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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

"Your Meditation Will Direct Your Conduct" Consider Jesus!

Your Meditation Will Direct Your Conduct

Philippians 1:27 Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel,

Standing fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel is a tall order! Let our conduct be worthy of the gospel. In the KJV the word conduct is conversation. Not just a word of greeting but the conversation of lifestyle. Oh that our conversation would be worthy of the gospel of Christ

Matthew 12:33 "Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. 34 "Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. 36 "But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. 37 "For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."

You can tell what has great worth to a man by the conversation in his mouth. What is our conversation? What gets one talking is the treasure of their heart! Jesus was not mincing words when he declared by our words we will be justified and by our words we will be condemned. Jesus said if we would confess Him before men He would confess us before God. If we confess with our mouth and believe in our heart the that Jesus is the Son of God we shall be saved. The words of our mouth matter.

Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.

Have you ever been around someone who is a constant complainer. Their words affect their life and they can not see the ramifications of it. It is obvious to all those around but they can not see that their own words can keep them in defeat. Those with a complaining spirit forget they are planting, nurturing, and will reap from the harvest. Complaining is a form of meditation. It always happens to me this way… It never turns out for me… It becomes a form of self fulfilling prophecy. The seed is sown, well watered, and nurtured and they get the harvest. To top it off they ask, why is God doing this to me? Oh how blind the enemy of our soul loves us to be. Oh that we would allow God to direct our conversation!

Proverbs 15:23 A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, And a word spoken in due season, how good it is!

Psalms 50:23 Whoever offers praise glorifies Me; And to him who orders his conduct aright I will show the salvation of God."

KJV Psalms 50:23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God.

Oh that the child of God would replace complaint with praise! We put our eye on the circumstance and forget God calls us to look to Him the very source of our strength. Whoever offers praise glorifies God. It is a great meditation. If you order your conduct by your praise you will see the salvation of God. What a promise!

Psalms 19:14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer.

You begin to pray this Psalms and it can change your life. God calls us to meditate upon the good things in His word. Fellowship with Jesus is so sweet and the enemy of our soul will do all he can to hide the truth of God from us. If the enemy can get us to operate in complaining he has displaced us from the blessing of God. We must become aware of the tricks of the enemy of our soul. It can start by praying Psalm 19:14. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.

Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy; meditate on these things. 9 The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.

We can on purpose chose what we are going to meditate and consider. Paul commanded the Philippians to think upon the true, noble, just, pure, lovely, and whatever is of good report. It is time for the saint to renew their minds with the praiseworthy things of God. If you know how to complain you know how to meditate. Instead of stating all that you see wrong; begin to declare all that God has done and has made right! It is a lifestyle change and it is the practical application of the word of God that can bring the abundant life to the believer.

2 Corinthians 4:13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, "I believed and therefore I spoke," we also believe and therefore speak,

God calls us to speak from the spirit of faith. The just shall live by faith in Jesus Christ. Instead of speaking the circumstances in your life speak the word of deliverance Jesus promises. Don’t speak from the old man; speak the life that is in the new man God has made you. If any man be in Christ he is a new creation. Live from the new creation.

Psalms 1:1 Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night. 3 He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper. 4 The ungodly are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away. 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the ungodly shall perish.

The words of our mouth and the meditations of our heart is greatly influence by who and what we hang out with. If we sit in the seat of the scoffers and scornful that will be the mediation of our heart and it will be the words of our mouth. However if we make the word of God our delight and we meditate upon the precious promises of God, that will come out of our heart. Whatever you meditate on good or bad will always produce a harvest in your life.

What is your daily conversation; the latest reality TV. The best movie that came out. The new boat, the great truck. Your daily conversation is a reflection of your heart. We say we want God to move in our lives yet He is not our mediation. Do we give 10 minutes of devotion in the morning and move on to our real day? We cry out God why are you not working things out in my life. God’s standard is to give Him first place. We can not have the harvest of giving God first place if we have not actually given God first place. We can’t blame God for the resulting harvest when we have chased things and stuff and He is not given preeminence in our lives. Whatever you pursue will be your reward; God help us to have eternal pursuits so our harvest will be everlasting. It begins with the meditation of our heart.

Psalms 119:10 With my whole heart I have sought You; Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments! 11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You! 12 Blessed are You, O LORD! Teach me Your statutes! 13 With my lips I have declared All the judgments of Your mouth. 14 I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies, As much as in all riches. 15 I will meditate on Your precepts, And contemplate Your ways. 16 I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

“Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You!” The word of God is quick and powerful and it will change us. However if we don’t submit to the Word of God when the trouble comes we have nothing to stand on. The meditation of the Word of God can bring unparallel strength. We overcome the enemy by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Crave the pure milk of the Word. Receive the engrafted Word of God which is able to save your soul. We give ourselves over to things and stuff and get mad at God for the harvest we reap. It time to plant a new crop if we want a different kind of harvest. If we will feast and meditate on His Word the rejoicing of heart will overflow!

