"The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:" 2 Peter 2:9
"Wherein He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him. Seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them." Hebrews 7:25 Jesus lives to keep us from temptation. We are never alone; there is not one second after our salvation, after we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior and are baptized with Him, that we are ever alone. “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise,” Ephesians 1:13 Jesus is with us continually leading us and guiding us and strengthening us in the ways of righteousness and all things now work for good for those who love the Lord. Our darkness is as the noonday, there is no weapon that is formed against us that shall prosper, God has empowered us to be used by Him to do all things, because greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world.
Through Christ we are able to be saved to the uttermost. Jesus knows how to deliver us from all temptations. Jesus is living to intercede for us and the very Spirit of God has sealed us. These are all benefits of our salvation, freely given, and they are God’s desire for all men to have and enjoy. We have the absolute best working for us, we have the One Who created it all, the One Who made us, the One Who only has to speak and it happens, He is for us! Jesus is ever living to perform these things for us. Even more sure than the Sun will rise in the East, these verses are Truth, Heaven and Earth shall pass away, yet these Truths will still remain active and alive working for us. With that in mind, I want you to ask yourself this question, how do you talk about your life, how do you think about your walk with the Lord? Do you talk and believe these things are so? Faith comes from hearing and hearing from the Word of God!
Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, Hebrews 11:1, do you hope for these things? Do you have the hope that because Jesus is your Lord that there is absolutely no temptation that can sway you and that through the power of Christ there is no evil that can overcome you? Do you hope that you are saved to the uttermost? When we talk about things like perfection, are you offended, or do you hope that they can be lived and experienced? Do you have the hope that each and every second of every day, that Jesus is actually living to intercede for you, in every area of your life, for the small and mundane and for the massive and life changing? Do you hope that you are sealed with Holy Spirit and that nothing can penetrate that shield? If you are saved, you have the hope. If you are saved, faith will come because of it and as you hear these Truths your faith will grow and mature, because Jesus is the One Authoring and Finishing your faith. And such hope will never disappoint or shame you! “And hope maketh not ashamed; because the Love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given unto us.” Romans 5:5
“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. By Whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.” Romans 5:1-2
If your experiences are any thing like mine when it comes to religion, you were taught that we are to keep ourselves from temptations and if we mess up, we only have ourselves to blame. To many Christians the complete and total burden of our living appropriately is on us, we are alone and if we get it right, than the reward is having God bless us. But here we see that Jesus is the One Who knows how to deliver us from temptations and Jesus is the One Who ever lives to intercede for us and Jesus is the One Who saves us to the uttermost. You rarely will here a sermon that proclaims Jesus is the One Who is responsible for all of these things, yet He is our Shepherded, and the Shepherd is responsible for the sheep. If we can get this hope in the Church, than Jesus will begin and finish the faith that will allow us to walk justified to the uttermost. This faith will allow peace to come and the Church will really rejoice in hope and we will actually rejoice in the glory of God. We will experience the power of a life fully lived because we are saved to the uttermost, partakers of His Divine Nature, acting fully and completely with the Mind of Christ.
Our Father has given us Himself and all other things that pertain unto life and godliness to enjoy, and He has given them richly to us. As long as people believe that it is with their own power that they keep themselves from temptation, than they will always live at some level of condemnation and failure. As long as people believe that faith is a human ability to believe God, they will never achieve the peace of God that passes all understanding. Faith is a Godly force working within man, that allows the power of the Kingdom of Heaven to be realized and lived in! Hope in these Truths will never leave us ashamed and such hope will never disappoint us.
Right now the faith of so many is that we will mess up, we are human, but they believe that it is all right, because God will forgive us if we repent. This thought process is a beginning principle of Christ, let’s move on to perfection and maturity, let’s grow up and actually live with the Divine Nature. Let’s cease from our own works and actually enter into God’s rest and become all that He has provided for us to be. Through the Blood of Jesus we have been perfected unto every good work, Through the Blood of Christ we have escaped corruption. We are now a royal priesthood that has been delivered into God’s Light. We have virtue by the Blood of Christ, as He is so are we in this world. We will be used by our Father to do the works that Jesus did and all of the other magnificent Truths that we have studied! The Church needs to move on past the beginning principles of Christ and we need to move on to perfection, a glorious Church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish.
