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Pure Life By Elvis Iverson Copyright © 2006 by Elvis Iverson All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored, in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwisewithout prior written permission of the copyright owner, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper or broadcast. Printed in the United States of America Elvis Iverson P.O. Box 8132 Omaha, NE 68108 sim@elvisiverson.com Supplication International Ministries http://www.ElvisIverson.com Contents 1. Values of the Heart 2. Pure Life 3. To Be Like Christ 4. Called To Be Like Christ 5. Fear of the Lord in Lifestyles 6. Cleansing Blood of Christ 7. Spirit of Grace 8. Secret Sins 9. False Conservatism 10. The Battle Over Sin 11. Deep Roots in Christ 1. Values of the Heart The Kingdom of God is upside down to the ways of this world. The Kingdom of God may be in us, however we don't have the kingdom in our minds or in our lives. The values of our heart will show that we are not living Kingdom living. Upside down Kingdom: "So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen". We can see that in the Kingdom of God the last are first and the first are last. What an ideal that could change our lives to better the true Christian life. See Matt. 20:16. "Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. Wow if you want to be great you must be a servant first. This is not what we are hearing in the world. If you want kingdom life it begins in servant hood. See Matt. 20:26. "But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. "And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. The way of success is the way of humility. Where was the last time you heard this kind of teaching within the church walls? You can see why God is not showing up, we are not humble. See Matt. 23:11-12. For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. Wow once again God's kingdom is built on those who are not wise, mighty, or noble. Our thinking must change into the ways of the Kingdom of God today. See 1 Cor. 1:26-31. "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. Many are trying to save their lives, save their visions, save themselves however, if you gain Christ over all and you lose your life for Christ's will you will gain your life. Many of us wonder why we don't have the life of God in us. Yes if you are Born Again you have the life of God in you. Beside, do you have the life of God in your whole life? Why is this, we are loving our life more then Jesus and those around us. See Matt. 16:25. And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. In the Kingdom God wants our weakness not our strengths. God gives us the power of Christ if we have weakness. So where we have strength we have no power of Christ. You can't build the church on your strength instead on your weaknesses. Wow our thinking must change. Our minds are enemies of God, and our sermons are from our human thinking is only of this world instead of the Kingdom of God. --See2 Cor. 12:9. What may not be in this world however, we act like the world more then being like Christ and the Kingdom of God. The World is as Babylon a world that cannot overcome the coming times. What is the world you may ask? The world has rank first gold, then silver, precious stones and peals, fine linen, and purple, silk and scarlet, every kind of citron wood, every kind of object of ivory, every kind of object of most precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble; "and cinnamon and incense, fragrant oil and frankincense, wine and oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and bodies and souls of men. This is what the world is the souls of men and their bodies are at the bottom of the ranking merchandise world. There is nothing wrong with gold etc. only if these things come before the souls of men and bodies of men. This is what has happen in the so-called modern day church. We must repent of having wrong values in our hearts. See Rev. 18:12-13. What do you love? We are to love the Lord with all of heart, with all of mind, with all might. We are to love our wives or Husbands, we our to love our children, we are to love our brothers and sisters in Christ; we are to love those in the world. However, today we do not love these things above. We may say we do love these things? Today we are loves of ourselves, lovers of money, and Lovers of pleasure rather then lovers of God. The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil, and covetousness, is the sin of idolatry. This has become the life force of many who call themselves Christians. The new trinity of many in the church today is the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. Many say they love God only a few obey His word. This ungodly trinity, which stands against the true Trinity, has made us to set up many idols in our hearts. Yes we have ask Jesus into our heart however we share our heart with many idols such as the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life. These have become three rivers that flow from our hearts to the world. The idols in our hearts cause us to stumble into iniquity of not loving the lost and drying world. Our love ones do not believe in our witness for the reason we talk the