemy of God is trying to confuse the mines of the followers of Christ by asking one question after the other before we can give an answer to the first. We are really being bombarded by the enemy of God and we don't even realize it. We can such questions as"because Jesus died on the cross, are we all forgiven of every sin?"
The forgiveness that is in Jesus Christ is a conditional forgiveness... The condition is based upon our repentance toward God, and our faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. ( ACTS 20:21) while it is true that our salvation, or at least God's extended invitation of salvation is free and is a gift that God offers to everyone it is still conditional, and based upon our response to both God's word, and to our belief in Jesus Christ as God's son. In truth anyone who does not receive Christ or repent from sin will remain dead in their sins because no one has a biblical ground to continue in sin, and to assume that they are safe just because Jesus died on the cross. 1 John 3:4-6 says "whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law; for sin is the transgression of the law. And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins and in him is no sin. Whosoever abides in him sins not; whosoever sins has not seen him; neither has a known."; These words seem to be very confusing at first until we look at them closer. God hates sin, and God hates deceit, or hypocrisy. There is one great foundational truth about the Christian and sin and that is the fact that our salvation understands the process of forgiveness of all of our trespasses past, present, and future so far as condemnation is concerned justices says in Romans 8:1, and Colossians 2:13 UC since Christ has borne all of our sin and since the believers standing in Christ is complete he is perfected in Christ; that is as long as we stay in Christ. We cannot stay in Christ and continue to do things our own way. When we talk about being perfected in Christ we are not talking about perfection in a physical way, but we are talking about a perfected relationship with God. Just the way it is with any child in a family when the child does something wrong he or she is subject to chastisement from father, but that's different than to be condemned with the world. 1 Corinthians 11:31-32 tells us that by confession the Christian is forgiven and restored to fellowship with God. The problem is that we have to come to God, confess that we realize we have send and realize that if it were not for Christ's finished work on the cross and his present intercession in heaven, the least sin would result in his banishment from God's presence and eternal ruin. The new covenant of Christ with us has fulfilled the law in God's eyes for as long as we remain in Christ and Christ's spirit remains in us all the father sees when he looks at us all God sees is Jesus.
What a relationship that really is for us, and yet we still don't understand our part in it. We have yet to understand that our behavior is directly linked to our relationship with Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit within us. Galatians 3:10-13 says "for as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, cursed is everyone that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident; for, the just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith; but, the man that does them shall live in them. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us for it is written, cursed is everyone that hangs on a tree." We must realize that those of us try to keep the law are usually ignorant of its holy demands. It requires perfection in thought, word, and deed. The proclamation of the spiritual nature of the law that God requires is truth in the inward parts. What that means is it strips the sinner of self righteousness. No one will earn their way into heaven by keeping the 10 Commandments. Those Commandments were not given for that reason. The law is like a mirror. All it can do is reflect what we are in truth- unclean and desperately in need of cleansing. For those of us trusting in good works we need to read Ephesians 2: 8-9 which says "for by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast." There are a lot of Christians today who have tried to justify themselves by whatever laws they have kept, and yet there are a lot of unsaved people who often try to justify themselves when confronted with their own sinfulness, by saying," it's only natural that we sent". Their right; sin does come naturally to us. We naturally lie, steal, lust, but the lifestyles of the ungodly can be clearly seen in soap operas, movies, talkshows, and tabloids. But because of its natural tendency that doesn't make it right. By nature we are children of this world, and we are children of wrath the verses that I just wrote to you should make it clear that no one will be saved through their own goodness. Nothing we can do could ever merit everlasting life. It can come only as a gift, by the grace of God. I want you to know that we are not saved by our faith, it is not faith itself that saves us. Faith is the medium God uses to extend his grace to us. In the book of Titus 3:5 it says"not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit". I think we need to be reminded every so often of these things. May you richly bless God that through your life in him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
Today the enemy of God is trying to confuse the mines of the followers of Christ by asking one question after the other before we can give an answer to the first. We are really being bombarded by the enemy of God and we don't even realize it. We can such questions as"because Jesus died on the cross, are we all forgiven of every sin?"
The forgiveness that is in Jesus Christ is a conditional forgiveness... The condition is based upon our repentance toward God, and our faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. ( ACTS 20:21) while it is true that our salvation, or at least God's extended invitation of salvation is free and is a gift that God offers to everyone it is still conditional, and based upon our response to both God's word, and to our belief in Jesus Christ as God's son. In truth anyone who does not receive Christ or repent from sin will remain dead in their sins because no one has a biblical ground to continue in sin, and to assume that they are safe just because Jesus died on the cross. 1 John 3:4-6 says "whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law; for sin is the transgression of the law. And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins and in him is no sin. Whosoever abides in him sins not; whosoever sins has not seen him; neither has a known."; These words seem to be very confusing at first until we look at them closer. God hates sin, and God hates deceit, or hypocrisy. There is one great foundational truth about the Christian and sin and that is the fact that our salvation understands the process of forgiveness of all of our trespasses past, present, and future so far as condemnation is concerned justices says in Romans 8:1, and Colossians 2:13 UC since Christ has borne all of our sin and since the believers standing in Christ is complete he is perfected in Christ; that is as long as we stay in Christ. We cannot stay in Christ and continue to do things our own way. When we talk about being perfected in Christ we are not talking about perfection in a physical way, but we are talking about a perfected relationship with God. Just the way it is with any child in a family when the child does something wrong he or she is subject to chastisement from father, but that's different than to be condemned with the world. 1 Corinthians 11:31-32 tells us that by confession the Christian is forgiven and restored to fellowship with God. The problem is that we have to come to God, confess that we realize we have send and realize that if it were not for Christ's finished work on the cross and his present intercession in heaven, the least sin would result in his banishment from God's presence and eternal ruin. The new covenant of Christ with us has fulfilled the law in God's eyes for as long as we remain in Christ and Christ's spirit remains in us all the father sees when he looks at us all God sees is Jesus.
What a relationship that really is for us, and yet we still don't understand our part in it. We have yet to understand that our behavior is directly linked to our relationship with Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit within us. Galatians 3:10-13 says "for as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, cursed is everyone that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident; for, the just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith; but, the man that does them shall live in them. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us for it is written, cursed is everyone that hangs on a tree." We must realize that those of us try to keep the law are usually ignorant of its holy demands. It requires perfection in thought, word, and deed. The proclamation of the spiritual nature of the law that God requires is truth in the inward parts. What that means is it strips the sinner of self righteousness. No one will earn their way into heaven by keeping the 10 Commandments. Those Commandments were not given for that reason. The law is like a mirror. All it can do is reflect what we are in truth- unclean and desperately in need of cleansing. For those of us trusting in good works we need to read Ephesians 2: 8-9 which says "for by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast." There are a lot of Christians today who have tried to justify themselves by whatever laws they have kept, and yet there are a lot of unsaved people who often try to justify themselves when confronted with their own sinfulness, by saying," it's only natural that we sent". Their right; sin does come naturally to us. We naturally lie, steal, lust, but the lifestyles of the ungodly can be clearly seen in soap operas, movies, talkshows, and tabloids. But because of its natural tendency that doesn't make it right. By nature we are children of this world, and we are children of wrath the verses that I just wrote to you should make it clear that no one will be saved through their own goodness. Nothing we can do could ever merit everlasting life. It can come only as a gift, by the grace of God. I want you to know that we are not saved by our faith, it is not faith itself that saves us. Faith is the medium God uses to extend his grace to us. In the book of Titus 3:5 it says"not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit". I think we need to be reminded every so often of these things. May you richly bless God that through your life in him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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