What is our faith? Whom do you trust, God or man? What defines you as a believer(saint), what a man says your are or what God says you are? Do you let a man determine whether or not you are saved or do you believe the Word of God and let Jesus settle that in your heart, by the Truth He has given us in His Word. My desire is that you get free, be free and stay free.
Religion has a way of getting believers to wonder whether or not they are really saved or not. It also sometimes attempts to get people to abide by man made doctrines whose only result is to put believers in a type of bondage or even doubting what their faith. Anything that attempts to put a believer back into bondage or doubt their faith is a doctrine of demons. Jesus wants you to be free and know that He is your Savior. Not free to sin, but free from untruths that would put you back into the bondage He set you free from.
Jesus said this in the Gospel of John, Chapter 8, verses 31 and 32:
"If you abide in My Word, then you are truly disciples of mine;
and your shall know the Truth and the Truth shall SET YOU FREE"
So what is the Truth that sets you free? The Gospel is the Truth. Well what is the Gospel?
The Apostle Paul wrote this in his epistle to the Romans, Chapter 1, verses 16-17:
"For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God
for salvation to EVERYONE who believes, to the Jew first and also
to the Greek(meaning non-Jew), For in it the righteousness of God
is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, 'But the righteous
shall live by faith'."
Note the EVERYONE in that passage. I will be talking about that in detail throughout this blog and maybe into the next. EVERYONE is one of the things that will allow people to get saved and know they are saved when they believe the Gospel.
The Gospel is the Power of God for Salvation. So what is the Gospel (Truth That Sets Us Free)?
The Gospel leads to Salvation. The Gospel sets us free. So Salvation is freedom. So what is the Gospel? So to believe the Gospel, it only makes sense that we know what the Gospel is, in which we need to believe.
The Gospel (Truth)
1. A virgin, named Mary, conceived a Son by the Holy Spirit Himself. Matthew 1:18-21
"Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows. When his Mother Mary
was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with
child by the HOLY SPIRIT. And Joseph her husband, being a righteous
man, and not wanting to disgrace her, desired to put her away secretly.
but when he had considered this, behold an angel of the Lord appeared
to him in a dream, saying, 'Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take
Mary as your wife; for that which has been conceived in her is of the
HOLY SPIRIT. And she will bear a Son; and you shall call His name
JESUS (YESHUA:THE LORD OUR SALVATION), for it is He who
will save His people from their sins'."
You can also read in Luke 1:26-38. If you don't have a Bible you can go to my 4 part blogs on the Christmas story. It will be in part 2.
2. This child, Jesus, will grow up and be the sacrificial Lamb of God who would take away the sin of the world. The Gospel of John, Chapter 1, verse 29:
"The next day he (John the Baptist) saw Jesus coming to him and said,
'Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the SIN of the world'."
3. The Lamb of God will be crucified on the cross to bare our sin. Jesus actually became sin so that sin could be put to death and He then buried sin when Jesus, being sin, was buried. Paul wrote in 2nd Corinthians, Chapter 6, verse 21;
"He (God) made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf,
that we might become the righteousness of God in Jesus."
If you believe this Gospel, this is how you are born of above and born again of the Spirit of God that Jesus said was the requirement to be able to enter the kingdom of God. John's Gospel 3:3-8:
"Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one
is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God." Nicodemus said to
Jesus, ' How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a
second time into his mothers womb and be born, can he?' Jesus answered,
"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water (flesh) and the
Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of
flesh is flesh, and that which is born of spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that
I said to you, 'You must be born again.' The blows where it wishes and
you here the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where
it is going; so is everyone born of the Spirit."
So how are we born again? Since it is a requirement to be able to enter the kingdom of God, I am sure that you would agree that it is important to know how this happens. It happens through a baptism that only Jesus can give. Luke wrote this in his Gospel, Chapter 3, verse 3:16.
"John, the Baptist, answered and said to them all, "as for me, I baptize
you with water; but One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not
fit to untie the thong of His sandal; He will baptize with the Holy Spirit
and fire."
Baptized with the Holy Spirit. Born again of the Spirit. You can see the correlation. So what do we do to be baptized by Jesus? Jesus chose you for Eternal Life when He gave up His own Life to be the Sacrificial Lamb that would become sin, bare your sin, and died on the cross for you, to free you from sin. The Apostle John wrote this in his gospel Chapter 3, verse16;
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that
WHOEVER believes in Him should not perish but have Eternal Life."
