PIC: See the bird? Bird on a fence. By Darcy
What was expected of us
When Mom and Dad would go away somewhere without us, they would often leave us with Kathy, our older sister. When they left, us four boys knew without a doubt what was expected of us: Kathy was in charge, and we were to behave as if Mom and Dad were right there with us.
Jesus did that. Jesus left. He went away “to prepare a place for us” (v1-3), and He promised that the Holy Spirit would come be with us (John 14:1-3, 16-17, 25-27). Do you know without a doubt what is expected of us?
With Jesus gone, throughout our day we count on His Spirit. He is with us – without fail if we are born again. He resides in us! (Romans 8:9-11 The Message version.) He teaches us how to “live our lives” – “how to behave” as members of His family.
Those how to’s found in the Bible are for common, ever day living in the mundane. God provided Scriptures so we know to live with godly practices, choosing “the ways of the Spirit”.
Reject Sin
Except for unbeliefism 1 it is truly true that all sins are forgiveable through Jesus. However, this forgiveness by God requires the sinner to repent with sincerity and truth. You most certainly do NOT get to Holy Heaven by sinning.
No repentance – no salvation. Keep ahold of a sin, and you keep ahold of God’s condemnation.
God’s grace teaches us to reject sin
*For idolaters, enlightened folks, and religious folks
that means: reject sin by turning away from religions and false gods
* For those who practice what is in God’s sin list
that means: reject sin by rejecting the world’s thinking and yeilding to God’s Think.
* For NAR-type Charismatics
that means: reject sin by rejecting the practice of what God is against: “I am against you”, God says 2
* For those who are already bound for the glories of Heaven
that means: reject sin by living a daily practice of choosing God’s way. This is the evidence of having been born again.
Because we were born again, His Spirit in us empowers and guides us, we are enabled to “live in the ways of the Spirit” (Romans 8:4). Living out our life is a moment to moment “agreeing with God to live righteous — “not live our lives in the ways of the flesh [guided by worldliness and our sinful nature]”.
See: Don’t let it (Romans 6:12-14) | Being Pleasing (2 Corinthians 5:6-10)
“…[live our lives]
in the ways of
the Spirit
[guided by His power].”
– Romans 8:4
One link: 1 Corinthians 2:16, Romans 8:4
In contrast, those who live a daily life of practicing what God has condemned… well, they live-out their life in disagreement with God. They could quote this Scripture without the not in it:
“us who do not live
our lives in the ways of the flesh
[guided by worldliness
and our sinful nature]”
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False teachers pictured: Feucht, Eric-Johnson, Bill-Johnson. False speakers for god misrepresenting God.
Got a problem?
With God, you’ve got a real problem …if you are caught-up with a practice that the Lord has clearly condemned. Many many in the church are stuck right here, still in their sin, still needing a Savior — never having been truly saved. They think so… but aren’t.
The practice of sin, or what is called “living in sin”, is an eternal life problem! He has denounced specific “wrongs“. Are you practicing one? It’s not as if we don’t know. He has told us what they are – so we are all without excuse (Romans 1:18-23). The vital question then becomes:
Are you into any of them?
A “practice” is an act you consciously do. You “do” what you do on purpose. You know what it is.
Persistant sin
You can adamently “be against sinning” and yet still be in it. As believers we all are in a fight against sinning. But there is a vast difference between “practicing sin” (habitually accepting sin) and struggling against our “persistant sin” (with a persistent repenting of sin).
You are either one or the other:
1) Born again followers of Christ are saved, and continually repenting
— whereas
2) an unsaved churcher is not saved, becauses he/she practices their sin.
The one is persistently rejecting their sinfulness, whereas the other is (wickedly) perniciously accepting and practicing… still.
“persistant sin” vs “practicing sin”
A persistent sin is “the sin that easily entangles you”. Maybe no one knows you well enough to know, but you know what it is (or what they are). Scripture says to name it and repent of it.
Name it in your life: that “unnecessary weight and the sin which so easily and cleverly entangles”…me (Hebrews 12:1). 3
Being pleasing – not working my way. About past sins…
I remind myself on occasion with God’s Sin List, and God’s List of Unacceptables, or The Bad Fruit List… to see what I am up against. I work with His Spirit in me with My Checkoff List in my mind, to work daily to be in conformity with Him, to be pleasing to Him (not working my way to get saved). I do not freely allow myself to be conforming to the world, the flesh nor the Devil.
I “run with endurance and active persistence the race that is set before”…me. I’m in it to win it! What about you?
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who by faith have testified to the truth of God’s absolute faithfulness], stripping off every unnecessary weight and the sin which so easily and cleverly entangles us, let us run with endurance and active persistence the race that is set before us
I run to win! Christ did. Do you?
The entangling “weight” vs the “practice”
“One who practices” is a “practioner” MirWeb: “to do or perform often, customarily, or habitually“. This person, the one who practices sin, has accepted the sin as okay with God, and thus reveals their “cracked heart”. Got a Cracked Heart? (Basically taught in Romans 7:1-13.)
