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Paul teaches us that the born again are dead to sin and alive to God.
How did that happen?
It happened because the old man, the body of sin, is dead....= crucified with Christ.
So, how can we live any longer "therein", Paul asks.
Here is what you'll discover... that the Cult of OSAS who maliciously define God's Grace as "license to sin", will never understand.
Its this....The more you realize just how forgiven you are, just how eternally secure you are, just how far you have been separated from your sin by The Cross of Christ, the more you will love God, the more you will want to serve God and the more you will be able to do this, perfectly.
This is what happens to you when you let go of self and let God reign in your REAL FAITH.
What i mean is....when you lay aside all ideas, concepts, theologies, legalism, that wrongly informed you that trying to strive against sin, and keep commandments is how you live Holy... then the Grace of God will reveal to you that its GOD who lives His holiness through you that is the spiritual empowerment, the life of CHRIST= that empowers your discipleship into perfection.
'"It is not I who live...........but Christ".... And that is the GRACE of God Paul is describing to you, Reader.
The OSAS Cult that blaspheme God's Grace, by labeling it a "cheap Grace" and a ticket to licentiousness... have no idea what they have done to themselves, as they will never be able to live Holy, or even understand the blood atonement or the righteousness of God that is found in Christ.
They just exist here, blindly.. Galatians 1:8
Also...
One of the wonders of Christianity, that makes is so different from man made RELIGION, is that Religion starts with you being bad, and you then struggle for years trying to carry out the religious discipline hoping to end up better then you were, but you only end up the same...... just as bad, but quite philosophical about it all.
Religion teaches you how to be very philosophical, but it can't get you to heaven.
Religion conforms you into a philosophical hell bound sinner, and often these people write books.... "self help", that didn't keep them out of hell when they died.
See...
CHRISTianity on the other Hand, starts you out as born again as..= "the righteousness of God in Christ". = You start FINISHED.....you start "made Righteous"...You start on day 1 as "the gift of Righteousness"..... and you then learn how to live in that truth perfectly, in your renewed mind, as that is your discipleship empowered. That is how you "work out your salvation" that you have been given already, on day ONE, as soon as you believed in Jesus.
Discipleship is not trying to be holy, as the born again start on day 1 as the Righteousness of God..., = You can't become more holy then God's Righteousness that you have been given the instant you believed.
Discipleship: is being born again Righteous...... and learning to exist in this, which is how you work out your salvation, in your BELIEVING, that is the renewing of your mind.
See, you were wrongly taught that discipleship is trying to be like Christ.
You were taught that discipleship is doing good stuff for others. However, you can be an unbeliever and do good works.. As works are just works......no matter if you are heaven bound or hell bound, Reader.
Being selfless, giving, compassionate, kind... is just a self effort... nothing more.
God says..>"without FAITH it is impossible to please God.".
So, there go your works......
Reader, if you want to please God then study to show yourself approved, live in Paul's epistles until you are this... Hebrews 13:9.
Until you are "as many as be perfect"... "the fullness of the stature of Christ".
And live always in expectation (Faith) that God's Grace is the answer to all questions and the solution to all problems, and REST IN THIS GRACE OF GOD.
Rest in it, and you will be delivered from yourself.... and that is the truest freedom of all that being born again, does provide you.
Next..
Its the LAW that defines a person as a SINNER, as "where there is no Law, there is no Transgression"
"you (the born again) are not under the law, but UNDER GRACE", and where sin abounds.....GRACE more Abounds.
And here is a revelation,.... = there is no sin "IN Christ", or IN God or IN Heaven.. and the born again are all "in Christ', "One with God"", "seated in heavenly places".'
See that?
Take a good look, as that is your eternal reality if you are truly born again.
One more.
John 3:16 and 2 Corinthians 5:19 teach that God's Blood shed as Christ on the Cross, .. this SACRIFICE of the Bread of Heaven, takes care of all our sin, as well as the entire world's..
So, this redeeming of the world of humanity from their Sin, and back to God, one at a time as per BELIEVER by their Faith in the finished work of Jesus on the Cross, is an overpayment for your sin as this blood of God and Death of Christ, paid for the world's sin, 2000 yrs ago.
God as Christ on the Cross literally paid for your sin 2000 yrs ago by the one time eternal sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross for you.
How does your discipleship manifest this revelation of the Grace of God?
What happens when you realize that you sin is gone ??????, and God's pardon is eternal, and you have it, "in Christ", forever?
I teach my students the story of the Harlot who was forgiven great sin.
She was a tremendous sinner, and Jesus did not condemn her, .. He just forgave her... He just showed her the Love of God.
She had no works, no water baptism, no self effort to give Him.. All she had was her lifetime of sinning.. and Reader...> """"Jesus came into the world to SAVE SINNERS"...
And when we have this Gift of Salvation that saves sinners , proven by being born again...and we understand this Gift of Salvation and this Gift of Righteousness...= we find we have a new heart, and its like the changed and blessed heart in the harlot, the whore, whom Jesus forgave all her sin.
What was her response. ?????
She found Him in Public, and crawled on her hands and knees to The Lord weeping tears of joy, her heart bursting with thankfulness.
She crawled to Jesus across the floor in public, with the religious self savers eyeing her, detesting her,...staring while Jesus was being worshipped by this woman who "had been forgiven much" .
She washed The Lord's feet with her tears of gratitude, and dried them with her hair of thankfulness.
See that?
That is how you heart behaves when you discover the revelation of God's Grace and the eternal pardon of God's Cross is YOURS FOREVER.!
It makes your heart glow with Joy, and it empowers you to want to please God, most of all.