1 Timothy 4:13 Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 14 Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. 15 Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all. 16 Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

Paul was teaching the young preacher Timothy how to live in victory and how to guide other to living in victory. It is time for the saints of God to give themselves over to reading and exhortation to doctrine. Oh that it would be our meditation day and night. Not only can you get a harvest but those around you can be saved too!

1 John 2:14 I have written to you, fathers, Because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, Because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, And you have overcome the wicked one. 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world; the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life; is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

If the word of God abides in you , you are strong, and you can overcome the wicked one. What is it you will meditate on. Knowing God is a journey of a life time. If you pursue Him with diligence He Himself will be your great reward.

Hebrews 3:1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,

Hebrews 12:2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 1:1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son,

Consider Jesus, meditate upon Him and His great work! Hear His voice, consider and meditate upon His words. Your meditation upon Him will direct your conduct and give you a harvest of abundant life.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Abiding In The House As A Son

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John 8:32 "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." 33 They answered Him, "We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can you say, 'You will be made free'?" 34 Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. 35 "And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. 36 "Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.


Jesus came to bring us freedom from sin and make us participators in His glorious household! A slave does not abide in the house forever! A slave can be sold and sent to another household. A son abides forever! When one dies to sin and becomes alive unto God there is a transfer. It is glorious and supernatural.


Colossians 1:12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.


The Father has qualified us to be partakers in His household! What a great place of covenant!


John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:


Those who will receive Jesus and believe on His name, the Father gave the right to become the children God. Salvations brings you into the household of faith!


Galatians 4:4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!" 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.


True salvation brings adoption into the family of God! The adoption is so great you have the right to call out Abba, (Daddy) Father! Being born into the family of God not only brings freedom from sin but it comes with a great inheritance. If you are a son you indeed are an heir of God through Christ! Both righteousness and holiness are bred into you as a new creation in Christ Jesus. So many are looking for holiness and righteousness not understanding what it mean to be an heir with Christ.


Ephesians 4:24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.


Yes you now have royal blood applied to your heart! The new man has true righteousness and holiness in him. Jesus' victory over sin is so great! The propitiation that Jesus provides appeases the Holy God.


Revelation 1:5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, 6 and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.


The adoption is so great. Jesus, by His own blood, has make us kings and priests to His God and Father. Coming into His house is a privilege that can not be measured. We have been brought in to the heavenly kingdom. The kingdom that is not of this earth. Jesus' love is so great it is hard to perceive; yet it is this very love that empowers us to love.


Hebrews 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone. 10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 11 For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 saying: "I will declare Your name to My brethren; In the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You." 13 And again: "I will put My trust in Him." And again: "Here am I and the children whom God has given Me."


What a day it will be when Jesus sings the praises of the Father to the children! That is one song services I do not want to miss. Jesus suffered so that we might belong to God. Jesus is not ashamed to call us brethren to the Father Himself! What a day that will be! Jesus singing praises, that is so awesome to think about. After all of that Jesus will present us to the Father! Wow, Jesus' own words. Here am I and the children whom God has given Me! To be in the household of faith is great.


John 10:27 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 "And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. 29 "My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand.


The command that Jesus received from the Father is eternal life. If we are truly His sheep we can hear His voice and another we will not follow. Coming into His household is so great. Jesus provided blessed assurance with these words. “Neither shall anyone snatch them out of Hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all: and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.” What assurance and comfort we have coming into this household of faith!


Hebrews 3:1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, 2 who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house.


Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus Christ! Many have made too many other kinds of consideration when it comes to walking in Christ. Wholeness comes from keeping our eyes on Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. Jesus Christ is the High Priest of our confession! What confession is that?? Do you believe that Jesus is the Son of God.


This Hebrews passage is powerful and full of truth that many believers skip over. Here in this passage we have two households being compared and contrasted. In fact in the world there are only two households! Either you belong to the household of Moses or the household of Jesus Christ. Let me establish this truth a little further with verses before we get back to the Hebrews passage itself.


Galatians 3:22 But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed.


Here Galatians establishes this truth. You are either under the law of Moses and belong to that house or you have come to faith in Jesus Christ and are in that household.


Hebrews 3 For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house. 4 For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God. 5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, 6 but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.


Hebrews 3 says Jesus is faithful over His house just as Moses was faithful over his house. However the households have some differences in them. Jesus Christ house has more glory than the house of Moses. The difference is so great! Moses was faithful as a servant; Jesus is faithful as the Son! Moses points to one who was coming; Jesus is the substance of that which Moses’ household pointed to! Moses’ house was a pattern and shadow Jesus was the fulfillment of the promises God declared.


