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Make straight the way of The Lord. What is a crooked path or a path with many turns? Difficult. So we are to make the Lord's way easy. What is The Lord's way!!? Self sacrifice and surrender. So how can we make self sacrifice and surrender easy? Willingness and obedience. By His grace and mercy we can stand holy and acceptable only if we are willing to surrender our lives that we might receive it. You must lose your life<passions and desires> to gain it. Just be willing and He is faithful to deliver you. You will be surprised at what you have been missing chasing those things you thought made you happy
 

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Welcome to the forums

i think it can be very dangerous to think like you do no brother. Please don't get me wrong, i tried for years to attain the things you talk about here, but sin living in me simply didn't go away, no matter how much good i did at other times.

This made me realise that for mostly serving God is loving true, and loving true, we can only do in His Spirit and when we have found rebirth in our by sin divided spirit.

i found that going to Jesus in my fallen selves, rather than serving Him in my religious selves, finally taught me to love Jesus and learn how to get rid of sin living within me.

The first thing i did was stop trying!

Trying to be a good Christian had only brought me frustration, sadness, unanswered prayers, hours in Church, yet only to see more sin, alienation, judgemental attitude, arrogance and pride but not a God loving humble heart.

So rather than trying to right when wrong lives in me, i learned to go to Jesus in my wrong self and let Jesus change my spirit through His graceful love.

Amazing what happened when i learned to do that, eating God's grace, His love entering me - time and again - and destroyed my willingness to sin inside of me, and making me love Him instead. Time and again i have seen Jesus do this in my heart.

All those who i had condemned in myself with my religious self, Jesus gave new life in Him and from Him, and so in my sinful selves i escaped the flames of hell, and have been united with myself in my God loving selves, and so learned to love God and neighbour united within, instead of divided by sin. While in my religious selves i perished in flames. So glad that that unfaithful prostitute living in my heart got exposed by The Word and destroyed.

So yes be careful brother not to follow religious teachings about how to serve God rightly. Rather get to know Jesus in Spirit within your heart, for through the word you will hear Him speak in love for God, you and your neighbour.

It is not about us doing all that stuff for Jesus to be acceptable to The Lord, rather learn to love Jesus eating grace doing it wrong, and let His loving truth divide sheep from goats within you and set you free from the control of the wicked.

Faith in God's love sets us free from sin, not trying to be good for Jesus, that is my experience about this.

Peace.

The Wicked,

The wicked came without invitation.
made an end to good life's celebration.
The wicked devised every deformity.
created all the illnesses that be.

They forced their way as kings.
controlling all heart's things.
Shaping people in their ways.
blackened colours all in greys.

The wicked always speak lies.
Orchestrating truth's demise.
bringing about so much misery.
Hardened hearts committing felony.

They always offend God from within.
They are the cause of so much sin.
They are behind every homicide.
Made many men on rape decide.

Now let God's love shine true.
The Word will give them their due.
Erasing the wicked from our heart.
So we will from sinful ways depart.

 
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You see John the Baptist had a message and that message was make straight the way of the Lord. Confirmation of my interpretation is also that his message was turn away from your evil ways. See at first you will fail many times Until you realize your need for a savior for we do not have the strength and power to overcome evil desires. But when you are willing to fully surrender to the one true God he will take those desires away from you. Time and time again in the Bible it tells you not to live in sin. Jesus also said to follow him. The Apostle Paul said the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God. Jesus said Broad and easy is the path that leads to destruction and many travel by this path but narrow and difficult is the way that leads to life and few will find it. So that means we have to be doing something differently than everyone else. The broad and easy path is accepting sin as an inevitability and saying oh we just fall short of the glory and it's just our nature. We have a great and wonderful savior who will take the power of sin away from us. The Apostle Paul also wrote that we are no longer to be slaves to sin resulting in death but slaves to obedience resulting in righteousness. For 18 years my former self was consumed by error and I thought it to be impossible to quit. This is true for the unbeliever. I read the Bible for years and said that I was born again. But I continued to do the wrong thing and when I decided then I would completely surrender a hundred percent the one true God took away my taste of sin and made it impossible for me to turn back. He was waiting for my willingness to be obedient.
Matthew 10:39
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If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it.
Romans 12
New International Version

A Living Sacrifice
12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Romans 8:12

12 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live
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Romans 6:1-2
Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ
6 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
 
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