so you weren't saved previously?
or did you just get a shock when after your joyful conversion the sanctification started?
Nope. IF those LEd by the SPirit of GOD are sons of GOD. Before late august of 2010, i was led by my flesh. adn by my carnal mind. I knew what GOD wanted because, Praise Jesus, I DID have a firm knowedge of the scriptures growign up. But i tried to Fullfill the obedience in and of my self. Falling constantly. Living in Sexual sin, and other sins. Caliming with my mout hthat i was a Christian but JESUS was NOT lord of my life.
It wasnt untill God got me to a state of compelte helplessness, that i cried out to him. And in that moment he filled me with HIS spirit, I told him i was doen wit hmy life. I got rid of all my drug paraphenalia, all my music. Stoped watching TV, and doing AMNY oher thigns Not becaue it was a LAW, but becasue ALL i wanted after he showed me what his spiirt felt like was to be HIS and HIS alone.
THAT is salvation in my opinion. We are SAVED givein the spirit when we value nothing but HIM THAT is when he searches our hearts adn give us the messure of his spirit that matches it.
did you think you weren't saved previously because you were still sinning
Yes. Those that LIVe IN Sin are NOT saved. becasue you are ONLY saved adn beign saved when you are BOrn again.
is that really how it works?
Most definately, The Scriptures have Much evidence to prove it. YOu BELIVE that JESUS is who he said he is ...LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!! adn LORD means you are now GODS SLAVE. we are BOnd servants of the ALmighty. I was never a bond servent of anythig nbefore that, except my self nature, which is actually the nature of Satan.
how are we saved?
Beleiveing That JESUS is who he said he is, and beign born again by his spirit, that IMMIDIATELY puts you in the spirit. But many can walk out from the spirit, ad ngo back to walkign i nthe FLesh. and then fall into sin again.
that's a great answer.
did you know we all do that?
IF you are PRACTISING sin. then no. you arent doign that. If YOU Are actually doign that, then thats wonderfull. KEEP going. and continue onward to the meat of the WORD ad nthe washign of the WORD that leads to MORE rightoeusness adn MORE holyness...beause its not YOU its HIM...we can allow the SPIRIT to make us holy by obeying the words of JESUS OR we can stop it, and go back to our ideas.
and that we are all in different seasons of our sanctification?
Different seasons of sanctification? is that biblical?
if you are practicing sin, you have yet to be sanctified, or...some where along the line you CAME OUT fro mthe provision of the GRACE of God, and started to beleive a LIE...and you followed that LIE, adn made the LIE your lord instead of JESUS who will lead you int oALL truth through his spirit. Paul was furrious that the ones who he though Christ was formed in...turned out that when he left...they went back to what the were doing.
If someone professes with there mouth that they are follwoers of the LORD, but lives in SIN then they are liar, and are calling GOD a liar. Im not sayign stumbling...im talkign about LIVING in sin.
I, Thinking i was saved for 18 plus years(i said 20...but it was more like 18) was mocking God, and actually HATING him, becasue i said i loved him, yet i lived how I wanted to...and if i bothered to "not sin" i did it in my own flesh and not giving it to HIM But he loves me and kept giving me chances to come to him. MANY times. I finally submitted(that is beign saved, submittign YOUR will to HIS and gettign IN him.) And I have never felt so amzing in my life.
I KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that i am his. and that I need to be holy. I want to be. I crave to be, and i have no desire to be anythign BUT. HE said i can be. HE commanded me to be holy like the Father in heaven is. and I can ONLY do that IN HIM abiding IN HIS SPIRIT. Which is done in an obedeint life.
love zone.