What is the truth that makes me free?

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Every Christian trusts the Lord and believes Him in some capacity. The trouble is, most do not trust Him or believe Him correctly.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John 8:82

WHAT IS THE TRUTH?

The Truth that the Believer must have, is that the Cross and the Resurrection, which speak of the Finished Work of Christ, pertains not only to our initial Salvation experience, but as well to our everyday Victory over the world, the flesh, and the Devil. The Believer must understand the Truth that he was in Christ when Christ died on the Cross, was in Christ when He was buried, was in Christ when he was raised from the dead, and continues to be in Christ as He is now exalted at the Right Hand of the Father (Roman 6:3-5; Ephesians 2:6). Consequently, if Christ defeated Satan, that means the Christian has defeated Satan. If Christ atoned for all sin, then no sin can attach itself to the Believer, that is, if the Believer keeps trusting Christ. If Christ is a Law-keeper, than the Believer is a Law-keeper. If Christ is victorious, then the Believer is victorious.

The Believer must understand this, trust in this, believe this, and act upon it, even on a daily basis. This is what Jesus meant by us taking up the Cross daily and following Him (Luke 9:23).

This is the "Truth" which we must learn, act upon, and continue to act upon, which guarantees the help of the Holy Spirit.

If the Believer does not know and understand this "Truth" to simply tell him to "trust Jesus," will really not help him that much. It is the same as telling him that he must "get in the Altars." Without knowing this Truth, he won't really know why he is in the Altars.

In fact, he will be attempting to trust the Lord to do something for him, which in fact, has already been done. He will be attempting to have Faith in God for something, that's actually already taking place. He will be attempting to ask the Lord for something, which in reality has already been brought about.

Jimmy Swaggart Bible Commentary

 

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The truth of the Lord is all you say, but much more than this. The Lord gives us truth by telling us about it from the first day of creation. Christ was there on that day, and the first five chapters of scripture tells us what the principles are that we and our world operates correctly on. It gives the plan of salvation through the blood of Christ in symbolic form, ----all of it is part of the truth that frees us.

When God chose the 13th apostle that represent and speaks to our adoption into Israel God chose a rabbi who tells us he remains a strict Pharisee, a Jew. Christ told us He changed nothing of His Father. We are told both that Christ has an identifiable identity and that Christ is God and we have but one God. Christ fulfilled, completed, all we are told; we need to know exactly what He fulfilled to understand Christ.

The Holy Spirit within us gives us the ability to understand all this. It truly frees us. We can give up criticizing others, God takes care of that and we only accept them and our life. We know God takes care of us, even when we face earthly death. We have faith in ourselves, for we are God's creation who He loves. We are indeed free.

 

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The Battlefield for the mind...this means war!

Paul also makes it very clear in Romans 8:10 that the physical body, mind, and the heart (which is evil - Jeremiah 17:9) has been rendered helpless because of the original sin; consequently, the Believer trying to overcome by willpower presents a fruitless task. Only the Holy Spirit can make us what we ought to be (Romans 8:13), which means we cannot do it ourselves; once again, He performs all that He does within the confines of the Finished Work of Christ (Romans 8:2).

If a Christian will and their efforts to live for God is in anything except Christ and the Cross, i.e., Finished Work, The Blood of Jesus (Romans 8:2), Satan can override your will and force you to do things you don't want to do and trying not to do (Ephesians 6:12). Jesus said deny yourself and pick up your cross and follow me (Luke 9:23).

Remember our bodies are dead and useless to God. The reason why the body is dead is because of the effects of the fall has made us totally in capable of yielding spiritual obedience (Jeremiah 13:23). So there must be a source outside of myself that helps me to enter into sanctification which is the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:13).

 

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The Battlefield for the mind...this means war!

Paul also makes it very clear in Romans 8:10 that the physical body, mind, and the heart (which is evil - Jeremiah 17:9) has been rendered helpless because of the original sin; consequently, the Believer trying to overcome by willpower presents a fruitless task. Only the Holy Spirit can make us what we ought to be (Romans 8:13), which means we cannot do it ourselves; once again, He performs all that He does within the confines of the Finished Work of Christ (Romans 8:2).

This is well thought out. As we decide how to live for Christ day to day, it is a matter of listening to the word, not to our own reasoning without the Lord.

When the Pharisees listened to the rabbi's reasoning about scripture instead of simply listening to scripture they got in serious trouble. When we listen to our scholars tell us about scripture instead of to scripture we get in the same kind of trouble.

 

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The Battlefield for the mind...this means war!

Paul also makes it very clear in Romans 8:10 that the physical body, mind / intellect, and the heart (which is evil - Jeremiah 17:9) has been rendered helpless because of the original sin; consequently, the Believer trying to overcome by willpower presents a fruitless task. Only the Holy Spirit can mortify the deeds of the flesh and make us what we ought to be (Romans 8:13). This means we cannot do it ourselves. Once again, He performs all that He does within the confines of the Finished Work of Christ (Romans 8:2).