Notice WHOEVER, that means anyone and everyone who wants it. If you choose Jesus and what Jesus did for you on the cross, this is what will happen to you as written by the apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans in Chapter 6, verses 3-4;
"Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into
Christ Jesus been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been
buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ
was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father. so we too might
walk in newness of life.(Born Again)"
4. Jesus was buried and rose from the dead. When you choose Jesus and what He did for you on the cross, you actually put yourself on the cross with Him. You die with Jesus on the cross, you are buried with Him in the grave, you are raised with Him in the resurrection power of the Holy Spirit. You have now been baptized with the Holy Spirit. Do you see what has taken place? You, by being submerged into death and the grave, when you have been raised from the dead in Jesus, your soul is now filled with the Holy Spirit, and you have now been born again of the Spirit. Paul continued in Romans Chapter 6, verses 5-11;
"For if you have become united with him in the likeness of His death,
certainly you shall be like Him in the likeness of His resurrection,
knowing this that our old self crucified with Him, that our body of sin
might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin;
for he who has died is free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ,
we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ,
having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death is no longer
master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin, once and for
all; but the life that he lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourself
to be dead to sin , but alive to God in Christ Jesus."
We have now become part of the body of Jesus. Since Jesus, who knew no sin, was the only person born on the earth that was guiltless according to the law, He is the only person qualified to enter the kingdom of God. With Jesus now becoming our righteousness, and with us being part of His body, He becomes our Arch that will allow us to be transferred from this physical realm into the Eternal Spiritual realm. " Unless you are born of the Spirit, you cannot enter the kingdom of God"
This is how it happens. This is the Truth that sets you free. This is what God's plan was. This is why He made the earth. To make an Eternal Spiritual body for Himself and make a New Eternal Creation, in His likeness, for WHOEVER would choose to believe the Gospel, the power of God unto salvation and Eternal Life.
This is what the early believers referred to as "The Way", because Jesus said, " I am the Way, the Truth and the Life."
Everything that is added to this, that a man requires for salvation, is just religion. Jesus set you free. Religion is what Satan has always used to keep people in bondage. Don't go back to Egypt. To many believers (Saints ) do not walk in the freedom and joy they were called to. They are held in bondage by the doctrines of demons. So consider this in Galatians 5:1
"It was for freedom that Christ set you free; therefore keep standing firm
and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery."
In my upcoming blogs I am going to continue to help you grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus and help you to continue to walk in the freedom of our Lord.
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Sunday, July 14, 2019
Be Free......."Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled"
These are not my words, "Let not your hearts be troubled". Jesus spoke these words to His disciples when they had inquired about the signs of the end times. Mathew Chapter 23. Do we understand that worrying is a sin. "That which is not of faith is sin." Romans 14:23. Faith is trusting Jesus, trusting in Him and what he said. I titled this post, "Be Free". Even though the, "Let not your hearts be troubled", referred to the end of days, it also is also meant for all believers today in their lives.
Do we understand that , "He who the Son sets free, is free indeed". John 8:36. Or how about, "You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free." John 8:32. To understand this, you have to understand what you have been freed from. We have been freed from the bondage of sin, although we still sin, we have power over the sin. We have been freed from death and given life, the Life that is in Christ Jesus. We have been freed from darkness. "For He delivered us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son". Colossians 1:13. Jesus spoke, "I am the Light of the world, he who follows me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the Light of Life." John 8:12. We have been freed by Truth, from the lies of the devil. Jesus spoke this to the Pharisees, "You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks it is a lie, he speaks from his own nature; for he is a liar, and the father of lies." John 8:44.
The purpose of this post is to help keep you walking in your freeness. I have been hearing things and am concerned that Satan is upping his efforts to discourage the saints and putting stumbling blocks in the way of those who are yet to come to Jesus, by confusing the Truth with his lies. Theses are also known as doctrines of demons. The Apostle Paul warned in 1st Timothy Chapter 4:1-6
"But the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will fall away from
the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrine of demons, by
means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a
branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods,
which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who know and
believe the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be
rejected, if it is received in gratitude; for it is sanctified by means of the word
of God and prayer. In pointing out these things to the brethren, you will be a
good servant of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished on the words of the faith
and of the sound doctrine which you have been following."
So to be a good servant and faithful to Jesus, it is with a happy heart that I help keep us Free and walking in the Joy that Jesus has called us to walk in, no matter.
To do this we must believe the truth that the devil is real and that he is a liar and that he is an adversary whose desire is only to steal, and kill , and destroy. A kingdom divided against itself can not stand, so Satan works to divide. He labors to do this by twisting the Truth that sets us free. Satan doing this for two thousand years has been successful at causing confusion within the saints so that the simple message of Salvation is made hard to comprehend. This makes it very successful in closing up the Kingdom of God to many who might have believed if the truth was presented in all the simplicity it was meant to be. This is what we are really up against and how to combat it, as written by Paul in Ephesians Chapter 6, verses 10-18. This is vital for all believers (Saints) to understand so that they can live free and help others to live free.
"Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. Put on the
full armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of
the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the
rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against
the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up
the full armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and
having done everything, to stand firm...........
I have to interject here that none of this is anything to fear. Demons are subject to us when we invoke the name Jesus. Luke 10:17 We overcome the devil by the blood of Jesus and because of the word of our testimony. Revelation 12:11. If we resist the devil, then he will flee. James 4:7 We resist him by standing on what is true when he comes with lies.
........Stand firm therefore, having girding your loins with (truth), and having
put on the breastplate of (righteousness), and having shod your feet with the
preparation of the gospel of (peace); in addition to all, taking up the
shield of (faith) with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming
missiles of the evil one. And take the helmet of (salvation), and the (sword)
of the Spirit, which is the (word) of God. With all prayer and petition pray at
all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all
perseverance and petition for all the saints."
If you look at everything that I put in parenthesis, they all have one thing in common, and that would be Jesus.
(Truth) Jesus is the Truth. John 14:6
(Righteousness) Jesus became our Righteousness. 1st Corinthians 1:30
(Peace) Jesus is the Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6
(Faith) Trusting Jesus
(Salvation) Jesus name (Yeshua) means, The Lord our Salvation. He will save His people from their sin. Mathew 1:21
(Sword) which is the(Word)of God. Jesus is the Word of God. John 1:1
Why is this important to point out? The word tells us to fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith.. Hebrews 12:2 Actually putting on the full armor of God means to clothe ourselves in Jesus and all who he is. It's not about us, it is about Jesus and what we allow Him to do in us when we call on Him to be our protector. "The name of the Lord (Jesus) is a strong tower, The righteous runs into it and is safe. Proverbs 18:10
I have written before that Jesus has nothing to do with religion. Religion is mans attempt to define Jesus. All religions worship some form of God. Many different cultures have incorporated their type of worship for this god they know exist just by instinct or looking at nature. Until God came here, in the person of Jesus, there really wasn't any way for them to know God's real purpose for creating the earth and man. Now they can know the God they worshiped by coming to know Jesus. They can come to understand the purpose and the eternal life He came to give. The problem is that this knowledge has become confusing because of the many different factions among the churches that attempt to represent Jesus. Satan has attempted to infiltrate these different factions. Since Jesus died on the cross and rose again, Satan has been working hard to distort the simplicity of what God did and what Jesus was all about. The more that Satan can confuse the message of the Truth (Gospel), the more people he will keep away from receiving the free gift of Eternal Life.
My reason for writing this post is because I have seen a revival taking place today and Satan is now putting a lot of effort forward to squash it. He is using the different factions to confuse the truth. The biggest harm of this will come to new believers as they are seeking to find a "church" to identify with. That is the problem, we don't identify with a "church, they need to be instructed to identify with Jesus. Problem, most "churches" have left their first love, Jesus. They all have their own quirk to be different for different reasons. Jesus is not about religion. There has never been religion in Heaven and there never will be. None of the denominations will be represent in Heaven. Religion conforms God to their truth instead of them conforming themselves to God's truth. All Jesus asked, is that you receive the sacrifice He made on the cross to make available, the free gift to any person, the promise of eternal life. The early believers referred to themselves as "the Way". Their message was true and simple and it resulted in many people coming to Jesus. Satan wasn't having it. At least not without a fight.
In my next post I am going to delve into what my concerns are and what I can do to help current believers and future believers to............BE FREE.
Ask Jesus to come into your soul and He will come in and dwell. He is what the soul is for.You won't need my words.
May Jesus Peace be with you and guard you mind and souls.
Do we understand that , "He who the Son sets free, is free indeed". John 8:36. Or how about, "You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free." John 8:32. To understand this, you have to understand what you have been freed from. We have been freed from the bondage of sin, although we still sin, we have power over the sin. We have been freed from death and given life, the Life that is in Christ Jesus. We have been freed from darkness. "For He delivered us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son". Colossians 1:13. Jesus spoke, "I am the Light of the world, he who follows me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the Light of Life." John 8:12. We have been freed by Truth, from the lies of the devil. Jesus spoke this to the Pharisees, "You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks it is a lie, he speaks from his own nature; for he is a liar, and the father of lies." John 8:44.
The purpose of this post is to help keep you walking in your freeness. I have been hearing things and am concerned that Satan is upping his efforts to discourage the saints and putting stumbling blocks in the way of those who are yet to come to Jesus, by confusing the Truth with his lies. Theses are also known as doctrines of demons. The Apostle Paul warned in 1st Timothy Chapter 4:1-6
"But the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will fall away from
the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrine of demons, by
means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a
branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods,
which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who know and
believe the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be
rejected, if it is received in gratitude; for it is sanctified by means of the word
of God and prayer. In pointing out these things to the brethren, you will be a
good servant of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished on the words of the faith
and of the sound doctrine which you have been following."