gospel and at the same time the three evil rivers come out of us. These three rivers hinder many from the gates of salvation. Why do you say such things to us? If we don't love God and keep His word, He will not come, dine and manifest Himself to us. Our thoughts are full of the idols of our heart. How much thinking is not on the things of God or the things that matter? We live a life with things that does not matter. Do you feed the poor, do you love your brother in need, do you share the gospel with those around you, do you live the Christian life, and do you keep His Word? Our idolatry thoughts are incense before our Lord in Heaven. "Because you say, "I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing'and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked!" See Rev. 3:17. Christ wants your heart, mind and might again. It is time to repent and become in love with the Lord. It is time to be passionate lover of Christ; it is time to fear the Lord in everything we do. Let the love of God be in one hand and in the other the fear of the Lord. It is time to come back to the love of Christ; it is time to repent of our sins. Clean our hearts before the living God. Walk the true Christian walk. Reach out to the world with the real gospel. It is time to come back to what realty matters. It is time for godly character and Christ likeness in the values of the heart. Furthermore, "for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Do you have a heart for Christ? Do you have a heart for His Church? Do have a heart for His Word? Do you have a heart for the lost? Do you have a heart for your brothers and sisters in Christ? Do you have a heart for your family? Do you have a heart for those who are suffering? Do you have a heart for the poor and needy? 2. Pure Life The Lord is calling us to a pure life. His will is for us to have clean hands and a pure heart. We can live a pure life by the Holy Spirit, through the Blood of Christ, faith in the Word of God and grace from Christ. We need understanding that you can be in a world of sin and evil and still live a true life for Christ. A life of consecration knows the truth and His grace in your life. (See John 15:3) A Christian can live a life without evil spirits, without sin this can happen and Christ has made the way for it. We were never made for sin instead for holiness with Christ. Now we are born of the Spirit, redeem and are new creations in Christ Jesus our Lord. (See 2 Cor. 5:17) Don't allow a demon spirit to say that you can't live without a sin or be free from an evil spirit. The Lord has made a way for you. It is by the Blood of Christ, by faith in the Word of God and by the Holy Spirit in your life. (1 Jn. 3:8) However, also you must be humble in mind and know that you can still sin, that you are not perfect. That you are not without sin, and darkness can be in your life just as the light of Christ can also be in you. The work that Christ has begun in you He will fulfill it. (See 1 Jn. 1:5-10) On the contrary, you can live a holy life in a world of sin and evil. What is holiness? Holiness is a true relationship with Christ; holiness is having faith in Christ for your sanctification. Holiness is knowing the truth and living the truth by the Spirit and grace. Holiness is by the blood of Christ not any work or deed of man. Holiness is when the Holy Spirit dwells inside of you by your faith in Christ. (See Eph. 4:24) In addition, when you give your life to Christ you receive the remission of sins and the Holy Spirit by faith in Christ's blood, His work at the Cross and his resurrection. Now if you sin and will sin you need only to confess, repent, and ask for forgiveness. The Lord will forgive you for he has already forgiven you. He will lead you out of sin and give you power over that sin that keeps you in bondage. (See 1 Jn. 1:9) Moreover, we can live a life of holiness in this world of sin and evil with the Holy Spirit help. I do believe that we can and it is possible to live a holy life in today's world. It only takes faith, the Holy Spirit and the blood of Christ. (See 1 Pet. 1:15-16) Beside, sin is sin on the other hand sin is sin instead each sin brings different troubles upon your life and your children and even those who came after them if you live a life of sin, if you repent you are set free from those troubles. Now sin is sin and homosexual, adultery, fornicators these are not greater then envy, pride, greed, lust, hate, unforgiving, and unloving all sin is sin. However, there is a false conservative mindsets going around in the church standing in judgment over those in certain types of sins such as those that you can see openly. (See 1 Cor. 6:9-11) However, the truth is those who are practicing open sins will came to know the Lord more easy then those who are practicing the sins of the heart, such as pride, envy, and greed these people don't know their in sin, beside they too are practicing the sin of hypocrisy and religious sins. (See Jn. 8:1-12) Know the truth, pride is the beginning of all sins. It is the beginning of the sins of Sodom. Man can't see his own pride. And humbly is a lost fruit of the Spirit that needs to be restored. What we think is humbly is not humbly it is pride. Pride is deceive for it covers your