Brother John
Escritos del hermano John
Estoy completo en él - Col.2: 10
En Cristo, ya estoy santificado y santo. Ya soy perfecto e intachable. Ya estoy completo y sin pecado. La parte de crecimiento viene donde esto tiene que ser procesado a través de mi intelecto para convencerme y convencerme de que puedo creer esta verdad.
Es el proceso de sacarme de una mentira en el momento en que acepté a Cristo y llevarme a la verdad suprema, que es capaz de salvar mi alma. No es que esto no haya sucedido ya. Es solo que mi mente debe registrarse y creer y rendirse a él. A menos que mi mente comprenda la salvación de mi espíritu, me quedo sin esperanza, porque sin fe es imposible no solo agradar a Dios sino ser salvo. porque ¿cómo puedo creer si no he escuchado? y cómo puedo escuchar si nadie predica. entonces debo ser predicado y enseñado las cosas de Dios para ser salvo.
Ahora mi punto se aclara o solidifica que a menos que entienda en mi mente lo que es mío en mi espíritu, seguramente nunca lo poseeré. Porque puedes darme el sermón más hermoso y maravilloso e instrucciones sobre cómo puedo ser bendecido por Dios y vivir en victoria sobre cada cosa terrenal y demoníaca, pero a menos que me lo digas en inglés, nunca podría aplicar esos maravillosos verdades
No es solo mi proceso de pensamiento el que tiene que concebir esta verdad, sino mis emociones. Mis emociones son un reactor para mi intelecto y, por lo tanto, determinan muchas de mis decisiones. El intelecto fue enseñado por otros medios cuán terribles y terribles son ciertos pecados y cómo un individuo es asqueroso, más bajo que la suciedad, no apto para vivir, etc., que comete tales actos.
Cuando el individuo comete tales actos, relaciona lo mismo consigo mismo, haciendo que las emociones reaccionen con vergüenza, culpa, desesperanza, condena, etc., en lugar de creer en el maravilloso evangelio (las buenas noticias), no se sienten lo suficientemente bien y temerosos. de estar expuestos a los elementos de condena que creen que los rodean. entonces, por lo tanto, las emociones deben ser enseñadas y persuadidas del amor, el perdón, la aceptación y la misericordia de Dios para poder trabajar con el espíritu y experimentar la gracia de Dios en la medida en que Dios pretendió que nosotros la experimentemos.
Vida en el espíritu
Mi vida está en el espíritu de Dios. Mi vida ya no está en la carne, sino en el espíritu. No importa lo que diga mi experiencia, mi vida es ahora del espíritu porque he nacido de Dios.
Ya no soy esclavo del pecado. Es decir, ya no hago cosas que no quiero hacer, ya no me veo obligado a obedecer las demandas de mi carne. Es decir, si realmente he nacido de nuevo del espíritu.
¿Cómo puedo decir que siempre pecaré si mi vida está en el espíritu? ¿Cómo puedo decir que siempre pecaré si Dios dice que soy más que un vencedor? ¿Es mi experiencia la que determina las palabras de mi boca o la Palabra de Dios?
Si siempre estoy pecando, entonces sigo siendo esclavo del pecado y necesito ser recreado (nacido de nuevo) o he arrojado deliberada y completamente la gracia de Dios a Su rostro, pisoteando al hijo de Dios, tratando como algo impío. La sangre del pacto que me santifica e insulta al espíritu de gracia. No queda ningún sacrificio para tales personas, sino solo una expectativa temerosa de juicio y fuego furioso que consumirá a los enemigos de Dios. Arrepiéntete y vuelve al Señor - Hebreos 10: 26-31.
¿Cuánto tiempo más mirarán los cristianos al cristiano caminar a través de los ojos del mundo? Es sin vida No es divertido Nunca puedes hacer nada. Tienes que divertirte un poco. No puedes hablar así. No puedes caminar de esa manera. No quieres ser demasiado santo, más santo que tú, carros sagrados.
¿No sabes que la amistad con el mundo es odio hacia Dios? Cualquiera que sea amigo del mundo es enemigo de Dios.
