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But if I'm not saved I cannot live by the Spirit, because if I don't have the Spirit I can only be selfish and bad.
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So I say live by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature
For the sinfull nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other so that you do not do what you want
Gal5:16&17
DeerGlow, I will try my best to address your concerns, with the Help and grace of the Lord. As you are finding out, our Christian life is a WAR. Each of us who come to faith in Christ are "born" into our own personal corner of the battlefield where we are soldiers in God's army and responsible for making war against the powers of darkness and the lies of the devil......to the glory of God. Followers of Christ are not condemned for having a thought that is displeasing to the Lord, but only if we keep on willfully entertain them instead of fighting them. The bible says we are to take captive every thought that exalts itself against the truth of God's word and bring it into obedience to Christ, the Word. Every time you have a thought that you know is sinful, repent of it immediately and ask for the Lord's help to take your thoughts captive. Believe what His word says that if we acknowledge and confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us of all unrighteousness.......He truly will.
Since your thought-life is an area of particular difficulty for you, and also bubbles over into your speech at times, make it your goal to overcome your wrong thoughts and do not ever give up. Consider it your battlefield. Pray regularly and fervently for the Lord God to help you take your thoughts captive and deliver you from any demonic strongholds. If you have faith in Jesus Christ then it is no longer you who sin, but sin living in you....nevertheless your part and all our parts is to overcome the sin living in us. Because when we are saved, if we are sincere in wanting to follow Jesus, we also must begin working out our salvation. So do not to entertain or obey wrong and sinful thoughts, but fight the good fight of faith against them using your spiritual weapons of warfare......the sword of the Lord, His mighty word of truth.
Ask Him to lead you to scriptures that you particularly need or that He wants to speak to you each day. If you have trouble concentrating when reading the bible, try reading it out loud to yourself, and even while you are walking up and down the room if you need to. Read it prayerfully, in the Spirit...draw near to God and He will draw near to you by His Spirit. Listen to good old bible-based Christian hymns regularly and perhaps audio recordings of the bible. King James is the most accurate translation that we have, hence the most powerful in spirit. You have to fight the devil, really fight, with the help of God's Holy Spirit, as you prayerfully seek the Lord and His help, and do not give up.
Anything in your past that you know is sin that you haven't yet repented of, do so, and ask the Lord to forgive and cleanse you. If you have dabbled in Taoism or any other false or occultic beliefs or practices you need to confess it to the Lord and utterly and sincerely renounce and forsake these things, turn away from them in repentance...........AND GOD WILL FORGIVE YOU AND CLEANSE YOU. BELIEVE IT AND RECEIVE HIS FORGIVENESS. Because He cannot lie. And then as Jesus admonishes us, go and sin no more.
1 John 1:7-10 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
2 Co 10:3-5 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ
I'm afraid that I'm not sincere enough though. I have a fear of hell but that doesn't equate to being a sincere follower of Christ.
I can't use the KJV though. I know a lot of people are KJV only but it's too difficult for me. I can't understand the English let alone the concepts.
Taoism tempts me sometimes but I've gotten rid of almost everything, except a few pictures I remembered I need to delete still.
I don't know if I'm in the light though.
You are limiting how great the love of God is for those who have accepted his Son as their Saviour and been born again of the Spirit.But if I'm not saved I cannot live by the Spirit, because if I don't have the Spirit I can only be selfish and bad.
But there's so many things in the bible suggestion you can lose salvation. How can I have any comfort? Like my pastor said there is comfort in mourning for a believer's family but you can't lie and say an unbeliever's okay. I know he thinks I'm okay but I have the image in my head of him at my funeral saying "We know [DeerGlow] was a believer and is in heaven with Jesus." and me being in the fires screaming and crying.
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