Set Free!

Christ came to set you Free from the Bondage of sin, NOT make you Free ‘to sin’! He Died on the Cross so you can DIE with Him to your Old Self and Start over in Newness of Life. Freedom From sin is NOT Freedom to Sin! Who the Son Sets Free is FREE INDEED! He who Sins is of the Devil! Christ came to Destroy the Works of the devil. (John8:31-32)

Salvation from sin does not happen by Degrees or gradually over time. The Old Man Must be put to Death in the Process of Repentance. ‘I am Crucified with Christ! It is no long I who live, But Christ who Lives in me!’ How could you take something Corrupted and un-corrupt it by Degrees? You have to rid yourself of the corruption! God has Instructed man to do so if he is to be Redeemed by Grace! (Rom6:4-6, Gal5:24)

‘Lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness and RECEIVE with meekness the implanted Word that is ABLE to SAVE your soul! Become a Doer of the Word, not just a hearer, Deceiving yourself!’ (Js2:21-22)

You can’t ‘Get Saved’ and remain Double-minded, Divided in heart and serving two Masters! Would you expect to be forgiven of Adultery while you are STILL DOING it? WHY then Do you THINK God will Grant you Mercy while you remain addicted to booze, drugs, pornography, immorality? You are a SLAVE to WHO you Obey! Obey Sin, Slave to Sin, which equal Death. Obey God, His Slave, which leads to Righteousness.  There’s Nothing Mysterious about Righteousness. It is Simply DOING the RIGHT Thing By Faith! The Principle behind this Faith is ACTION. (Js1:8, Rom6:15-18, 1Jh3:7-10, Js2:24)

DEEDS Prove your Repentance and Establish your Faith, Otherwise you are believing to no effect.

‘Getting Saved’ is a Radical Departure from your Old Life. ALL Things Become NEW! Not some Things, Not by Degree, ALL….Transformed when you encounter the Risen Christ in Reality. The Old Man cannot be reformed, cannot Please God in any fashion whatsoever! The Eyes of the Understanding Must be OPEN to Spiritual Truth BEFORE you can be led into More & Deeper Truth by the Spirit of Truth. (Acts20:21, 26:20, Rom3:31, 8:6-9, 2Cor5:17, Eph1:18)

The Corrupted Tree Cannot Produce Good Fruit. A polluted stream can only produce impure water. The Light in you CANNOT Co-exit with Darkness or you will be FULL of Darkness! The Lord Cannot Receive an Unclean Vessel and fill it with His Spirit. The House Must be Sweep, Scrubbed, Cleaned, with all vileness, ignorance and sin CAST out of Doors, BEFORE the Spirit can Come in! THIS is What Salvation is in the Bible. FREEDOM From Sin, NOT Freedom to sin! Conversion to Christ will Produce a NEW TREE with PURE Fruit! The Axe of Repentance was Laid to the ROOT of sin, not merely its branches.

Growth Cannot begin until the incorruptible Seed is Planted and LIFE springs forth! (Matt3:10, 6:27-23, 7:15-20, 13:43-45, 2Cor6:16-18, 1Pet1:18-19)  

But Almost everyone today in the so-called Christian World thinks that God Saves you in your sins and then cleans you up later as you allow Him. Therefore the Old Man of Sin is in Control! The entire System is setup to accommodate this Man of Sin and to try to Reform him. The Program is designed to Please, Comfort and Cuddle him. All the time assuring him that he is SAVED and Forgiven in Jesus, Pronounced Righteous by Faith, if he merely TRUSTS that everything has been done for him in advance to Secure the outcome of his Salvation.

The Foregone Conclusion of every Bible Passage on the Subject of Salvation by Faith, is the Sin will NEVER Stop! God can Grant Grace enough to Call you, Draw you to Himself, Compel you to Come, Even Decide for you, BUT NOT Grace enough to eradicate the Sin in your heart! According to the Doctrine Professed Christians are being taught today (and basing their eternal life on it!) the Root of Sin CANNOT be Removed in this Life! You will sin Everyday for the remainder of your life, in Thought, Word and Deed, and Still go to Heaven when you die Because you BELIEVE in Jesus!

