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There has been a lot of ‘lively’ debate here lately on the forum as to whether or not a man can be ‘kept from sinning’. I use those words specifically because I believe there has been a misunderstanding about what I have been asked to share. I am the first in line to say that no man can stop sinning, no matter how hard he tries, no matter how long he tries, no matter how much he wants to stop dishonoring God with his actions. It is simply impossible. 

The truth is, however, that the scriptures are clear that what is impossible with man is possible with our God. God has promised us shields of faith that will not fail us in protecting us from the power of darkness. In the near future, if not today, each one of us will face the question of whether God can do, in us, what we ourselves are powerless to do.... deliver us from evil. We know He forgives us, delivering us from the penalty to our sins,  but as to delivering us from the power of darkness, unbelief pretty much rules the roost right now. 

 But that is not what this post is about. It is about the need for each one of us to honestly examine the state of our hearts. Through both the old and new testaments, we read story after story, verse after verse, parable after parable, about the deep evil of sin and God’s plan to rid the universe o its grip. 

Think about it. Hidden in that one sin in the garden, a simple disobedience to the will of the Father, were seeds that spawned every war, every rape, every child being abused throughout history.  That one sin spawned every addiction and perversion,  selfishness, abortion, and every evil act committed by men since the day Eve heard the first words of doubt from our enemy ..... “Hath God said...”?  All that spewed forth was simply unsprouted seed hidden in that one “small sin”. 

Listen, I pray we all understand. There is no small sin. As long as this is our thought process, sin will never become exceedingly sinful to us. We must understand this truth. 

All sin is exceedingly sinful to our God. Do we believe that? And we are told that we are to have the mind of Christ... God’s mind. When Paul was trapped in the prison cell of Romans 7, he wanted to cease from sin, but he simply could not. He longed to love his God with ALL of his heart. He did not. A part of him loved him. He wanted to cease from evil.  He did not. A part of him still loved darkness, rather than the light. 

And in this prison cell, Paul did not ever once settle down and ‘make the best of his human condition’, accepting his fate as a tainted vessel. No, he hated his imprisonment. And eventually, he came to the point he hated the source of his problem.... his old carnal nature. And that, dear friends, was the purpose of this place called Romans 7 that God made him .... and us.... pass through.

Do we see? We too have found ourselves imprisoned in the same prison Paul found himself long ago. The prison of our old fallen nature. There is a purpose for this prison we find ourselves. It is that we as God’s children strive to enter the rest of God, where the power of sin has been defeated in our lives. And in our earnest attempts to obey Him in all things, to please God with our lives, our actions, our thoughts, we will find two truths must rise to the forefront of our hearts.

1) Sin... all sin..... is exceedingly sinful. It is to God and it must become so to us. 

2) No matter how hard we try, and we MUST try, we cannot extricate the darkness in us, for it is the US that is the problem. Our old carnal nature cannot be improved. It cannot grow from bearing bad fruit to bearing good fruit by our attempts, no matter how sincere we are, or how hard we try. 

Satan has laid a huge trap in Romans 7 for us. It is to give up our desire fro freedom from the power of darkness and t o get us to stop at “It is impossible for man”, so that we never cry out to our Father in Heaven, telling Him that nothing is too hard for Him. 

Guys, here is the point. Where is our heart on the matter? Lay aside the question of IF it is possible to be kept from falling to sin’s power. If our heart is not God’s heart on the matter, either way, we will be walking in disobedience, displeasing our God. If what some say is correct, that the limit of grace’s power is forgiveness alone, should we not still want to please the one who died for us to give us that forgiveness? 

If, for the sake of argument, Romans 7 is to be our home until the return of Jesus, and only then will we walk in victory over sin, then our hearts, should they not match Paul’s in his hatred of the darkness that still reigned over him? Should we not see ourselves as wretched men in our failing to walk pleasing to our God? Does it bring any honor to Him that we continue to sin? Do we think our continued disobedience somehow  magnifies grace? It does not. It cheapens it. 

Though many may now doubt it, God is about to awaken all who love the light found in His Son, Jesus Christ. “To what?” you ask? To what it means “to be saved to the uttermost”! To the full meaning of “the glorious liberty of the children of God”! Glory to God, it is coming! 

