Reader.
1 John 3:9 : is the born again spirit having become "the new creation in Christ".
This is to be "in Christ", and there is no sin found there.
However, renewing your mind, so that Romans 8:1 is your spiritual reality, is something different.
Romans 8:1 says there is no condemnation on you or in you, if you are in Christ.
See, Condemnation in you would be guilt and regret and worry about sin.
While, Condemnation on you would be God's wrath as damnation... and that is John 3:36, that is currently found ON all the unbelievers who have never been born again.
Unbelievers , never born again ,do not understand that they are currently damned, until they are born again.
John 3:36
Hell, is the place where the damned end up., with the Lake of Fire being their final destination.
Reader,
When a person is born again, they are completed """in Christ.""""
= "made righteous"...so, this is to start....as completed.
God has imputed unto the born again, the gift of Righteousness, and Jesus has become your sin.
Being Born again, is the literal proof that this has happened.
The devil is no longer your spiritual father and your born again spirit is : "seated in heavenly places, in Christ".
God then always and eternally sees your born again spirit as His redeemed, His Son/Daughter .... having become "the righteousness of God, in Christ"....
See that?
God maintains that for you, as you have received this "gift" from God., who completes it.
Philippians 1:6
After you die, you will be "conformed into the image of Christ"""
Currently, if you are born again, you are "in Christ", "made righteousness".
Your "old man of sin" is "crucified with Christ".
So, what is left?
What is left is for you, READER, if you are born again.......is......to "work out your salvation".
But wait.....
If Salvation is Jesus on the Cross and you are made righteous , born again, and are "in Christ".. forever...., then what is left to work out, regarding your Salvation?
Saint, You have to work out the mind of your faith., and if you dont, then your spirit is in Christ but your mind is the "mind of the flesh".
That's the carnal mind, and the carnal mind is in rebellion against God and will refuse to accept that you dont have to "work to be saved" and "work to stay saved".
Paul says of that mind..."are you so FOOLISH having begun in the spirit..(born again).... that you are now trying to stay saved by works (mind) of the flesh"?
See that? That is LEGALISM, and this broken faith denies the Cross and tries to establish going to heaven and being accepted by God based on SELF EFFORT.,= that is literally SELF righteousness.
To stay out of that mind of the FLESH....You have to learn who you have become, regarding God's perspective,, as the "renewing of you mind".
That is how you "work out your salvation".
Paul refers to those who come into this full revelation of who they have become as "IN Christ'" as : "as many as be perfect".
When you do that, you have put on one of the parts of the "armor of God"., which is the The Helmet of your Salvation.
Now.....Here is a vital revelation for you.... if you are born again.
When you get your faith right as the "renewing of your mind", you begin at that very moment to wear the helmet of your Salvation,... and without it none of the other parts of the Armor of God will work for your spiritual or literal benefit.
And that allows the "fiery darts" of the Devil to hit you and penetrate.
The result of that wrong mind..the mind of the flesh, un-renewed..(broken faith)..... is that all that is wrong with your Christianity that you can't seem to stop doing, or understand why you can't,... that slow inner torture you are experiencing... never gets resolved....and, if you dont get it resolved you will harden against the Grace of God and end up "shipwrecked" = as Paul defines the total evolution of broken faith given time.
1 John 3:9 : is the born again spirit having become "the new creation in Christ".
This is to be "in Christ", and there is no sin found there.
However, renewing your mind, so that Romans 8:1 is your spiritual reality, is something different.
Romans 8:1 says there is no condemnation on you or in you, if you are in Christ.
See, Condemnation in you would be guilt and regret and worry about sin.
While, Condemnation on you would be God's wrath as damnation... and that is John 3:36, that is currently found ON all the unbelievers who have never been born again.
Unbelievers , never born again ,do not understand that they are currently damned, until they are born again.
John 3:36
Hell, is the place where the damned end up., with the Lake of Fire being their final destination.
Reader,
When a person is born again, they are completed """in Christ.""""
= "made righteous"...so, this is to start....as completed.
God has imputed unto the born again, the gift of Righteousness, and Jesus has become your sin.
Being Born again, is the literal proof that this has happened.
The devil is no longer your spiritual father and your born again spirit is : "seated in heavenly places, in Christ".
God then always and eternally sees your born again spirit as His redeemed, His Son/Daughter .... having become "the righteousness of God, in Christ"....
See that?
God maintains that for you, as you have received this "gift" from God., who completes it.
Philippians 1:6
After you die, you will be "conformed into the image of Christ"""
Currently, if you are born again, you are "in Christ", "made righteousness".
Your "old man of sin" is "crucified with Christ".
So, what is left?
What is left is for you, READER, if you are born again.......is......to "work out your salvation".
But wait.....
If Salvation is Jesus on the Cross and you are made righteous , born again, and are "in Christ".. forever...., then what is left to work out, regarding your Salvation?
Saint, You have to work out the mind of your faith., and if you dont, then your spirit is in Christ but your mind is the "mind of the flesh".
That's the carnal mind, and the carnal mind is in rebellion against God and will refuse to accept that you dont have to "work to be saved" and "work to stay saved".
Paul says of that mind..."are you so FOOLISH having begun in the spirit..(born again).... that you are now trying to stay saved by works (mind) of the flesh"?
See that? That is LEGALISM, and this broken faith denies the Cross and tries to establish going to heaven and being accepted by God based on SELF EFFORT.,= that is literally SELF righteousness.
To stay out of that mind of the FLESH....You have to learn who you have become, regarding God's perspective,, as the "renewing of you mind".
That is how you "work out your salvation".
Paul refers to those who come into this full revelation of who they have become as "IN Christ'" as : "as many as be perfect".
When you do that, you have put on one of the parts of the "armor of God"., which is the The Helmet of your Salvation.
Now.....Here is a vital revelation for you.... if you are born again.
When you get your faith right as the "renewing of your mind", you begin at that very moment to wear the helmet of your Salvation,... and without it none of the other parts of the Armor of God will work for your spiritual or literal benefit.
And that allows the "fiery darts" of the Devil to hit you and penetrate.
The result of that wrong mind..the mind of the flesh, un-renewed..(broken faith)..... is that all that is wrong with your Christianity that you can't seem to stop doing, or understand why you can't,... that slow inner torture you are experiencing... never gets resolved....and, if you dont get it resolved you will harden against the Grace of God and end up "shipwrecked" = as Paul defines the total evolution of broken faith given time.
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