Therefore, if anyone
is in Christ,
he is a new creation;
all things have
passed away;
behold, all things
are become new.
Now all things are of
God,
who has reconciled us
to Himself
through Jesus Christ,
and has given
us the ministry of
reconciliation,
that is, that God was
in Christ
reconciling the world
to Himself,
not imputing their
trespasses to them,
and has committed to
us the word
of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5: 17
-- 19
There are two very important points in the first that must
be addressed: 1. New creation. 2: The ministry of reconciliation. There are
other important points as well, i.e., God reconciled through Jesus Christ and
does not impute your trespasses against those lean upon Him. You are who you believe you are of to
be! You have come to believe who you
are by what you have learned through others and how you have been affected by
certain circumstances and experiences in your life. Therefore, you are what is your foundational beliefs, and your
worldview, developed through ideology and philosophy. The problem here is that your foundational beliefs may have not
been developed through theology, not just any theology but that which is based
upon the truth of Scripture and not by some man's idea or theories. Do you believe that you are saved? If so, what is your idea in regards to your
salvation of your soul? This is where your foundational basis must be based: upon the truth of Scripture for that is
how you become who you are and what you believe. The experience of salvation is not what some teach, that is,
those doctrinal beliefs that one must find the supernatural. And you do this by doing this by doing
exercises, both antics and gyrations, and as I have mentioned those who teach
that you are to experience salvation from running to and fro going about
trying to bring forth some sort of healing or by means of signs for people. The fact, the experience of salvation means
that in your actual life things are really altered, and you no longer look at things
as you used to, for your desires are new, old things have lost their
power. How does it work out an actual
life? Ask yourself this question when
you are about to go to some event or do something: would you take Jesus to sit
alongside you? God alters the things
that matter and this is a touchstone of your experience of salvation. If you are still hankering, desiring, those
old things, then how can you talk about being born from above if you are
juggling with yourself? To be born
again means that the Spirit of God makes the alteration manifest in your actual
life and reconciliation so that when a
crisis come, a decision that must be made you must then ask that question in regards to
Jesus being with you then you will find a certain amazement because of the difference is
that in you and this by the decisions that you have made in regard to the Holy
Spirit leading you. Ask yourself this
question: what difference has my salvation and sanctification made? Are you allowing the Holy Spirit to work out
God's salvation and you know that you are His entirely and you are
now walking in the light as God is in the light? Is it so with you that God sees nothing to sensor because His
life is working out in every particular, and not just to your consciousness,
but even deeper than your consciousness.
The title of these blogs has never changed: Faith Considered--Changing
From The Inside—Out. Is this occurring
with you? Are you so full of prejudices
that you're not allowing our Lord to mortify them so that you run clean
without them? God is not interested in
a particular prejudice even though at times we think God will not deal with as He deals with other people, especially those sinners: "For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of
the truth, they're no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain
fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the
adversaries" (Hebrews 10: 26.27).
The writer of Hebrews is not writing to sinful people; he is writing to Christians. God is deliberately wiping
out to prejudices in those activities that we were once part of that were not
and are not according to His truthful commands. God pays no respect to anything we bring Him. Why?
There's only one thing God wants of us, and that is our unconditional
surrender. And this can only occur if
we change from the inside/out. We must
not allow not even a smidgen or a bit of the old life to be left in us, rather
to have only simple perfect trust in God and such a trust that even if God was
to remove His blessings, we would still trust in Him. Look close, can you see God act work? If so, nothing can bother you about anything that could happen to you from the world
cannot see, but you can see in this we can do by prayer and study of his word: "For we walk by faith, not by
sight" (2 Corinthians 5:7).
Through
the LORD’S mercies
we are not consumed,
because
His compassion's fail not.
They are new every morning;
great
is Your faithfulness.
"The LORD is my portion,"
says
my soul, "therefore I have hope in Him!"
Lamentations
3: 22 -- 24
You
are reconciled to God through Christ
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