WHO has it Correct? You Like what the Preachers are saying because it Pleases your flesh, makes no Demands, sets no Conditions. You’re Saved because you Trust! You don’t have to DO Anything! Could anyone make a Better deal than that?  But you DON’T Like what Jesus is Saying because it makes TOO many Demands and Sets to Harsh of Conditions! (Lk13:24)

The Flesh has to be Crucified! (the last thing the flesh wants to do is Die!)  Why do you think Professed Christians are so Selfish, Self-Centered and greedy? Because they LOVE God and are KEEPING His Commandments!? Don’t Kid yourself! (John15:14)

They are ACTING OUT Exactly what they Are! Self-Centered, Selfish SINNERS! In most cases, Following the Example of their Pastors who are Teaching them these things. These professed Christians have no Idea what it means to Follow Jesus, Deny Self, Take up their Cross or Count the Cost. They think Contending for the faith is Cooking Dinner at the church, having a Picnic or baking cookies to help pay the electric bill! They are CLUELESS Because they are LOST. (Lk9:23, 14:28)

How much Scorn and Contempt will have to be Heaped upon the Precious Name of Jesus before you will admit this MESS has NOTHING to do with being a Christian and the Bible is Not Subject to you personal opinions? If you want to Think that you’re going to heaven when you die because you Believe in something, that’s your choice. BUT WHY must you Insist on Dragging Jesus into the mire with you!!? Making Him a Minister of your sin, an Excuse for your inability to do anything Right? WHY Do you Call on His Name and ask for Health, Wealth and prosperity and then SPIT in His Face when He Demands you OBEY HIM? Do you Really Think He is going to Live in the Pig Pen with You?

WHERE DID Jesus Say you Could Come to Him IN YOUR SINS? If you are basing your eternal life on this, you had BETTER be able to SHOW Hard Evidence in the BIBLE that HE Preached the Gospel in this Manner and Granted Mercy to people while they were still sinning. Don’t go running off to your favorite preachers for answers, for ONCE in your Life follow the Master’s Instructions and DIG DEEP!!!
Pretend you have Lost a Gold Coin Worth a Million Dollars and you would turn over heaven and earth to find it! (Lk6:48, Matt13:44-46)

ONLY Then will there be the Slightest Possibility you could come out of your Strong Delusion and Find that Treasure of Great Price and then PRESS your Way through that Narrow Gate to Eternal Life!

(Matt7:13-14)

The Perfect Standard

Be ye therefore PERFECT, even as your Father which is in heaven is PERFECT. Matt5:48

God requires Perfection. Professed Christians today are told that NO ONE can attain to this Perfection. Therefore ONLY Jesus was Perfect and by you trusting in His Virtue and Perfect Obedience to God, you are declared Righteous by proxy. But is this Really what Jesus is saying in Matthew 5? Or is it just another in the long list of excuses by the ear itching masses for not obeying God? By setting the bar so high that no one can possibly reach it, they have essentially destined man to failure and written him off as a Wretch.

But is this what God intended? WHY would He tell us to DO something we have no power to do? The theologians tell us so we can see how far short we come from Perfect Righteousness. Really? Why say it in the first place then? Why not tell us above board that HE was going to Do it for us? Why make it sound as though He expects you to carry it out? Is the Lord deceptive? Would you tell one of your children to do something you intended to do yourself?

So what is this Perfection of Matt5:48, The exceeding Righteousness without which you cannot enter the Kingdom of God? (Mt5:20) In the Scriptures it’s a PERFECT Heart of Devotion! (Matt22:37, Deut6:5)

Just as you would expect from your earthly spouse; A Heart un-divided and un-defiled from the lust of the flesh.! (1John2:15-17) You will not share your spousal Devotion with anyone else, lest you ‘destroy’ the marriage relationship. WHY would you expect God to endure your adulterous notions with the World?

‘If you would be Perfect!’ Jesus told the Rich young man, Matt19:21, ‘Love ME above all else!’ Alas he was clinging to his riches, which he could not forsake and it was his Gold that held FIRST place in his heart….not God. Paul called this Perfection the Full Measure of the Stature in Christ, Eph4:13, that brings about the Unity of the faith. Why does present day Churchianity lack any true unity in Christ? Because:

‘No body is Perfect!’ (that’s the mantra from every professed mouth) But Paul Preached and Warned every man, Col1:28, teaching them in all Wisdom that we may present them PERFECT in Christ Jesus!

