Actually, I just want to make it though another day. I have no idea what this triple moral ability is but that does not mean that I am lacking anything because God has supplied me with all of the tools, ability and time to accomplish the work that my heavenly father has prepared for me to do beforehand. Once that work is accomplished I will probably be checking out. It's not all that bad, perhaps I will have a little fun along the way too. I'm just passing through here once and then I'm gone. God's grace is sufficient for me and I lack nothing.
Most Christians presently are in spiritual bondage to Satan
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God only awards righteousness to the Believer by placing and maintaining their Faith exclusively in Christ and the Cross of Calvary where the victory was won, i.e., "The Finished Work", i.e., "The Blood of Jesus." (Romans 4:5)
God has made it made it crystal clear by saying, "This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to Him (Matthew 17:5)." He never said that about you and I. This is why our Faith must be placed and maintained in Christ and what He has done for us on the Cross of Calvary where the victory was won (Romans 8:2, Gal. 2:20-21).
When the Holy Spirit sees that the Believer is exhibiting Faith in who Christ is and what Christ has done, He does for us as He told Moses in Exodus 6:1, "Now shall you see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall He let them go, and with a strong hand shall He drive them out of his land." The Lord is talking about Satan.
God has made it made it crystal clear by saying, "This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to Him (Matthew 17:5)." He never said that about you and I. This is why our Faith must be placed and maintained in Christ and what He has done for us on the Cross of Calvary where the victory was won (Romans 8:2, Gal. 2:20-21).
When the Holy Spirit sees that the Believer is exhibiting Faith in who Christ is and what Christ has done, He does for us as He told Moses in Exodus 6:1, "Now shall you see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall He let them go, and with a strong hand shall He drive them out of his land." The Lord is talking about Satan.
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Any one that calls themselves a Christian and doesn't understand the Cross of Christ is as necessary for sanctification as it is for salvation (1 Cor. 1:18) has fallen from grace. That is why most Christian are in spiritual bondage to Satan. They have entered the law of sin and death (the works of the flesh - Gal 5:19-21). Christ has become of no benefit to them.
I will make you a deal. You don't question the purpose God has given to me to accomplish through His grace and I won't question the purpose that God has given to you to accomplish. I haven't fallen from grace, God's grace is all around and through me. I have plenty of grace so I am willing to share a little with you too.
Knowing and willing sin gives satan the legal right to hold a man captive, or bondage to that sin.
Scriptures only teach those sins that are PAST. People teach present and future.
Rom_3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Now to see that same verse in the eyes of this generation, if i could make the color of the following couple of words blacker, i would.
Rom_3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, present, and future, through the forbearance of God;
Jesus paid the penalty for your sins ONCE when you accepted Him as your Savior and Lord. He forgave all your PAST sins once, when he went to the cross for you the day you got Saved. He does not take stripes for you ever single time you commit a sin, He does not go back on the cross for you each time you commit a sin. If you willingly commit a sin today, YOU will reap what you have sown. It is written if you sow to the flesh of that flesh you shall reap corruption. So then if you being a Saved Christian sows to your flesh and commit fornication/adultery or what have you, YOU WILL reap corruption in your flesh, Jesus does not take that punishment from you. YOU will take it.
True Jesus will forgive a sin of a person if they Truly repent of it, that is to say, they repent and CEASE from ever doing it again. But even though Jesus will forgive you of that particular sin, YOU will still have to suffer the consequences of those sins, YOU WILL, not Jesus Christ. Woe to any person who believes that Jesus continues to take the punishment for their sins they continue to commit. Because if they actually thought that and still knowingly and willingly obey His enemy and commit sin, thinking that Jesus will take the punishment for it, is an evil wicked person to continue to do that to Jesus Christ.
satan holds any person in bondage if he can get a person to live in sin. For example: A person who continues to masturbate looking at porn, and can't seem to stop and does not cease from it, is indeed in bondage to that sin, is a slave to that sin. HAS NOT BEEN FREED FROM THAT SIN.
Well i can tell you what verse helped me more than any other verse, when talking about the bondage of sin.
1Co_10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
All Scriptures are inspired by God, So with every single temptation that satan throws at me, 1) it is not so strong that i can't handle it, that i can't possibly overcome it. and 2) with every single temptation Jesus allows a path out of it.
So then when i am tempted to commit a sin, i understand it is not so strong that i can't handle it, and i then start looking for the path out of it. Such as go read the Bible, watch a spiritual type show, get on CC, any thing that allows me to NOT think about that temptation.
People wake up. There is no sin that you do that you can't cease from, NOT ONE. Look to Jesus Christ to help you to overcome them. Every single message to the 7 Churches in Revelation was to Christians in those Churches and in every single message it speaks of those who have OVERCAME something. You should too. Jesus Christ can help you to no longer be under bondage to any sin whatsoever.
Know you not that when you are tempted by satan to commit a sin, that Jesus is talking to you also. Or has His voice been silenced and you can't hear Him at all anymore? When you are tempted to commit a sin, satan is saying "Do it, just do it, repent afterwards, everything is fine, just do it" All the while the Jesus/Holy Ghost is saying "It's evil, don't do it, it is sinful, it is against Jesus Christ, don't obey the enemy of Jesus Christ" Whichever one you obey is your master. Woe to this generation indeed, for who does not think they will be taken in the Rapture, yet they are full of sins, which are against Jesus Christ. Repent every one of you, and look to Jesus for help against all your temptations, pray for His Strength and Power to overcome every single one of them, and He will help you. But how many in this generation WANT to quit sinning? They love it, they don't want to quit them, they would rather hold on to doctrines that teach you are going to go to Heaven even though you continue to live in sins. There will be much weeping and gnashing of teeth on the Day of the Lord.
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††† In His Holy and Precious Name, Jesus Christ †††
DiscipleDave
Only truth sets us free. That truth must be who Christ is, and what Christ has done. A slave to Christ is a free man. Justification is not what you do, it is what you believe. Righteousness is award by Faith placed and maintained in our Perfect Sacrifice Christ (who He is), and Him Crucified (what He has done).
Well, there is such a thing as Holy Spirit Laughter and it definitely works in my life. Some might call it Holy Spirit Wine. It's absolutely divine! May the Lord pour you a glass that is bottomless!
Oh, do please laugh! It's our medicine! It does us good!
The ONLY thing better than His Wine, is His LOVE......................May He pour you a glass of that, too!!!
God bless you, Message! Be FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, in the Name of Jesus! Amen.
Oh, do please laugh! It's our medicine! It does us good!
The ONLY thing better than His Wine, is His LOVE......................May He pour you a glass of that, too!!!
God bless you, Message! Be FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, in the Name of Jesus! Amen.