Repentance For Salvation

 "Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death." 

2 CORINTHIANS 7:10

Nothing is changed and formed new without repentance. It is the act of calling on the Lord Christ Jesus and asking to be cleansed and washed in the blood of Christ Jesus to be forgiven of your sins and to walk a new life each day with the Lord.

This ends your old ways and begins a new life with the Lord. He cleanses you and fills you with love - his love and peace. All is the Lords - and through acceptance - repentance in Christ Jesus - he will make all new in you as the old passes away.

The new life will not resemble the old. Redemption comes at a cost of choosing a new life in Christ and turning from your old ways that lead to sin. Evidence of a new creation in Christ Jesus is the conviction of sin which is provided by The Holy Spirit of Jesus.

The Covenant of Faith

  "I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life."

GENESIS 9:13-15

Humans are the Lords creation. We are created for his purpose in a battle of faith. Humans are created in the Lords image - we must get rightly consecrated into the pleasing covenant of the Lord to be used by him and enjoy his heavenly blessings of peace, love and joy.

These are given over to you from the Lord as you give up your ways of self and man. He fills you full in his spirit as you dump the old habits and false beliefs. Jesus is the one and only way to salvation - Only through Jesus Christ are you set free.

God is looking for a personal relationship with you. He does not want to teach in the abstract or through methods that do not change your disposition. He made you so that through faith in his son Jesus Christ - his spirit  - the essence of himself - will live with you - inside you - as his Holy Temple. He speaks to you from the inside - within the spirit he provides through faith and Baptism.

You Are The Temple in Christ

 You shall be in charge of my palace, and all my people are to submit to your orders. Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you.”

GENESIS 41:40

God is a spirit - in faith in Christ Jesus as Savior of man - and thru acceptance of his spirit in baptism you are reborn. In this rebirth, the body is cleansed to become a temple for the most high God. This is how he lives in us - through us - speaking for us - hearing in his way for discernment - always loving.

Through obedience and full faith in Jesus you shall be consecrated and made right before the Lord. The Lord will thank you - and a new life for you will be born in doing the Lord's will thru you.

Overcoming Antagonism

 "Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God."

REVELATION 2:7

Life on this earth is a battle - a spiritual battle - these battles manifest in physical, mental, moral - and your own spirit. As you are more rightly related to God and accept the spirit of Christ Jesus, antagonism on all fronts will be upon you. The gift of God is that in this antagonism - in which ever manner it shows up - has already been conquered by Jesus.

Therefore - when you are under attack in life - call on Jesus - and in this manner - the Lord will handle the situation as only he can. This allows him to be glorified in situations originally meant for bad intention.

Only Through The Holy Spirit

 "My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power."

1 CORINTHIANS 2:4-5

There is one way to salvation - Jesus Christ. There is no such thing as "doing more good than bad" or "being a good person." There is No salvation without Jesus. There is no life without Jesus. Jesus is the Truth. Jesus is reality.

The Gospel is the truth of the Lord. It is about Jesus Christ redeeming all men at the cross. In accepting Jesus as Lord - the truth of the Lord will permeate your being. The Lord uses you for his purpose - it is the reason you live. In all you are give yourself to God - for Christ Jesus is the only way to eternal life - In Jesus all is truth.

With intention, be steadfast in clinging to Christ Jesus. To be the hands and feet of the Lord you must be sanctified by God for his good use. The hope and truth of Christ is the redemption of souls. To be sanctified is to know that Christ Jesus is the truth of the world. To be sanctified is to live by every word the Lord speaks for he speaks life and therefore it is.

With the Spirit of Jesus - you will hear and understand the word of God - you will have discernment from God within. Without the Holy Spirit of Jesus - you will have nothing but your human spirit and human mind to rely on. Those with only a human spirit and not the Holy Spirit of King Jesus do not understand the Holy Spirit or what it says - because it is not in them.

It is for this reason - we must spread the good news and teach the gospel to all people in all places. If the truth of Christ Jesus and his Holy Spirit resides in people everywhere - his will can be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Perfection in Christ

  "Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me."

PHILIPPIANS 3:12

The word perfection has no place in the Christian heart unless you speak of Christ Jesus. The call to follow God and give your life to him is so he may work his perfection into your life. Humans are sinful - the Lord is perfect - cloaked in Righteousness. 

It is through obedience to his word and spirit he gives you - that his perfect light is brought into your less than perfect world. Let your mind rest and follow your heart - God is love - and he lives in you - Christ Jesus Lives.

The Lord takes his children and teaches us - he consecrates us into a perfect lamp so that others may see him in us.

Our bodies are tools for God to be used for his good purpose. We are called to be in perfect relation to Christ Jesus - not to be perfect. We are not to be unused and hidden - but rather brought forth in him such that his love and Holy Spirit shall be witnessed in you by others -  to love your neighbor.

Christ and The Law

  "If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,”you are doing right. But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it."

JAMES 2:8-10

Men who desire righteous standing without obedience to Jesus are doomed to the law. Doomed to sin. Slave to sin. There is only one way in which a man will be free of sin - Christ Jesus. Only in his truth - with his spirit are you free in Jesus - the law is no longer a noose around your neck - but obedience to the law through the spirit of Jesus is truth.

In the spirit - the law is easily obeyed for you are transformed - as a man you are not made new in Christ Jesus - thus binding you to death. 

The evidence of Faith is through deeds of love per the scripture and calling of Christ - "Love your neighbor as yourself." The absence of deeds for the cause of the love of Christ is a lack of faith. We are made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ - through this faith in Christ - his spirit of love will be given to you as your advocate to do the will of God. In his new Holy Spirit - the evidence of your faith to Christ will be made known through your love of others.