This is not “a performance mentality” (mentioned by Paul Copan) 4 which purports (falsely) MirWeb that salvation is predicated on your works. That’s not happenin’. (Actually the “works” are necessary, but they do not save you. See more in James… starting with verse 1.)
Salvation is through grace and sheer mercy alone. However, that salvation never takes place if in that moment we are the type that “deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin”. The sinner must repent of the practices of sin in their life. That is a basic starting point of salvation. Or else? “No bueno.”
What you say | What you do | …the you inside
Getting “saved” by Jesus, is 100% a thing of the heart. If your life doesn’t follow your confession, then you did not get saved. Simple.
What good is that?…no bueno
If what you say does not get shown by what you do, well then — what good is that? What good was what you merely said? That faith? No good (James 2:18-26). Tragic for the many, many who live in error.
– Source: What being “saved” means
What is your heart streaming?
When we pray “a prayer of repentance” in “a conversion experience”, God knows our heart. It is bare open. And He does not ever accept that “conversion” if our heart is not repentant. He the Omniscient One knows anything “off” in a flash! Ever thought you could fool God?
God rejects any habitual sinner who is not turning away from sin. Salvation requires sincerity and truth with our repentance. Salvation is: to Turn from -and- Turn to Jesus. No turning… no salvation.
Absolutely makes sense. It’s just so simple, this free gift from God — so simple that many miss fulfilling the expectations from God. Very scary thought.
My soul is absolutely horrified
by the possibility of
being wrong with Jesus.
And I’m absolutely saddened
by the error many live
that denies them salvation,
forever.
You’ve heard of the empty suit pastor, MirWeb the empty suit fakers? Well, the empty robe scribes and Pharisees were plagued by “practicing sin”. Maybe those in charge — have a worse time with it? 5
“Woe to you, [self-righteous] scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of extortion and robbery and self-indulgence (unrestrained greed). – Matthew 23:25
A very apt question for all: Will you be turned away by Jesus?
21 “Not everyone who says to Me,
‘Lord, Lord,’
will enter
the kingdom of heaven,
but only
he who does the will
of My Father
who is in heaven.”
– Matthew 7:21
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Are there issues you are adamant about, those few pet peeves of yours, that perhaps are actually putting you into the realm of “living in sin“?
The “not-truly-saved”
Have you made decisions to accept sin in your life …what God calls sin?
– Adapted Source: Will you be turned away by Jesus?
See: Accepting What God Rejects
God is able – Are you willing?
Scripture makes it clear that God is able to forgive all wrongdoings of all repentant sinners, no exception. God is able…. But have you repented and turned away from your sin, seeking His salvation?
Scripture tells us: You are practicing sin if you accept sin in your life as “okay”. So the question is:
Is your “okay” – okay with God?
It is abundantly clear from 1 John 3:9 that the habitual sinner is not born again. You cannot “live a life characterized by sin” — and still be saved. Don’t be fooled. That is impossible, John is saying. It goes against what being saved means! See here:
No one
who is born of God
[deliberately, knowingly, and
habitually] practices sin…
he [who is born again]
cannot habitually
[live a life
characterized by] sin,
because he is
born of God
and longs to please Him.
– 1 John 3:9
On the contrary: The one who maintains a repentant heart – shows by that …his/her salvation was real.
We all continue to sin after salvation. Every one of us. If you persistently sin some “sin which so easily and cleverly entangles” you, but in that sin you are persistently rejecting it and repenting of it — that indicates the Holy Spirit resides in you and you are agreeing with Him that it is a sin to be rejected.
As His followers, day in and day out MirWeb we are fighting the good fight against the old nature. We can then rest assured we are not “practicing sin” for we are in the fight. We are secure in Him.
Once a person is changed into a new creature (2 Corinthians 5:17-21 NIV) …the battle is then to maintain our life holy, strong in Him.
Even after becoming a child of the King, and having our life made brand new, we have the option to ¨offer our body to sin¨(Romans 6) and shipwreck this life we live on earth (1 Timothy 1:19, Ezekiel 27:26). Once we are His, we are then to live in a manner that pleases our Lord Jesus Christ – not worldly desires, not our flesh, not the Devil – but Christ our Lord.
– Source: Fighting the good fight
PIC: warrenphotographic.co_.uk. Why suckling with the mother cat does not make the piglet a kitten
We “go”…as Jesus said
We “go”… and “sin no more” (John 8:11), as Jesus said to the woman caught in adultery (John 8:1-11). That is a repentant heart rejecting sin. That is a choice I work at. I go – and my aim is to sin no more.
Content to sin
That “sin no more” frame of mind is a huge difference from the sinner content to sin. Are you being content in your sin? Are you the one who just says
I “go” but …I go with who I am. “I know Jesus will not condemn me because He is a loving God.”
That is the frame of mind everyone takes with them on the big, broad, wide highway. Scary thought.