eyes from the real truth and hinders you from loving you follow brothers and sisters. Pride says I never did wrong, I never sin much, and I am a good person. (See Ezekiel 16:49) The Holy Spirit has giving us the power to lay aside these sins and grow in the Lord. We are to putt off the old man. We are to put to death the sins in our lives. We are to put of the sins in our life. We are not to let sin reign in our life. We are to reckon ourselves dead to sin. We are not to give our life to the instruments of unrighteousness, instead present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God, this is all by faith that we can be crucified with Christ and live a life with the risen Lord. (See Rom. 6) Christ has called us to sanctification and holiness by faith in the Word of God. There is sanctification when you are born of the Spirit, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit. Then there is on-going sanctification we are to possess our minds with patience and present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable, and transformed your mind by renewing your mind with the Word of God. (See Rom. 12:1-2) In addition, the elements of sanctification are the Blood of Christ, the Word of God, Faith, and the Holy Spirit. You have faith in the blood of Christ, which is written in the Word of God thus the Holy Spirit comes and sanctify you. (See 1 Pet. 1:2) Moreover, you believe in Jesus and His blood. You repent of your sins and invent Christ into your life. Once when you believe and repent you become a born again citizen of the Kingdom of God. You believe that Christ's blood justified you and you have peace with God. Christ to the Father in Heaven declares you are righteous by the blood of Christ. Therefore the Holy Spirit comes into your life and cleans you from sin and you become a new person in Christ. (See 2 Cor. 5:21) Elements of sanctification: 1. The Blood of Christ: Heb. 13:12, 10:10. 2. The Word of God: Jn. 17:17. 3. Faith: 2 Thess. 2:13. 4. The Holy Spirit: Rom. 15:16, 1 Cor. 6:11. If you believe that your sins are cleanse by the Blood of Christ by having faith in the Blood of Christ and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will come and set you free from your sins. (See Heb. 9:14) Apart from that, we are to love and forgive others. When the Holy Spirit came into your life and in you the love of God was pour out in your heart. We are to walk in love; we are to forgive all the time. This is one of the keys in living a godly life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (See 1 Pet. 1:22) In addition, the Lord has giving us grace and truth. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ to us. Grace is not a reason to sin; it is a reason to overcome sin. Grace comes by the Spirit to aid us in overcoming sin and enduring temptation. Truth comes that we will no believe a lie or any lie. The Word of God is the truth. You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. We are growing in grace this is by growing in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (See Jn. 1:12,17) Apart from that, is the ministry of deliverance; you have been giving the authority and power in the name of Jesus to cast demons spirits out of your life and shut those doors so they will not come back. You have the authority from your Lord Jesus to remove the plank from your own eye. Don't let any demon for even a moment to lie to you that you can't be set free or it will take years, the Holy Spirit is in your life and He wants you free. This is the will of God your sanctification and now you know how to possess your own vessel in sanctification and honor. (See Matt. 7:3-5, 1 Thess. 4:3-4) Furthermore, it is God who has called you to holiness; it is God who called you to be holy. If He called you to be holy and pure then He has giving you grace and the Holy Spirit to aid you in this call. (See 1 Thess. 4:7) 3. To Be Like Christ The word Christian mean to be like Christ however, we see many Christians around the world that say they are Christians that are not like Christ. Is this their problem? I personal think that it is half their problem and it is the whole problem of those who teach them. To be like Christ is to live a Holy Life. It is the truth that a Christian can live a holy life in this sinful world. In the four gospels we see the life and ministry of Christ. We are to be like Christ and follow Christ and this is what it means to be a Christian. The true standard of a Christian is the standard of holiness. However, when hear the word holiness it sound like a term above you're understanding and is not down to earth. In other words we need a down to earth message that any Christian or person can apply. The message of holiness is to live the life of Christ. We are to teach others to observe all things that Christ teaches us and commands us. In addition, we need to see the life of Christ for Christ not only teaches, instead He teaches us by example too. How can you say that I am to be like Christ? If you are a born again Christian you are born of the Spirit. You are a new creation, you are the righteousness of God in Christ, and you have the Holy Spirit in inside of you. The Holy Spirit is doing a great work in you. The Holy Spirit will help you to