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Beloved ones, we have heard:
“Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.”
‭‭Colossians‬ ‭3:5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,”
‭‭Colossians‬ ‭3:6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Beloved ones, let us be concerned to put to death these things (fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness).
Let us be made wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
 

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This is so true brother, we have to escape our sins before we can say we have been saved from them.

This takes courage and faith in Jesus from the side of the believer. For years i tried stopping my sin in my own ability, because i felt i had to do that. In effect i locked my inner sinners up within my own self. Jesus wasn't pleased when He came for a visit and threw the doors of my inner jails open. That really taught me a hard lesson!

What a mess did i make of it trying to do it myself. Years deep in my pit i finally realised i had to let Jesus change me. And so in the end He saved me from my sins by putting me to death in my desires to do wrong and raising me up into newness of life through His loving truth, in my sinner selves, time and again, until in union my divided self served and praised the Lord each day again.

That is the secret of stopping our sin, to learn to love Jesus more than doing wrong, and to eat grace and so learn to love Jesus for His salvation. He grew me anew out of my sin, like a beautiful flower growing in mere dirt. Every day He reaps me from my sinful existence into His heavenly Kingdom. Every day He puts sins to death and raises me up in to His loving truth.

This work of love is an ongoing process, which like my life in Christ, will have no ending, but will always continue building me in the kingdom of Christ.

So glad he did away with my fleshly passions, i struggled with them for years, before i learned to love Jesus more than those fleeting pleasures and realised i wanted to die being like that. Sure i took some time to die in some sins, rivers of blood, that is what such times are in our lives, rivers of blood as we die to wrong and find new life in Christ's loving truth.

i found Scripture to be extremely helpful fighting my sin, each time i found birth in its truth, i would grow bigger in His kingdom of love. Amazing how that goes.

All praise to Jesus.

Isaiah 30:19-22
People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you. Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” Then you will desecrate your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, “Away with you!”
 
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Beloved one,
many don’t perceive fornication is worldly sexual ritual which pagan practiced. Many are deceived. Though many don’t openly confess their pagan beliefs, they set their minds on the things of the flesh. For we have heard:

But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. -James 1:14

Beloved one, we should consider our own desire whether they are evil or not. For apostle Paul have spoken to us that evil desire is idolatry. So we should not submit to evil desire that anger God. We should consider ourselves dead to sin but alive in God through Christ Jesus.

For we heard:
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭2:1-3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Beloved one, many are deceived because of the lust of flesh. The pursuit for fulfillment of sensual pleasures, made many bound. In their indulgences, they didn’t perceive that they were deceived by the prince of the power of the air. Their bodies no longer their own, for they were slaves of sin.

For we heard:
For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. -Romans 7:15

Beloved one,
the world consider us not conforming to their norms — for many practice fornication, and consider it as acceptable practice. Beloved ones, let us not be conformed to this world but renew our minds by abiding in the Lord’s will, that He has chosen for us what is good, acceptable and perfect.

Beloved one,
sex before marriage or fornication, don’t honor the purity of marriage covenant. So those who fornicate defiles the covenant.
For fornicator brought shame, for not regarding purity of the relationship. Though a person may not to marry, that also do not honor God.

For we heard:
“But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
‭‭I Corinthians‬ ‭6:17-20‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Beloved one, for we also heard:
For you know how, like a father with his children, -1 Thessalonians 2:11
we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory. -1 Thessalonians 2:12

Beloved one, let us exhort, encouraged and charge others who are young not to be deceived by evil desires of fornication, that they may walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls them together with us, into His own kingdom and glory.

To God be all glory. Amen.
 
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This is so true brother, we have to escape our sins before we can say we have been saved from them.

This takes courage and faith in Jesus from the side of the believer. For years i tried stopping my sin in my own ability, because i felt i had to do that. In effect i locked my inner sinners up within my own self. Jesus wasn't pleased when He came for a visit and threw the doors of my inner jails open. That really taught me a hard lesson!