Maintain a repentant heart
Hopefully we eventually mature to the point that we leave behind that entanglement! (Hebrews 12:1) But, you know, maturity is not automatic. Getting older is. But we are in a fight against evil. Becoming more righteous is a growth process that we actively work at – or not (Ephesians 4:12-14). Don’t want to be a slave to sin!
16 Do you not know that when you continually offer yourselves to someone to do his will, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, either [slaves] of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness (right standing with God)?
– Romans 6:16
Our woolly lamb bum
…sitting on our bum…Proverbs 15:19, Ephesians 4:13, Ephesians 4:22-23
“The way of the lazy” – “until we all reach oneness” – “put off your old self” – “be continually renewed” – “growing spiritually to become a mature believer“
We don’t please God by just sitting on our woolly lamb bum MirWeb. We all have one. But… don’t just take it as it comes, “sittin’ on the dock of the Bay, wasting time” (The Dock of the Bay – Song by Otis Redding).
We are to be actively growing, “reaching”, “exercising”. The truth is: Being pleasing to God takes effort, a stubborn discipline that refuses to accept sin. I refuse to sit idly by.
PIC: Wooly Lamb_Georgi Kalaydzhiev. i5w0Yz3s3JQ. Unsplash
Proverbs 15:19 NASB
The way of the [a]lazy one is like a hedge of thorns,
But the path of the upright is a highway.
Ephesians 4:13
“[growing spiritually] to become a mature believer, reaching to the measure of the fullness of Christ [manifesting His spiritual completeness and exercising our spiritual gifts in unity].”
Ephesians 4:22-23
22 that, regarding your previous way of life, you put off your old self [completely discard your former nature], which is being corrupted through deceitful desires, 23 and be continually renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh, untarnished mental and spiritual attitude],
Our struggle with sinning
Even being truly saved, we all still struggle with our old nature, as Paul taught in Ephesians 4 (v1-32).
Did you read that? Wow. What we all struggle against! That is quite the list. And there are others. See: God’s sin list, God’s list of unacceptables, The bad fruit list, Understanding “wrong”.
God’s Normal
Paul teaches we are no longer “slaves to sin“. We can be. Certainly can. We can be slaves – but we are to “put off” sins. Don’t let it reign! Don’t be slaves.
Romans 6:12
“Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body”
Romans 6:6
We know that our old self [our human nature without the Holy Spirit] was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin.
Our “old self [our human nature without the Holy Spirit] was nailed to the cross….” Scripture teaches: sinning is not normal for the born again. We are capable of choosing obedience. If we are living in the power of His Spirit we can refuse sin. 6
Verses 19-20
“…There are some,
you know,
who by relaxing their grip
and thinking anything goes
have made a thorough mess
of their faith….”
– 1 Timothy 1:15-20 MSG
Paul goes further with this, saying to “put off your old self” and “be continually renewed“:
Ephesians 4:22-23
22 that, regarding your previous way of life, you put off your old self [completely discard your former nature], which is being corrupted through deceitful desires, 23 and be continually renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh, untarnished mental and spiritual attitude],
If you don’t think we Christians have to battle the Old Nature in us: Think again! Read the lists above again. And read Romans 7.
It is “through Jesus Christ our Lord” that we are saved, but then — it is only as we daily turn to God for His strength that we are able to not sin. That is why we are exhorted to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17). Turn and keep praying to God — all day.
24 Wretched and miserable man that I am! Who will [rescue me and] set me free from this body of death [this corrupt, mortal existence]? 25 Thanks be to God [for my deliverance] through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Life “characterized by sin”
The opposite of a born again believer sinning persisistently… is the not-so-born-again person who practices sin. This is the one who accepts it, not repenting of it.
A classic example is the mafia hit man who practices assassination (like in the movie, The Godfather). He kills, then goes to the priest for confession of it, but then returns to his evil work… without truly “turning from” and “turning to” Jesus. He “confesses”, but …not really. This one keeps it. He is one who clearly lives a life “characterized by sin”.
Is your life “characterized by sin”? You most likely are not an assassin. But: What does your lifestyle say to God? What about “your persona” online, your social media comments, your ways, your views? Taking hate to Holy Heaven? What you practice day in and day out — is God pleased?
A life characterized by a state of unrepentant sin cannot inherit the Holy Kingdom of God. Ain’t happen’ folks. So sad that so many are in that state. You may “like” Jesus, but if you are not following Jesus – salvation is missing. Very scary thought.
The habitual practice of sin comes from a lost soul.
The habitual hate by a professing believer (or habitual sin of any kind), is evidence of a dichotomous heart. And the message of the Bible is: No dichotomous heart gets to heaven. Not a one. That is what Christ died for – that we might have changed hearts. You can’t go on living like “before Christ”, like the world.
– Source: Hating is life changing – eternal life changing. Scary thought.
Posing as Christian. PIC: Thrasher.Poser.Fake.
Are you genuine or false?
The assassin keeps his sin, practicing it. The fake believer keeps his sin, practicing it. The truly saved believer… repents and is forgiven.
