When you look in the mirror you are considering yourself. What you consider about yourself set your platform for your experience. When you look at yourself in the mirror and you check yourself out, you consider yourself free and dead to sin.
We have reduced salvation to morality and eternal life and we tell people it is possible for you to live free from sin and eternal life begins when you die.
The truth is that Eternal life begins when you give your life to Jesus.
The truth is that Eternal life begins when you give your life to Jesus.
We don't realize that death is not an end... it is a destination to an ocean of pain, to a terrible anguish. You think your problems will end with your death in this world but it will be forever and eternal because your soul will still continue to live but separated from God.
You will either live eternally in the presence of God or live destructively separated from God.
by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature 2Peter1:4
Did you read that? His precious and magnificent promises! PARTAKERS OF HIS DIVINE NATURE!
Not only his commandment to fulfill but also His nature to live it out! We have access to precious and magnificent promises!
For it is written: Be holy as I am holy. 1 Peter 1:16– if you believe, you CAN receive His nature to live out the truth of holiness. And this can be done by F A I T H.
Because, Faith is central to the Christian existence. You get saved by faith. You have to believe!
Faith matters to God - When we stand before the King we are going to want to give him something that matters to him, what can you give someone who doesn’t need anything?! what can you bring a value to a king who owns it all!
God gives us something that we can give back, he gives us the opportunity to live by faith.
When you stand before the King you say I lived by faith, I didn’t have all figured out, I stumbled around sometimes but God I lived by faith. The bible says without faith it is impossible to please him. Hebrews 11:6
Faith gives us the opportunity to do things with God. He didn’t just leave us with a to-do list. He left us with His nature. What a mighty and glorious King we serve!
Some people have this picture of God, the one who sits on throne and doesn’t move. The untouchable God. The One who you can't even stand before because you are a sinner. He is mad at you because you are a sinner, because this is how they define holiness. And so, this is the way they act based on this false picture. They are afraid to approach God. They are afraid to get into a true relationship and cry out to Him ABBA Father!
HOWEVER Zephaniah3:17 – speaks about the true picture of holiness, the true picture of God.
The Mighty One, will save;
He will rejoice over you with gladness,
He will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.”
Mighty One, Victorious Warrior, who REJOICES over you . HE is the ONE who covers you with HIS LOVE. He celebrates you with shouts of Joy and GREAT emotions.
David understood the true picture of God, he enjoyed always His presence by inviting God and dance with Him. David danced with ALL his might before the Lord. 2 Samuel 6:14 David was celebrating his freedom in the presence of the Lord.
There is not a feeling in the world like being free. Nothing compares to have a clean conscience. And this is the invitation. If you want to have real joy, you need to be free. God invite us to be free from sin.
Holiness to walk free in sin! Holiness is attractive to God.
If you see yourself as a sinner saved by grace then that’s how you are going to approach God and how you will function.
Because when you approach God as a sinner and not as his child, then the position of your heart is to come hopping to catch God in a good mood because you know you are not worth it.
Those who know the quality of their forgiveness love much. It is not about the quantity.(You can read here: Like the story of the sinful woman)
Everyone Jesus encounters, he desires to save from their sins, but not everyone accepts the salvation he brought.
He wants a love relationship, a simple one where love is being exchanged. Where He can lavish His grace and the true reason of His death for you. Would you invite Jesus today to show gratitude and love and receive His salvation or would you just take the law path where Jesus is not there?
Walking free from sin is not saying no to something, is saying yes to someone - Heidi Baker.
Choose and decide today, right here, right now to say Yes to Jesus and walk free indeed because of Him.
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