The Truth will allow us to be a Church that actually changes things! So what if the Courts say that abortion is legal, let’s allow God to shine through us and show the world that there is a better way. The Courts didn’t say that we have to have abortions, they said we can, so let’s be as Jesus and give real answers to women, let’s give these answers in love, and through the virtue and power of uttermost salvation change the hearts and minds of the Nation. If just two of us agree in the power of God’s love and it will happen. “Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.” Matthew 18:19
The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but spiritual and they are mighty to the bringing down of strongholds. Right now in America it looks like God is being challenged on every front: prayer in schools, abortion, gay marriages, and the limiting of free speech, seems like a stronghold to me? But we now have uttermost salvation; we now have direct access to the Holiest, we have virtue, Divine natures, the Holy Spirit, love, hope, and faith. Faith that even if it is as small as a grain of mustard seed will blow a mountain into the sea! We have been given the glory that our Lord and Savior has, we can ask and receive; our weapons are eternal. So let’s pray for the people who champion these ungodly ideas. Let’s not condemn them, there ideas are wrong, everyone knows this, so let’s pray that the victory and glory of salvation is seen and accepted by them. Let’s bless them who curse us and pray for them that despitefully use us, Luke 6:28. Our weapons are peculiar, let’s feed our enemy and give drink to those who hate us. Give God place for any vengeance and act in love as those who have been set free. There is nothing they are doing that we weren’t delivered from, sin is sin, they may be different sinful acts then what we did, but there not worse. There was someone praying for us, so let’s pray for them. This is the weapon of our warfare, and it will bring down any and every stronghold! Jesus will deliver us from any temptation to do otherwise, and in Jesus’ Name, those who are supporting these ungodly ideas will join us in the uttermost salvation of Jesus Christ! The captives will be set free! I can believe that there is a total and complete move of salvation through America’s Courts, I can believe that there will be no abortions, I can think of millions upon millions of homosexuals accepting Jesus and being set free, and God is able to do all of this and so much more by the power that is at work within us! Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, and faith comes from hearing the Word of God!
"That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ." 1 John 1:3
"Wherein He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him. Seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them." Hebrews 7:25 Jesus lives to keep us from temptation. We are never alone; there is not one second after our salvation, after we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior and are baptized with Him, that we are ever alone. “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise,” Ephesians 1:13 Jesus is with us continually leading us and guiding us and strengthening us in the ways of righteousness and all things now work for good for those who love the Lord. Our darkness is as the noonday, there is no weapon that is formed against us that shall prosper, God has empowered us to be used by Him to do all things, because greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world.
Through Christ we are able to be saved to the uttermost. Jesus knows how to deliver us from all temptations. Jesus is living to intercede for us and the very Spirit of God has sealed us. These are all benefits of our salvation, freely given, and they are God’s desire for all men to have and enjoy. We have the absolute best working for us, we have the One Who created it all, the One Who made us, the One Who only has to speak and it happens, He is for us! Jesus is ever living to perform these things for us. Even more sure than the Sun will rise in the East, these verses are Truth, Heaven and Earth shall pass away, yet these Truths will still remain active and alive working for us. With that in mind, I want you to ask yourself this question, how do you talk about your life, how do you think about your walk with the Lord? Do you talk and believe these things are so? Faith comes from hearing and hearing from the Word of God!
Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, Hebrews 11:1, do you hope for these things? Do you have the hope that because Jesus is your Lord that there is absolutely no temptation that can sway you and that through the power of Christ there is no evil that can overcome you? Do you hope that you are saved to the uttermost? When we talk about things like perfection, are you offended, or do you hope that they can be lived and experienced? Do you have the hope that each and every second of every day, that Jesus is actually living to intercede for you, in every area of your life, for the small and mundane and for the massive and life changing? Do you hope that you are sealed with Holy Spirit and that nothing can penetrate that shield? If you are saved, you have the hope. If you are saved, faith will come because of it and as you hear these Truths your faith will grow and mature, because Jesus is the One Authoring and Finishing your faith. And such hope will never disappoint or shame you! “And hope maketh not ashamed; because the Love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given unto us.” Romans 5:5
“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. By Whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.” Romans 5:1-2
If your experiences are any thing like mine when it comes to religion, you were taught that we are to keep ourselves from temptations and if we mess up, we only have ourselves to blame. To many Christians the complete and total burden of our living appropriately is on us, we are alone and if we get it right, than the reward is having God bless us. But here we see that Jesus is the One Who knows how to deliver us from temptations and Jesus is the One Who ever lives to intercede for us and Jesus is the One Who saves us to the uttermost. You rarely will here a sermon that proclaims Jesus is the One Who is responsible for all of these things, yet He is our Shepherded, and the Shepherd is responsible for the sheep. If we can get this hope in the Church, than Jesus will begin and finish the faith that will allow us to walk justified to the uttermost. This faith will allow peace to come and the Church will really rejoice in hope and we will actually rejoice in the glory of God. We will experience the power of a life fully lived because we are saved to the uttermost, partakers of His Divine Nature, acting fully and completely with the Mind of Christ.