Unlike the assassin, unlike the faker, the born again believer is repentant and persistent in his rejection of his sin. Rejection of your sin is part of “enduring to the end” (Matthew 24:13). See in one link or: 1 John 3:9, John 3:4-7, 1 Peter 1:2-6, 1 Peter 1:21-23).
Sinners vs living in sin
Are you living in sin? If you are “practicing” any sin (habitually doing what is contrary to God’s stated will) — then Scripture says what is said here:
*You are still in your sin and the Truth is not in you (1 Corinthians 15:17, John 8:47 AMP, John 8:47 MSG, John 8:44).
*You are a tare, merely standing amongst the true wheat. As Jesus said, “You are of your father the devil, and it is your will to practice the desires [which are characteristic] of your father.” – John 8:44
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Me, when I die – Forgiven Excerpt: After our salvation moment, the veracity of our salvation is evidenced by the testimony of our life as we follow Him (Colossians 3:1-4; 1 Peter 1) If we consequently do not follow Christ, it is evidence that we did not truly yield to Him.
9 And having been made (Y)perfect,
He became
to all those who obey Him
the source of eternal salvation”.
–Hebrews 5:9 NASB
*or read this in the Amplified version
My hope is placed in nothing less, and nothing more, than Jesus Christ. Only Jesus saves sinners like me. How ’bout you?
Excerpt from One thing you lack
Only Jesus Saves Sinners
“And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among people by which we must be saved [for God has provided the world no alternative for salvation].” – Acts 4:12
Instead of a world of alternatives… God provides one choice: Your Own Way or Jesus’ Only Way. It is quite simple actually.
You have a choice.
1. Hell for those who choose to rebel and reject Him to follow their sin…
2. Heaven for those who choose to repent and reject their sin and follow Him with sincerity and truth.
This is Jesus talkin’. He’s a’ knockin’. He’s at your door because He cares about you. He cared enough to die on a cross to save you (John 3:14-21). Are you walkin’ away from that?
“The kingdom of heaven is at hand”
“From that time Jesus began to preach and say…”
Matthew 4:17
“[a]Repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, regret past sins, live your life in a way that proves repentance; seek God’s purpose for your life], for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
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– Isaiah 40:31
“But those who wait for the Lord
[who expect, look for, and hope in Him]
Will gain new strength and renew their power;
They will lift up their wings
[and rise up close to God]
like eagles [rising toward the sun];
They will run and not become weary,
They will walk and not grow tired.”
FOR MORE:
We find this in Joshua 24:15 – “Choose for yourselves today whom you will serve.” Are you choosing your practices by what God has told us in the Bible?
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Our woolly lamb bum MirWeb …Proverbs 15:19, Ephesians 4:13, Ephesians 4:22-23
…“The way of the lazy” – “until we all reach oneness” – “growing spiritually to become a mature believer“
“Woolly” MirWeb – marked by boisterous roughness or lack of order or restraint
— used especially in the phrase wild and woolly
God’s Normal …what “normal” looks like:
Is your life fruit – agape love?
Love and Agape Love in the Greek and in the New Testament
How a Christian lives life …common, ever day living in the mundane
“The spirits of the righteous made perfect”
Rely on the Spirit of God in you
Salvation and Receiving the Gift of the Holy Spirit
God’s grace teaches us to reject sin
Is your life fruit – agape love?
Living the good life – with courage and confident hope
Are You Ready, Steady and Able?
Proverbs 8:5
“O you naive
or inexperienced
[who are easily misled],
understand prudence
and seek astute common sense;
And, O you
[closed-minded, self-confident]
fools,
understand wisdom
[seek the insight
and self-discipline
that leads to godly living]
The Good Fight | by J.C. Ryle | Holiness: Hertfordshire, England: Evangelical Press, 1989, p. 62. | Found in: How To Meet The Enemy, John MacArthur, Jr. | Chariot Victor Publishing, 1992, p.66.
Run with endurance and active persistence the race that is set before us
I run to win! Christ did. Do you?
Is your life fruit – Agape love? Galatians 5:22-23
The End Times Fight you might not win
Being wise in a very unwise world during these End Times
Take a Stance on Homosexuality – like Jesus did
Biblical Homosexuality -by donnyresponce | April 18, 2008 | …a Christian´s Perspective on Homosexuality | Quoted from: http://www.indegayforum.org/news/show/31489.html
Tolerating others and being biblical
Issues in the public square affect our life and our faith
Persevere …one link for: 1 Timothy 4:16, James 1:12, Matthew 10:22, Mark 13:13
Be cautious and active in faith
When difficult times assail us
Yes I can. I can stand strong.