be like Christ; through faith, grace, the Word of God, the Blood of Christ and the Holy Spirit you can be like Christ, just begin to renew your mind and change your lifestyles. Apart from that, we are to be like Christ in power and demonstration too. Jesus Christ walked in the power of God you are to do the same. Jesus healed the sick, we are to heal the sick in Jesus name, Jesus cast out demons, and we are to cast out demons in Jesus name too. There are conditional promises and then there are unconditional promises and likewise there is conditional love and then there is unconditional love in Christ and the Father. Is this biblical? Yes this is Biblical! You must first understand that the Lord loves you no matter what. In John 14:21, 23 there are a love that is based on conditions this is for the purpose of growing relationship in Christ. Yes in unconditional love are also purposes for beginning relationship. If you want the manifestation of Holy Spirit, Christ and the Father you must obey these conditions. Yes there is the redeeming presence that is unconditional and then there is the manifest presence of God that is conditional. IT is he who has His commandments and keeps them, and if any one loves Him he will keep his word. In the first verse Jesus says He will love you, in the second verse Jesus says His Father will love you. Now in the first verse Jesus says He will manifest Himself to you, in the second verse He says we meaning the Father and Himself will come to you and make their home with you. These are only if you apply the conditions. In addition, to manifest He mean also to visit you in person through visions, such as open vision, spiritual vision, etc. Their is will be an outpouring of visions and dreams on your life; you will not only see the angels you will see Jesus in person. I personal believe as we come to the end of this time there will be increased experiences like these and more. You don't need to be an apostle to see Jesus. Paul saw Jesus as his own qualification to his apostleship in Christ Jesus. So an apostle does not need to see Jesus to be an apostle. Therefore any believer in Christ can see Jesus if they only love Him with passion and zeal. There are already reports throughout the world of persons coming to know the Lord by Jesus visiting them just once and believers who see Jesus many times. Furthermore, Every Christian around the world is being called to be like Christ to this world and every Christian is being called to the life of Christ. 4. Called To Be Like Christ The word Christian means to be like Christ. Christians are to be like Christ in nature, word and deed in addition; we are called to be like Christ in His ministry on Earth in the four gospels of Christ. You hear many saying I am Christian, instead do they live the life that a Christian should live. Then you hear Christians saying I am a Born Again Christian, instead there life bears very little fruit that they are Born Again Christians. We become so much like the world that we are no longer useful for the Kingdom of God. It is time to repent, we need to draw the line in the sand and see clearly where we must change and repent. We need the fruits worthy of repentance in our lives to have true repentance. We need to bear again the fruits of Christ, the fruits of the Holy Spirit and the fruits of the Kingdom of God. We say we are Christians and we point our fingers at others yet we don't see our inward sins the sins of our heart. Secret sins are sin that we don't see they are sins of hypocrisy. The sins of our heart are sin like these; pride, envy, greed, false judgments, hate, unforgiveness, and religion. Yes religion is a sin; it is a sin of pride. Anything outside of a real relationship with Christ is a sin against God. You say you love God; then obey and apply His word. You say you love God then love your brothers and Sisters in Christ, we say we love God, do we know how to love Him? To love God is to love him in faith and works. The standards of being a Christian is being rise to the level of the Christ lifestyle in you. No more we cannot have any standard lower then the standard of Christ lifestyle. How can we obey such standards? By grace, by faith, by love and the Holy Spirit inside of you, and by an on going relationship with Christ. 5. Fear of the Lord in Lifestyles There are two pillars of a just balance lifestyle of a healthy Christian they are the love of God and the fear of the Lord. We to have a holy passion for Christ our Lord, we need to love God with all of are hearts, minds, and ways. Then we need to have a rebirth of the fear of the Lord. We need to have a living knowledge of the fear of the Lord in our hearts. To fear the Lord means to have reverence, honor, esteem, adoration, proper credit and elevation of the Lord in our heart, words, actions and deeds. If you fear God you would not look at certain things and if you fear God you would deal with people in a better matter. If you fear God you would listen and be meek to ministers and other believers in Christ. If you fear God you would love and take care of your love ones. If you fear God you would respect women who are also made in the image of God. If you fear God you would take time for your children. If you fear God you