Jesus Makes Us Pure

Hope Even Though There Is No Pre Tribulation Rapture

1 Minute of Truth: 1 Corinthians 1:5

1 Minute Of Truth: Romans 3:10

Does Luke 17:26-30 Show Us A Rapture?

Does Revelation 4:1 Show Us A Rapture?

Is There A Pre-Tribulation Rapture? Part 1

1 Minute Of Truth: Galatians 3:13

Galatians 6:9

Bible Study Galations 6:6-8

Bible Study Galatians 6:2

Bible Study Galatians 9

Bible Study Glatians 5:5-6

Bible Study of Galatians 5:3-4

Galatians 5:1-2

Galatians 4:27-31

Philippians 3:13-15

13 I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

You ever wonder why we are able to have this attitude of not worrying about messing up?

As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:12

And you who were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh (your sensuality, your sinful carnal nature), [God] brought to life together with [Christ], having [freely] forgiven us all our transgressions, Colossians 2:13

The reason that we are able to not take thought for falling short is that our Father doesn’t take thought for it. Because of Jesus our sins have been removed from us as far as the East is from the West. Jesus was extremely successful and now we are freely forgiven of all of our trespasses, all of them: past, present, and future, all of them! So if our Father isn’t remembering them, why should we?

14 I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward.

15 So let those [of us] who are spiritually mature and full-grown have this mind and hold these convictions; and if in any respect you have a different attitude of mind, God will make that clear to you also.

If a person is all concerned and overly focused on sin then we are told that they are immature. Mature Christians know that it is all Grace. We have been enlightened by the Holy Spirit to fully understand that it is not our works, it is Jesus’ works. Our Father has caused us to know that He will lead us and guide us into all Truth and that He has a time and a plan for each of us. There is peace with this Truth and it passes all human understanding. Now here is the cool thing, if you don’t believe this way and you do concern yourself with sin, then our Father will make the Truth clear to you as well. There is never any condemnation for us, Romans 8:1.

Galatians 6:12-13

12 Those who want to make a good impression and a fine show in the flesh would try to compel you to receive circumcision, simply so that they may escape being persecuted for allegiance to the cross of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

13 For even the circumcised [Jews] themselves do not [really] keep the Law, but they want to have you circumcised in order that they may glory in your flesh (your subjection to external rites).

The same thing holds true today with so many. I know a lot of preachers and I see how they really live. They do not even begin to live by the burdens that they preach from the pulpit.  

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you travel over sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes one [a proselyte], you make him doubly as much a child of hell (Gehenna) as you are. Matthew 23:15

But He said to them, Excellently and truly [so that there will be no room for blame] did Isaiah prophesy of you, the pretenders and hypocrites, as it stands written: These people [constantly] honor Me with their lips, but their hearts hold off and are far distant from Me. Mark 7:6

Beware of supposed religious leaders who are constantly preaching and teaching what we must do. Beware of fire and brimstone preachers who so easily talk of people being sent to Hell. Beware of preachers who use the Old Testament as the basis for their sermons, to show how we must serve. They are pretenders and hypocrites, who place all of the burden on man and not on Jesus where it truly is.

For [although] they hold a form of piety (true religion), they deny and reject and are strangers to the power of it [their conduct belies the genuineness of their profession]. Avoid [all] such people [turn away from them]. 2 Timothy 3:5

Galatians 5:5-6

5 For we, [not relying on the Law but] through the [Holy] Spirit's [help], by faith anticipate and wait for the blessing and good for which our righteousness and right standing with God [our conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action, causes us] to hope.

    

The Holy Spirit is responsible for bringing our righteousness. The Holy Spirit is who we rely on: He is our only Strength, He Alone is our Teacher, our Advocate, and He Alone is our Stand By.

But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you. John 14:26

It is insulting to Him to believe that our works make us right. Yet so many believe in their works and while believing that works bring us favor with God sounds religious, it is the message of the anti-christ. If a person believes that we are justified by keeping a law, then they are separated from Christ, Galatians 5:1! To believe this way is like believing that a child must do works to earn the attention and love of his father. If a parent needs a chid to do things for them to love and pay attention to them, then they are lousy parents. 

6 For [if we are] in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through love.

So are we shown here that we have to work faith and love on our own? Are these two things our law now?

Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2

Our freedom is that Jesus is the only reason that we have faith. True faith is not a human ability to believe God, faith is Jesus’ ability to believe God working through us.

I have made Your Name known to them and revealed Your character and Your very Self, and I will continue to make [You] known, that the love which You have bestowed upon Me may be in them [felt in their hearts] and that I [Myself] may be in them. John 17:26

Our peace that passes all understanding is that Jesus lives to make our Father known to us so that we may have His very love dwelling within us. There is nothing that we do first in Christ, we are never separated from our Head to initiate anything on our own. We have no part to play that is separate from Jesus. We are told in the Bible that we have to have faith and love, and the Truth is that Jesus is our source for both. It is impossible for a man to have true faith and love on his own. Everything must come directly from our Head first, John 3:27. If you believe that you must do any work on your own, then you have no part in Christ. 

Galatians 4:6

6 And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the [Holy] Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba (Father)! Father!

We really are now God’s children and because we are His kids, we now have the Holy Spirit just as Jesus has Him. Just as Jesus is kept by the power of the Holy Spirit, so are we. Jesus came and allowed Himself to be sacrificed so that we could have everything that He has. Jesus has died to sin once and because of what He did for us, so have we.

Because we know that Christ (the Anointed One), being once raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him. For by the death He died, He died to sin [ending His relation to it] once for all; and the life that He lives, He is living to God [in unbroken fellowship with Him]. Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God [living in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:9-11

We are the body of Christ right now, Ephesians 5:30, so we too are dead to sin and alive to live as one with God. Our relationship with sin has ended. We are now free from the law of sin equals death. 

Because we are members (parts) of His body. For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning [the relation of] Christ and the church. Ephesians 5:30-32

For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death. Romans 8:2. 

7 Therefore, you are no longer a slave (bond servant) but a son; and if a son, then [it follows that you are] an heir by the aid of God, through Christ.

We are now an heir of God by His direct aide through Christ. It is only by our Father’s grace that we are saved, it is all His gift to us, Ephesians 2:8. Our Father decided to give us life in Christ and our Father never withdraws His gifts once they are given.

For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable. [He never withdraws them when once they are given, and He does not change His mind about those to whom He gives His grace or to whom He sends His call.] Romans 11:29.