However,  if we remain content to dwell in shadowland, where we walk as double minded children, with one foot in the world and its pleasures and one foot ready for our mansion in Heaven, our God loves us enough to do whatever it takes to rescue us from this dangerous mentality and to make sure we do not miss what He has for us. Whatever it takes

A decision day is approaching for each one of us as the darkness and the light separate ever increasingly in these final days. We will find ourselves pulled hard towards the light so God can plant our feet on the highway of holiness. Likewise, Satan will try to blind our minds and harden our hearts through our continued ‘little sins’ that seem relatively innocent to us.

If ever there was a time to yield ourselves fully to our God, to let His will become our will, this is it. Our God is Holy, and He wants holy children, ‘free indeed’ children, so we can walk hand in hand. Let all know this.  In the coming days, we are going to not only witness, but be an integral part of, our God rolling up HIS sleeves and displaying His power IN US to keep us from falling and to cause us to walk in full and complete victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil. 

The question of the hour is not “Is such a walk possible?”. The question each one of us needs to answer right now is...  “Do we even want that?” If the answer is yes, God will move mountains to make sure you are transformed into an overcomer, mounting up with eagle’s wings, staring down the enemy of your soul and shining brightly for all to see before His return. 

Blessings, 

Gideon

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Gideon said:

There has been a lot of ‘lively’ debate here lately on the forum as to whether or not a man can be ‘kept from sinning’. I use those words specifically because I believe there has been a misunderstanding about what I have been asked to share. I am the first in line to say that no man can stop sinning, no matter how hard he tries, no matter how long he tries, no matter how much he wants to stop dishonoring God with his actions. It is simply impossible. 

The truth is, however, that the scriptures are clear that what is impossible with man is possible with our God. God has promised us shields of faith that will not fail us in protecting us from the power of darkness. In the near future, if not today, each one of us will face the question of whether God can do, in us, what we ourselves are powerless to do.... deliver us from evil. We know He forgives us, delivering us from the penalty to our sins,  but as to delivering us from the power of darkness, unbelief pretty much rules the roost right now. 

 But that is not what this post is about. It is about the need for each one of us to honestly examine the state of our hearts. Through both the old and new testaments, we read story after story, verse after verse, parable after parable, about the deep evil of sin and God’s plan to rid the universe o its grip. 

Think about it. Hidden in that one sin in the garden, a simple disobedience to the will of the Father, were seeds that spawned every war, every rape, every child being abused throughout history.  That one sin spawned every addiction and perversion,  selfishness, abortion, and every evil act committed by men since the day Eve heard the first words of doubt from our enemy ..... “Hath God said...”?  All that spewed forth was simply unsprouted seed hidden in that one “small sin”. 

Listen, I pray we all understand. There is no small sin. As long as this is our thought process, sin will never become exceedingly sinful to us. We must understand this truth. 

All sin is exceedingly sinful to our God. Do we believe that? And we are told that we are to have the mind of Christ... God’s mind. When Paul was trapped in the prison cell of Romans 7, he wanted to cease from sin, but he simply could not. He longed to love his God with ALL of his heart. He did not. A part of him loved him. He wanted to cease from evil.  He did not. A part of him still loved darkness, rather than the light. 

And in this prison cell, Paul did not ever once settle down and ‘make the best of his human condition’, accepting his fate as a tainted vessel. No, he hated his imprisonment. And eventually, he came to the point he hated the source of his problem.... his old carnal nature. And that, dear friends, was the purpose of this place called Romans 7 that God made him .... and us.... pass through.

Do we see? We too have found ourselves imprisoned in the same prison Paul found himself long ago. The prison of our old fallen nature. There is a purpose for this prison we find ourselves. It is that we as God’s children strive to enter the rest of God, where the power of sin has been defeated in our lives. And in our earnest attempts to obey Him in all things, to please God with our lives, our actions, our thoughts, we will find two truths must rise to the forefront of our hearts.

1) Sin... all sin..... is exceedingly sinful. It is to God and it must become so to us. 

