Self life, why is the self life sinful?
Own will or that which is called the self life, is sinful, because, it by it’s very nature, is a striving after that high and exalted state it had before the fall…. Because this life that was brought forth by the fall is of a lower nature than the life that perished, therefore does this life drive the will to use everything it can of this world to once again achieve, to the best of it’s ability, a higher and a more exalted state than it finds itself in this world… It seeks the beautiful things, the grandiose things, the best of this, the best of that… When it finds it can’t have, it will use all at it’s disposal to achieve…
This is why, in this life’s desire, when something that is thought to satisfy is achieved, it is discovered it does not satisfy, than something else is looked to for satisfaction, and the same thing happens again, no satisfaction is found… But still again it searches for that thing that will satisfy by any and all means… Therefore does the nature of this life, lie, steal, cheat, look to take advantage of whomever and whatever it can, to get what it knows not what… For it must again seek to elevate itself to the highest state it can in all things, for it knows not, that only by the doing of righteousness can this state be found…
This is own will or the life of self, this is the life that needs to be ended… Therefore because this is necessary to redeem man, Christ came to bring this nature to death, for this is what was necessary for the salvation of man, the death of this nature… For this is what Christ accomplished on the cross with His death, He tasted death for every man, meaning, that He took us to death with Him, making His death ours…
It is the willingness to give up the life of this world by the only means available, and that is faith… For faith is that which can look away from the life of this world, for that is that which is required to come out from under the dominion of this life… The will and desire of the heart wanting to be free from this life and therefore making a conscious choice to choose to accept, by faith, that which is offered by another, that is, the salvation that is offered from this life, by being joined by faith in having both died and having been resurrected when the One that was sent, died and was resurrected…
The simplicity of the Gospel of Christ is just that, simple… But will only be simple to the heart that sees it’s need to be freed from the nature of this world with all it’s longings and desires to elevate itself… Than the dividing line will be known, Christ or self, this line will be known by experience…
For this new creation promised in Christ Jesus starts with the new birth and will grow according to the will, desire and faith of each and every life that would have it, but can only grow to the degree the old life is done away with…
Be blessed in the life that would have it..
A fellow believer, Not me
Own will or that which is called the self life, is sinful, because, it by it’s very nature, is a striving after that high and exalted state it had before the fall…. Because this life that was brought forth by the fall is of a lower nature than the life that perished, therefore does this life drive the will to use everything it can of this world to once again achieve, to the best of it’s ability, a higher and a more exalted state than it finds itself in this world… It seeks the beautiful things, the grandiose things, the best of this, the best of that… When it finds it can’t have, it will use all at it’s disposal to achieve…
This is why, in this life’s desire, when something that is thought to satisfy is achieved, it is discovered it does not satisfy, than something else is looked to for satisfaction, and the same thing happens again, no satisfaction is found… But still again it searches for that thing that will satisfy by any and all means… Therefore does the nature of this life, lie, steal, cheat, look to take advantage of whomever and whatever it can, to get what it knows not what… For it must again seek to elevate itself to the highest state it can in all things, for it knows not, that only by the doing of righteousness can this state be found…
This is own will or the life of self, this is the life that needs to be ended… Therefore because this is necessary to redeem man, Christ came to bring this nature to death, for this is what was necessary for the salvation of man, the death of this nature… For this is what Christ accomplished on the cross with His death, He tasted death for every man, meaning, that He took us to death with Him, making His death ours…
It is the willingness to give up the life of this world by the only means available, and that is faith… For faith is that which can look away from the life of this world, for that is that which is required to come out from under the dominion of this life… The will and desire of the heart wanting to be free from this life and therefore making a conscious choice to choose to accept, by faith, that which is offered by another, that is, the salvation that is offered from this life, by being joined by faith in having both died and having been resurrected when the One that was sent, died and was resurrected…
The simplicity of the Gospel of Christ is just that, simple… But will only be simple to the heart that sees it’s need to be freed from the nature of this world with all it’s longings and desires to elevate itself… Than the dividing line will be known, Christ or self, this line will be known by experience…
For this new creation promised in Christ Jesus starts with the new birth and will grow according to the will, desire and faith of each and every life that would have it, but can only grow to the degree the old life is done away with…
Be blessed in the life that would have it..
A fellow believer, Not me