El Evangelio no es un conjunto de reglas arrojadas a alguien, sino que es libertad y libertad del pecado. Es paz, justicia, gozo y vida en el Espíritu Santo. Es una nueva vida separada del mundo completamente y completamente, no parte del mundo y parte del espíritu. Porque esos son los tibios que Jesús mismo declara que los escupirá de su boca.
Alguien podría decir: "Paul se dijo a sí mismo que tenía que convertirse en todo para ganarlo todo". Eso es verdad. También dijo en ese mismo pasaje que llegaría a ser uno, no bajo la ley, pero dice: "no estar sin ley para con Dios, sino bajo la ley para Cristo". Es esta ley hacia Cristo la que es la ley del espíritu que me libera del pecado y la muerte.
No se trata de caminar de acuerdo con un montón de reglas. En cambio, se trata de caminar no según la carne sino según el espíritu. No se trata de estar seco, rancio, simple, aburrido, aburrido y solitario. Se trata de tener alegría, paz, satisfacción y satisfacción. Se trata de algo más que tener vida, sino tener La Vida.
Estamos en este mundo pero no de él. Nuestra vida está en los lugares celestiales sentados con Cristo.
Perfection Is in the Lord
“But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen and settle you.”--Peter 5:10
If God will do all those things, then why do we still say that we'll always sin? God said He'll do these things. Who can stop the power of God? Is man stronger than God?
"No," someone may say, "but God has given us all free will.” But didn't your free will choose Christ? So God is saying that He'll perfect, establish and settle you.
"Well" someone may still say, "Because we have free will our free will jumps out of place sometimes.” Isn’t that the very thing that needs to be perfected? Having begun in the spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
If your free will remained on doing right all the time, would God need to perfect you? Nevertheless God is saying that He'll perfect you.
"Well" someone else may say, "My experience has taught me that I make mistakes and I sometimes sin even when I want to do right. Well, first of all have you ever believed that God would perfect you? Remember the just shall live by faith. If you always believed you would always sin, then your actions and life is only a by-product of that which you believed about yourself. If you did believe God would perfect you because of His Word, but felt that you had enough experience to know that you'll never be perfect, then what you have just done is exalt your experience above the Word of God. When has man’s experience ever dictated God’s word and promises? Having begun in the spirit are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
When I place my faith in Christ at any given moment by keeping my eyes on Him, I walk in the spirit and am transformed. And by walking in the spirit I don't gratify the lust of the flesh. So, therefore, I in that instant am walking in perfection. But then I slip once, twice, ten, twenty times, do I now have the right to say because of my sin I'll always sin? I can never be perfect because of me.
Isn't that the same attitude the great men and women of faith had before they believed God in spite of their circumstance and therefore through their faith they "subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edged of the sword, out of weakness was made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens, women received their dead raised to life again.”
Everything I have and am is of God. So who am I to put my two cents in when speaking about the salvation and deliverance of my soul? We must continue to believe God until what He has promised in His Word has been brought to pass in our lives.
If I say I'll always sin, then I'm saying God isn't going to do what He promised. I just don't believe that He's able to perform what He has promised in His Word.
Thessalonians says: “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.” “But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen and settle you.”--Peter 5:10
If God will do all those things, then why do we still say that we'll always sin? God said He'll do these things. Who can stop the power of God? Is man stronger than God?
"No," someone may say, "but God has given us all free will.” But didn't your free will choose Christ? So God is saying that He'll perfect, establish and settle you.
"Well" someone may still say, "Because we have free will our free will jumps out of place sometimes.” Isn’t that the very thing that needs to be perfected? Having begun in the spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
If your free will remained on doing right all the time, would God need to perfect you? Nevertheless God is saying that He'll perfect you.
"Well" someone else may say, "My experience has taught me that I make mistakes and I sometimes sin even when I want to do right. Well, first of all have you ever believed that God would perfect you? Remember the just shall live by faith. If you always believed you would always sin, then your actions and life is only a by-product of that which you believed about yourself. If you did believe God would perfect you because of His Word, but felt that you had enough experience to know that you'll never be perfect, then what you have just done is exalt your experience above the Word of God. When has man’s experience ever dictated God’s word and promises? Having begun in the spirit are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
When I place my faith in Christ at any given moment by keeping my eyes on Him, I walk in the spirit and am transformed. And by walking in the spirit I don't gratify the lust of the flesh. So, therefore, I in that instant am walking in perfection. But then I slip once, twice, ten, twenty times, do I now have the right to say because of my sin I'll always sin? I can never be perfect because of me.