So FAR removed from anything you are hearing in your churches.

Man’s Wisdom says, No One can be Perfect, it’s an absolute impossibility! But the Wisdom that is from Above, James3:17, is Pure, Peaceable, gentle, willing to Yield, full of Mercy and good fruits! The PERFECT heart of Devotion to God. It Goes the extra mile, turns the other cheek, gives of itself and loves its fellow man. (Mt5:42-46) Surly Man is capable of doing these things. Thus the PERFECT Will of God, Rom12:1-2, is found in Walking Worthy of your calling in Christ. Nothing more, Nothing Less.

We can Never be Perfect in Knowledge or in Wisdom (that which is reserved to God) We will make Wrong Judgments and imperfect decisions. But God looks on the heart. (1Sam16:17) If your heart is fixed on that Perfect Devotion to Him, with heavenly minded intentions in all that you do, HOW can you be sinning daily in thought, word and deed? You wouldn’t daily violate your spouses trust and expect your relationship to continue in tact. Sharing your devotions with another is beyond repugnant to any married couple. That’s why the Marriage relationship is used as the illustration of your love for God! (Eph5:22-30, Col3:18-19)

This Love is not beyond making mistakes. It’s Not ‘Sinless Perfection’ as churchianity lays charge to it! But it is Perfect fidelity to the Lord. If you’re committing Willful, Deliberate acts of disobedience in word, thought or deed, Jesus would say that your Eye is Bad and Whole body full of Darkness. (Mat6:23) In this Double-Minded State you cannot please God or Receive anything from Him, including Eternal life! (James1:7-8) Friendship with the World is enmity with God. (Js4:4) God considers it Adultery if you go lusting after the things of this world. Dividing your time in vain amusements that seem right to you, is the same as Dividing your heart in relation to your marriage. Remember Worldly pleasures are the Lust of the flesh, eyes and Pride of Life, in Scripture. (1Jh1:16-17) They are ALL associated with love of the World, not God. They fill the mind with Vile thoughts and the Eyes with various temptations. They can only lead to indulgence and serious transgression.

Shun the Appearance of Evil! Said the Holy Apostle, 1Thess5:22. If you play with fire you will be Burned! (Prov6:27-28) Theology is NOT going to exempt you from accountability. The so-called Bible Scholars of our day may disparage the Precious Words of Jesus and explain them away. But they won’t be standing at the Judgment Seat with you. (2Cor5:10-11) What you are now, is what you will be then. (Rev22:11) Don’t expect some Magic formula to instantly transform you into a Saint fit for the Kingdom! If you Did Not MAKE YOURSELF Ready, (Rev19:7) for that Great Wedding Feast in Paradise, you will be Cast out into Utter Darkness where there will be weeping and gashing of teeth. (Matt22:11-13)

You Love your Spouse, Correct? To them your Devotion is Pure. (unless you are a vile adulterer) At times, as a married couple, you anger one another. But Perfect Love (1Jh4:18) always wins the day! (if it exists)

So What Does God expect if not the same. Perfect in Scripture Means:

Mature, Complete, lacking in nothing!

Integrity and Virtue

That Which is Perfect!

Doesn’t that MOST Certainly Mean that you are not going to Commit Adultery? Or Secretly lust after another? Or fill you Mind with Vile things and your body with harmful substance? You are not going to Lie or neglect you responsibility to keep your heart fixed on doing good and pleasing God. And you Definitely want the World to know that Obeying your Lord is not burdensome, because Faith WORKS by Love! (Gal5:6) If this kind of Moral Perfection is impossible, then human marriage has no real value. If Doing the Right thing is so grievous no one should try, why bother to get married at all?

Devotion originates in Purity of heart. The Chief concern of Love is to Please. God requires you undivided attention. He always looks on the Heart. If your intentions are spurious you need to Repent! It’s not how much can I get away with and still make it into the Kingdom, it’s Continuing in the Faith Steadfast, Grounded and unmoved in the hope that you will be found WORTHY when the Bridegroom returns for His Bride! (Col1:23, Rev3:4, 2Thess1:5, 11)