Sunday, July 17, 2005

God Allows Us To Know Our Freedom From Sin

"I have given them Thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil." John 17:14-15

Jesus was praying here right before He was crucified and He prayed that God would keep us from evil. God has honored Jesus’ request and He did it by destroying our bodies that could sin, and with it God also destroyed satan’s abilities to triumph against us! We are now crucified with Christ, yet nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who is alive, it is Christ in us, Galatians 2:20. God gave us His Holy Spirit, to strengthen us and guide us! God gave us a spirit of faith, of love, and of power, and He cast out our spirit of fear, by perfecting His love within us! God gave us His Seed, to remain eternally within us, and because He did we cannot sin! God has made us one with His Son and our Savior, Jesus, and Jesus abides permanently within God’s house, and since He does we shall never fall away! Jesus prayed God’s will while on this earth and God has honored His will, and He has delivered us and keeps us from all evil!

God isn’t double minded. “A double minded man is unstable in all of his ways.” James 1:8 God hasn’t given us a double mind either; He has given us the mind of Christ! Jesus knows who His Father is and we have that same mind within us. We have the wisdom of the mind of Christ and the Knowledge of the mind of Christ! We have a mind that knows the power of our salvation, and a mind that knows the full cleansing power from sin that the Blood of Christ possesses! Our mind can accept these Truths and our mind has the ability to have peace and joy in believing these Truths! The mind of Christ doesn’t believe that we are still sinners; the mind of Christ knows that we have been born again of God and it knows completely that He is now our Father! Our mind knows that we once were in darkness, but now through Christ we are in the Light! Our mind knows what we have been delivered from, and our mind, the mind of Christ, is sure of what we have been delivered unto! Our mind knows that we have complete and total righteousness, and freedom from sin, because of the power of Jesus’ sacrifice! Our minds know that faith comes from hearing God’s Truth and that His Truth sets us free! The wage of sin is death, but our mind knows that we have passed from death unto life! “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this? John 11:25-26 We have been given an anointed mind from God that knows that we shall never die!

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