“How much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the Living God?” Hebrews 9:14
Have you ever heard someone say that God will not take our free will from us? These people believe that we have this carnal nature of dead works, or this sin nature, and then we also have this Godly nature. They believe that we are doomed, while we are on this earth, to keep this old sinful thought process and on any given day we may choose to use it. I know this sounds right, and I know that most of us feel this way, but the Bible teaches us that a divided house cannot stand. “And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” Mark 3:25. If we still have this good conscience and this bad conscience coexisting within us at the same time, than we are a divided house and we cannot stand, we will fall! God teaches us that if we are double minded then we will not receive anything from Him. “For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” James 1:7-8 If we have these two contrary natures within us, even though we are saved, then God’s Word has destined us to fail! Jesus did not come to cause us to fail, He came that we might have life, and have it more abundantly, John 10:10! Our destiny on this earth as Christians is not failure; it is to be victorious through Christ Who strengthens us! Jesus taught that we are perfect in Him, so that the world will believe and be saved! The Light drives out any part of our will that is darkness, God prunes it away, and anything that hinders our deliverance is removed by the Anointing of the Holy Spirit! The Bible teaches us that the carnal mind is enmity against God and that it cannot please Him. “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” Romans 8:6. The Bible teaches that we have now been given the mind of Christ, 1 Corinthians 2:16. And in Hebrews 9:14, the Word of God proclaims that Jesus has purged our conscience, or our sin nature of dead works from us, so that we can serve God in newness of the Spirit. Jesus has purged our will of dead works, so that God can work through us mightily, just as He works through Jesus mightily and that brings us life and peace! To believe that we still have our carnal will is death, because there is no fellowship between righteousness and unrighteousness, 2 Corinthians 6:14.
Once again we see that there is a need in our lives, we are to have no dead works, and we see that Jesus did something about it, He purged our thought process, our free will that was full of dead works. Find any requirement in the Bible that speaks of us living a full and complete life with God, and you’ll also find a scripture that says that God is in us, one with us, causing us to do it. Just as He said He would do in Ezekiel 36:27 “And I will put My Spirit with you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them.” The carnal mind says that we are weak, but the Spiritual mind that God has given us says that we are strong, strong through His power and might. The carnal mind says that our flesh is sinful, but the Spiritual mind says that we have been quickened together with Jesus by the resurrecting power of the Holy Spirit that now dwells within us! The mind that thinks on our inabilities is carnal. It doesn’t please God for us to talk about how weak we are, it pleases God to talk and think about how strong He is within us! It pleases and glorifies God when we allow the Truth of Who He has made us, to be what is in abundance within our hearts! God has given us an Anointed mind that thinks on His glorious Spiritual ways and God has given us a heart that believes the Truth on Who He has made us, which is alive in Christ!
Have you ever heard someone say that God will not take our free will from us? These people believe that we have this carnal nature of dead works, or this sin nature, and then we also have this Godly nature. They believe that we are doomed, while we are on this earth, to keep this old sinful thought process and on any given day we may choose to use it. I know this sounds right, and I know that most of us feel this way, but the Bible teaches us that a divided house cannot stand. “And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” Mark 3:25. If we still have this good conscience and this bad conscience coexisting within us at the same time, than we are a divided house and we cannot stand, we will fall! God teaches us that if we are double minded then we will not receive anything from Him. “For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” James 1:7-8 If we have these two contrary natures within us, even though we are saved, then God’s Word has destined us to fail! Jesus did not come to cause us to fail, He came that we might have life, and have it more abundantly, John 10:10! Our destiny on this earth as Christians is not failure; it is to be victorious through Christ Who strengthens us! Jesus taught that we are perfect in Him, so that the world will believe and be saved! The Light drives out any part of our will that is darkness, God prunes it away, and anything that hinders our deliverance is removed by the Anointing of the Holy Spirit! The Bible teaches us that the carnal mind is enmity against God and that it cannot please Him. “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” Romans 8:6. The Bible teaches that we have now been given the mind of Christ, 1 Corinthians 2:16. And in Hebrews 9:14, the Word of God proclaims that Jesus has purged our conscience, or our sin nature of dead works from us, so that we can serve God in newness of the Spirit. Jesus has purged our will of dead works, so that God can work through us mightily, just as He works through Jesus mightily and that brings us life and peace! To believe that we still have our carnal will is death, because there is no fellowship between righteousness and unrighteousness, 2 Corinthians 6:14.
Once again we see that there is a need in our lives, we are to have no dead works, and we see that Jesus did something about it, He purged our thought process, our free will that was full of dead works. Find any requirement in the Bible that speaks of us living a full and complete life with God, and you’ll also find a scripture that says that God is in us, one with us, causing us to do it. Just as He said He would do in Ezekiel 36:27 “And I will put My Spirit with you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them.” The carnal mind says that we are weak, but the Spiritual mind that God has given us says that we are strong, strong through His power and might. The carnal mind says that our flesh is sinful, but the Spiritual mind says that we have been quickened together with Jesus by the resurrecting power of the Holy Spirit that now dwells within us! The mind that thinks on our inabilities is carnal. It doesn’t please God for us to talk about how weak we are, it pleases God to talk and think about how strong He is within us! It pleases and glorifies God when we allow the Truth of Who He has made us, to be what is in abundance within our hearts! God has given us an Anointed mind that thinks on His glorious Spiritual ways and God has given us a heart that believes the Truth on Who He has made us, which is alive in Christ!
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