I want to add that the Christian Life is no bed of roses nor is it a feel good all the time prospect. It is also a life of blessing and great joy as we explore and discover Who God is within the crucified "rose" experienced blessing of God's forgiveness. Many have taken the Savior as their Lord and have this joy.
Of course no one can in the flesh muster enough stoicism to physically, emotionally nor intellectually stop sinning in themselves, but God says that if you've done it once, you've failed the entire law. Sin once, entire law broken in other words.
Christ gives a newness life. He says chuck the old brains and He will plant His new born again nature and all things will become new: new heart, new spirit, newness of life. Solomon said, "much study is a weariness to the flesh." So let's see if we can experience God's character rather than gather a bunch of facts. To know God you must read New Testament words and find Christ.
God knew man would do this (sin or fail) so He ordained faith and a substitution only He could provide (Christ's Death.) We call this salvation or being saved. Man will in his spirit acknowledge he/she is wrong before God and repent in this. Metanoia is the Greek for repent. It means to change the mind a hundred and eighty degrees about sin. To go about-face. To stop sinning.
God draws us and we come to Christ and turn the switch to believe and He gives faith to believe unto salvation which He Himself provided the way for, Jesus being God, being the way, the truth, and the life, God's propitiatory sacrifice Lamb. On the basis of one act by God we become His children and are saved. This is a seal in God's eyes. That act of sealership was Jesus's atoning Death on the cross. We must apply it to our life and then follow the Risen Christ. We must love God. Follow Christ. You can't lose for winning.
God lets those who believe claim His Right Living (a word for His Righteousness) for they "by His Power (Dunamus in Greek, and it sounds like dynamite) become God's children" in John 1:12 as they turn from all known behavior of sin and attitude to accept Christ inside as the Name above all names and personal to them. "Come let us reason," God says in Isaiah 1 to be saved, "Though your sins be as red as scarlet they shall be white like wool or whiter than the snow." God loves us but only in Christ being "in Christ" can we obtain victory over this world (and over sin) and be ready for the next life. Attend church for this more and more.
True there is great benefit to knowing God aright but you will see trouble and troubles like no one else has (unique and intimate to you.) It is truly right to follow Jesus. Being in His hand is blessing. Risen and following after the Holy Spirit you're being and doing right before God. This feeling is so great, so macro-cosmic (Hebrews 6:10-20) it is the wisest thing you can do for yourself and eternally satisfying to the mostest feeling of resurrection in Him. But getting to the crux of the Gospel Jesus is God and suffered in the flesh like you and me to the greatest extent humanly identifying humanly possible and without sin absolutely and positively right became a Perfect Savior (and Perfect High Priest), because He suffered rightly to follow God arightly and point men to God pleasing perfectly.
And He had the authority and power to do signs and miracles and wonders and healings which His disciples could do & emulate, and proving His Deity He became the Eternal Author of our salvation because He is and was God. And, He is Risen! The Tomb is empty! Jesus is alive.
He died righteously so indestructibly and unjustly as well having curiously & furiously determined to do God's will and go to the cross die an unjust death (watch The Passion of Christ movie, He gave up His Life: no one took it from Him) He became innocent of the charges made against Him crucified by others vicariously so we could be made whole and witness to His goodness and mercy as sons! Do you have Him inside of you? God is a reality we must deal with before we die. Hearts are in the balance.
We are misled when we follow the cynicism of the media and this world system & have unholy alliances and fail to gain eternal wisdom to follow Christ and so begin to see God's plan of the ages or blueprints in His Word with true discernment. You can open the morning paper and see the signs of the times right out of Matthew 24 and Revelation. May God open the eyes of our understanding of our heart to become the friend of God. May we turn from sin wholly and follow God. May we honor him to whom honor is due, Jesus, by committing our lives to Him, to live for Him. We were bought at a Price. Therefore glorify God. Count the cost to follow and pay it. Jesus paid it all. All to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow.
"I AM SURE" is a song by Michael W. Smith and if we read to the "end of the Book...," another song same album..be a disciple, follow Christ.
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Let me introduce myself. I'm Dave C. from Franklin Square, N.Y. I'm a Blood-washed born again Child of God, believe in the Gift of Righteousness found in God's Son, take a stand for a new standard, Christ's righteousness & make no apologies for it. I attend church Services at an Assemblies Of God church: Bethel Assembly Of God Church from Franklin Square. I've accepted Christ as my personal Savior and Lord. I was four. Being all God wants me to be is a part of my all-calling I'm pursuing in God to be a minister and to minister to God first. As a minister of reconciliation as a layman I'm loving being single and agapetotes freed up love from God to 'laleo' (Greek word for to gossip or chirp) the Gospel to my family and church family. I Algebra tutor math to a twelve year old child next door to me. As well I'm a Gideon who distributes Bibles to many needy locations and peoples, am a substitute High School Teacher, and have a Bachelor of Science's in Chemistry. God's unconditional love is totally awesome. I rejoice evermore. I witness with all-joy to My Jesus My comfort, and shelter for he has taken my sins away! W/o Him we can do nothing. With Christ we can reign in God and in life to all possibilities from God's radical grace in Him Romans 5:17;8:1,28,37;12:1,2. What the Lord has done for me He can do for you. He has made something... beautiful... out of my life! Long live King Jesus! You are mercy to me! Godliness with contentment is great gain. Riches will fade away. My utmost for His highest. El Elyon is "God Most High," His title in the Old Testament. God gives us gold. silver, and precious stone! What must I do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. Then follow Christ.
Member Since: 4/14/2008