John 1:17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.


If you have come to a genuine confession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ you belong in His household; you must hold fast the confidence and rejoicing in Jesus Christ firm to the end! Your confession is the most valued treasure you have.


Colossians 1:19 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, 20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. 21 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled 22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight; 23 if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.


Continue in the faith until the end; it has great reward!


Saturday, June 11, 2011

“Jesus Brings Complete Deliverance”

Jesus brings complete deliverance; complete victory over sin is the promise of Jesus. He who the Son sets free is free indeed. What great news!
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“Jesus Brings Complete Deliverance”

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Jesus indeed is the remitter of sin. However His work goes beyond and is greater than simply remittance it is sitting people free from their sin with glorious liberty!

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Galatians 1:3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

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A greater revelation of His grace can bring you into freedom, with every bondage broken and every burdensome yoke destroyed. So many take this above passage as just part of Paul’s greeting to the church and it is; however it is much more than just a greeting. Jesus gave Himself for ours sins that He might deliver us from this present evil age!
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We don’t just need deliverance from sin, we need deliverance from the scourge of sin! A mother who has aborted her baby needs more than simple forgiveness; she needs deliverance from the guilt and shame and the tormenting remorse that ever plagues her soul. Those doctors who have murdered one baby after another in the womb of its mother has the stench of guilt upon them. It not only affects the doctor, but the nurses and all who counseled it was okay to murder. Their deed is a plight upon our land; the blood of all those babies are still crying out for justice. It's not just the acts of sin that need forgiveness; it is the curse of sin we need complete deliverance from.

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Jesus came to forgive sin and completely deliver us from bondage. The bondages can take on many forms. For some it is an addition to pornography, others drugs or alcohol addition. Jesus came for the oppressed to be set free, for the captives to be liberated, for the blind to see, and the gospel to be preached to the poor. What has you in bondage? I have named a few specific ones but there are many more for which Christ came to set the afflicted free.

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Galatians 3:9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham. 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them." 11 But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for "the just shall live by faith." 12 Yet the law is not of faith, but "the man who does them shall live by them." 13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"), 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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Some have never walked in the liberty God has provided because they are under the curse of the law. This is a word of deliverance! Your good performance can not set you free from the scourge of sin. You have placed your faith in your trying. You try, you fail, you try, you fail, you try, you fail… No one is or ever can be justified by being a good performer of the law. The law is not of faith; the law is performance. It is Christ who has redeemed us from the scourge of sin by becoming a curse for us. You can receive the promise of the Spirit for complete deliverance from every bondage but it is only through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. A misdirected faith is no faith at all; when faith’s object is Jesus Christ and Him crucified it brings deliverance.

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Have you repented and promised God you would do better only to find yourself in the awful scourge of the same sin again? Change the object of your faith from your own performance to Jesus Christ the righteous One. It is the place of forgiveness and complete deliverance.

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Romans 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Whose obedience have you been trusting in? In whose strength shall we lean on? The sacrifice of Jesus is so great that it brings victory from sin and over sin! The law was brought that the offense might abound. Is the scourge of sin abounding in your life? Only for the believer may it be said, “Where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.” As long you attempt victory by better performance you give sin strength in your life.

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1 Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Does sin have strength in your life? Have you allowed the strength of sin to rule in your life? The strength of sin is the law. The end of sin is found exclusively in Jesus. God gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ and there is no other way to victory over sin!

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John 8:32 "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." 33 They answered Him, "We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can you say, 'You will be made free'?" 34 Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. 35 "And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. 36 "Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.

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John 8:32 is one of the most abused and taken out of context scriptures I know of. I have heard preachers preach entire sermons on the truth will set you free, without putting it in the context Jesus spoke of. It is not some generic truth that set you free, it is a specific truth that Jesus spoke of and it is a specific thing you gain freedom from. The truth that set you free is Jesus Himself; what He sets you free from specifically is sin! There are two groups of people in the world today. Slaves of sin and sons whom Jesus has set free. When Jesus sets you free you are free from sin indeed. Can such truth be so? Yes, Yes it is so.

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This freedom is found exclusively in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ! Jesus is the remitter of sin; Jesus is also our liberator from sin.

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Hebrews 1:3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

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Liberty is only found in the work that Jesus did at the cross! Where is the object of your faith?

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Colossians 2:13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

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The hostility against you was nailed to the cross! Your forgiveness is exclusive in Jesus Christ obedience.

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Isaiah 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand. 11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.

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God was satisfied with the offering of the soul of Jesus Christ; God is satisfied exclusively by this offering and no other offering may be substituted. To bring another offering for sin is disparaging of the holy offering Jesus Christ presented on our behalf. In Christ alone has our sin and iniquities been atoned for and there is no other atonement.

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What is a believer to do when he sins? Great question!