If a Christian will and their efforts to live for God is in anything except Christ and the Cross, i.e., Finished Work, The Blood of Jesus (Romans 8:2), Satan can override your will and force you to do things you don't want to do and trying not to do (Ephesians 6:12). Jesus said deny yourself and pick up your cross and follow me (Luke 9:23).

Remember our bodies are dead and useless to God. The heart is prone to wander away from God's love and eat from "The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil." The reason why the body is dead is because of the effects of the fall has made us totally incapable of yielding spiritual obedience on a regular basis (Jeremiah 13:23). So there must be a source outside of myself that helps me to enter into sanctification which is the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:13).

Understand Justification by Faith - Romans 3:23

This is why we must understand what justification is and why it is the first subject in the book of Romans. It lays down the foundation as I go through sanctification.

Justification gives me the ability to get back up from every failure no matter how many times and stand up and go through this process and learn it. Justification gives us a legal standing with God that is not cancelled because of the acts of sin. So if I fail at this same thing a thousand times, God forbid, I remain justified by faith (Romans 3:23); For I have kept the ways of the Lord (2 Samuel 22:22; Psalm 18:21; Romans 8:2). Remember, Jesus said, "I did not come to condemn (John 3:17)."

Justification is not what we do, and not what I am, and not what I worked for. It is what Jesus did and my faith in it that gives me the standing with God that I need to carry on my Christian experience. Sometime I do it well, and sometimes I do it not so well, but his justifying Grace will not fail unless my faith fails. It is just if I have never sinned and just if I have always obeyed (Romans 8:1; Romans 8:2).

 

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Understanding Justification by Faith - Romans 3:23

This is why we must understand what justification is and why it is the first subject in the book of Romans. It lays down the foundation as I go through sanctification.

Justification gives me the ability to get back up from every failure no matter how many times and stand up and go through this process and learn it. Justification gives us a legal standing with God that is not cancelled because of the acts of sin. So if I fail at this same thing a thousand times, God forbid, I remain justified by faith (Romans 3:23); For I have kept the ways of the Lord (2 Samuel 22:22; Psalm 18:21; Romans 8:2). Remember, Jesus said, "I did not come to condemn (John 3:17)."

Justification is not what we do, and not what I am, and not what I worked for. It is what Jesus did and my faith in it that gives me the standing with God that I need to carry on my Christian experience. Sometime I do it well, and sometimes I do it not so well, but his justifying Grace will not fail unless my faith fails. It is just if I have never sinned and just if I have always obeyed (Romans 8:1; Romans 8:2).

God's prescribed order of victory for the Believer

God has chosen to operate His work from the basis of faith. "The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:2) is God's prescribed order of victory for the Believer. This means that the Believer must maintained proper Faith the size of a mustard seed exclusively in Christ and His Finished Work, i.e., The Cross, i.e., The Blood of Jesus.

The Law Of The Spirit Of Life In Christ Jesus is the will of God's only prescribe order of victory for every born again Believer. It simply means that the Believer must maintain Faith exclusively in Christ and the Cross, i.e., Finished Work.

The Holy Spirit works exclusively within the legal confines of the Finished Work, i.e., "the Cross," guarantees the help of the Holy Spirit, which guarantees Victory.

If the Believers doesn't understand or attempts to live for God by any manner other than Faith in Christ and the Cross, he is doomed to failure. This places the Believer in the law of sin and death which is sin. For whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

The Law Of The Spirit Of Life In Christ Jesus gives the Believer victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil.

Victory over the world: Galatians 6:14 ; 1 John 5:4
Victory over the flesh: Galatians 5:24
Victory over the devil: Hebrews 2:14 ; Colossians 2:15

God only awards imputed righteousness by maintaining faith exclusively in Christ and his finished work (Romans 4:5). God only recognize the blood of Jesus on the door post of our hearts. That Believer is now under the strongest law in the universe, " The Law Of The Spirit Of Life In Christ Jesus (Romans 8:2)." This law is stronger than "The Law Of Sin And Death (Romans 8:1-2)." So when you do miss the mark and sin, you still have imputed righteousness. Which means: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Sin has no dominion over you. (The Believer must confess their sins the Lord reveals to them - 1 John 1:9)

If we as Believers do not understand these two Laws, then the "law of sin and death" will wreak its havoc on us.

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: Romans 5:1 ; Hebrews 10:38 ; Hab. 2:4 NLT

Two kinds of peace

1. Justifying Peace - This is Peace with God, a legal standing. Rom. 8:7; Eph. 2:14-15

2. Sanctifying Peace - This is the Peace of God in the heart. Rom. 8:6; 14:19; 15:13; Gal. 1:3

The first is the result of a legal standing. The second is the result of the Work of the Holy Spirit. The first is static, never fluctuates, the second changes almost from hour to hour. The first, every Christian has, the second, every Christian may have.

