God thinking 64 - True Freedom In Christ 6

"Instead of thinking of all the ways that you can live outside of the will of God and still be in the graces of God, you should be thinking of all the ways you can be in the will of God and still manage in the world.

 

It’s all about the way you think.  God thinking demands that you think about how you can serve God in purity.

 

You cannot have it both ways. You cannot be saved and partakers of the indwelling Holy Spirit and continue to go about living outside of the will of God.

 

Listen to the scriptures concerning this matter: (From the Children's Bible)

1 John 3:4-9

“When a person sins, he breaks God’s law.  Yes, sinning is the same as living against God’s law.

V5 You know that Christ came to take away sins.  There is no sin in Christ.

V6 So the person who lives in Christ does not go on sinning.  If he goes on sinning, he has never really understood Christ and has never known Him.
V7 Dear children, do not let any person lead you the wrong way.  Christ is righteous.  To be like Christ, a person must do what is right.
V8 The devil has been sinning since the beginning.  Anyone who continues to sin belongs to the devil.  The Son of God came for this purpose: to destroy the devil’s work.
V9 When God makes someone His child, that person does not go on sinning.  The new life God gave that person stays in him.  So he is not able to go on sinning, because he has become a child of God.”       New Century Version

 

Excerpt from God thinking 64 - True Freedom In Christ by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2012