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1 John 2:1 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. 2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

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If we as believer sin, we need to run (not walk) to our advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He alone is the propitiation for sins and not for ours only but also for the whole world. Romans 6 lays the ground work very well for believers to walk as sons with freedom from sin.

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Romans 6:7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.

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If you have true salvation you died to sin. If you have never died to sin you have never had a true salvation and you need to come to true repentance for your sin.

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Romans 6:8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.

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Jesus died once for our sin and death no longer has dominion over Him!

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Romans 6:10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Jesus died to sin once for all! Once is the how many times and for all is the length of time it last. Romans 6:11 is powerful! Like Jesus died to sin once for all you reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. It is time for the believer to live by faith and not by sight. Reckon yourself to be dead indeed to sin. Why? That is the strength of your freedom from sin. Based upon Jesus Christ death and resurrection recognize yourself to be dead indeed to sin, but alive unto God. This is a stumbling block for many believers and they continue in the scourge of sin. Faith in the atoning work of Christ is your freedom. Run to your advocate Jesus!

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Romans 6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!

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Sin shall not have dominion over you because you are not under law but under grace. You can trust in His precious atonement. Never, never misuse you liberty from sin as your excuse to sin. How shall we who have died to sin live any longer there in. Present yourself to God as an instrument of righteousness. You can because of your advocate with God, Jesus Christ the Righteous One. Walk in your full deliverance!

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Jesus The Remitter of Sin

Jesus the Remitter of Sin! What a wonderful Savior!

Jesus The Remitter of Sin

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Matthew 1:21 "And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins."

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Jesus has come to save people from their sin. Sin is disobedience to God. Adam and Eve sinned and brought sin into the human race. We have all sinned and there is none right before God, no not one!

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Mark 1:14 Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God , 15 and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel."

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Jesus' beginning message is repent and believe in the gospel. Repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is imperative. Jesus' message of repentance is a timeless message! Some have erroneously preached after coming to Jesus repentance is no longer needed. It is not what the Apostle Paul preached!

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2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.

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Paul was preaching to the church about godly sorrow that produces repentance leading to salvation. They had been walking in error and Paul rebuked and they repented.

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Acts 20:20 "how I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house, 21 "testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Repentance can not be skipped over! If one has not repented of their sin they can not have true faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Matthew 9:2 Then behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, "Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you." 3 And at once some of the scribes said within themselves, "This Man blasphemes!" 4 But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts? 5 "For which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Arise and walk'? 6 "But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins"; then He said to the paralytic, "Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house." 7 And he arose and departed to his house.

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Jesus, in His earthly ministry, had power to forgive sins which he demonstrated many times in His earthly ministry.

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John 8:1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives . 2 Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. 3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, 4 they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. 5 "Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?" 6 This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear. 7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." 8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, "Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?" 11 She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more."

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Jesus exercised His power to forgive sins and to offer no condemnation to the sinner!

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Acts 5:29 But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: "We ought to obey God rather than men. 30 "The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree. 31 "Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

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The heart of the gospel is to preach that Jesus brings remission of sin. At the name of Jesus sin is remitted

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Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.

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“What can wash away my sin; nothing but the blood of Jesus” We sing it in some of our songs but forget to preach it in our life styles.

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Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,

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Through the blood of Jesus the enmity and hostility between God and man has been ended. Jesus brought peace through the blood of the cross.

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Colossians 1:13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

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We were born in sin and shaped in iniquity but God made provision through His Son Jesus Christ. We have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins!

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Colossians 2:13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

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Jesus wiped out the handwriting of requirement that was against us! Jesus nailed sin to the cross; Jesus won the victory from the devil who deceived Adam and Eve at the beginning!

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1 John 3:8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

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Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil; Jesus did not fail!

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John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

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Failing to put faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is a man’s damnation!

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Luke 24:46 Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, 47 "and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem .

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After His death on the cross Jesus told the disciples that repentance and remission of sins should be preached to all nations! Jesus can forgive you all your sins. I have recently read a book “As Easy As Drinking Water”. God used it to remind me of the simplicity of gospel. It was how God radically saved a young Muslim man and called him to preach this wonderful message of forgiveness of sins.

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Acts 2:38 Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 "For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call."

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On the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit was poured out. After Peter preached Jesus to the utmost men were pricked in their heart asking what must we do? Peter's simple reply speaks volumes.

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Acts 3:19 "Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 20 "and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, 21 "whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.

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We find the message of repentance preached over and over in the book of Acts. It is still a great message today. Repent and be made whole!

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Hebrews 9:22 And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission. 23 Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; 25 not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another; 26 He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

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Jesus faced the judgment of sin for you! Repentance and remission of sin is found in Jesus Christ alone. When you call on His name you can wait for His next appearing apart from sin and for salvation.

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Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

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