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gideons300
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I heard from a brother who asked me this question. I pray the answer blesses.
I can't quite fully grasp this letting go epiphany you got from God as a tangible, saving, living thing that changed you. could you expound more on this "meat" that you are talking about that clearly shows the difference between the wheat & the chaff?
god bless & thank you!
Thanks for writing, I hope I can clarify a bit.
What will eventually be the fork in the road that separates the sheep from the goats? The wheat from the chaff? Is it sin? No, that was taken care of on Calvary... IF... if we continue to repent and follow after the Lord. The danger of sin lies not in itself, for it can always be washed away, even if it is seventy times seven, amen? The danger lies in the fact that sin allowed to remain in a believers heart hardens it to hear God's voice. Our conscience begins to get glazed over. We go from heart faith to mind faith and finally end up with simply intellectual acknowledgement, the very same faith that the demons have. The problem is, they tremble, we do not.
The war satan is waging is against our faith. Sin is simply a means to an end.
So, how do we fight him? How can we remain secure in Christ? Our biggest weapon up to date has been... forgiveness. We are armed with no weapons to fight, except our resolve and will power, and they ALWAYS eventually fail, amen? Sp, we sin, we repent. We resolve to 'do better'. But we do not see that we cannot do better. if we are in our old nature, we are under the grip of the law, for we believe in our hearts that we are NOT dead, that sin cannot be defeated, that old things are NOT passed away. So our shield of faith is not up, and offers us no protection.
The law has sway over a man as long as he lives, right? If we have not reckoned our old nature as dead and are not found yielding ourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, we have placed ourselves back under the law voluntarily. We may deny it doctrinally, and quote all the right verses, but the truth is, regardless of what we think intellectually, our lack of faith in what Jesus has really done for us has placed us firmly under the grip of the law and the result is? Sin still reigns over us.
Does this mean we are bound for hell? Not at all, if we protect our hearts and repent and mean it, every time we fall. But there is the danger as I have shown. Eventually, our repentance gets more and more shallow till it is simply going through the motions with a weak "God understands, 'cause I am only human." There is great danger here.
So then, where is there safety? In the new man, for here is the sanctuary, the place of safety from sin hardening our hearts, where we are not under law! Here there is no sin for there is no law. We must understand though, when we first make our declaration of DEPENDANCE, our faith is real faith, but it is weak. Like a toddler trying to learn to walk, we do occasionally fall. Like before, we confess. We repent, but now there is another critical step. We believe again that old things are passed away and that sin has no dominion over us! We confess that we are NOT in the flesh, but in the Spirit, and owe the flesh NOTHING (Romans 7). The door satan tried to wedge back open is slammed back in his face and it frustrates him to no end! LOL. SAnd every time that happens, our faith GROWS.
Ultimately, here is the determining factor of the wheat, who WILL go in amd find safety as this revelation is given again by the Spirit to the church, and the tares, who will not. The issue is Lordship, who is in charge, who owns us.
The tares will be satisfied with forgiveness.... salvation... having resisted the draw of the Spirit to run into Him for safety, where Jesus is both savior AND Lord. They will refuse to come, finding themselves content to just get to Heaven, as they continue to run their own lives. They are content with religion and doctrines, and a little sin, a little half-hearted repentance and them still on their throne. They will want to remain in the flesh, even though they are told that those who are in this state cannot please God. They will balk at paying the cost, losing their own life.
The wheat will hate the sin in them that dishonors their God, and know that it is their flesh that is the culprit. They will willingly run into Him, even if it means they lose "their" life, because in exchange, they get His! They follow the master, and do what the spirit bids them do. They love the light and want all of its fulness iin them, so that it is no more them that live, but Christ who now lives in them." (Galatians 2:20)
Sp, we can see ultimately, the factors are-
1) Do we love the light or hate it? Are we willing to flee the darkness, even if it is in our own hearts?
2) Do we long to lose our life to find His in us or do we chafe at the suggestion that we need to and think this is "legalism"?
God will eventually open the eyes of any who wants the truth to reign in their hearts and breathe on their faith to believe the unbelievable, that we are new creatures and that sin has no more power over us. He will have a church without spot or wrinkle. But unless we want to be without spot or wrinkle as well, and know we cannot do that, and seek a deeper level of grace where He causes us to walk obediently (Ezekiel 36), our hearts will continue to get harder and harder and the real danger is that we can fall away by walking away. Our faith will have been choked out by the love of ourselves, and the cares of this life. May it not happen to any listening.
God is calling us to the 'good fight of faith", so that we might become 'established" in the truth and when we do, we will find that our Lord was not exaggerating when He told us that He would set us free indeed. Traise God.
I pray this helps. If there are any other questions, I will do my best to answer them. Remember always, God is looking at the state of our hearts, not our doctrines or how we appear to other men.
