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God sent His Son
Why did God send his precious son for an offering for sinful flesh? Because he condemned sin in the flesh, and Jesus had to come to this earth with the same human nature that we have, and he had to be born of a virgin, because he could not have contaminated blood. You see the life is in the blood, and we were all condemned to die because we had Adam’s blood, and so this pure holy one had to come and be prepared all of his life to become the ultimate sacrifice for sin, and that he done for us, and when we accept that sacrifice, he, by the power of the Holy Spirit, subdues, and deprives it of it's power in us.
Now verse 4 says, So that the righteous and just requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who live and move not in the ways of the flesh, but in the ways of the spirit. Our lives are governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit.
And as long as we recognize the flesh and how weak it is and turn it over to the death of Jesus Christ, that is die daily, and allow the Spirit of truth to live and reveal Jesus Christ and him crucified in us. Like Paul screamed out, after a bout with covetousness, Oh! Wretched man that I am! Who is going to deliver me from this horrible body of death, and praise God! The Holy Spirit of Christ revealed to him, Calvary and what was done there on the cross, how all the wickedness was destroyed, in that cross, in that death. That Jesus took for us. Hallelujah!
What a lie of the devil to say that you can't overcome something, that you have to live with it, and the power of the holy spirit is too weak.
Look at what was spoken in roman's 3:3 What if some did not believe and were without faith? Does their lack of faith and their faithlessness nullify and make ineffective and void the faithfulness of God and his fidelity [to his word]?
V.4. by no means! Let God be found true though every human being be false and a liar, as it is written, that you may be justified and show to be upright in what you say, and prevail when you are judged [by sinful men].
Then a lot a people try to justify their acts of wickedness by saying this scripture; there is no good thing in the flesh. And also this one, we all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. They will repeat these scriptures every time that they are doing something that is not right. They do not look at the verse ahead of it, and they do not look at the verse after it. Lets look at it.
Romans 3:21, But now God has shown us a different way to heaven, not by "being good enough and trying to keep his laws, but by a new way (though not new, really, for the scriptures told about it long ago). Now God says he will accept and acquit us declare us "not guilty if we trust Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we all can be saved in this same way, by coming to Christ, no matter who we are or what we have been like.
V.23. Yes we all have sinned: all fall short of God's glory.
V.24. Yet now God declares us "not guilty" of offending him if we trust in Jesus Christ, who in his kindness freely takes away our sins. v.25] for God sent Christ Jesus to take the punishment for our sins and to end all god's anger against us. He used Christ’s blood and our faith as the means of saving us from his wrath.
It is time to stop giving the devil the credit, that he has more power then he has, the Holy Spirit is the power that is greater than any other power, and it is not by human might or human power but it is by the Spirit of God, and it is time to rise up and take the kingdom of God, and seize it as a precious prize. The Holy Spirit is the power of God, and a mighty power he is. Hallelujah! We can in the power of the Holy Spirit walk in his redeeming power. You will never know unless you allow him his rightful rule. I love the Holy Spirit of God. He is God, and he is mighty, and he is our life. (My body, his life). He is my friend, and can be anyone’s friend who trust in him to do the works that Jesus has done for us. He is the comforter, and he is the very life that was in Jesus Christ when he walked upon this earth.
I know there are times when our flesh will rise up, but we don't have to give in to it, we can by the power of the Holy Spirit have that thing crucified right on the spot, there is always a way of escape that God has provided for us, and I believe that way of escape is the cross. Humbling ourselves under God's almighty hand, and resisting the devil and he will flee from you. That is what jams said by the power of the Holy Spirit.
James4:7 so give yourselves humbly to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. V.8. and when you draw close to god, god will draw close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and let your hearts be filled with God alone to make them pure and true to him.
Here is what the amplified says in 1 Corinthians 15:33-34 do not be so deceived and misled! Evil companionships [communion, associations] corrupt and deprave good manners and morals and character.
V.34. Awake from your drunken stupor and return to sober sense and your right minds, and sin no more. For some of you have not the knowledge of God, you are utterly and willfully and disgracefully ignorant, and continue to be so lacking the sense of God's presence and all true knowledge of him. I say this to your shame.
You know the truth is, that you will become like those who you hang out with. Jesus he had a different spirit and he had no self, or did he ever do things on his own. He completely abandoned himself to the spirit of his father. Everyday we have to die to self, and God made that way. For us. I just praise the Lord God Almighty, because he is not a man that he should tell or act a lie,
Numbers 23:19 says, God is not a man, that he should tell or act a lie, neither the son of man, that he should feel repentance or compunction [for what he has promised]. Has he said, and shall he not do it? Or has he spoken and shall he not make it good?
What a blessing that we can trust God with all of our hearts and believe that what he has done in Jesus Christ he has done for eternity, and he will never go back on his word. I love him so much, the more that I see in his word the more that I stand in awe of him.
To think of the great love that he has for us, and that we can never grow out of his love, for his love is higher than the very heavens, for he came down from heaven to become like one of us, and his love is wider than all this earth, for he walked the perfect will of the Father, and he had a body prepared for an offering for sin. And his love is greater than all the mountains, no mountain can be compared to his love for us, for he went to Calvary, the mountain of the skull and died for us there, and his love is greater than this whole universe,
There is not a place where we can go that his love can't reach us. his love is deeper than any sin can go, for Jesus Christ went to hell for us and took the keys of hell and death away from satan, and he has given to us his authority in his name, that whatever we bind on this earth he has already bound it in heaven. Whatever we loose on earth he has already loosed it in heaven. He has given to us his very name to use against the enemy.
For every knee has to bow before the name of Jesus Christ in heaven on earth and under the earth, and every tongue has to confess that Jesus Christ is lord to the glory of God the father,
And he has given us his love to walk in. For the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit he has given to us. I praise God that he has promised us a new heart, and a new spirit, and his Holy Spirit, and we don't belong to the Adam family anymore, but we belong to the family of God. And he wants to glorify his son on this earth in our lives, by the power of the Holy Spirit in us. let us go forward in the love and might of our Lord Jesus Christ, let us lift the banner up high, the banner of the cross, and say along with Paul. Galatians 6:14
As for me, God forbid that I should boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross my interest in all the attractive things of the world was killed long ago, and the world's interest in me also long dead. v.15] it doesn't make any difference now whether we have been circumcised or not; what counts is whether we really have been changed into new and different people. V. 16] may God's mercy and peace be upon all of you who live by this principle and upon those everywhere who are really God's own.
Listen to this, and let this always be our attitude, for my part, I am going to boast about nothing but the cross of our master Jesus Christ. Because of that cross, I have been crucified in relation to the world, set fee from the stifling atmosphere of pleasing others and fitting into the little patterns that they dictate. [The message]
So you see we can be free people if we allow the Holy Spirit of God to have his rightful place in our lives, and it is him who prepares the room and the throne for Jesus Christ to rule and reign. So let go of king self, and allow the king of kings to rule and to reign, let this coming year be gloriously lived in the power of the Holy Spirit of Christ Jesus. He is worthy to be praised.
Bless your holy name lord Jesus for truly you are the Christ the son of the living God.
In the all-powerful name of Jesus Christ, to him be the glory forever.
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