Journe41... Ok, let me tell it straight out... Let them crucify me.... Let the false doctrine people crucify me for believing Jesus teaches, promises and delivers perfection here on earth....
Jesus said these words... Matthew 5:48... Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
I look at this and I tried to not make this true, but I end up the FOOL every time. Why would Jesus want us perfect here on earth? Why not just believers.... Becasue to believe in a HOLY STATE is to be perfect. Let me explain it with a verse... Jude 1:But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, The challenge... Show me imperfection in this... MOST HOLY FAITH!!! PRAYEING IN THE HOLY GHOST!!! ...Show me imperfection in this picture...People that have a most holy faith.... Faith leads to perfection HERE ON EARTH!!! The Word says from faith to faith... If I do not believe in perfection here on earth what chance do I have on MOST HOLY FAITH?
Look here... The first words of God to man AFTER man was removed from Eden... Gad says this to Cain... And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? Gen 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Some people do not get it in the old English, fortunately I have my lanuage that is more expressive... The Lord says this to Cain.... Why are you so upset? Why is your head hanging, and smoke coming from your ears and you are furious AT ME? You know if you do well I will accept you... And you know if you do not well sin, of which there are way more will even claim more of you. But Cain.... YOU MUST RULE OVER SIN, NOT LET SIN RULE YOU!!!
So what is the winds of false doctrine....
Hey man I tried to rule over sin, but I cannot succeed, so NOBODY can, so I will stat preaching...
Do not try to beat sin, just sto doing it... What sin is there that you CANNOT repent from? Just name ONE!!
Jesus died for your sins, you are OK...
Just becasue Jesus died for your sins, does not mean you may continue in them... Jesus says...Shall we now continue in sin...GOD FORBID!!!
God does not want you to be perfect...Jesus did not mean that we should be perfect here... Matthew 5:48...
God wants us to be perfect, because GOD SEND HIS SON TO MAKE US PERFECT!!!(This one is a good study!)The Bible explains the process PERFECTLY.
Some even preach so against Matthew 5 that they almost say Jesus did not mean what He said there, and they try to replace the word perfect with MATURE... Mature in WHAT? Even mature in Christ HAS TO BE A PERFECT STATE!!!
Or Jesus did not mean that... You will only be perfect in the AFTER life... God looks at you through the blood of Jesus, and then you look clean... We do not live under the LAW but under God's grace... All these things is FALSE!!!
Let me SHOW you how...
First..Jesus is fair and He will not command something that HE KNOWS WE CANNOT REACH...
Jesus said BE PERFECT...ALREADY PROOF THAT HE KNOWS WE CAN GET TO THAT STATE.
You will only be perfect in the after life,
Nope...Look here... Saints needs to be perfected... Eph 4:11 to 13... A Saint is already a person without sin...So even if we stopped sinning we are not perfect YET!!! but that is when God makes us perfect... And SAINTS ARE IN THIS WORLD!!!! AND THEY ARE PERFECTED BY PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD>>>Eph 4:11 to 13... Read it..
God looks at you through the BLOOD OF JESUS then you look clean...FALSE!!!
Jesus says NOBODY COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME! If God still find you on the other side of the blood of Jesus, then you did not GO THROUGH JESUS YET!!!
You are on the wrong side of the CROSS!!! GO THROUGH, PLEASE GO THROUGH!!! God awaits you ON THE OTHER SIDE OF JESUS!!
ALL WHO WENT THROUGH JESUS ARE CLEAN AS WHITE WOOL ... THERE IS NO SIN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CROSS!!!
Jesus teaches (commands) perfection here on earth... Matthew 5:48... Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Jesus promise perfection here on earth.... MAtthew 5:6.. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Jesus delivers perfection here on earth... Eph 4:11 to 13... And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
I had a BIG issue with this, but then I started to look up what these verses actually say... And look at this... A saint here is in the Greek.. A most holy one, spiritually pure, and moraaly blameless.... this looks pretty much like a sinless peron to me... So even this sinless person is not perfect... And these other people need to be perfect themselves... How can a person not perfect, do the job of perfecting a sinless person if he is not perfect himself? Nope they had to be perfect, and they STILL ARE... And how will we ever be saints if we do not even believe we can be saints? So stop being tossed about... Look at the next two verses of Eph 4....That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;.... Eph 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Want the truth in Christ..... Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
I pray this now.... "Lord Jesus Christ LET THOU WILL BE DONE IN ME AS IN HEAVEN....AMEN!!!