What a mess did i make of it trying to do it myself. Years deep in my pit i finally realised i had to let Jesus change me. And so in the end He saved me from my sins by putting me to death in my desires to do wrong and raising me up into newness of life through His loving truth, in my sinner selves, time and again, until in union my divided self served and praised the Lord each day again.

That is the secret of stopping our sin, to learn to love Jesus more than doing wrong, and to eat grace and so learn to love Jesus for His salvation. He grew me anew out of my sin, like a beautiful flower growing in mere dirt. Every day He reaps me from my sinful existence into His heavenly Kingdom. Every day He puts sins to death and raises me up in to His loving truth.

This work of love is an ongoing process, which like my life in Christ, will have no ending, but will always continue building me in the kingdom of Christ.

So glad he did away with my fleshly passions, i struggled with them for years, before i learned to love Jesus more than those fleeting pleasures and realised i wanted to die being like that. Sure i took some time to die in some sins, rivers of blood, that is what such times are in our lives, rivers of blood as we die to wrong and find new life in Christ's loving truth.

i found Scripture to be extremely helpful fighting my sin, each time i found birth in its truth, i would grow bigger in His kingdom of love. Amazing how that goes.

All praise to Jesus.

Isaiah 30:19-22
People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you. Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” Then you will desecrate your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, “Away with you!”
Beloved one,
I hear a voice of sincerity from you.

For we heard:
“Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith,”
‭‭I Timothy‬ ‭1:5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Beloved one, with many living idolatry, my heart cry that many were lost and go astray.
Many didn’t perceive the light of the gospel
of our Lord, that bring grace, that strengthen them, that leads them to the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.

Your sincerity to love Christ, bring joy to Him, for you respond to His love. Though many things we may yet not understand, let us place them in His Hands, believing that all things work for good for those who love Christ who are called to His purpose in union with Him.

Talking about fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry, this is seldom discussed,for I believe that when we abide in Christ’s words, we shall know the truth and the truth shall make us free.

Many were blinded by fornication in pursuit of indulging in sensual pleasures. In their blindness, they said that indulgences as love.
If only they repent like a sinful woman who was forgiven in Luke 7. For the Lord said:
Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven'for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little." -Luke 7:47

When they who have been guilty of fornication, they respond to the grace of repentance like the sinful woman who was forgiven— their sins, which are many, are forgiven, for they have much loved Christ.
When sinner repent, that becomes a source of love for Jesus. So let us daily bring our sin before Him, repent in truth and contrition. He will thoroughly wash our iniquities, and cleanse us from our sin. Our repentance bring joy not only to our Lord, but also to us, that we believe that we have met the condition to be forgiven, that we heard:

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, -Matthew 6:14
but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. -Matthew 6:15

Yes, we met the condition when we released forgiveness to those who wronged us. What bring us joy is that our Heavenly Father forgave our wrongdoings. Where is this joy ? The joy of the Lord is our strength. The joy that our Heavenly Father no longer counting out wrongdoings against us. This joy of the Lord gives us strength to walk according to His commandments.

For this is what we have heard:
“And when there had been much dispute, Peter rose up and said to them: “Men and brethren, you know that a good while ago God chose among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. So God, who knows the heart, acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us, and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.”
‭‭Acts‬ ‭15:7-9‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

How did Gentiles who were once in fornication, with unclean mouths, with ungodly passion, evil desire, and covetous of the things of the world, that their hearts be purified by faith ? This is what we have heard:

“Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:”
‭‭II Peter‬ ‭1:1‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

So we were purified by faith, that we have obtained by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ.

What is the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ ? This is what we have heard:

“My tongue shall speak of Your word,
For all Your commandments are righteousness.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭119:172‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

So the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ are His commandments.

What are His commandments that we heard ?

“And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.”
‭‭I John‬ ‭3:23‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.”
‭‭I John‬ ‭4:21‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.”
‭‭II John‬ ‭1:6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us.”
‭‭II Thessalonians‬ ‭3:6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.”
‭‭I John‬ ‭5:3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

So we were purified by faith, that we have obtained by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ, for we have believed on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.

Beloved one, the commandments of our Lord are not burdensome, as many who have been living in idolatry have perceived, but the commandments of the Lord is the love of God that make us right before Him through faith in Christ Jesus.

