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| Saint, no longer a sinner! |
The Just Live by Faith
Romans1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation
When we confess we are sinners we are showing that we are ashamed of the Gospel. The Gospel transforms us from sinners to Saints. We are no longer sinners, But Saints.
Isaiah 58 Ministries Feb 14, 2015
Pastor: Leah "Faith"
Scriptures: Romans 6:11-15, Matthew 23:1-23, 1 Corinthians 6:15-20, Mark 8:33, Romans 1:16-17
Theme
All men and women are called by God to join our bodies with Jesus' body. Jesus sets us free to be ourselves! 1 Corinthians 6 vs 19-20 Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not your own, You were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, [made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body."
Brand New
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Feminists got their start in the 1900's by saying that women who get married and stay home "lose themselves."
Of course, that is what we are "Told" and "made" to believe."
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| Professionals, Experts: Have Forgotten How to Live |
While feminists, (Hypocrites, bigots, discriminators), themselves are abusive women, abusing all of society. "Abusing Innocent People."
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Abusive people (a man, a woman or child) do this to everyone they are around.
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| Heads Out of The Clouds: "Farming is Good." |
The point is clear though. When you submit to another person without question, you do lose yourself. Think of young men going into the military today. They are berated, belittled, demeaned, verbally abused and worked to death in their first six weeks of training. Why? To destroy who they are and then the military rebuilds them into soldiers;
they have to obey orders without question.
These young people just lost their "Salvation", their souls. The militia in America in the 1700's were men of conscience. They made decisions based on their "sound minds". When fighting they knew God was with them. They prayed. They made sure their lives were sinless, ready to meet their maker at any moment. Hebrews, Knights, those dedicated to God, men sinless, having a clear conscience before God is the most important thing to victory in battle.
torturous
adjective tor·tur·ous \ˈtȯrch-rəs, ˈtȯr-chə-\
: causing great pain or suffering
2
: painfully difficult or slow torturous
— tor·tur·ous·ly adverb
Mindless: someone else is living through their minds. They are no longer in control of themselves because their "Commander's, Drill Sargent's, Lieutenant's words are forced into their minds controlling them.
It is called "mind control". Outside of the military it is called being "stupedified." Like in Harry Potter. A stunning spell.
stu·pe·fy
ˈst(y)o͞opəˌfī/
verb
past tense: stupefied; past participle: stupefied
- make (someone) unable to think or feel properly."the offense of administering drugs to a woman with intent to stupefy her"
The Gospel of Jesus Christ tells us that God loves us so much he sent Jesus to die for us. Why did Jesus have to die? We all are born with sin in us, controlling us, leading us, forcing us to do things. Sin is our Drill Sargent or "keeper of our soul". Humans in a fallen state are weak, broken, unable to stand up to the power of sin. Satan owns us. Humans also become victims of Satan's rebellious children. All over the world. Communism, Muslim states, countries, control by War lords, terrorists, Socialist States, Capitalists. etc...
God sent Jesus to die for us so he could free us from Satan's power to "control us" or "be lord" over our minds and souls, thus controlling our bodies. This doesn't mean Satan quits trying though. Satan's children, "sinners," do everything just like their Father the devil. The above examples of abusive people or the military that uses mind control is what the devil's children, sinners, are going to do.
1.) If you are around sinners they will try to "make" you do what they want you to do. 2.) They will make you sin. 3.) They will take your soul if you do not have "The Gospel" firmly grasp within your soul. 4.) They will insist they have the right and authority from God to make you submit to them.
A majority of public school teachers make the perfect sinner. Teachers control everything a child does 24/7/365 making sure the child doesn't listen to God. (Teachers are forced to do this, they are not allowed to direct a child to God. The child only hears from the devil. (see below Mark 8:33 for explanation)
The teacher's words are always in your "mind", if not conscientiously, it's in your sub-conscience. A nice place for the devil to implant his lies and to hide! You never know the lies are there controlling you and others blame you when you sin! The teacher seems innocent! God knows the truth. God sees everything.
We see this in employers, the government, public schools, Judges, Lawyers, Churches, etc. Any kind of leadership. It is called "abuse" of power, authority. It is tyranny. These people even use scripture to justify their abuse of power.
When we put our faith in God's love and redemption, we turn our backs on the world and the ways of the world. God fills us with his power to stand against these people. He fills us with wisdom and knowledge that a person can only get if they turn to God. It is God giving us his "Holy Spirit". We are no longer weak sinners controlled by the devil or the whims of sinners. But filled with Power! God continues to strengthen us mentally, emotionally which translates to our physical surroundings and our physical bodies as we allow his Spirit to heal the brokenness of our soul.
When coming to know Christ you die to yourself, but become alive to yourself.
In sin "We" decided everything. In sin it is all about "Me, Myself and I". If someone is controlling us it is all about them, themselves, what makes them happy and then they never are.
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Paul later in life prays for believers in Christ to have the "eyes" of their understanding be "enlightened." God is light when your understanding is "enlightened" you have the "light" of God in you, teaching you.
