WHO ARE YOU IN GOD'S EYES?

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joaniemarie

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[TD="class: yiv9915796681mcnTextContent, align: center"]But this man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God... For by one offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.
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[TD="class: yiv9915796681mcnTextContent"][h=2]- FEBRUARY 21 -
YOU ARE PERFECT IN GOD’S EYES[/h][HR][/HR]God sees you with no flaw, spot or imperfection, so honor His Word and the finished work of His Son by saying, “Amen!” Don’t doubt your perfection in Christ.

To see yourself as being far from perfect is not modesty, but a failure to understand the perfect sacrifice that Jesus has made for you.

The Bible tells us, “For by one offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified”. Did you get that? You have not only been sanctified, that is, made holy, but by the same offering of His body, you have been perfected. You are both holy and perfect in God’s eyes!

Your sins have been purged perfectly. Today, Jesus is seated at His Father’s right hand not because He is the Son of God (although that is true), but because His work of purging your sins is completely finished and perfect!

So instead of being conscious of your sins, which is to have an evil conscience (Hebrews 10:22), you can have a perfect conscience, a conscience that is free from the guilt and condemnation of sins.

When you find yourself conscious of your sins, just say, “Thank You, Lord Jesus, for Your wonderful work at the cross. It is a perfect work that has removed all my sins completely.

“Holy Spirit, thank You for convicting me of righteousness, not my own, but God’s righteousness given to me as a gift. Keep on convicting me in the days to come, reminding me especially when I fail that I am still the righteousness of God in Christ.”

My friend, God sees you perfect without any spot of sin. He sees you covered in the beautiful white robes of His own righteousness. He treats you as a righteous man because that is what He has made you. So expect good things to happen to you because blessings are on the head of the righteous! (Proverbs 10:6)

Todays Destined To Reign Devotional for Feb.21

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joaniemarie

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This is such good news for us OLD Christians who were saved in churches that taught us we are "sinners who are saved by grace." We are NO longer to be called sinners but the Righteous In Christ. We are to be called Saints, Sons and daughters who are now IN Christ. Before Jesus, we were sinners outside of God. He who has the Son of God has life., But he who has not the Son of God has not life BUT THE WRATH OF GOD ABIDES ON HIM.

And now if you have Jesus, don't let the enemy fool you into being stagnant in your new life with false claims you are nothing more than a sinner saved by grace. You are a Son and Daughter who has been saved by grace and is now walking in the Righteousness Jesus bought and paid for with His blood.

He has not given us the spirit of fear but of POWER AND LOVE AND A SOUND MIND. Claim those things by faith and walk them out.

Stand in His righteousness and go to the throne of grace and find help in time of need. Which is EVERY DAY OF OUR LIVES. We live by the faith of the Son of God Who loved us and gave Himself up for us.
 
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eternally-gratefull

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I am his precious child. And he is my Abba..
 

Hizikyah

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Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of Elohim, these are sons of Yah.

Rom 8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”

Rom 8:16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of Yah,

Rom 8:17 and if children, also heirs – truly heirs of Yah, and co-heirs with Messiah, if indeed we suffer with Him, in order that we also be exalted together.
 

joaniemarie

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The suffering we are actually supposed to be going through is letting go of this flesh and INSTEAD to see by faith and not by sight. Our striving is about learning how to posses what we have been given already. This must be done by faith and what we dare to believe is what we will see. Faith is believing what we do not see. We believe first and then we see.

Humanly speaking we humans insist on seeing first and only then will we believe. This is a very hard thing NOT to do unless the Holy Spirit is leading us each day because we are indeed weak in the flesh and feel powerful strong we need PROOF with our flesh. It takes a mind change and that is something not so easily done without the Spirit of God being in the lead. He won't force anyone to see. We have to get that renewed mind thing going.
 

lastofall

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Take heed and beware of presumptuous sin.
 

Blain

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Take heed and beware of presumptuous sin.
Realizing and seeing yourself and others through God's eyes is no being presumptuous and is not sinning
 

joaniemarie

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It seems my attitude must be of the more positive kind these days compared to some here. That is for sure a work of the Holy Spirit since I used to be VERY negative. The glass was always half empty and I was always looking for the sin in my life.

Now when I read the Bible it clearly is saying to look to Jesus and HIS righteousness., Seeing/Looking to Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith. We are supposed to look at Jesus righteousness and stop looking for our own. Because when we look for our own., that is a downward spiral.
 
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More of Heb. 10:
26For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THEFURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES. 28Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30For we know Him who said, “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY.” And again, “THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE.” 31It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Salvation is guaranteed to those who take up their cross & follow after Him, not to those that don't.

Fruitless branches are burned.
 
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Hebrews 10:26 can be a stumbling block if we don't take the context in which this passage was written.

Some times well intentioned people take Hebrews 10:26-29 out of context with the book of Hebrews.

