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I am trying with examples to show that following the peace in our heart is not an indication that we follow Jesus in specific situations.    Here is an example, we know that by the time Peter was asked by the Lord to go to Cornelius house  who were. (unsircumsine Gentiles)And it was forbidden to enter a Gentiles house, and Peter has never enter or proposed to enter into one, and neither any of the disciples, because of the Law of clean and unclean, that they believe they will loose the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit will not associate with anything unclean.  So as a result Peter was deeply trouble in himself, in his heart.  And he could have guarded his heart or the peace in his heart by rebuking the Spirit that trouble his heart perceiving it as a deceiving spirit, the reason being that the Holy Spirit was guiding him in a new understanding.  It was leading him in Jesus way , a new way of Jesus having made everything clean, that the Gentiles or unclean Jews they did not need to be made clean by the Jewish customs, because the whole world was made clean by the blood of Jesus Christ, one new man in the world, no more Jew and Gentiles.   The same thing can happen to us, that time being indroduce to something new may trouble our heart, that's how we renew our mind and reprogrammed our selfs. Later when the other disciples at first heard the events of Peter entering Cornelius house, they said that Peter followed a strange spirit.   

Many good things mentioned here I fully agree with.  I'll mention two more. One. Each of us needs to learn to walk with God as the unique person He created us to be.   We need to each learn how prayer, Bible reading, being with other Christians, and other such things is best done at a particular time in our lives.  One of the quickest ways to frustration and burnout is simply copying what another Christian does without learning how it works best for us. Two.  Remember that the gospel has two key components.  The first is the forgiveness of sins and the establishment of a relationship with God.  The second is that God has made us a new creation that reflects the individual uniqueness He created us with.  It is not about trying hard to change through willpower and discipline.  In other words, it is not about doing something any unsaved person can do like new year's resolutions and 5 steps to accomplishing behavioral change.   It is about being transformed from the inside out by the power of God.  Good deeds and freedom from sin are something that are meant to flow naturally from us as we are changed.  They are not things we force ourselves to do so as to behave properly.   Those passages in scripture which describe the Christian life are describing what we will become  as we spiritual grow and mature; they are not a checklist to achieve or fail at based solely on our own ability to use our willpower, discipline, strength, and resolve.  There are some things we can trivially change in our lives by making better choices.  However, there are some things that can only be changed through God's power and working in our lives.

  Ok, let me tackle the last question..... for now, lol. You asked if we slip, are we putting the grave cloths back on.  Butero, when we slip.....or more accurately, as John said IF we slip....it is simply our taking our eyes off Jesus. When Peter climbed out of the boat and began walking to Jesus, he walked on water! But, the winds and waves kicked up.....which had zero to do with his miracle.... and he began to sink. His eyes left Jesus. As we step out in faith in the beginning, often, our faith is shaky. But as we continue to believe, even if we slip, we find our faith grows. So, no, we are not putting the  grave clothes back on. However, let’s say that we go through a period of doubt after our first slip and we assume it was all a dream and we go back to our normal routine. Sins return, we make little if any progress in being changed into His likeness. What happens then?  It would seem we do actually begin to cloth ourselves with what previously had restricted us. Our rest is interrupted. We lose the joy of our salvation and our confidence in the Lord to keep us from falling and we look less and less alive.  At this point, I want to make sure you understand that even if someone is totally wrapped in grave cloths again, he may be uncomfortable, he may be miserable, but he is still alive from the dead. Resurrected. A new creature. It is this FACT that helps us stand up again and believe! It is not when we believe hard enough that we enter in. We believe, even if our faith is minuscule, because our death and resurrection IS a fact!  Is it possible to go back to death, to lose what God has done altogether? Yes, but it is very rare. Once one has had their eyes opened, and then returns to willful sin, we are told there remains no more sacrifice for sins but a certain fearful looking for of judgment. Paul continues. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly calling to renew them again unto repentance.  I want here to make one thing clear. Christians, the wheat, the virgins with oil, even if unlit,  have,  throughout the long dry summer, still been new creations. Even if they never come into agreement with God that the old natured them is dead, they still are new. Their works, done in the flesh, might be burned up, but they are saved. They were judged based upon what they had received.  But we are entering the harvest, spurred on by the latter rain. We are about to have our eyes opened. To whom much is given, much is required.  What was acceptable for a saint in the past will not be soon. We will be given much light, and so choosing to ‘hang back with the crowd’ will put one in danger. It will be imperative that we walk in the light as He is in the light, and keep pace with what He reveals to us all.  I hope this helps. At some point, it will not be head questions being satisfactorily answered but heart hunger that drives one to the river Jordan, and decides, giants or no, to go in and take the land of promise(s). You are in my prayers and I covet yours as well.  Blessings,  Gideon

His peace He gives us, but not as the world gives.  I have to be honest, but I'm finding it hard to understand why someone who is of Christ would have trouble agreeing with the simple but necessary warnings and admonitions of scripture....regarding deception..... and that we are to test the spirits and test all things.....especially since we are in perilous days now.  We are to work out our salvation with fear and trembling....if someone comes along and hasn't been testing all things in the fear of the Lord, and can't even agree in principle with that (His) word, then it is hard to have confidence in what they are bringing.  It's not reassuring....it makes me concerned.  There are many of the world who have peace, Buddhists, Hindus, new agers etc.  Many Christians too, they wouldn't consider themselves to be followers of those religions in name, but who practice yoga and such and claim to have peace, but are filling up with deceptive evil spirits, unbeknownst to them. It's not a matter of whether Christ is strong enough....He can do anything He wants at any time.....but in His wisdom and will He has sent us out as sheep among wolves, He has placed us in the middle of a battlefield...might as well call it a minefield.  We are in a war and to win it we need to fight according to His word and way, not the way that seemeth so right to us.  He also is particular about how we worship and serve Him, not with strange fire.  It's dangerous to be dismissive of His word....and when I say His word I'm not talking about the letter.   For your own sake, I urge you to test and sift everything by His word and with His Help.  I'm not saying everything is off, but mixture in itself means tainted, and means something needs purifying.  I have had to do that as well, put things on the altar, poured some cherished beliefs back out to the Lord, and asked Him to sift and burn away whatever was not of Him.  And He was so faithful to purify and rightly divide things I had been believing, but without the wrong parts which were deceiving me, and He separated out and cleansed my heart of some wrong things that had entangled it.

To stand firm in the face of adversity as now you know that the devil is your real foe . Now that the truth of this thing called life is revealed to you through the word of God, you now also realize that you have enemies that would want you to doubt your salvation and for you to go back to the old way or as Paul said the old man. The world, the flesh and the devil would come to take away your peace, but you have and must fight the good fight of faith and know that we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but principalities and powers and the rulers of darkness.   That Jesus Christ to whom your salvation is found by his grace through your faith, is your rock, shield and buckler and to stand by the promises made by him and the word, even until death. The crown of eternal life are the reward for your soul.   Study to be approved, grow and mature in the things of the Lord. To always remember, Jesus said that he would never leave your nor forsake you.  You always have to strive to live holy and a righteous life as written in the word of God, the bible.  Hebrews 13 King James Version (KJV) 5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.