07/18/21 TRUE DELIVERANCE

 07/18/21 TRUE DELIVERANCE

Those of you who gloat over social, political and government rejection, resistance and attacks against Christ following, Bible believing, loving Christians better enjoy it while you can, BECAUSE you are on the same list of people and groups to be wiped out. That has always been the way dictatorship and oppression works and that is the way it works now.

To be honest, I am amazed at the gullibility of the blind, anti-freedom, anti-Bible, individuals and groups that are marching to destruction, whistling while they are led to the slaughter.

It is not simply a set of values or a political party or a conservative position that is needed in personal lives and national policy, it is Bible believing, Christ following, Spirit filled, self denying Christians. This world is doomed (at some point in the future, sooner or later), but salvation through faith in Christ is eternal and leads to eternity without oppression and suffering.

Take your chances with the world and its failed policies, but you will suffer the consequences, now and later. Becoming a Christian is a call to follow and serve Christ into the war against darkness. It is a spiritual warfare that is not against flesh and blood, but against spiritual powers of darkness. It is a warfare that does not spill the blood of other people, but might require the spilling of your own blood. The call to salvation is a call to come out from sin and stand against the wiles of the wicked one. The call to salvation is a call to live in the light of God's truth, walk in God's will.

As I said, the hammer and blade of oppression will come against everyone, but those who trust in Christ will be more than conquerors and though they die, they will live forever. We will follow Jesus, who arose from the dead and reigns forever.

Choose your cause.
Choose you master.
Choose your destiny.
I choose salvation from sin.
I choose Jesus.
I choose eternal life.

We can choose because God has given us the option and God empowers us to make the choice.
Therefore choose ye this day whom you will serve.

READ, FEED AND HEED
1 John 2:15-18
15 Love not the world (this present age), neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

People talk about living in grace while being subject to darkness and sin. God's saving grace delivers us from this present evil age. If you are not being delivered from sin, you are not saved, because Jesus came to save us from sin.

Galatians 1:3-5
3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Titus 2:11-14
11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Romans 6:1-23
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 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 should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.