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All that is good comes from God
Don't try to make your own.
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights Hebrews 12:2 Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith (different from rationalized faith) Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by [the] word (literally utterance) [of] God.
RIGHTEOUSNESS Romans 10:3 For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God. Real righteousness is by grace through faith.
Micah 7:19 He will turn again, He will have compassion upon us; He will subdue our iniquities; and Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. Don't try to make your own faith or righteousness. Yield your members to God's righteousness. Don't try to make your own righteousness. Stand in His presence and receive His faith for healing, righteousness, and grace. Don't try to rationalize your own faith or hypnotize yourself into believing.
Romans 5:17 For if by one man's offense death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. Isaiah 45:8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it. Hebrews 12:28b let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear When a leaf is blown by the wind it is carried by the wind. It has a shape and structure that makes it submissive to the wind. The wind can carry it anywhere the wind wants it to go. Faith is like the shape and structure of the leaf. A stone is like a person without faith. The wind blows on the stone, but the stone doesn't move with the wind. The wind is like the free gift of Grace. It is like the Holy Spirit. We are saved by grace and through faith. God drops faith into our hearts, and we either receive it or we don't receive it. It all starts with and utterance of God. So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by [the] word (literally utterance) [of] God. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing cometh by an utterance of God. When faith comes in, we either obey God or not. God lets us know His will in a matter. We either obey or not. There is no gray area here Romans 5:21 That as sin hath reigned to death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
So the choice is clear. Will you yield your members to God, like that leaf in the wind, so He can take you where He desires, or will you take control yourself? Will you yield to the Holy Spirit, the ministries in the Church, and the instruction from God's Word, or will you yield yourself to the devil, the world, and your sinful flesh? 1 Cor. 15:10 by the grace of God I am what I am...I laboured...yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. Hebrews 5:14 by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. 1 Timothy 4:1-2 having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Romans 5:21 as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:13 says that you are to yield your members as instruments of righteousness. That is, instruments of His righteousness, not your own. The Choice is clear:
Let Your Spirit so dwell in me,
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The words of which God speaks are real. They are Truth. It is His Truth that sets you free from Satan\'s lies. He who does righteousness is righteous. (1John 3:7) Real righteousness is by grace through faith. God\'s process for righteousness is by grace, and grace is through faith. (Eph 2:8-10) (some caveats about hearing God\'s Voice) FREE on-line BOOK (a classic): The Real Faith, by Charles S. Price FREE on-line BOOK... We may have never realized just how very strait (constricted) (Luke 13:24) and narrow (Matthew 7:14) that way of righteousness is. It is very narrow and constricted. If God didn\'t tell us to think it, say it or do it, then it is sin. It is missing the mark. If God did tell us to do it and we get our flesh involved at all, to the extent that we... You look into the royal law of liberty, and you see reality. (James 2:8) You see the Kingdom of God. (James 1:23) When you see yourself in this royal law of liberty, what do you see? You need to see reality. In reality, you are a new creature, created in righteousness. (1Cor 5:17) Do you think that the Christ in you can sin? Of course not. (1 John 3:9) Jesus is that... The Process Righteousness consists of God leading us and us following. The problem is that we have no capacity within ourselves to follow God. So God has a way to give us the free gift of righteousness. God\'s method is \"by grace through faith,\" and this is the process. God speaks. God has already prepared our heart to receive and hear. (some caveats about hearing God\'s Voice) When we hear, God\'s faith comes. God\'s faith gives... If a bird lands on your head, that\'s not really your fault... but you don\'t have to let it build a nest. When you are tempted, you may slip across into sin. (Eph 4:26) Temper, lust, covetousness, or disrespect may involuntarily spring forth. (1John 1:10) Think about it. When you have a thought of envy, do you analyze the situation and make a conscious decision to be envious as a first... 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Real righteousness is by grace through faith. ... Luke 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. Real righteousness is by grace through faith. ... Romans 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin: but yield yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law,... 1 Peter 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: You see that they have purified their souls (soul, mind, heart, life are all the same Greek word.) This purification is holiness. There is a measure of holiness in those who follow Jesus. It is accomplished by obeying... \"But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind have taken us away.\" Isaiah 64:6 \"For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness\" (I Thessalonians 4:7). Some theologians assume that Scriptures that seem so completely opposed as these two are an indication that one of the Scriptures must be... |
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