Blessings,
Gideon
I can't quite fully grasp this letting go epiphany you got from God as a tangible, saving, living thing that changed you. could you expound more on this "meat" that you are talking about that clearly shows the difference between the wheat & the chaff?
god bless & thank you!
Thanks for writing, I hope I can clarify a bit.
What will eventually be the fork in the road that separates the sheep from the goats? The wheat from the chaff? Is it sin? No, that was taken care of on Calvary... IF... if we continue to repent and follow after the Lord. The danger of sin lies not in itself, for it can always be washed away, even if it is seventy times seven, amen? The danger lies in the fact that sin allowed to remain in a believers heart hardens it to hear God's voice. Our conscience begins to get glazed over. We go from heart faith to mind faith and finally end up with simply intellectual acknowledgement, the very same faith that the demons have. The problem is, they tremble, we do not.
The war satan is waging is against our faith. Sin is simply a means to an end.
So, how do we fight him? How can we remain secure in Christ? Our biggest weapon up to date has been... forgiveness. We are armed with no weapons to fight, except our resolve and will power, and they ALWAYS eventually fail, amen? Sp, we sin, we repent. We resolve to 'do better'. But we do not see that we cannot do better. if we are in our old nature, we are under the grip of the law, for we believe in our hearts that we are NOT dead, that sin cannot be defeated, that old things are NOT passed away. So our shield of faith is not up, and offers us no protection.
The law has sway over a man as long as he lives, right? If we have not reckoned our old nature as dead and are not found yielding ourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, we have placed ourselves back under the law voluntarily. We may deny it doctrinally, and quote all the right verses, but the truth is, regardless of what we think intellectually, our lack of faith in what Jesus has really done for us has placed us firmly under the grip of the law and the result is? Sin still reigns over us.
Does this mean we are bound for hell? Not at all, if we protect our hearts and repent and mean it, every time we fall. But there is the danger as I have shown. Eventually, our repentance gets more and more shallow till it is simply going through the motions with a weak "God understands, 'cause I am only human." There is great danger here.
So then, where is there safety? In the new man, for here is the sanctuary, the place of safety from sin hardening our hearts, where we are not under law! Here there is no sin for there is no law. We must understand though, when we first make our declaration of DEPENDANCE, our faith is real faith, but it is weak. Like a toddler trying to learn to walk, we do occasionally fall. Like before, we confess. We repent, but now there is another critical step. We believe again that old things are passed away and that sin has no dominion over us! We confess that we are NOT in the flesh, but in the Spirit, and owe the flesh NOTHING (Romans 7). The door satan tried to wedge back open is slammed back in his face and it frustrates him to no end! LOL. SAnd every time that happens, our faith GROWS.
Ultimately, here is the determining factor of the wheat, who WILL go in amd find safety as this revelation is given again by the Spirit to the church, and the tares, who will not. The issue is Lordship, who is in charge, who owns us.
The tares will be satisfied with forgiveness.... salvation... having resisted the draw of the Spirit to run into Him for safety, where Jesus is both savior AND Lord. They will refuse to come, finding themselves content to just get to Heaven, as they continue to run their own lives. They are content with religion and doctrines, and a little sin, a little half-hearted repentance and them still on their throne. They will want to remain in the flesh, even though they are told that those who are in this state cannot please God. They will balk at paying the cost, losing their own life.
The wheat will hate the sin in them that dishonors their God, and know that it is their flesh that is the culprit. They will willingly run into Him, even if it means they lose "their" life, because in exchange, they get His! They follow the master, and do what the spirit bids them do. They love the light and want all of its fulness iin them, so that it is no more them that live, but Christ who now lives in them." (Galatians 2:20)
Sp, we can see ultimately, the factors are-
1) Do we love the light or hate it? Are we willing to flee the darkness, even if it is in our own hearts?
2) Do we long to lose our life to find His in us or do we chafe at the suggestion that we need to and think this is "legalism"?
God will eventually open the eyes of any who wants the truth to reign in their hearts and breathe on their faith to believe the unbelievable, that we are new creatures and that sin has no more power over us. He will have a church without spot or wrinkle. But unless we want to be without spot or wrinkle as well, and know we cannot do that, and seek a deeper level of grace where He causes us to walk obediently (Ezekiel 36), our hearts will continue to get harder and harder and the real danger is that we can fall away by walking away. Our faith will have been choked out by the love of ourselves, and the cares of this life. May it not happen to any listening.
God is calling us to the 'good fight of faith", so that we might become 'established" in the truth and when we do, we will find that our Lord was not exaggerating when He told us that He would set us free indeed. Traise God.
I pray this helps. If there are any other questions, I will do my best to answer them. Remember always, God is looking at the state of our hearts, not our doctrines or how we appear to other men.
Blessings,
Gideon
