Not Called of God for Impurity

[Christsfreeservant]

“For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification. So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.” (1 Thessalonians 4:7-8 NASB1995)​

The “gospel” message which is permeating the “church” here in the USA is largely not the gospel that Jesus taught and that his New Testament apostles taught. But it is a man-created diluted and altered “gospel” message intended to tickle itching ears and to appease human flesh and to not offend the ungodly of the world who they are trying to attract and to draw into their weekly “church” gatherings. So it is a half-truth (lie) “gospel,” not of God.

So, in this day and age when liars and lies abound, and when wolves in sheep’s clothing and charlatans and manipulators of truth and deceivers are all over the place, we must be very discerning people of God who are testing the spirits to see which ones are of God. And we must test what we are hearing against the Scriptures, taught in their appropriate context, and taught from reliable and reputable Bible translations, for not all are good.

For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification. In other words, we are not saved from our sins and on our way to heaven based on lip service only. By God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ we die with Christ to sin, and we are raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness, by the grace of God, in the power of God.

Thus, we are no longer to allow sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience is what we obey, it results in sanctification and its end is eternal life with God. And sanctification results in holy living, which means to be different (unlike) the world because we are being conformed to the likeness of character of Jesus Christ, by the grace of God, by faith in Jesus Christ.

So, if you are one who is professing faith in Jesus Christ with your lips, but you are still engaged in deliberate and habitual sin against the Lord, and not in walks of obedience to the Lord in holy living, please know that the Bible teaches that you do not know God, you are not born of God, you are not in fellowship with God, and you do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God unless you deny self, die to sin, and obey God, in practice.

For the Scriptures do not teach that you can make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ, and that you will have salvation from sin and eternal life with God, if your “faith” in Jesus is absent of genuine repentance (death to sin) and walks of surrender to God and to his will in obedience to God and to his commands in holy living. For Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught that faith in Jesus, which is of God, must result in self-denial, dying with Christ to sin, and walking (in conduct) in obedience to our Lord’s commands.

[Matt 7:13-14,21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 10:27-30; Ac 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

So, if you are still walking in deliberate and habitual sin, and not in walks of surrender to the will of God, in obedience to God and to his commands…

Broken Cord

An Original Work / August 29, 2018
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Your bond is broken with your Lord and Savior
And your testimony is separate from Him.
Your words not matching your actions today.
Repent of your sin and bow down and pray.
Live what you testify in truth always.

Purity’s lacking in your life and witness,
For you profess one thing, but other you do.
Not moral, spiritual. Still of the flesh.
Not living in truth to what you confess.
Lying about it puts you in a mess.

Living a lie is your practice, ‘tis true of you.
Masquerade righteousness – none of it true.
Your heart is not given to your Lord God.
Because of how you live, you are a fraud.
Turn from your sin and give your life to God.

Not Called of God for Impurity
An Original Work / May 31, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love