Our Father has given us Himself and all other things that pertain unto life and godliness to enjoy, and He has given them richly to us. As long as people believe that it is with their own power that they keep themselves from temptation, than they will always live at some level of condemnation and failure. As long as people believe that faith is a human ability to believe God, they will never achieve the peace of God that passes all understanding. Faith is a Godly force working within man, that allows the power of the Kingdom of Heaven to be realized and lived in! Hope in these Truths will never leave us ashamed and such hope will never disappoint us.
Right now the faith of so many is that we will mess up, we are human, but they believe that it is all right, because God will forgive us if we repent. This thought process is a beginning principle of Christ, let’s move on to perfection and maturity, let’s grow up and actually live with the Divine Nature. Let’s cease from our own works and actually enter into God’s rest and become all that He has provided for us to be. Through the Blood of Jesus we have been perfected unto every good work, Through the Blood of Christ we have escaped corruption. We are now a royal priesthood that has been delivered into God’s Light. We have virtue by the Blood of Christ, as He is so are we in this world. We will be used by our Father to do the works that Jesus did and all of the other magnificent Truths that we have studied! The Church needs to move on past the beginning principles of Christ and we need to move on to perfection, a glorious Church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish.
The Truth will allow us to be a Church that actually changes things! So what if the Courts say that abortion is legal, let’s allow God to shine through us and show the world that there is a better way. The Courts didn’t say that we have to have abortions, they said we can, so let’s be as Jesus and give real answers to women, let’s give these answers in love, and through the virtue and power of uttermost salvation change the hearts and minds of the Nation. If just two of us agree in the power of God’s love and it will happen. “Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.” Matthew 18:19
The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but spiritual and they are mighty to the bringing down of strongholds. Right now in America it looks like God is being challenged on every front: prayer in schools, abortion, gay marriages, and the limiting of free speech, seems like a stronghold to me? But we now have uttermost salvation; we now have direct access to the Holiest, we have virtue, Divine natures, the Holy Spirit, love, hope, and faith. Faith that even if it is as small as a grain of mustard seed will blow a mountain into the sea! We have been given the glory that our Lord and Savior has, we can ask and receive; our weapons are eternal. So let’s pray for the people who champion these ungodly ideas. Let’s not condemn them, there ideas are wrong, everyone knows this, so let’s pray that the victory and glory of salvation is seen and accepted by them. Let’s bless them who curse us and pray for them that despitefully use us, Luke 6:28. Our weapons are peculiar, let’s feed our enemy and give drink to those who hate us. Give God place for any vengeance and act in love as those who have been set free. There is nothing they are doing that we weren’t delivered from, sin is sin, they may be different sinful acts then what we did, but there not worse. There was someone praying for us, so let’s pray for them. This is the weapon of our warfare, and it will bring down any and every stronghold! Jesus will deliver us from any temptation to do otherwise, and in Jesus’ Name, those who are supporting these ungodly ideas will join us in the uttermost salvation of Jesus Christ! The captives will be set free! I can believe that there is a total and complete move of salvation through America’s Courts, I can believe that there will be no abortions, I can think of millions upon millions of homosexuals accepting Jesus and being set free, and God is able to do all of this and so much more by the power that is at work within us! Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, and faith comes from hearing the Word of God!
"That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ." 1 John 1:3
We need to declare these Truths with our enemies and pray that they too come to accept and rejoice in them, so that we all can have fellowship and the strongholds shall be brought down! Jesus loves all of us and He is living to intercede for all who will allow Him to. There is now no condemnation for us, so there is now no condemnation from us, put down the stones and pick up the weapons of love, faith, salvation, righteousness, Truth, and the Gospel of peace, the whole armor of God! With it we will stand and through God the strongholds will be brought down. Faithful is He Who has spoken it, and faithful is He Who will do it!
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