would take time to mentor children who have no fathers. If you fear the Lord you would not stand in judgment of your brothers and sisters in Christ when it is not just. If you fear God you would not talk against your brother behind His back. If you fear God you would not like hearing bad things about ministers. If you fear God you would show proper honor to those who minister the Word. If you fear God you would speak your words with grace to your brothers and sisters in Christ. If you fear God you would do what is right in your workplace. If you fear God you would honor the Lord in your deeds of business. If you fear God you would support and honor God with your money. If you fear God you would help your brothers in need. If you fear God you would stand up for righteousness, justice and truth in love and patience. If you fear God you would be a witness to those around you. If you fear God you would watch you steps and your mouth around those whom you are to be a witness to. A call to love God and to fear God is a call to true relationship with Him. Pray now and ask the Lord to teach you the fear of the Lord and to rebirth the fear of the Lord in your heart. 6. Cleansing Blood of Christ We have an advocate with the Father, which is Jesus Christ the righteous. Jesus is for us, when no one else may be in certain times. He is standing for us at the right hand of the Father. 1 John 2:1-2: My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for our only but also for the whole world. The only thing we need to do is confess our sins, is repent of our sins, is come to Jesus and give him our sins, and He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. This is a promise that if we come he will cleanse us from all unrighteousness, sins, lies, demons, curses, and false teaching. It is the blood of Christ that will cleanse us from all sin. The blood is greater then all of our sins; his blood has power to set us free. We only need to come to him and have faith. When Jesus and the Holy Spirit is in our lives the light of Christ shines into our lives showing us truth and leading us to purely in him. (1 Jn. 1:9,7) The Lord is doing a good work in us. He will not give up on us. He is on our side and He cares for us. We must remain and keep our confidents in this very thing that he is faithful and he will complete the good work in us. (Phil. 1:6) It is through the Blood, Faith, the Word of God, the Holy Spirit, grace, and love that this good work will come completion. It is the will of the Lord for us to live a pure life in Him, and He has provided the way for that. It is through the Blood of Christ, and the Light of Christ. And the Holy Spirit, and the Word of God. The Holy Spirit lives in us and He help us live the pure life that He has called us to. He has giving us a new heart, new spirit, and we only we need to renew our minds through the Word of God and the Holy Spirit. (Ezek. 36:25-27) The Cleansing Blood of Christ: The Blood of Christ will cleanse us from sins of strife, contentions, anger and envy. The Blood of Christ will cleanse us from sins of sins of controlling, witchcraft, familiar spirit and spy demons. The Blood of Christ will cleanse us from sins of sins of religious spirits, hypocrisy, spiritual blindness, pride, and a haughty spirit. The Blood of Christ will cleanse us from sins of sins of confusion, lying spirits, spirits of error, fears, hated and demons. Yes you can be set free from your sins and bondage to evil spirits. Pray to Jesus asking him to sprinkling his cleansing blood upon you, and pray for the light of Christ to shine into your life show to you your sins, etc. Pray that the Lord will give you eyes to see and ears to hear. Pray for the Spirit of wisdom and revelation to enlightened your heart. Ask the Lord to lead you to the fullness of deliverance and to pure heart. Humble yourself today and be meek to the Lord and to others, and there is hope for you today. 7. Spirit of Grace One of the names of the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Grace. This is one of the rivers that are flowing from the Throne Room through our hearts toward one another and then outward to the world around us and to every city and every nation. (Zech. 12:10, Heb. 10:29) The Spirit of grace comes upon us that we may live a just and holy life. The Spirit of Grace comes upon us to bring forth pure and holy seeking of God from us to bring the rains of the Spirit upon the church and the nations. When the Spirit of grace comes upon you, can easily overcome certain sins and all sins and then stand against any temptation. The Spirit of grace will aid us in applying the word with grace and with faith. The Spirit of Grace will give a Christian a overcoming life and a victory life in Christ. We will see victory, breakthroughs, overcoming spiritual and other kinds of battles made possible by grace and faith. When the Spirit of grace comes upon us we can endure any hard times, any suffering, any tests, any trials and any temptation that we may face and those that may come. It is He the Spirit of Grace that comes upon men to bring a great turning and great repentance upon the church and then the world. When the Spirit of grace comes there is lasting changes and lasting fruits. 