Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Many run around thinking they are saved because they accepted Jesus Christ one day in the past, and they believe grace excuses sin, and so continue sinning.

Repentance is a revolution. It is an overwhelming wrenching away from the power of the flesh and its overpowering lust by the ability of God working His Sanctification into us. Repentance is ceasing sin, by GRACE. Period. I was this, but now I am that, by the grace of God. I was a sinner, but now I am following Jesus, feeding on his Bible daily, and examining myself daily, determined to keep doing that to the very end, by the grace of God..

We SO-CALLED "Christians" worship idols instead of the Lord: Idols of money; idols of entertainment, idols of success, idols of rising the corporate ladder, and many other temporary things of this life, that  mean nothing after we die, BUT IN THIS LIFE WE ELEVATE THINGS ABOVE GOD. 

These worldly things have no value in eternity. None. So why do we spend so much time worshiping this stuff? "I don't worship this stuff!, you say.  Oh yeah?  How much time do we spend on this "stuff"? How much time do  we spend praying, reading the bible, handing out gospels of John as the Lord leads? How much time do we spend watching TV, go to movies and events.

God's grace does not excuse sin. Antinomian grace cancels sin so we don't have to worry when we sin. We have a fee ticket to sin. The grace of God gives us this freedom. This false grace leads to Hell. The grace of God is power to abandon sin, not to excuse it.

Don't you hear the Word of God?
Titus 2:11-14            WE ARE TRAINED BY SAVING GRACE
11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, 13 looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.


 The narrow gate is narrow, and the path is difficult. We are to yoke up with Jesus and stay with Him forever. When we slip up and sin in some fashion, we confess it and repent of it by His power. Period. This is what a real Christian  does by the grace of God. He hates sin and wants nothing to do with it, but he never forgets he still has a flesh nature. Keeps him humble, AND DEPENDENT ON GOD.

BEWARE! SATAN always presents temptation to sin as something desirable.  Stay in God's word and sin will appear to you awful, as it really is.

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