Paul teaches us that the born again are dead to sin and alive to God.
How did that happen?
It happened because the old man, the body of sin, is dead....= crucified with Christ.
So, how can we live any longer "therein", Paul asks.
Here is what you'll discover... that the Cult of OSAS who maliciously define God's Grace as "license to sin", will never understand.
Its this....The more you realize just how forgiven you are, just how eternally secure you are, just how far you have been separated from your sin by The Cross of Christ, the more you will love God, the more you will want to serve God and the more you will be able to do this, perfectly.
This is what happens to you when you let go of self and let God reign in your REAL FAITH.
What i mean is....when you lay aside all ideas, concepts, theologies, legalism, that wrongly informed you that trying to strive against sin, and keep commandments is how you live Holy... then the Grace of God will reveal to you that its GOD who lives His holiness through you that is the spiritual empowerment, the life of CHRIST= that empowers your discipleship into perfection.
'"It is not I who live...........but Christ".... And that is the GRACE of God Paul is describing to you, Reader.
The OSAS Cult that blaspheme God's Grace, by labeling it a "cheap Grace" and a ticket to licentiousness... have no idea what they have done to themselves, as they will never be able to live Holy, or even understand the blood atonement or the righteousness of God that is found in Christ.
They just exist here, blindly.. Galatians 1:8
Also...
One of the wonders of Christianity, that makes is so different from man made RELIGION, is that Religion starts with you being bad, and you then struggle for years trying to carry out the religious discipline hoping to end up better then you were, but you only end up the same...... just as bad, but quite philosophical about it all.
Religion teaches you how to be very philosophical, but it can't get you to heaven.
Religion conforms you into a philosophical hell bound sinner, and often these people write books.... "self help", that didn't keep them out of hell when they died.
See...
CHRISTianity on the other Hand, starts you out as born again as..= "the righteousness of God in Christ". = You start FINISHED.....you start "made Righteous"...You start on day 1 as "the gift of Righteousness"..... and you then learn how to live in that truth perfectly, in your renewed mind, as that is your discipleship empowered. That is how you "work out your salvation" that you have been given already, on day ONE, as soon as you believed in Jesus.
Discipleship is not trying to be holy, as the born again start on day 1 as the Righteousness of God..., = You can't become more holy then God's Righteousness that you have been given the instant you believed.
Discipleship: is being born again Righteous...... and learning to exist in this, which is how you work out your salvation, in your BELIEVING, that is the renewing of your mind.
See, you were wrongly taught that discipleship is trying to be like Christ.
You were taught that discipleship is doing good stuff for others. However, you can be an unbeliever and do good works.. As works are just works......no matter if you are heaven bound or hell bound, Reader.
Being selfless, giving, compassionate, kind... is just a self effort... nothing more.
God says..>"without FAITH it is impossible to please God.".
So, there go your works......
Reader, if you want to please God then study to show yourself approved, live in Paul's epistles until you are this... Hebrews 13:9.
Until you are "as many as be perfect"... "the fullness of the stature of Christ".
And live always in expectation (Faith) that God's Grace is the answer to all questions and the solution to all problems, and REST IN THIS GRACE OF GOD.
Rest in it, and you will be delivered from yourself.... and that is the truest freedom of all that being born again, does provide you.
Next..
Its the LAW that defines a person as a SINNER, as "where there is no Law, there is no Transgression"
"you (the born again) are not under the law, but UNDER GRACE", and where sin abounds.....GRACE more Abounds.
And here is a revelation,.... = there is no sin "IN Christ", or IN God or IN Heaven.. and the born again are all "in Christ', "One with God"", "seated in heavenly places".'
See that?
Take a good look, as that is your eternal reality if you are truly born again.
One more.
John 3:16 and 2 Corinthians 5:19 teach that God's Blood shed as Christ on the Cross, .. this SACRIFICE of the Bread of Heaven, takes care of all our sin, as well as the entire world's..
So, this redeeming of the world of humanity from their Sin, and back to God, one at a time as per BELIEVER by their Faith in the finished work of Jesus on the Cross, is an overpayment for your sin as this blood of God and Death of Christ, paid for the world's sin, 2000 yrs ago.
God as Christ on the Cross literally paid for your sin 2000 yrs ago by the one time eternal sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross for you.
How does your discipleship manifest this revelation of the Grace of God?
What happens when you realize that you sin is gone ??????, and God's pardon is eternal, and you have it, "in Christ", forever?
I teach my students the story of the Harlot who was forgiven great sin.
She was a tremendous sinner, and Jesus did not condemn her, .. He just forgave her... He just showed her the Love of God.
She had no works, no water baptism, no self effort to give Him.. All she had was her lifetime of sinning.. and Reader...> """"Jesus came into the world to SAVE SINNERS"...
And when we have this Gift of Salvation that saves sinners , proven by being born again...and we understand this Gift of Salvation and this Gift of Righteousness...= we find we have a new heart, and its like the changed and blessed heart in the harlot, the whore, whom Jesus forgave all her sin.
What was her response. ?????
She found Him in Public, and crawled on her hands and knees to The Lord weeping tears of joy, her heart bursting with thankfulness.
She crawled to Jesus across the floor in public, with the religious self savers eyeing her, detesting her,...staring while Jesus was being worshipped by this woman who "had been forgiven much" .
She washed The Lord's feet with her tears of gratitude, and dried them with her hair of thankfulness.
See that?
That is how you heart behaves when you discover the revelation of God's Grace and the eternal pardon of God's Cross is YOURS FOREVER.!
It makes your heart glow with Joy, and it empowers you to want to please God, most of all.
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