This Hope we have – and what this hope does
Romans 8:25-28. Hope in Christ
Prepare Your Eternity with great fear and trepidation
God’s grace teaches us to reject sin
The tragic error many live in all their life Excerpt: The Tragic Reality is that many do not come to God to be saved. They refuse to accept His reality. They never acknowledge their sin before God. They do not repent. IF you repent – He forgives you of any and all sin, no matter how dastardly sinful you were. See: Vile to Jesus
What being “saved” means Excerpt: Getting “saved” by Jesus, is 100% a thing of the heart. If your life doesn’t follow your confession, then you did not get saved. Simple. Tragic for many, many who live in error. (NOTE: Read this in the post description.)
Acting with your heart, soul, strength, and with your mind
Being pleasing …to God
This Hope we have – and what this hope does
Living the good life – with courage and confident hope
Psalm 46:1,Psalm 147:5,Isaiah 33:2 …God is my refuge and my strength
I run to win. Christ did. Do you?
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Path to Virtuous Character | by Paul Copan | equip.org | Article ID: JAF2382•Updated: Nov 22, 2024•Published:Sep 15, 2016.
If I Were To Let Sin Reign In My Body
Letting it reign until Hell is Home
We are the odd creature are we not
1 Corinthians 6:9-10. My unauthorized paraphrase:
Don’t you know this!?
…that those
who live their own way
will not actually
get into God’s Kingdom?
They won’t have even
the slightest share in it!
Sunny Smile an F. Scott Fitzgerald Poem
Put it on… or not.
Sunny Smile an F. Scott Fitzgerald Poem. Here’s my adaptation:
Make a smile
and scatter the night
like morning light
and make their day
worth living
– Adapted from
Sunny Smile
a poem by F. Scott Fitzgerald
My happy Excerpt: There is no dependable factor out there, no “this is it” moment – except through God Almighty.
What I am is what I make of it.
How I act towards others,
what I reflect to others
with my demeanor,
my face, my voice and inflections,
my attitude, my actions…
are all the parts of
what make me who I am.
– Source: This is it
Streaming from my soul… Excerpt: What is streaming from your soul? What is it, coming out from deep inside you? Jesus said that it is that, what is inside you, that causes us problems. It’s not what’s outside. It’s what’s inside. What content are you streaming from deep inside your soul?
What We Are To Be – Romans 12 Excerpt: It appears to me that
a lot of folk nowadays want what Jesus offers, but they don’t want to actually “follow” Jesus. Many might even enjoy the fellowship of true believers (Hebrews 6:4-6). They might even call themselves Christians — but, there just isn’t any evidence of having been truly born again. If you don’t see any of “Romans 12” in your life, in your lifestyle, in your worldview, in your daily doings, you might be advised to take stock, and “see whether you are in the faith and living your lives as [committed] believers.”
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– 2 Corinthians 13:5
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Every believer’s new life in Christ Read the series on Every believer’s new life in Christ, from Ephesians 1. We are made new creatures, given new life in Christ – when we accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. THEN we begin growing.
1. Growing into our natural new life in Christ
2. Every believer’s new life in Christ [Part One]
3. Explaining the Basic Christian Experience [Part Two]
Was your confession accepted by God?
This is it …THIS is my life.
Jesus Only Always For All Times
Christ secured our eternal Home
The Kingdom of God is very exclusive, very luxurious, very special
You cannot lose what God keeps secured for us
What God secures – You cannot “lose”
Why we never lose our salvation in Christ
Long before His birth prophets spoke of Jesus the Messiah
Those who like it but don’t live it
Will you be turned away by Jesus?
Trying God’s patience too long
My Heinous, Heinous Ways Excerpt: Does God like me?
There is a tendency to think that – because I have sinned, therefore God does not like me, doesn’t want me, and, boy is He miffed at me! But that is not what the Bible teaches. That is not what Jesus practiced. So why are folks so condemning of people who fail!? Presently God is not into the condemning thing at all.
My wild and crazy stallion heart
When you are wrong and just don’t get it
God forgives all wrongdoings of all repentant sinners, no exception
Prepare Your Eternity with great fear and trepidation Excerpt: The Bible contrasts the two sides of eternity: Heaven and Hell. With those two on the way, it is extremely advisable to examine our “eternal preparedness”. Are you prepared? Make sure you have correctly interpreted God in His Word. If you have not, there will be Hell to pay.
My soul is absolutely horrified
by the possibility of
being wrong with Jesus.
And I’m absolutely saddened
by the error many live
that denies them salvation,
forever.
Is this you? Excerpt: The only humans entering heaven’s gate will be those sinners who confessed their sinfulness – and yielded their will completely (100%) to Christ in that moment of salvation. In that moment of time they were made brand new. They were freed from condemnation! Only sinners arrive in heaven… the redeemed sinners.
But they were not made sinless. Only Christ has been sinless, ever. But from that moment on… some go on to shine and, in Christ, conquer more sin, while others go on to fail and fail and fail, yet cling to Christ in the midst of it all, to the end. We’ll have to wait till we arrive in heaven — to then begin living sinlessly.
The sins around us and the sins we do
What escapes your notice? Excerpt: What escapes your notice?
Obviously, if “it” escapes your notice, you didn’t notice! Ha!