8. Secret Sins It is easy to see the sins are that visible to our eyes and minds. It is easy to point our fingers at sins that we see. It is easy to say we are better then those who commit sins that are visible to our eyes and minds. Sometime it pleases us to see people fail in their ways so that we feel that we are more holy and more righteous then they. However, we have forgotten the sins of the heart, the secret sins. These are secret not that these sins are done in secret, instead these are secret from the eyes of those who commit such sins; sins such as pride, envy, religion, hate, hypocrisy, self-rightness, and lusts for power; It is the sins of impure motives. Those who walk in these sins walk in a greater darkness then those to commit the sins that are visible. They have a greater spiritual darkness for they think they know the truth, instead there truth is apart from the true light of Christ. These who walk in secret sins call things sins that not sins, and makes things sins. This is all apart of there religious idolatry. Thus they are giving over to evil spirits, and as they obey them, they are then sealed into their darkness for the day they will be judge for their sins of the heart. There is no true repentance in them, and when they repent it is just a religious format, and has not heavenly values. It takes the Holy Spirit to work upon their hearts. If these ones repent and turn from their evil ways there will be revival. However, Those who walk in these secret sins will be the very ones who will fight the Holy Spirit, the apostles and prophets and the coming moves of God. The sin of religion leads to the sins against the Holy Spirit. This is why these who commit such sins of the heart are always near the judgment of the Lord and are far from the mercy of the Lord. One thing is for sure is that the Lord has more mercy upon those who make mistakes, those who are trying to overcome, and those who are just living in sin, instead the Lord shows no mercy to those who are hypocrisy. But thanks be to the Lord that through His love He works in the hearts of believers and even those who are true believers and have become hypocrisy. He works through His love and through the working of the Holy Spirit, a work of grace that a believer who becomes hypocrisy can come to true repentance in His time. The sin of religion will progress to the sin of hypocrisy, for the full born sin of religion is the sin of religious hypocrisy. However, the blood of Christ is greater then both of these sins, and both of these by the Blood of Christ and through the Holy Spirit a person can be set free from both of these sins and come to true repentance in His time. Apart from that, today we don't hear much preaching against sin, and we don't hear much of what is sin. In order for us to be truly set free we must know what is sin. But how much more is the need to know the power of the power of Jesus Christ and His grace to live a holy life? Those who walk in visible sins can be set free. There are those who sin and make mistakes, then there are those are trying to overcome sins and then there are those who just living a life of sin, and love it. Sin can become a characteristic, when we go from transgression to iniquity. It takes the power of the Holy Spirit and the power of the Blood of Christ to be set free from iniquity sins, which are habitude and addictive. It is the Lord will to clean and restore us. It is the will of Christ that we live a holy life. This is by the help of the Holy Spirit in our life and the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and faith in the Word of God. Although we may make mistake from time to time again, then we can come to the cleansing blood of Christ. Even through we are set free from sin through the Blood of Christ we are not prefect and we will still make mistakes. We are only prefect in Christ. 9. False Conservatism There are liberals, conservatives, moderate, and other political stands, groups, and not one political group has it all together, but Jesus Christ is Lord over all. Jesus Christ is not a politician, He is a ruler, He is the King of kings, and Lord of lords, and He rules through all those in authority. As we look through political stands, we as Christians need to get our values and morals based on the Word of God. We as Christians should be apart of what is going on in this world, for we are the salt of the world. At the same time we must know that the church is apart of the Kingdom, and we not only are priest also we are kings; Christ wants us to take leading roles in all walks of life and community for His glory. Above, all it is much prayer that will change the governments of this world. We as Christians should not allow politics to bring divisions among us, instead we need to imprint Christ into all political groups, but at the same time we need a common ground, such as moral absolutes and a common faith of absolutes. We as Christians cannot agree with things that are clearly seen as sin that would hurt society and not make it a better place. Conservatism, conservatives, and conservative Christians must understand that there is a false conservatism that is not seen by us diehards, in addition we may overlook certain areas in our own life when pointing the finger, or