Anyone can take an isolated scripture out of it's context and say anything they want. Here is an example in the scripture below -

Ex 32:33.
Anyone who has ever sinned is blotted out of God's book.

Exodus 32:33 (NASB)
[SUP]33 [/SUP] The LORD said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book.

This is truly stated in the OT but it is not the ultimate statement of truth. The work of Jesus's finished work on the cross trumps what is said in Ex. 32:33.

Obviously we need to view all scripture through the finished work of Christ. We don't take obscure verses and discount the abundance of clear scriptures on what our Lord has done for us.

Hebrews 10 is talking about Jewish people after hearing about Christ for the only sacrifice for sins and rejecting it to go back to the temple sacrifices for their sins. Hebrews was written a few years before the temple system came crashing down in 70AD when it was trampled by the Roman army.

The "willful sinning" is after hearing the "knowledge" of the truth of Christ's sacrifice - those that go back to the temple sacrifices and do not receive Christ's work by faith - this is the wilful sinning being talked about - the rejection of Christ's sacrifice and blood for the forgiveness of all sins.

There is a vast difference between receiving the "knowledge" of the truth and "receiving the truth" which is Christ Himself.

Here is a short 2 minute video which will illuminate this clearly.

[video=youtube;yrc5EOpokSc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrc5EOpokSc[/video]

 

Blain

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I'm a scrawny little lamb, trying to follow my shepherd.
But never forget it was a lamb that was chosen to save mankind :) God loves to use the weak to prove his strength
 

p_rehbein

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....uh, er........well...........hmm..........not really

When God looks at us PRIOR to our salvation, He sees us for EXACTLY what we are.........sinners in need of salvation. Full of sin and ugliness and a lot of bad things. When God looks at us AFTER our salvation, He looks past us, and sees the precious blood of Christ. It is not we who are so perfect and pure, it is HE who LIVES WITHIN US that is so perfect and pure, and this is WHO God sees. So, I can't go along with this guy this time.
 

Blain

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More of Heb. 10:
26For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THEFURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES. 28Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30For we know Him who said, “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY.” And again, “THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE.” 31It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Salvation is guaranteed to those who take up their cross & follow after Him, not to those that don't.

Fruitless branches are burned.
Stephen this thread is not about your sinless doctrine preaching this is not a debate on sin it's about seeing yourself as God sees you which sadly many including me fail to do if you persist to try to turn this thread into another war thread about sin I will not hesitate to report you this si not your thread so please treat it as such
 
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Stephen this thread is not about your sinless doctrine preaching this is not a debate on sin it's about seeing yourself as God sees you which sadly many including me fail to do if you persist to try to turn this thread into another war thread about sin I will not hesitate to report you this si not your thread so please treat it as such
That is the problem, isn't it? It's how God sees us.

Shouldn't it be how we see God? Shouldn't God be in the center, instead of us?
 
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Stephen this thread is not about your sinless doctrine preaching this is not a debate on sin it's about seeing yourself as God sees you which sadly many including me fail to do if you persist to try to turn this thread into another war thread about sin I will not hesitate to report you this si not your thread so please treat it as such
These same people who push this sinless garbage and the loss of salvation never seem to sin or lose their salvation....they always, 100% of the time walk right before the Lord always doing everything right and their righteousness exceeds that of the Pharisee and even Jesus himself.....
 

Blain

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That is the problem, isn't it? It's how God sees us.

Shouldn't it be how we see God? Shouldn't God be in the center, instead of us?
The problem with that is that we are blind, it doesn't matter how we see him because our eyes do not truly see do they? in fact it's because of how we see God that we have so many denominations and senseless arguing in the bdf. however when we look at ourselves do we see what God sees? many people see themselves even as Christians as lowly worms filthy unworthy weak sinners they ask how God could ever love someone like them.

but this is not what he sees at all
 

Blain

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These same people who push this sinless garbage and the loss of salvation never seem to sin or lose their salvation....they always, 100% of the time walk right before the Lord always doing everything right and their righteousness exceeds that of the Pharisee and even Jesus himself.....
Sadly. However this thread started out beautiful it's an amazing insightful topic that honestly many of us need to learn and understand as it would help our growth so much to not just know what he sees when he looks at us but to believe it and to live it and I refuse to allow the sinless agenda to ruin yet another thread. If stephen or anyone else wants to debate this stuff then they need to go make their own thread not take over another persons that is just common courtesy
 

BenFTW

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I mean... God still sees our sin it just isn't imputed to us. Jesus paid its price, but in so far as our walk is concerned He still chastises us to walk uprightly because He wants us to walk in holiness. He doesn't want us to experience falls, for example, but would have us choose rather to walk as we know we should.

Sin is awful, and the ways in which it torments the mind when committed is exhausting. We have to walk in the victory that is ours, Christ paid for it. To not do so, is crushing to the soul.