Is one willing to die rather then sin?
The answer to this question will determine if one is set free from sin or not...
For the heart that is, is a heart ready to give up all of itself... Nothing else will do, no amount of will power will work to overcome sin... It might for a week or two, sometimes even a month or more but sin will have mastery again because one is sold into sin...
Even the born again Christian who loves God will still be in slaved to sin if one does not see what the foundation of the faith is...
Which is being made free from sin by faith...
This faith towards God is the all of our salvation in Christ... All things come from God on the basis of the faith of the heart turned towards Him...
Try as one might and try as one will until one is so desperate to be freed from sin, which is just another way of saying being made free from their own will to sin... Or their own desire to sin.. Until one is so desperate that they would willingly rather die then sin, freedom from sin will be an elusive thing...
But wanting it is the first step and as this desire grows to fever pitch one will be more and more willing to see that only their death will free them from their will to sin...
As this frustration grows one is getting closer to entering into the rest of God... Where they are willing to accept God’s salvation on His terms...
Which is simply believing that when Christ died on the cross He took them to death with Him..
This can not but be the end game because one will not give up themselves to God until they see the absolute need of it... But once seen, tasted and experienced, joy abounds, tribulations, trials, not getting one’s way or what one wants becomes a nothing, only serving God by faith becomes the all of the heart and life... For one’s death does bring freedom from sin, but one will not believe it even exists, till it is tasted by experience.. But once tasted, it becomes the all of one’s existence...
Be blessed all as we strive to work out our own salvation and enter into the rest from our own works to faith in God...
A fellow servant of His, Not me
The answer to this question will determine if one is set free from sin or not...
For the heart that is, is a heart ready to give up all of itself... Nothing else will do, no amount of will power will work to overcome sin... It might for a week or two, sometimes even a month or more but sin will have mastery again because one is sold into sin...
Even the born again Christian who loves God will still be in slaved to sin if one does not see what the foundation of the faith is...
Which is being made free from sin by faith...
This faith towards God is the all of our salvation in Christ... All things come from God on the basis of the faith of the heart turned towards Him...
Try as one might and try as one will until one is so desperate to be freed from sin, which is just another way of saying being made free from their own will to sin... Or their own desire to sin.. Until one is so desperate that they would willingly rather die then sin, freedom from sin will be an elusive thing...
But wanting it is the first step and as this desire grows to fever pitch one will be more and more willing to see that only their death will free them from their will to sin...
As this frustration grows one is getting closer to entering into the rest of God... Where they are willing to accept God’s salvation on His terms...
Which is simply believing that when Christ died on the cross He took them to death with Him..
This can not but be the end game because one will not give up themselves to God until they see the absolute need of it... But once seen, tasted and experienced, joy abounds, tribulations, trials, not getting one’s way or what one wants becomes a nothing, only serving God by faith becomes the all of the heart and life... For one’s death does bring freedom from sin, but one will not believe it even exists, till it is tasted by experience.. But once tasted, it becomes the all of one’s existence...
Be blessed all as we strive to work out our own salvation and enter into the rest from our own works to faith in God...
A fellow servant of His, Not me