 

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What does it mean to walk in the Spirit?

To walk in the spirit means to maintain faith exclusively in Christ and the Cross, i.e., Finished Work, i.e., The Blood of Jesus. This allow the Holy Spirit latitude to work and help us. The Holy Spirit only works in the life of a Believer in the parameter of Christ and His Finished Work (Romans 8:1-2). The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:2) is the highest law of all. The Holy Spirit keeps all of the commandments for us. You are guaranteed failure if you try to live for God in your on will power, strength, and performance. The only solution for sin, the only answer to sin, is the Cross of Christ.

How does a Believer maintain faith exclusively in Christ and the Cross? By just believing in Jesus (who He is) and what He accomplished at Calvary Cross. Romans 4:5 - Galatians 2:19-21 NKJV - 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 NKJV - Colossians 2:11-15 NKJV

This is called fighting the good fight of faith and the only fight a Believer should fight. The Believer must renew their minds and labor to rest in this Finished Work daily.

When faith is not maintain in Christ and the Cross the Believer enters the flesh, i.e., The Law - the curse. Romans 8:1 - Galatians 5:16-26

For whatsoever is not of faith is sin. If a Believers faith is not maintained exclusively in Christ and the Cross it is sin and places you under the law which is a curse. Many Believers are in the default position by trying to earn righteousness by law. God only awards righteousness by maintaining faith exclusively in Christ and His Finished work. Either a Believer is in Grace or Law. A Believer is placed under the dispensation of Grace if faith is exclusively maintained in Christ and the Cross, i.e., Finished Work, i.e., The Blood of Jesus. It is not automatic! Romans 4:16 NKJV

If faith is not maintain exclusively in Christ and His Finished Work, i.e., The Cross, i.e., The BLOOD of Jesus, the works of the flesh will manifest. Let me repeat what I said on previous threads;

Paul tells us this in the 5th Chapter of Galatians. The entire Book of Galatians, but especially the 5th Chapter, is a warning from Paul to the Church at Galatia, which is also meant for us. The warning is that if they place their faith in anything except “Christ and Him Crucified,” that “Christ shall profit you nothing” (Gal. 5:2).

The Apostle goes on to say that if the Believer doesn’t adhere to the Way of the Spirit, which is the Way of the Cross, then works of the flesh will manifest themselves. He said:

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God” (Gal. 5:19-21).

Now let me say it again, because it is so very important:
If the Believer doesn’t understand the Cross of Christ, as it regards Sanctification, then, in some way, one or more of these “works of the flesh” are going to manifest themselves in his life. As stated, such is inevitable! The first four, “Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, and lasciviousness,” are obvious and easily understood. But the modern Christian quickly dismisses “idolatry, witchcraft, and heresies,” thinking they do not really apply today.

- Pastor Jimmy Swaggart[SUB][/SUB]

 

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Jesus is the Truth.

 

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AMEN, Magenta...

 

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AMEN, Magenta...

In Him we live and move and have our being

 

[eternally-gratefull]

The good news (gospel) of Jesus Christ,

Get this right, and place your faith in it and you are set free.

Get it wrong, or do nto put your faiht in it, and your still a slave.

 

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The TRUTH that sets us free Is that all men were coming short of the glory of GOD and only the WORD of GOD that was sent to earth manifested In flesh,the son of GOD,the messiah who was the only one who could fulfill the law perfectly,the lamb of GOD who takes away the sin of the world,ALWAYS In the house.

Only JESUS could fulfill the law perfectly and those who believe In the WORD of GOD are set free,born again,have ETERNAL LIFE.

This being done for man by JESUS taking the punishment for us by having mercy on us and the law saying whomever breaks the law should receive death so then JESUS took our place and died on the cross.

 

[Preacha24-7]

The Truth is we all deserve to go to hell, but because of Christ's death on the cross
salvation is available to us. To understand the heart of God remember what Jesus
did for you. Think about it. We have a God that loves us so much that He came down
in the form of a man. Jesus was fully God but He came to us as a man. That's why
He's called the Son of Man. Because he identified with our humanity.
1.Romans3:23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God
2.Romans5:8 But God demonstrated His own love towards us, in that
while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.
3.Romans6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is
eternal life through ChristJesus our Lord
4. John17:3 And this is eternal life that they may know you, the only
true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent
5. John 14:6 I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man comes to
the Father except through Me.
The God of Hope Romans15:13
Hope is God's gift to the believer.
Hope produces joy. It's evidence that what God has done for you
in the past He can do for you in the future.Christian hope is based on the
fact that God will do what He said He would do. Christian hope is never
wishful thinking; it's a divine certainty.
Verses on Hope
Jeremiah29:11-12
Psalms42:5
Romans5:2
Hebrews11:1
Revelations22:20
To God be the Glory
Preacha24-7 Evangelist to the Homeless(Street Ministry)

 

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the Truth is, that we are chosen to be Loved by The Creator of the universe...
go figure?!?!?!