Beloved one Jeshu, may your testimony bring deliverance to many, that His grace strengthen you to abide in the truth of His love. Let us long that many taste and see the truth of His love.

So beloved ones, consider this that we heard:
“I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek Your servant, For I do not forget Your commandments.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭119:176‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

So beloved ones, let us not forget the Lord’s commandments, and trust the Lord that He will seek you who have gone astray like a lost sheep.

May God’s grace be with you.
To God be all glory and praise. Amen.
 
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Beloved one Jeshu, may your testimony bring deliverance to many, that His grace strengthen you to abide in the truth of His love. Let us long that many taste and see the truth of His love.

Thank you brother for your informative reply. i so hope people will go to Jesus when they are stuck with sin and dare to drink His loving forgiveness so that God's love dwells in the sinful part to be cleansed.

i think it is very important for people who struggle with sin, especially repetitive sexual sin, as i once did, to eat grace in their sinner self, and not oppress themselves with the their self righteous self as so often happens, but keep eating grace. For this is what i did in my self righteous self. i persecuted myself in sin and imprisoned myself within myself. Such does not set free from sin but divides us within into the have and have nots. i found that going to Jesus when i was in the mood for sin was the most important thing i ever did in sinful self.

Oh am i glad i went to God in my sinful self. For it is God's love that we need to break free from our sin, without God's love we can never break away from our sin. So eating grace in our guilty self brings His love into our sinful self and destroys it from within. The want to do sin simply dies out of us the more we learn to love Jesus in our lives.

The little yeast story also works the other way around you see. For love for God does not desire sin but to praise Him and serve Him His due. Love for God grows in our hearts if we confess our sin and struggle against it, not giving sin dominion over our hearts again, but only make room for ourself in sin to talk to Jesus about who and what we are, and what we become, when we are in such sinful spirit.

When i first stood before Jesus i was stark naked. And filthy dirty. Yet He did not scorn me, or send me away, rather He washed me clean and gave me new clothes and a new dwelling place beside Him and took care of me until i loved Him enough to break with my past and begin life fully in Him and with Him.

Jesus is such a wonderful Saviour. He frees me from untrue self and restores me back into true self again. Every day some more. i will love Him forever setting me free from my sins, they have afflicted me so.

i hope all believers find true freedom from their sins, each and every day, and experience a real life with Jesus as their King of kings and Lord of lords of their hearts. He is unbelievable good to me, every day again His loving truth guides me and teaches me more about Him and His Kingdom.


Peace brother.

(That God's love fill you to overflowing and His truth protect you from the enemy.)

Oh Lamb of God!

I know for sure that Your Voice is You!
For The Living Word within is true
Right within my soul Your Spirit dwells
About God's Kingdom Your love tells.

Forgiving love is wonderful within
For it surely does away with sin.
Bringing thankfulness alive
Bringing an end to all my inner strife.

Keep teaching me The Way to go
Living Waters through me to flow.
A heart praising God each Day anew
His loving Word that ugly Dragon slew.

Slowly day after day You take me in
Onhigh with You and all God's kin
Praising Father for only He is good.
His loving Truth my constant food.

More and more The TRUTH reveals
As The Lamb of God opens all the seals
Angels beside themselves with glee
God's amazing Salvation I may see!

Oh Lamb of God - You alone I praise!
Oh Your loving truth bringing Grace!
Without Your Word I could not have known
What Your love in me has sown!









 
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Thank you brother for your informative reply. i so hope people will go to Jesus when they are stuck with sin and dare to drink His loving forgiveness so that God's love dwells in the sinful part to be cleansed.

i think it is very important for people who struggle with sin, especially repetitive sexual sin, as i once did, to eat grace in their sinner self, and not oppress themselves with the their self righteous self as so often happens, but keep eating grace. For this is what i did in my self righteous self. i persecuted myself in sin and imprisoned myself within myself. Such does not set free from sin but divides us within into the have and have nots. i found that going to Jesus when i was in the mood for sin was the most important thing i ever did in sinful self.

