Saturday, June 18, 2011

God said through Paul just after his testimony. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
This freedom Jesus talked about in John 8 He said,"Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. (In bondage too.)
And the servant (sinner) abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.: His flesh, condenming it to death on the cross in His flesh. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity (sin) captive, and gave gifts unto men. For ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. For it was not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because that the worshippers once purged of sin they should have had no more conscience of sins. The inner man should of been changed.
But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. A figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience (the inner Man);
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.The reforming of the inner man.

But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption (freedom from the bondage of sin)for us.
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge (cleanse) your conscience (the inner man)from dead works (acts that lead to death. Sin, For the wages of sin is death) to serve the living God?
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, For what cause?

To cleanse the inner man so we can serve the Living God. What is the new testament? It is the fulfilment of the New covenant. For God hath said, for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. For it is I which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. This is and was only Possible through the cleansing blood of Jesus. We had to be cleansed and purged of the old Man. For God hath said,"Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also walk in newness of life.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.".

If we sin it is because we want to or have not received the repentance which is from God. Not because we can't live without sinning. But we are right With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Greater is he that is in us than he that is in this world. For it is God that worketh in us both to will and do His good pleasure. As God hath said, I will dwell in them and walk in them; for we are the temple of the living God. Therefore there hath no temptation taken us but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that we may be able to bear it.
And that way is through His Spirit. The power that we have available to us as the Body of Christ. God's Holy Temple.
Have Faith. Ask and we will receive. Knock and it will be open to us.
Ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Continue to Pray. Let us not doubt in our hearts, but believe that those things which we saith shall come to pass; and we shall have whatsoever we saith.
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever we desire, when we pray, believe that we receive them, and we shall have them.
Jesus said unto us, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to them that believeth.
And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
So how does one combat unbelief? As with any temptation. Prayer and With a hardy thus saith the Lord!!
Jesus are example, when tempted in the wilderness meet each temptation with a," Get behind me Satan, It is written".
So when we are tempted and as we tarry here waiting on the Lord we can meet each avenue in life and each temptation with the same mind set. Through God’s Holy Spirit.