2) No matter how hard we try, and we MUST try, we cannot extricate the darkness in us, for it is the US that is the problem. Our old carnal nature cannot be improved. It cannot grow from bearing bad fruit to bearing good fruit by our attempts, no matter how sincere we are, or how hard we try. 

Satan has laid a huge trap in Romans 7 for us. It is to give up our desire fro freedom from the power of darkness and t o get us to stop at “It is impossible for man”, so that we never cry out to our Father in Heaven, telling Him that nothing is too hard for Him. 

Guys, here is the point. Where is our heart on the matter? Lay aside the question of IF it is possible to be kept from falling to sin’s power. If our heart is not God’s heart on the matter, either way, we will be walking in disobedience, displeasing our God. If what some say is correct, that the limit of grace’s power is forgiveness alone, should we not still want to please the one who died for us to give us that forgiveness? 

If, for the sake of argument, Romans 7 is to be our home until the return of Jesus, and only then will we walk in victory over sin, then our hearts, should they not match Paul’s in his hatred of the darkness that still reigned over him? Should we not see ourselves as wretched men in our failing to walk pleasing to our God? Does it bring any honor to Him that we continue to sin? Do we think our continued disobedience somehow  magnifies grace? It does not. It cheapens it. 

Though many may now doubt it, God is about to awaken all who love the light found in His Son, Jesus Christ. “To what?” you ask? To what it means “to be saved to the uttermost”! To the full meaning of “the glorious liberty of the children of God”! Glory to God, it is coming! 

However,  if we remain content to dwell in shadowland, where we walk as double minded children, with one foot in the world and its pleasures and one foot ready for our mansion in Heaven, our God loves us enough to do whatever it takes to rescue us from this dangerous mentality and to make sure we do not miss what He has for us. Whatever it takes

A decision day is approaching for each one of us as the darkness and the light separate ever increasingly in these final days. We will find ourselves pulled hard towards the light so God can plant our feet on the highway of holiness. Likewise, Satan will try to blind our minds and harden our hearts through our continued ‘little sins’ that seem relatively innocent to us.

If ever there was a time to yield ourselves fully to our God, to let His will become our will, this is it. Our God is Holy, and He wants holy children, ‘free indeed’ children, so we can walk hand in hand. Let all know this.  In the coming days, we are going to not only witness, but be an integral part of, our God rolling up HIS sleeves and displaying His power IN US to keep us from falling and to cause us to walk in full and complete victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil. 

The question of the hour is not “Is such a walk possible?”. The question each one of us needs to answer right now is...  “Do we even want that?” If the answer is yes, God will move mountains to make sure you are transformed into an overcomer, mounting up with eagle’s wings, staring down the enemy of your soul and shining brightly for all to see before His return. 

Blessings, 

Gideon

 

 

 

 

It may not seem like it, but blessed are those that find themselves in a Romans 7 situation, for it is a real experience. For it itself is proof that God is working in the believers life. But it is definitely meant to be temporary. With the question “who shall deliver me from the body of this death” Paul had “finally” given up looking to himself for deliverance, now he looked for someone else (Jesus) to do something for him he could not do for himself.  But this deliverance, from the “old man and his deeds” was and will only be found by those that desire it. The constant sinning, repenting, sinning, repenting,  like you said brings no Glory to God. It only makes sense, it would have to start with the heart, the desire of the soul turned towards God. Only this hunger after God. That hunger that will not relent, must have what it wants, will never let go till it is filled with “all the fullness of God.” Will not rest till is has come to know, by experience what it means to “walk in the Spirit” and than to “live in the Spirit” That this desire of the soul turned toward God would  consume each member of His Body. That we would come to know by experience what “Christ as our lives” actually means. That we, as members of His  body could come to know Him in such a living and real way we could shout out like Steven did,  “I see the Lord”. For God, He is God and He is good, and He will have a Holy people. 

Much love in Christ, Not me

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3 hours ago, Gideon said:

There has been a lot of ‘lively’ debate here lately on the forum as to whether or not a man can be ‘kept from sinning’. I use those words specifically because I believe there has been a misunderstanding about what I have been asked to share. I am the first in line to say that no man can stop sinning, no matter how hard he tries, no matter how long he tries, no matter how much he wants to stop dishonoring God with his actions. It is simply impossible. 