Oh am i glad i went to God in my sinful self. For it is God's love that we need to break free from our sin, without God's love we can never break away from our sin. So eating grace in our guilty self brings His love into our sinful self and destroys it from within. The want to do sin simply dies out of us the more we learn to love Jesus in our lives.

The little yeast story also works the other way around you see. For love for God does not desire sin but to praise Him and serve Him His due. Love for God grows in our hearts if we confess our sin and struggle against it, not giving sin dominion over our hearts again, but only make room for ourself in sin to talk to Jesus about who and what we are, and what we become, when we are in such sinful spirit.

When i first stood before Jesus i was stark naked. And filthy dirty. Yet He did not scorn me, or send me away, rather He washed me clean and gave me new clothes and a new dwelling place beside Him and took care of me until i loved Him enough to break with my past and begin life fully in Him and with Him.

Jesus is such a wonderful Saviour. He frees me from untrue self and restores me back into true self again. Every day some more. i will love Him forever setting me free from my sins, they have afflicted me so.

i hope all believers find true freedom from their sins, each and every day, and experience a real life with Jesus as their King of kings and Lord of lords of their hearts. He is unbelievable good to me, every day again His loving truth guides me and teaches me more about Him and His Kingdom.


Peace brother.

(That God's love fill you to overflowing and His truth protect you from the enemy.)

Oh Lamb of God!

I know for sure that Your Voice is You!
For The Living Word within is true
Right within my soul Your Spirit dwells
About God's Kingdom Your love tells.

Forgiving love is wonderful within
For it surely does away with sin.
Bringing thankfulness alive
Bringing an end to all my inner strife.

Keep teaching me The Way to go
Living Waters through me to flow.
A heart praising God each Day anew
His loving Word that ugly Dragon slew.

Slowly day after day You take me in
Onhigh with You and all God's kin
Praising Father for only He is good.
His loving Truth my constant food.

More and more The TRUTH reveals
As The Lamb of God opens all the seals
Angels beside themselves with glee
God's amazing Salvation I may see!

Oh Lamb of God - You alone I praise!
Oh Your loving truth bringing Grace!
Without Your Word I could not have known
What Your love in me has sown!








Yes, beloved one Jeshu,
Many who have been convicted of sins like idolatry that we heard like fornication, uncleanness, ungodly passion,evil desire and covetousness — they are hungry and thirsty for the word of God. They haven’t understood that without the bread of God, that they have no strength to do what God commanded them. They haven’t understood that they should come to Christ, the Rock to drink the living waters — that their soul, that is, their minds/emotions/wills — may not dry out. As you said, that they should be fed with the grace of God. Then they will taste the loving kindness and tender mercies of the Lord.

Beloved one Jeshu, I am also sad that some may have discouraged them by giving wrong counsels. For the Lord Himself have counseled us:

““Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven. For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost. “What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying?
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭18:10-12‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Weren’t they who have lived in idolatry are these little ones who were lost and go astray?

Weren’t the homosexual unclean with ungodly passion ? Yet many have not heeded what apostle Paul have said :
“Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭6:1-2‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Though we were commanded to withdraw from every brother who walk disorderly such as the homosexual and those who dispute with unwholesome words who have not walked according to the tradition which he received from the apostles — we should first restore such the ones who are overtaken in trespasses with a spirit of gentleness, that they may respond to the Lord’s grace of repentance.

For this is what we have heard apostle Paul said to us:
1 For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you. 2 For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? 3 And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.4 For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

FORGIVE THE SINNER

5 Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you. 6 For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough,7 so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 8 So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. 9 For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything. 10 Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ, 11 so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.

So those who have ungodly passion like the disputers with unwholesome words and the homosexual who have repented in truth and contrition, we should rather turn to forgive them and comfort them with the pure love of Christ. So let us forgive them in the presence of Christ, that they would not be outwitted by Satan.

Beloved one Jeshu, let us love these little ones with the love of Christ,whom the Lord said that He has come to save that which was lost and go astray, that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven.
To God be all glory and praise. Amen
 
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Beloved one Jeshu, let us love these little ones with the love of Christ,whom the Lord said that He has come to save that which was lost and go astray, that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven.