So to be a good servant and faithful to Jesus, it is with a happy heart that I help keep us Free and walking in the Joy that Jesus has called us to walk in, no matter.
To do this we must believe the truth that the devil is real and that he is a liar and that he is an adversary whose desire is only to steal, and kill , and destroy. A kingdom divided against itself can not stand, so Satan works to divide. He labors to do this by twisting the Truth that sets us free. Satan doing this for two thousand years has been successful at causing confusion within the saints so that the simple message of Salvation is made hard to comprehend. This makes it very successful in closing up the Kingdom of God to many who might have believed if the truth was presented in all the simplicity it was meant to be. This is what we are really up against and how to combat it, as written by Paul in Ephesians Chapter 6, verses 10-18. This is vital for all believers (Saints) to understand so that they can live free and help others to live free.
"Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. Put on the
full armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of
the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the
rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against
the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up
the full armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and
having done everything, to stand firm...........
I have to interject here that none of this is anything to fear. Demons are subject to us when we invoke the name Jesus. Luke 10:17 We overcome the devil by the blood of Jesus and because of the word of our testimony. Revelation 12:11. If we resist the devil, then he will flee. James 4:7 We resist him by standing on what is true when he comes with lies.
........Stand firm therefore, having girding your loins with (truth), and having
put on the breastplate of (righteousness), and having shod your feet with the
preparation of the gospel of (peace); in addition to all, taking up the
shield of (faith) with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming
missiles of the evil one. And take the helmet of (salvation), and the (sword)
of the Spirit, which is the (word) of God. With all prayer and petition pray at
all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all
perseverance and petition for all the saints."
If you look at everything that I put in parenthesis, they all have one thing in common, and that would be Jesus.
(Truth) Jesus is the Truth. John 14:6
(Righteousness) Jesus became our Righteousness. 1st Corinthians 1:30
(Peace) Jesus is the Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6
(Faith) Trusting Jesus
(Salvation) Jesus name (Yeshua) means, The Lord our Salvation. He will save His people from their sin. Mathew 1:21
(Sword) which is the(Word)of God. Jesus is the Word of God. John 1:1
Why is this important to point out? The word tells us to fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith.. Hebrews 12:2 Actually putting on the full armor of God means to clothe ourselves in Jesus and all who he is. It's not about us, it is about Jesus and what we allow Him to do in us when we call on Him to be our protector. "The name of the Lord (Jesus) is a strong tower, The righteous runs into it and is safe. Proverbs 18:10
I have written before that Jesus has nothing to do with religion. Religion is mans attempt to define Jesus. All religions worship some form of God. Many different cultures have incorporated their type of worship for this god they know exist just by instinct or looking at nature. Until God came here, in the person of Jesus, there really wasn't any way for them to know God's real purpose for creating the earth and man. Now they can know the God they worshiped by coming to know Jesus. They can come to understand the purpose and the eternal life He came to give. The problem is that this knowledge has become confusing because of the many different factions among the churches that attempt to represent Jesus. Satan has attempted to infiltrate these different factions. Since Jesus died on the cross and rose again, Satan has been working hard to distort the simplicity of what God did and what Jesus was all about. The more that Satan can confuse the message of the Truth (Gospel), the more people he will keep away from receiving the free gift of Eternal Life.
My reason for writing this post is because I have seen a revival taking place today and Satan is now putting a lot of effort forward to squash it. He is using the different factions to confuse the truth. The biggest harm of this will come to new believers as they are seeking to find a "church" to identify with. That is the problem, we don't identify with a "church, they need to be instructed to identify with Jesus. Problem, most "churches" have left their first love, Jesus. They all have their own quirk to be different for different reasons. Jesus is not about religion. There has never been religion in Heaven and there never will be. None of the denominations will be represent in Heaven. Religion conforms God to their truth instead of them conforming themselves to God's truth. All Jesus asked, is that you receive the sacrifice He made on the cross to make available, the free gift to any person, the promise of eternal life. The early believers referred to themselves as "the Way". Their message was true and simple and it resulted in many people coming to Jesus. Satan wasn't having it. At least not without a fight.
In my next post I am going to delve into what my concerns are and what I can do to help current believers and future believers to............BE FREE.
Ask Jesus to come into your soul and He will come in and dwell. He is what the soul is for.You won't need my words.
May Jesus Peace be with you and guard you mind and souls.
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