in battle for social and moral justice in our world. We may call this sin and that sin; those things are visible and clearly seen as sins; can, could and have done much harm to society. However, we don't see sins of the heart that in turn can produce a false Conservatism among us. Such as sins of pride, hypocrisy, envy, greed, selfness, lusts for power, and even religion can become a sin of the heart. What we need is to abound in the love of Jesus for the world, holy burning passion for our Lord, baptism of the fire of the Holy Spirit, to have a prayer life, inward purely, live a holy life, to love all those in Christ, to move in compassion to those hurting in the world, and above this to be humble before our Lord. Furthermore, today the Holy Spirit is moving among the church around the world rising up a mighty marketplace army that move forth in grace, power, love, favor, and wisdom, in all areas of the marketplace, business, government, etc of all walks of society to change our world for the glory of Christ. 10. The Battle Over Sin In the last article we talk about secret sins, now in this article we will talk about visible sins, Christians are not to walk in visible sins instead they overcome sin. Those who say they are Christians and live a life of sin, and no not walk in repentance of their sins, may not be true Christians. There are those Christians trying to overcome sin, and there are those Christians that are living and loving sin. The sins today that we are going to talk about visible sins, these are sins that you can clearly see as sin. These sins are not only visible sins; they are habit forms of sin, sin that has become a habit, addiction, and characteristic of who we are. There are sins that are a transgression, which is a sin that is committed once, that can lead to the beginning of sinful habit forms in a person's life. Then there are sins that are iniquity, these are sins that are commit over and over and have become a sinful addiction, habit form, and characteristic. You must first understand that anything that is not of faith is sin, and that to whom who knows to do right and does not do it is sin, and all unrighteousness is sin. Through the blood of Christ, faith in the Word of God, and the power of the Holy Spirit in your life, you can be set free from habit forms of sin, and live a holy life in those areas. Why are you not set free from the visible sins after you repent of those sins? It is for the reason that they are sins on the surface, and they are surface sins. This means there could be deep sins, deeps hurts that need healing and cleansing by the Blood of Christ and the Holy Spirit. Pray that the Lord will open your eyes to these deep hurts and deep sins that need to be cleanse. Now we come where we need the ministry of deliverance and inner healing. Yes you can set yourselves free from demons, and be healed in your soul by calling on the name of the Lord. We might need to renew our minds, by dealing with thinking that is not according to the Word of God, we can find out what are the deep things that we need the Lord's help on, through knowing our wrong thinking, and mindsets. All of this could take time, or it can happen right away. We need to be humble, and we need to know that we are created in the image of God, and God love us, and we are very most blessed in His sight. 11. Deep Roots in Christ As newborn babes in Christ, once when you come to know the Lord, you must begin to grow your roots deep into Christ. The first three months and the first three years are the times we must grow our beginning roots in Christ. The deeper we grow our roots in Christ the more we will grow in Christ unto maturity. The first three mouths and the first three years will tell us how our Christian life will be. You can grow faster in your beginning years, which in turn will build a growing Christian life for years to come. We must drink all the pure milk teachings that we can get, and learn as much, and begin to build a sold Christian foundation that we can stand upon for years to you. In addition, we learn to build upon the love of God and the love for one another. It is love that is a key in our spiritual growth, and then it is grace and truth, along with faith that will help you on your way in the Christian life. Those who give their lives to Christ, and do not follow His ways, or don't begun to grow their beginning roots in Christ, will fall away, and may not be true Christians, and may not be Born Again. True Born Again Christian will Love God, His Word and will want to fellowship with other believers. So if someone says they are Born Again and show no fruits of what a Christian should be they may not be real Born Again Christians. In our beginning years of Christian life, if will fill ourselves with religion, man's tradition, and even legalism, later on we will have to return to the beginning days, to be retrain in the foundations and receive much pure milk teachings again. This is why we build upon Christ, fellowship with Him, Loving Him, Love one another, and growing in our beginning roots into Him, and learn about the truth of the Body of Christ, not just the divisions that our own groups build against one another. |
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