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When we want to free ourselves from the bondage that is keeping us from being able to perform a continual lifestyle of holiness, vs, falling, repenting, falling, repenting....etc.
= When we want to not exist in THAT misery, but we want to live a solid and unfailing HOLY LIFESTYLE< vs a failed Faith, then you only get to this "fullness of the Stature of Christ" as you bring your mind in line with God's perspective of YOU.
Until you SEE yourself ONLY as God SEES you, then God's Grace is not able to underpin your walk of discipleship so that you are freed from bondage to your flesh.
See, the reason 99% of the born again can't live holy all the time is because they are not walking in the Light. They are believing WRONG.
They are walking in the Law, which is walking in the flesh. And when you do that, you are trying to achieve a Holy Life using what is death. See, the law is Holy, but it brings Death to us, not Life.
Saint, Its becaue the law exists that you were perviously defined by the law as a SINNER.
So, how can what defines you as a sinner.... which creates you to be separated from GOD, ever cause you to be accepted by God?
= It can't.
The power of the Law, is the Law's "dominion"...meaning... when you try to do right and strive to live right (walking in the flesh) you are actually empowering the law to keep you from doing it.
Most of you are familiar with Paul's cry of the heart, where he said...."O wretched man that i am, that which i would do, i dont do, and that which i wouldn't do, i do"..."who will deliver me from this BODY OF DEATH"..... And THAT, Saint, is Paul teaching you that when you try to live it, you will never. Do you see him trying to be holy? = FAIL... And all that happened is..>"i do what i should not, and what i should do i have no power to do"....And THAT is the Law's dominion causing that misery in Paul and in you.
Here is the verse..... 1 Corinthians 15:56...."The sting of death is sin, and the POWER of SIN is = the LAW".
Did you read that? Paul just told you that the power of SIN, is THE LAW.
Its not the devil.
Its not your flesh.
Its the LAW that is the "power of SIN".
And again.....Its not the devil. Its not you and your temptations... its the Law that is the POWER OF SIN which activates your flesh and overcomes your will.
The law empowers you to sin more.... the more you try to "be good" and "Live right".... because you are trying to do it in a self righteous way that causes the Law to empower you to Sin more. = You have a wrong mind. You have a wrong belief. Your faith is not in the right place.
So, to escape the bondage of the Law that is you "walking in the flesh", you have to start BELIEVING RIGHT.. as that is why you can't maintain a holy life all the time., and you find yourself in guilt and condemnation. Its because You are believing wrong, Saint.
Listen, Jesus came to set you free from the law of sin and death, that is the "power of the Law" that keeps you sinning.
See, this is the "curse of the Law", and Jesus came to "remove the curse of the Law".
Most believers have actually been taught to keep themselves under the law by Pulpits and Teachers .....that is, they are taught to try to be good to be accepted by God. Or to try to keep your salvation. And all that rotten theology causes poisoned thinking that manifests as wrong believing..... and that puts you under the bondage of the Law and that is why you keep doing wrong, when you want to do right......same as Paul is explaining.
So, Paul gives you the answer....the solution...
Romans 8:6... ""The MIND governed by the flesh is death, but the MIND governed by the Spirit is life and peace.""
That means... if you walk in the flesh you are walking under the dominion of the Law , which is death...which is wrong believing which causes sinning and sinning and can't ever Live Holy and you stay there. vs, the Right Mind, the "Mind of Christ", right believing, which is to walk in the correct Spiritual understanding, or.. to "walk in the Spirit" that empowers Holy Living.
Then Paul tells you this... 1 Corinthians 15:57
""But thanks be to God, which giveth us the VICTORY = through our Lord Jesus Christ.""
Now do you see that VICTORY? That is complete and constant victory or deliverance from sinning. (works of the flesh) And notice that this comes "through Jesus"... not you. Not your striving to be holy, or your obsession with "abiding" and "enduring"... and straining to do right. But your victory come from JESUS, who said...>"apart from Me, you can do NOTHING".
And that is the TRUTH. Apart from the right understanding of how to walk in the Spirit, and in the mind of Christ, you can do nothing that will cause you to always live Holy.
So, To walk in the Spirit and to have the Mind of Christ, is to have perfect mental alignment with the Truth that sets you free. .. Which means, When you are mentally walking in that Truth, then you are "walking in the Light." and have the MIND of Right Believing...
And how do you get that?
= You have to renew your mind.
You have to empty your head of all ideas and lies you have believed regarding anything that is related to you trying to be accepted by God... Stop doing that !
You have to let go of all self effort to try to be accepted by God. Stop doing that !
You have to literally come to a mental place where you have Full Assurace of your Salvation that is totally and only dependent on the Blood of Jesus maintaining it for you as God's gift to you.
You have to exist here in your Heart.....>"it is good that the heart be ESTABLISHED WITH GRACE"......and not with theology, and doctrine, and religious concepts.. but ONLY GRACE.
