20 November 2012

TO CHURCH


Good word from Pastor Troy... Amen:
((QUESTION)) Are you just a "sinner" who has been "saved" by Grace? - - What were you saved from? Saved = 1. to deliver from sin 2. to rescue or deliver from danger or harm 3. to preserve or guard from injury, destruction or loss

Jesus died to set us free FROM sin, not to set us free so that we could continue TO sin.

Consider... (stop basing your beliefs on your weakness and start basing them on
 His blood)

Romans 6: (1-2) "...should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of his wonderful grace? Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it?"

(6b,7) "...We are no longer slaves to sin. For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin."

(18) "Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living."

STOP LIVING IN SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS (or the dependence upon SELF to overcome sin) and instead put your faith in the finished work of the CROSS!

Galatians 2 (20) "My old self (sinner) has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me."

Does CHRIST live a life of sin? Of course not! So if you are REALLY saved (ie, Crucified with Christ) then your life will look more like HIS and less like YOURS every day! That is HIS promise them that believe.

1 John 3 (5-6) "You know that Jesus came to take away our sins, and there is no sin in him. Anyone who continues to live in him will not sin. But anyone who keeps on sinning does not know him or understand who he is."

I DONT MAKE THIS STUFF UP... its actually in the BIBLE

(7-8) "don’t let anyone deceive you about this (preachers, denominiations, false teachers, good-intentioned friends, etc.): When people do what is right, it shows that they are righteous, even as Christ is righteous. But when people keep on sinning, it shows that they belong to the devil..." (Are you still determined to be a "sinner?")

(9-10) "Those who have been born into God’s family (born again, saved - John 3:3) do not make a practice of sinning, because God’s life is in them. So they can’t keep on sinning, because they are children of God. So now we can tell who are children of God and who are children of the devil. Anyone who does not live righteously and does not love other believers does not belong to God."

LISTEN TO ME MY FRIENDS... God's Word is a LIGHT (Ps 119:105) that illuminates places that had once been darkened by bad teaching, false teaching, no teaching - with the intended goal of bringing each of us to a place of VICTORY over SIN.

DONT CONTINUE... to walk a life powerless against sin. DONT allow sin (instead of holiness) to be your NORM. DONT grieve the Holy Spirit through unrighteous living... and DONT reject the LIGHT of God's Word (TRUTH) because the consequences are dreadful.

JESUS SAID in John 3 (19) "...this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil (sinners)."

NEED PRAYER or counsel on how to break free from the trap of a sinning and compromising life? Message me...

Blessings, PT


JESUS SAVES

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