Oh my dear brother so many people are fatherless. It saddens my heart that this is so. Stuck in sin oppressed by satan, i know what that is like, i know how i hurt sin. So many people hurt wrong, it are those who need the love of Jesus in their lives.

Not those who love sin and enjoy doing wrong. For them the Gospel of salvation is closed and His words of grace fall on deaf ears.

So let us seek out the lost hurting ones, stuck in sin and overcome by lies. Such people are all around us. That Jesus comforts them, like He comfort us, and renews them like He is renewing us. Setting them also free from their sins every day again and teaching them to walk in the word and with the word to God's glory.

That Jesus rule this world through all our hearts combined. Let this be so. Amen.

Peace to all God's people.

 
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Beloved ones, we have heard:
“Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.”
‭‭Colossians‬ ‭3:5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,”
‭‭Colossians‬ ‭3:6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Beloved ones, let us be concerned to put to death these things (fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness).
Let us be made wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

The spiritual reality for every believer is that they have already been crucified with Christ and made "dead unto sin but alive unto God" as a result. What remains is for the Christian believer to stand, by faith, upon the truth of their co-crucifixion with Christ, to "reckon (count) it so" every day.

Romans 6:5-11
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
7 For one who has died has been set free from sin.
8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
10 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.
11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.


As a believer stands by faith upon the truth of their death to Self and sin in Christ, the Spirit conforms them to it (Romans 8:13; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Ephesians 5:9; Philippians 2:13, etc.) bringing them progressively freer of sin in their practical, daily living.

No man can crucify himself. Not physically, certainly, and not spiritually, either. And so, God has done for us through Christ what we cannot do for ourselves.

Galatians 2:20
20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.


Galatians 5:24
24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.


Colossians 2:9-13
9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,
10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,


Colossians 3:1-3
1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.


As these passages make clear, all who are "in Christ" have been - present, perfect progressive tense (begun in the past, continuing into the present) - united with him spiritually in his death, burial and resurrection and have thereby been made "dead unto and alive unto God." It is a serious mistake, then, to think that the crucified life is something we accomplish for God, that it is something we make happen in our lives by our aggressively beating ourselves down, "putting to death" our selfish, sinful desires, thoughts and attitudes.

No, instead, we are simply to trust that we are already "dead to sin," in Christ separated from its power, and by faith (2 Corinthians 5:7) counting this to be true, standing upon this truth unmoved in the face of temptation. As we do, the Holy Spirit progressively conforms us in our daily condition, our daily living, to the reality of our already crucified spiritual position in Christ.

Our "job" is not to claw and scratch at ourselves, trying to stuff down Self and the sin it produces, but to "labor in faith" to stand upon who we already are in Jesus, trusting the Holy Spirit to transform us in accord with our spiritual identity in him. When this is how we live, our freedom from sin is not a torturous, agonizing, barely-made-it sort of thing, but a natural, profound and often unnoticed change of heart, and mind, and behaviour - like the growth of a branch from the Vine (John 15:4-5).

I understand this is contrary to the way so many moralistic, pull-yourselves-up-by-your-own-bootstraps preachers and teachers approach spiritual living today, but it is God's way, plainly laid out in His word.
 
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Oh my dear brother so many people are fatherless. It saddens my heart that this is so. Stuck in sin oppressed by satan, i know what that is like, i know how i hurt sin. So many people hurt wrong, it are those who need the love of Jesus in their lives.

Not those who love sin and enjoy doing wrong. For them the Gospel of salvation is closed and His words of grace fall on deaf ears.

So let us seek out the lost hurting ones, stuck in sin and overcome by lies. Such people are all around us. That Jesus comforts them, like He comfort us, and renews them like He is renewing us. Setting them also free from their sins every day again and teaching them to walk in the word and with the word to God's glory.

That Jesus rule this world through all our hearts combined. Let this be so. Amen.

Peace to all God's people.

This is the grace that we heard:
"Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to you, for you are the LORD our God. -Jeremiah 3:22
 
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Yes and this is what He did!

Ezekiel 36:26-27
"I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws."
 
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