06/12/23 DEMAND THE TRUTH

06/12/23 DEMAND THE TRUTH

Because men have been taught that conversion (regeneration, justification and initial sanctification), is all that God does in terms of delivering us from sin, Christians have followed faulty teaching, preaching, counsel and do not move on to purity of heart and perfection of love through the infilling and fullness of the Holy Spirit, which comes to believers, when they surrender completely to God.

They blindly accept that God cannot or will not deliver them from the indwelling of the sin nature and they erroneously believe that God does not deliver them from sinning. They believe they are doomed to a life of sin.

Therefore, because of their lack of faith, they never find deliverance from the root of sin and as a result, the fruit of sin is more likely to develop in their lives. They think that God either cannot or will not set them free from their personal inclination to pride, anger, lust, greed, backbiting, suspicion, selfishness, worldliness. In fact, they will take offense at anyone who professes or proclaims heart purity and victory over sin. This is because they do not enjoy those uninterrupted blessings of God personally.

Don't be robbed of the fullness of God's blessing.
Don't be robbed of a pure heart and perfect love and peace that passes understanding and love abounding, and joy unspeakable, on a constant, continuous and consistent basis.

God's salvation includes life and death: life in Christ through the new birth and death to the Old Man through personal crucifixion with Jesus. Christians who are dead to the world, self and sin are not living a "Crucified Life," they are living the "Resurrection Life."

One of the great passages, which addresses this subject says,
Philippians 3:7-11
7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.