But now you’ve been notified something may be missing. What is it?
Don’t be that shallow, unthinking, self-confident King Solomon’s Fool.
Those who like it but don’t live it
Why suckling with the mother cat does not make the piglet a kitten
Got a Cracked Heart? Excerpt: The achy, achy cracked heart
Are you like the Pharisees of Jesus’ day? Like: the one who went away from Jesus sad, with what I call his achy, achy cracked heart (Matthew 19:22)?
The rich young ruler (Mark 10:17; Luke 18:18; Matthew 19:16) turned away from God totally disappointed because he loved his lifestyle more than he loved Jesus. He thought he had it all together, that he was absolutely ready to meet his Maker.
That you? What will it be like to miss the way to heaven — because you lacked just one thing?!
– Source: One thing you lack
Hating is life changing – eternal life changing. Scary thought.
Keeping sin AND getting God’s Holiness also
Is your light actually darkness? Excerpt: Jesus said you are spiritually blind [devoid of God’s word] if you do not live by God’s word. It does not take effort to be blind spiritually. Just be totally you, who you are now (without Christ), without a care about God, eternity, or about meeting your Maker. Just keep yourself empty of God’s word.
Do you have God? Excerpt: Running ahead of Jesus …2 John 1:9
Are you content with what Jesus taught? There are certain discontented ones among us who have run “on ahead” and gotten into strange teachings. God is not on their side. 7
Are you “contrary” – not conforming to the Gospel?
Are you under – A Deluding Influence? 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
Are you one of the 18 percenters? Excerpt: Regardless of race, color, or party affiliation… there is a certain percentage of professing Christians that vote against Jesus’ worldview. Every election. What is the “worldview” of Jesus, according to the Bible? Is Jesus’ worldview your worldview?
…unless you believed in vain
[just superficially and
without complete commitment].
– 1 Corinthians 15:2
Are you ready to meet your Maker?
Are you in the Book of the Living?
Are you Ready, Steady, and Able? 2 Timothy 4:2 Romans 6: verses 12-13
Are you?
Are you Being Contrary To Jesus?
Are you Understanding “wrong”?
Are you Practicing sin – not Following Christ?
Are you Accepting What God Rejects?
Are you Keeping sin?
Are you Being 100% given over to Jesus?
Are you Being Christian?
Are you Following?
Are you Following Someone?
Ever grasped that feeling of being wrong with Jesus?
When you are “wrong” and just don’t get it
Are you one of the 18 percenters?
Live your best life wherever doing whatever you want
The Moment of IF Excerpt: Were you truly saved? Beyond the shadow of a doubt — THIS is the biggest question for all professing believers: Were you truly saved, actually redeemed by the blood of the Lamb? Or not.
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- Did you “become one with Him [permanently united]”? (Romans 6:5)
- Were you truly saved in your professed “salvation moment“?
- Have you been “raised with Christ”? (Colossians 3:1)
- Have you died and now “your life is hidden with Christ in God”? (Colossians 3:3)
- Did you “become one with Him [permanently united]”? (Romans 6:5)
…if you hold firmly
to the word
which I preached to you,
unless you believed in vain
[just superficially and
without complete commitment].
– 1 Corinthians 15:2
See: Romans 6:4-7 and Colossians 3:1-4.
Is God against you?
Why God is against me IF I claim my words are God’s own
Will you be turned away by Jesus?
REFERENCES for
“I am against you”: all in one link or…
Deuteronomy 6:15; Deuteronomy 31:27; Matthew 22:29; Ezekiel 13:8; Ezekiel 13:9; Ezekiel 13:20; Ezekiel 14:9-11.
Todd Bentley – A Story of Earth and Heaven | by Mike Oppenheimer of Let Us Reason Ministries
The Counterfeit Revival: Modern-Day Mesmerists (Part Four) |Christian Research Journal on Equip.org | Author: Hank Hanegraaff • Article ID: DP244-4 •Updated: Sep 27, 2024 •Published: Jun 10, 2009.
The BAD FRUIT List… from Ephesians 4:12-32
Taking hate to Holy Heaven? Your ways, your views?
Idly sitting moments fly …I will not sit by idly
Is your life fruit – agape love?
One minute away from the Kingdom of God
Getting saved is fast. Be saved in one minute
Is Jesus’ worldview your worldview?
Jesus saves and Jesus condemns
Consequences of supporting evil Excerpt: Remaining under the condemnation of God
No matter what your religious alignment, no matter what “Sinners Prayer” you fumbled: you remain under the condemnation of God. Scary thought. Whether it is just one thing, or a whole slew of non-alignments… you are lacking what it takes. Only repentance frees us.
See: Legally Damned – Legally Forgiven | God Damned Believers …unworthy of coming into God’s Kingdom – because they do not meet up to the standard of His Holiness.
*NOTE: God’s standard of holiness is to be totally forgiven in Christ, to where “our life is hidden in Christ” (Colossians 3:3), thus holy, thus without sin. It is a “positional” holiness – until we are raptured or resurrected.