Isn't that the same attitude the great men and women of faith had before they believed God in spite of their circumstance and therefore through their faith they "subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edged of the sword, out of weakness was made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens, women received their dead raised to life again.”
Everything I have and am is of God. So who am I to put my two cents in when speaking about the salvation and deliverance of my soul? We must continue to believe God until what He has promised in His Word has been brought to pass in our lives.
If I say I'll always sin, then I'm saying God isn't going to do what He promised. I just don't believe that He's able to perform what He has promised in His Word.
Thessalonians says: “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
Triumph & Victory
To tell a person he or she will always sin until the day they die is giving them zero hope for total victory over sin which the word of God promises. To say that a person will always sin is to say regardless of how much I try I'll always end up in some way messing up. I can never be what God has placed within me to be so I better do the best I can until I fall, then get back up, and keep trying until the day I die. In doing that, we nullify the grace of God, because instead of walking by grace through faith, we're walking in works.
Sin does not lie in our actions but in our hearts. So circumstance and situations never make me but rather show or expose me to myself. A pure minded man can't be made to commit some vulgar sin at the spur of a moment, because he doesn't have the capacity in the recesses of his mind lest he has already conceived such things in his heart. That's why the Word tells us to keep our hearts with all diligence, and if we couldn't do that the Bible wouldn't tell us to. If I'm serving the Lord, and every now and then slip and do something contrary to the spirit, it is not something that is odd or is just part of my Christian walk, but is something that has been in my heart and has never left and the only salvation or saved life I've displayed is not from the heart where it matters but in my actions which is a habit in that particular area. The outside of the cup not the inside. That's why the Word says to purify our hearts, to sanctify the Lord in our hearts, and to establish our hearts in the grace of God. It is in our new hearts which have become our new identities, for “as a man thinketh in his heart so is he.”
Through the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, we live holy and blameless lives, free from sin and the penalty of sin, all supplied to us by God because of His great love with which He loved us, Who is rich in mercy. Even when we were dead in trespasses, He made us alive together with Christ.
No, we shall not always sin, but will be lead in triumph and victory by the blood of the Lamb. We shall overcome by the word of our testimony. I am new in Christ! I am dead to sin and alive unto righteousness! It is no longer I who live but Christ that lives in me. I am more than a conqueror. I can do all things through Christ! For it is God who works in me to will and to act according to His good pleasure! I am not saved by works lest I boast but by the mighty grace of God. This is the good news, the Gospel of Jesus Christ and of the grace of God.
Victory
When we openly admit that we have sin issues in our lives, we are openly admitting that we have deliberately refused to apply the blood of Jesus in every area of our lives. If our excuse is, "I'll never be able to overcome every single sin because there's so many but I will strive with Christ, we are merely living legalistic lives and implementing Christ as one that strives with us to obey. And when we fall, He's the one to pick us up. But that is not the Gospel.
Christ did not die to help us strive or do. He died to create in us a new identity that we may become and be instead of do. That is truth. Now in the process of me being and I stumble through believing a lie based on circumstance or some other external cause, Christ is my Advocate and serves as a reminder that I am free; and instead of falling in the same area, I recognize the lie and turn from it to truth. We as Christians a lot of the time grasp to the lie and never let go, so that in consequence we live a life fighting a lie that has already been defeated. We have some how mixed the two together--Law and Spirit. We have said, “I am free and liberated in the Spirit, but I'll never be able to amount to God's perfect standard.”
How can I be free but still in bondage? Does God's word say one thing but really mean another. I must continue to strive to do lest I go to hell, but yet the Holy Spirit seals me. How can I be perfect in God's eyes and know this is what He desires for me to be in the natural through Him but at the same time say I can never be what God says I am? Or is God really incapable of performing His Word in my life and is only some weak and feeble God?