Saint, when you are finally there in your head you will also be there in your heart. And only then have you have stopped walking in the flesh and have truly found the place of peace where the Grace of God has full dominion over you. ""you are not under the dominion of the Law but UNDER GRACE"".
You have to literally get to a place in your BELIEVING where you understand that there is nothing you can do that would cause you to not be accepted by God,... and then you have REAL Faith that pleases God, because you have found the true understanding of God's Grace and "the finished work of Jesus on the Cross".
And as long as you have reservations about that, then you are not wearing the "mind of Christ" and you will struggle to live Holy and you will fail and fail.
See, when you believe that you can lose your salvation, .. then this exposes the error of your faith, as it proves that you are not trusting in Christ alone. So, you have to solve that wrong believing, and bring your faith into alignment with the truth that sets you free of THAT BONDAGE, = that wrong belief you have.
Right believing produces RIGHTEOUS LIVING....... Wrong believing produces a continuing Christian Failure.
You have to have and maintain a heart toward God, that is totally established in GRACE, if you are to walk in the Spirit.
You have to come to the place in your HEAD where you understand without reservation just how powerfully the Blood of Jesus manifests Eternal Salvation FOR YOU.
This understanding, once you get there in your MIND, is to understand correctly the Grace of God. And this right believing powers your deliverance from SELF which allows the Power of Christ to maintain your Holiness as VICTORY.
Now let me show you how all this worked even before the Cross was raised and the Grace of God was given to the World, as "all who would come and believe in Jesus". John 3:16
There was a woman who was caught in the act of adultery. And these self righteous religious leaders brought her before Jesus. Soon, He solved their self righteousness, and they all left.. and then Jesus said to her....woman, where are your accusers. And she said, .. there are none..Lord,... And Jesus said......then.
1.) NEITHER DO I CONDEMN YOU.....
2.) go now and sin no more..
So, what happened there? What happened is that Jesus gave her 1.) GRACE......2.) and THEN told her to go and sin no more.
"then neither do i condemn you"..... that is GRACE. That is OUR PLACE IN GOD'S Family.
No longer condemned, but always SAVED and Eternally Secure.
THEN he says...>"Go and sin no more".. and That is the power to not sin that is found by being IN Grace, or "IN Christ", = through right believing.
So, notice how the GRACE comes FIRST....and once she IS IN THE GRACE.......she is empowered to go and "sin no more".
So, its not The Grace that empowers, its the being IN IT.....that from there, you can go and sin no more.
Being IN Eternal Grace, having this understanding...= Saved and Eternally secure.... is to walk in the Light.. Is to have RIGHT BELIEVING.
When we want to free ourselves from the bondage that is keeping us from being able to perform a continual lifestyle of holiness, vs, falling, repenting, falling, repenting....etc.
= When we want to not exist in THAT misery, but we want to live a solid and unfailing HOLY LIFESTYLE< vs a failed Faith, then you only get to this "fullness of the Stature of Christ" as you bring your mind in line with God's perspective of YOU.
Until you SEE yourself ONLY as God SEES you, then God's Grace is not able to underpin your walk of discipleship so that you are freed from bondage to your flesh.
See, the reason 99% of the born again can't live holy all the time is because they are not walking in the Light. They are believing WRONG.
They are walking in the Law, which is walking in the flesh. And when you do that, you are trying to achieve a Holy Life using what is death. See, the law is Holy, but it brings Death to us, not Life.
Saint, Its becaue the law exists that you were perviously defined by the law as a SINNER.
So, how can what defines you as a sinner.... which creates you to be separated from GOD, ever cause you to be accepted by God?
= It can't.
The power of the Law, is the Law's "dominion"...meaning... when you try to do right and strive to live right (walking in the flesh) you are actually empowering the law to keep you from doing it.
Most of you are familiar with Paul's cry of the heart, where he said...."O wretched man that i am, that which i would do, i dont do, and that which i wouldn't do, i do"..."who will deliver me from this BODY OF DEATH"..... And THAT, Saint, is Paul teaching you that when you try to live it, you will never. Do you see him trying to be holy? = FAIL... And all that happened is..>"i do what i should not, and what i should do i have no power to do"....And THAT is the Law's dominion causing that misery in Paul and in you.
Here is the verse..... 1 Corinthians 15:56...."The sting of death is sin, and the POWER of SIN is = the LAW".
Did you read that? Paul just told you that the power of SIN, is THE LAW.
Its not the devil.
Its not your flesh.
Its the LAW that is the "power of SIN".
And again.....Its not the devil. Its not you and your temptations... its the Law that is the POWER OF SIN which activates your flesh and overcomes your will.
The law empowers you to sin more.... the more you try to "be good" and "Live right".... because you are trying to do it in a self righteous way that causes the Law to empower you to Sin more. = You have a wrong mind. You have a wrong belief. Your faith is not in the right place.
So, to escape the bondage of the Law that is you "walking in the flesh", you have to start BELIEVING RIGHT.. as that is why you can't maintain a holy life all the time., and you find yourself in guilt and condemnation. Its because You are believing wrong, Saint.