When you are wrong and just don’t get it
Ever grasped that feeling of being wrong with Jesus?
Prove me wrong (annotated version) Excerpt: The Bible shows us clearly what God has been doing throughout the history of mankind. We see what Jesus has done for us. Read it for yourself. Prove me wrong!
How you can know you are a Christian
Being tested to know for sure your faithfulness to God
What clearly saves and what obviously does not save
What clearly saves and what obviously does not save
Take a stance on homosexuality – like Jesus did | Excerpt: Anything contrary to God’s expressed will has to be carefully avoided. Homosexuality, for example, is pushed nowadays as “okay by God”. But actually, it is listed in the Bible right beside many other practices that are not pleasing to God. Temptation towards any sin is NOT sinful. But, if we practice a sin, then we deny Christ. Want to please God in all you do?
Biblical Homosexuality | Quoted from: http://www.indegayforum.org/news/show/31489.html | by Donny | April 18, 2008, 11:33am
Transgenderism as seen from the Bible
One thing you lack Excerpt: Only Jesus Saves Sinners
“And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among people by which we must be saved [for God has provided the world no alternative for salvation].” – Acts 4:12
Instead of a world of alternatives… God provides one choice: Your Own Way or Jesus’ Only Way. It is quite simple actually.
You have a choice.
1. Hell for those who choose to rebel and reject Him to follow their sin…
2. Heaven for those who choose to repent and reject their sin and follow Him with sincerity and truth.
This is Jesus talkin’. He is knockin’ at your door because He cares about you. He cared enough to die on a cross to save you (John 3:14-21). Are you walkin’ away from that?
Fickle Piccadillies Excerpt: …where I bend and accept picayune “nominal sins”. There are no picayune “small sins” MirrWebster. They float in-n-out and get stuck in our soul. One sin can keep you from Heaven — so how “small” was it in retrospect after a trillion eons living in God’s place for Satan, still condemned? …Thank God for His forgiveness when we repent.
My Check-Off List Excerpt: Saved by Grace
I know I did not get saved by God based on merit, being sinless. Jesus saved me by His grace way back so many years ago – not because I got it all together for Him. And I’m still saved, and still not sinless! But now that I am His – I strive to follow Him in all my ways. I want to be what Jesus wants to see in me.
Consequences of supporting evil
As if your mindset is protected by God
The reality of incompleteness on earth
Pleasure and bad behaviors we love to fall for
The Bummer …A place for hypocrites
Living between two opinions – 1 Kings 18:21
Keeping sin AND getting God’s Holiness also
The Bible is the standard for Christian thought and practice. Not me. Not you.
The Great Water Down of Jesus’ Message to us all
Ever grasped that feeling of being wrong with Jesus?
Practicing sin – not Following Christ Excerpt: Are you practicing sin? Is there sin you constantly practice? Have you grown accustomed to accepting [“your” sin] as okay with God? Are you okay with the practices of your life?
Most importantly: Is God okay with your practices?
Scripture teaches us very clearly what is obviously …NOT following Christ. In fact, we are warned that “that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.” You are not following Christ if this is characteristic of you: Galatians 5:16-21.
You are all wrong, Jesus said – Matthew 22:verse 29
God’s grace teaches us to reject sin
Is your life fruit – agape love?
Being 100% given over to Jesus
Growing into our natural new life in Christ
Pleasure and bad behaviors we love to fall for
Are you under a deluding influence?
Old Sarge Comments on Charismatic practices
As if your mindset is protected by God
What is a kundalini spirit? | From GotQuestions | Excerpt: Scripture gives us no reason to believe there is any specific entity named Kundalini or that Christians have some specific ability to rebuke or exorcise it. Nor does the Bible indicate that we’re meant to diagnose spiritual problems in such a way.
Whether or not some demonic entity is directly involved in a person’s spiritual struggle is irrelevant. Remedying the situation is not helped by inventing a mythology of demons and turning God’s Word into a sourcebook of wild speculations. Prayer, discipleship, and obedience to God are the only meaningful answers to spiritual problems.
This is God speaking *A satire where God says, “Oh, I misspoke, folks.”
The controversy of God speaking to you directly
Why God is against me IF I claim my words are God’s own
Elevating the Word over experience Excerpt: What trumps what? Are you careful to closely examine what your pastor teaches, comparing what is said — with what you read in the Bible? It should be a weekly habit.
Many pastors and common folk equate experiences they have – with Scripture given to us by God. This leads to false assumptions about God – resulting in false teachings and false expectations about God.
The man of God, the lion and obedience
NAR-types are changing God’s Way, denying the Old Testament
Bethel Redding & Modern Apostles: A Biblical Analysis podcast on YouTube with Alisa Childers
As as a former NAR worship leader, this is the best and most thorough I’ve heard. I believe this should go to every church in America. Thank you for mentioning the ‘burnout’ factor and fallout that happens when it becomes unsustainable. Also, exposing the ‘prayer-less-ness’ in all this circus,(by continuous declarations) is so necessary.
