"For now we live, if we stand fast in the Lord." 1 Thessalonians 3:8
There are so many who are wishy washy about their salvation. Too many of our brethren are self-condemning, fearful and in doubt of their eternal state because they are in doubt of who they are in Christ. And they are in doubt of Who Christ is within them. They question the extent that God is involved in our lives. They believe that God is limited according to our abilities to believe or serve Him. They may have gone to church for years, yet they never walk in any power or demonstration of His Spirit. The reason they are living this way is because they are trying to stand fast in the Lord on their own and they fail each and every time! Jesus told us that He never said anything that He had not heard first from our Father. And Jesus always said that it was God in Him Who was doing all of the works. Until we are truly crucified with Christ and until we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to give it all up, including our free will, we will never be able to stand fast in the Lord. I hear about free will and I just marvel. The Word teaches us that if we put anything before Jesus, than we are not worthy of Him, Matthew 10:37. The first thing that God gave me the desire to do was to allow Him to get rid of my free will. Not my will Lord, but yours! And praise God we all have Jesus Who has circumcised our sinful natures away, so that God’s will is now done through us! All who have truly been chosen have the full strength of God’s might within them. The Light and power of God’s will has pruned out the weakness and darkness of all of our carnal will and now through the full power of Christ all things work together for our good!
People, who say they maintain their free will to walk away from God, have never been chosen and truly empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. They may have a form of godliness, but they have denied the power of godliness because their free will has not been circumcised away by the operation of Jesus Christ! Jesus causes all who are truly saved to possess God’s will by circumcising away the burden of our free carnal will. “No man can serve two masters; for they will either love the one and hate the other; or else they will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Matthew 6:24 People who think they still have a free will are trying to serve two masters, Jesus and themselves and they will fail every time, they are a divided house, and they will never stand fast in Jesus, they cannot!
There are so many who are wishy washy about their salvation. Too many of our brethren are self-condemning, fearful and in doubt of their eternal state because they are in doubt of who they are in Christ. And they are in doubt of Who Christ is within them. They question the extent that God is involved in our lives. They believe that God is limited according to our abilities to believe or serve Him. They may have gone to church for years, yet they never walk in any power or demonstration of His Spirit. The reason they are living this way is because they are trying to stand fast in the Lord on their own and they fail each and every time! Jesus told us that He never said anything that He had not heard first from our Father. And Jesus always said that it was God in Him Who was doing all of the works. Until we are truly crucified with Christ and until we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to give it all up, including our free will, we will never be able to stand fast in the Lord. I hear about free will and I just marvel. The Word teaches us that if we put anything before Jesus, than we are not worthy of Him, Matthew 10:37. The first thing that God gave me the desire to do was to allow Him to get rid of my free will. Not my will Lord, but yours! And praise God we all have Jesus Who has circumcised our sinful natures away, so that God’s will is now done through us! All who have truly been chosen have the full strength of God’s might within them. The Light and power of God’s will has pruned out the weakness and darkness of all of our carnal will and now through the full power of Christ all things work together for our good!
People, who say they maintain their free will to walk away from God, have never been chosen and truly empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. They may have a form of godliness, but they have denied the power of godliness because their free will has not been circumcised away by the operation of Jesus Christ! Jesus causes all who are truly saved to possess God’s will by circumcising away the burden of our free carnal will. “No man can serve two masters; for they will either love the one and hate the other; or else they will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Matthew 6:24 People who think they still have a free will are trying to serve two masters, Jesus and themselves and they will fail every time, they are a divided house, and they will never stand fast in Jesus, they cannot!
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