How do you relate? When you relate to God are you looking at your performance or at your identity? Is it what you do (“I try to be the best person I can be”) or your position in Him where you find your security? I’m not judging you, but we do need to judge ourselves. …
Category: Righteousness
Behave Like a Christian
Romans 12:9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. Everyone, even ‘non-religious’ people agree that the defining aspect of being ‘Christian’ ought to be love. But everyone also has their own idea of what LOVE should look like. The Bible defines love for us in 1 Corinthians 13, and since God is …
Have you claimed your righteousness?
What am I talking about? Let me ask you a question? Are you righteous? Wait…before you answer, let me make a qualification. Answer yes and then tell me how you feel. Do you feel like a hypocrite? Do you feel like you’re not in the category of saints that have the right to say yes? …
The Love of God Gives
When you know the love of God, you will no longer accept the lies of religion that tell you God is allowing you to remain sick, poor, or despondent for His divine purposes. It is His love that sent Jesus to deliver you from all of it. It was finished 2000 years ago. We not …
A Garden-like Relationship
What kind of relationship did Adam and Eve have with God? Everything was perfect, and so were they. The Bible tells us they (and all of mankind) were made in the image and likeness of God. They also had a free will. So whether they stayed in that perfect state (united to God) was up …
Victory Victory Victory!
Because of Jesus, WE have victory! Nothing in ourselves could produce it. Not our behavior, sincerity or desire. God Himself redeemed us by the blood of His son (making us righteous), and nothing we can do ourselves can produce victory in our lives outside of Jesus! But thank God, He has overcome! Those that put …
Working out your salvation and receiving from God
Working out your salvation and receiving from God
What does it mean to “work out” your salvation? The Apostle Paul uses this term ‘working out your salvation’ in the letter he wrote to the Philippian Church.
The sower sows The Word
Grace is God’s provision for man’s every need; spirit, soul, and body. Romans 8:32 says, “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” Grace = Jesus (God’s provision for man’s every need; spirit, soul, and body) …