Jesus said a number of times:
Mark 4:9 And He said to them, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
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When we obey anyone other than Jesus Christ's voice in our souls, (God Almighty), the devil indirectly, through this other person, is controlling us. We have joined our bodies with them. Their thoughts become our thoughts, our bodies react and serve to please them. They are doing things to please the devil, then the devil is speaking through us also. Even when we directly obey the Devil with a degenerate mind, the Devil is speaking and doing things through us.
Jesus told Peter: Satan get behind me. Because his thoughts were not coming from God but from the devil. Peter had joined his body to the devil.
It is the power of our spirits transformed by God to see and hear with our spirits the "Holy Spirit" of God. The Door to see and hear is the Gospel. The Gospel kicks the Devil out of our minds and invites the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in.
Conclusion
Michelle: Thought for the day: What is the devil's ultimate goal? To hurt God, and DEATH. He has come to steal, kill and destroy. Most of us would not be lead astray to randomly just go kill someone, or to have anger and violence build in us so much it would lead to that. So how does he beguile us? Sexual perversion. It's everywhere. Just yesterday my "grandma"Marilyn and I were talking in her dining room and on the show "The Talk" they showed a super-model in a bikini that was WAY to small, Grandma Marilyn blurts out, "THAT'S PORNOGRAPHY! If I wanted to look at pornography I'd just go on my computer, you can find it anywhere!" We talked about how offending it is to go to the grocery store and be bombarded with pornographic images on magazines right there in line. It has always bothered me, but it never hit me so hard until I started to go to the store with Kansas and Justin Justice, two of the most pure minded men of God I know. Then it started to make me mad! They didn't seek those images out, and as much as one tries to look away, sometimes it just smacks you in the face! This is a violent act. Pornography is a violent act. When Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy, what is he stealing, killing and destroying? Innocence, marriages, purity... It's not okay, a little crude humor in a movie, a skimpy outfit there, Beyonce songs about sex- it's not okay! As girls we have NO IDEA just what these things do to the male mind, so we let it go on... but guess what? It ALL leads to violence, and the violence leads to death. During the Com-stock Act (late 1800's-1920-ish), where you couldn't mail pornographic media of any kind, marriage was held in honor. You didn't have sex if you weren't married, husbands loved their wives and everyone knew about God. Now, we have violence, drugs, death, premarital sex and pregnancies at a higher rate than it has ever been since... well, EVER! We HAVE to wake up! It's not just a little "fun" going to the movies or joking with friends, we are living in the devil's play ground and we have all bought into the lie that leads to DEATH. Wives are NOT okay with their husbands just "looking", you deserve to have your husband think you are the most beautiful woman God ever created, because you are. Anything else is adultery, and VIOLENCE! And where do we see the "fruit" of this? Abortion= DEATH/MURDER- The sex trade etc.
1 Corinthians 6:15-20 "Do you not know that your bodies are members (bodily parts) of Christ (the Messiah)? Am I therefore to take the parts of Christ and make [them] parts of a prostitute? Never! Never! Or do you not know and realize that when a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? The two, it is written, shall become one flesh. But the person who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him. Shun immorality and all sexual looseness [flee from impurity in thought, word, or deed]. Any other sin which a man commits is one outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not your own, You were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, [made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body." 1 Corinthians 6:15-20
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Prayer for Spiritual Wisdom
Ephesians 1:15 Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, 16 do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all thingsto the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
Romans 6 sin no longer has power over you.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
6:11-15 The strongest motives against sin, and to enforce holiness, are here stated. Being made free from the reign of sin, alive unto God, and having the prospect of eternal life, it becomes believers to be greatly concerned to advance thereto. But, as unholy lusts are not quite rooted out in this life, it must be the care of the Christian to resist their motions, earnestly striving, that, through Divine grace, they may not prevail in this mortal state. Let the thought that this state will soon be at an end, encourage the true Christian, as to the motions of lusts, which so often perplex and distress him. Let us present all our powers to God, as weapons or tools ready for the warfare, and work of righteousness, in his service. There is strength in the covenant of grace for us. Sin shall not have dominion. God's promises to us are more powerful and effectual for mortifying sin, than our promises to God. Sin may struggle in a real believer, and create him a great deal of trouble, but it shall not have dominion; it may vex him, but it shall not rule over him. Shall any take occasion from this encouraging doctrine to allow themselves in the practice of any sin? Far be such abominable thoughts, so contrary to the perfections of God, and the design of his gospel, so opposed to being under grace. What can be a stronger motive against sin than the love of Christ? Shall we sin against so much goodness, and such love?
Woe to the Scribes and Pharisees
(Mark 12:38–40; Luke 20:45–47 )
Matthew 23:1 Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, 2 saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. 3 Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do. 4 For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5 But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments. 6 They love the best places at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, 7 greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by men, ‘Rabbi, Rabbi.’ 8 But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’; for One is your Teacher, the Christ,and you are all brethren. 9 Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. 10 And do not be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ. 11 But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.12 And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. 14 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
16 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obliged to perform it.’17 Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? 18 And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obliged to perform it.’ 19 Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift? 20 Therefore he who swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things on it. 21 He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by Him who dwells in it. 22 And he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it.
23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