Listen, Jesus came to set you free from the law of sin and death, that is the "power of the Law" that keeps you sinning.
See, this is the "curse of the Law", and Jesus came to "remove the curse of the Law".
Most believers have actually been taught to keep themselves under the law by Pulpits and Teachers .....that is, they are taught to try to be good to be accepted by God. Or to try to keep your salvation. And all that rotten theology causes poisoned thinking that manifests as wrong believing..... and that puts you under the bondage of the Law and that is why you keep doing wrong, when you want to do right......same as Paul is explaining.
So, Paul gives you the answer....the solution...
Romans 8:6... ""The MIND governed by the flesh is death, but the MIND governed by the Spirit is life and peace.""
That means... if you walk in the flesh you are walking under the dominion of the Law , which is death...which is wrong believing which causes sinning and sinning and can't ever Live Holy and you stay there. vs, the Right Mind, the "Mind of Christ", right believing, which is to walk in the correct Spiritual understanding, or.. to "walk in the Spirit" that empowers Holy Living.
Then Paul tells you this... 1 Corinthians 15:57
""But thanks be to God, which giveth us the VICTORY = through our Lord Jesus Christ.""
Now do you see that VICTORY? That is complete and constant victory or deliverance from sinning. (works of the flesh) And notice that this comes "through Jesus"... not you. Not your striving to be holy, or your obsession with "abiding" and "enduring"... and straining to do right. But your victory come from JESUS, who said...>"apart from Me, you can do NOTHING".
And that is the TRUTH. Apart from the right understanding of how to walk in the Spirit, and in the mind of Christ, you can do nothing that will cause you to always live Holy.
So, To walk in the Spirit and to have the Mind of Christ, is to have perfect mental alignment with the Truth that sets you free. .. Which means, When you are mentally walking in that Truth, then you are "walking in the Light." and have the MIND of Right Believing...
And how do you get that?
= You have to renew your mind.
You have to empty your head of all ideas and lies you have believed regarding anything that is related to you trying to be accepted by God... Stop doing that !
You have to let go of all self effort to try to be accepted by God. Stop doing that !
You have to literally come to a mental place where you have Full Assurace of your Salvation that is totally and only dependent on the Blood of Jesus maintaining it for you as God's gift to you.
You have to exist here in your Heart.....>"it is good that the heart be ESTABLISHED WITH GRACE"......and not with theology, and doctrine, and religious concepts.. but ONLY GRACE.
Saint, when you are finally there in your head you will also be there in your heart. And only then have you have stopped walking in the flesh and have truly found the place of peace where the Grace of God has full dominion over you. ""you are not under the dominion of the Law but UNDER GRACE"".
You have to literally get to a place in your BELIEVING where you understand that there is nothing you can do that would cause you to not be accepted by God,... and then you have REAL Faith that pleases God, because you have found the true understanding of God's Grace and "the finished work of Jesus on the Cross".
And as long as you have reservations about that, then you are not wearing the "mind of Christ" and you will struggle to live Holy and you will fail and fail.
See, when you believe that you can lose your salvation, .. then this exposes the error of your faith, as it proves that you are not trusting in Christ alone. So, you have to solve that wrong believing, and bring your faith into alignment with the truth that sets you free of THAT BONDAGE, = that wrong belief you have.
Right believing produces RIGHTEOUS LIVING....... Wrong believing produces a continuing Christian Failure.
You have to have and maintain a heart toward God, that is totally established in GRACE, if you are to walk in the Spirit.
You have to come to the place in your HEAD where you understand without reservation just how powerfully the Blood of Jesus manifests Eternal Salvation FOR YOU.
This understanding, once you get there in your MIND, is to understand correctly the Grace of God. And this right believing powers your deliverance from SELF which allows the Power of Christ to maintain your Holiness as VICTORY.
Now let me show you how all this worked even before the Cross was raised and the Grace of God was given to the World, as "all who would come and believe in Jesus". John 3:16
There was a woman who was caught in the act of adultery. And these self righteous religious leaders brought her before Jesus. Soon, He solved their self righteousness, and they all left.. and then Jesus said to her....woman, where are your accusers. And she said, .. there are none..Lord,... And Jesus said......then.
1.) NEITHER DO I CONDEMN YOU.....
2.) go now and sin no more..
So, what happened there? What happened is that Jesus gave her 1.) GRACE......2.) and THEN told her to go and sin no more.
"then neither do i condemn you"..... that is GRACE. That is OUR PLACE IN GOD'S Family.
No longer condemned, but always SAVED and Eternally Secure.
THEN he says...>"Go and sin no more".. and That is the power to not sin that is found by being IN Grace, or "IN Christ", = through right believing.
So, notice how the GRACE comes FIRST....and once she IS IN THE GRACE.......she is empowered to go and "sin no more".
So, its not The Grace that empowers, its the being IN IT.....that from there, you can go and sin no more.
Being IN Eternal Grace, having this understanding...= Saved and Eternally secure.... is to walk in the Light.. Is to have RIGHT BELIEVING.
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