Leaving Bethel: Christian Couple Shares Their Deconstruction/Reconstruction Story | Alisa Childers | YouTube video | 78K views 3 months ago (from 12/24)Alisa Childers | 78K views 3 months ago (from 12/24)
Rely on the Spirit of God in You
John 12:46… “rely on the truth of My message“
The Gift by His Precious, Undeserved Grace Excerpt: The Galatians 5 Warning…and others.
The Bible just flat-out lists all the sins the writers could think of. Each sin, alone even, separates us from His grace – eternally. And then Paul fills-in between the lines, saying, “…and other things like these.” Oops. Well, there goes that loophole many hope to use (“Oh but, but, that’s not exactly what I did….”)! See: Luke 10:29 MSG
There is absolutely no loophole, no sin we practice – on purpose, as a way of life, in “our lifestyle”, which God accepts. Nada. Zilch. Jesus warned He will reject any person of that ilk — even those who “tried Jesus”. To those self-deceived, Jesus quotes Himself from the future (another warning) when He will say on that day of reckoning:
And then I will declare to them publicly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me [you are banished from My presence], you who act wickedly [disregarding My commands].’
– Matthew 7:23
Be careful that no one misleads you
Prepare Your Eternity with great fear and trepidation …prepare your eternity, prepare with fear, prepare with trepidation
About Being Apostate… following “another gospel”
Show me actual false teachings
About False Teachings of Today
Pick a sin – any sin – and discern where you are at. Judge yourself all day long.
We are not of this world …See in one link: John 8:23, John 15:19, John 18:36, 1 Corinthians 1:20, Romans 12:2, 2 Corinthians 1:12
John 8:12 “I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”
1 Thessalonians 5:17 “pray without ceasing”
Make Self Talk… God Talk. It goes on and on and on
Holy Father Lord of all Excerpt:
Sitting here before you Lord,
my Holy Father, Lord of All
I’m so aware that I’m not holy…
Footnotes
- “Unbeliefism” is a created word combining “unbelief” and “ism”, meaning: an oppressive and especially discriminatory attitude or state of not believing, lack of faith, skepticism, especially in matters of religious faith, where one carries doubt, dubiety, dubiosity, uncertainty; distrust, mistrust, suspicion; apprehension, misgiving, qualm. – Extracted from Babylon definitions.
- NAR-type Charismatics
About False Teaching (a series)
The controversy of God speaking to you directly
Making God Speak 2 Peter 1:20-21
This is God speaking (satire)
Getting Into The Miraculous – 2 Timothy 4:3
They in fact have seen nothing
Following the Jesus who was not God
Needing something more than Jesus
Post New Apostolic Reformation Reflections by Rick Becker
Two NAR Organizations to Watch by Holly Pivec
Our response to “Apostle” Randy Clark’s interview with Remnant Radio
False Prophets: Study by Diane Dew
OMGj Search: false teachers
Wandering Stars. The Paganism of Bethel, Hillsong, and the NAR pt 1 by Jeremy Sanders.
- I am currently processing through a persistent sin I have struggled against for ages. Ever since I turned 16 and began to drive a car, you could say I have been speeding consistently, breaking the law. At 72 now, I still find myself speeding down the road (“…just staying up with the traffic”, as everyone says). Talk about “the sin which so easily and cleverly entangles“! I have NOT accepted that sin. I confess it as NOT okay with God. I’m a workin’ more on with speed. How pernicious – the entanglement!
- See “a performance mentality” discussed here: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Path to Virtuous Character | by Paul Copan | equip.org | Article ID: JAF2382•Updated: Nov 22, 2024•Published:Sep 15, 2016.
- Have you looked for God? Or are you still sneering, and so dull, still unrepentant, rejecting Jesus, holding to your errors to the death, consorting with evil, ignorant of your cracked heart, so gullible and tolerant you let empty suit fakers walk all over you with their lies — and follow them, turning away from a most-loving God.
- I waver and am flooded with old fears. What if Jesus is not Lord and Savior of my sin drenched soul? And…
- What if I am self-deceived, a fake?
- What if I’m not all His, I’ve held-back somewhere?
- What if I died and found myself in Hell?
- What wicked way is in me that will send my soul to Hell?
- What may I have failed to see as sin, and it remains in me? I practice what the Lord condemns. I say it’s just fine, but He says not.
- I deceive myself all to Hell and I am damned.
- I’m damned all to Hell.
- What if tomorrow never comes and today I go to Judgement at His feet and He now loves me not?
- What if He puts me in a goat fold where we’re huddled fearful, in terror of this Holy, Holy God, where He tells us all, “…depart from Me— you losers, workers of wickedness, all.”
– Source: My terrors in the dark place. - 2 John 1:9 “Anyone who runs on ahead and does not remain in the doctrine of Christ [that is, one who is not content with what He taught], does not have God; but the one who continues to remain in the teaching [of Christ does have God], he has both the Father and the Son.”
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