The truth is, however, that the scriptures are clear that what is impossible with man is possible with our God. God has promised us shields of faith that will not fail us in protecting us from the power of darkness. In the near future, if not today, each one of us will face the question of whether God can do, in us, what we ourselves are powerless to do.... deliver us from evil. We know He forgives us, delivering us from the penalty to our sins,  but as to delivering us from the power of darkness, unbelief pretty much rules the roost right now. 

 But that is not what this post is about. It is about the need for each one of us to honestly examine the state of our hearts. Through both the old and new testaments, we read story after story, verse after verse, parable after parable, about the deep evil of sin and God’s plan to rid the universe o its grip. 

Think about it. Hidden in that one sin in the garden, a simple disobedience to the will of the Father, were seeds that spawned every war, every rape, every child being abused throughout history.  That one sin spawned every addiction and perversion,  selfishness, abortion, and every evil act committed by men since the day Eve heard the first words of doubt from our enemy ..... “Hath God said...”?  All that spewed forth was simply unsprouted seed hidden in that one “small sin”. 

Listen, I pray we all understand. There is no small sin. As long as this is our thought process, sin will never become exceedingly sinful to us. We must understand this truth. 

All sin is exceedingly sinful to our God. Do we believe that? And we are told that we are to have the mind of Christ... God’s mind. When Paul was trapped in the prison cell of Romans 7, he wanted to cease from sin, but he simply could not. He longed to love his God with ALL of his heart. He did not. A part of him loved him. He wanted to cease from evil.  He did not. A part of him still loved darkness, rather than the light. 

And in this prison cell, Paul did not ever once settle down and ‘make the best of his human condition’, accepting his fate as a tainted vessel. No, he hated his imprisonment. And eventually, he came to the point he hated the source of his problem.... his old carnal nature. And that, dear friends, was the purpose of this place called Romans 7 that God made him .... and us.... pass through.

Do we see? We too have found ourselves imprisoned in the same prison Paul found himself long ago. The prison of our old fallen nature. There is a purpose for this prison we find ourselves. It is that we as God’s children strive to enter the rest of God, where the power of sin has been defeated in our lives. And in our earnest attempts to obey Him in all things, to please God with our lives, our actions, our thoughts, we will find two truths must rise to the forefront of our hearts.

1) Sin... all sin..... is exceedingly sinful. It is to God and it must become so to us. 

2) No matter how hard we try, and we MUST try, we cannot extricate the darkness in us, for it is the US that is the problem. Our old carnal nature cannot be improved. It cannot grow from bearing bad fruit to bearing good fruit by our attempts, no matter how sincere we are, or how hard we try. 

Satan has laid a huge trap in Romans 7 for us. It is to give up our desire fro freedom from the power of darkness and t o get us to stop at “It is impossible for man”, so that we never cry out to our Father in Heaven, telling Him that nothing is too hard for Him. 

Guys, here is the point. Where is our heart on the matter? Lay aside the question of IF it is possible to be kept from falling to sin’s power. If our heart is not God’s heart on the matter, either way, we will be walking in disobedience, displeasing our God. If what some say is correct, that the limit of grace’s power is forgiveness alone, should we not still want to please the one who died for us to give us that forgiveness? 

If, for the sake of argument, Romans 7 is to be our home until the return of Jesus, and only then will we walk in victory over sin, then our hearts, should they not match Paul’s in his hatred of the darkness that still reigned over him? Should we not see ourselves as wretched men in our failing to walk pleasing to our God? Does it bring any honor to Him that we continue to sin? Do we think our continued disobedience somehow  magnifies grace? It does not. It cheapens it. 

Though many may now doubt it, God is about to awaken all who love the light found in His Son, Jesus Christ. “To what?” you ask? To what it means “to be saved to the uttermost”! To the full meaning of “the glorious liberty of the children of God”! Glory to God, it is coming! 

However,  if we remain content to dwell in shadowland, where we walk as double minded children, with one foot in the world and its pleasures and one foot ready for our mansion in Heaven, our God loves us enough to do whatever it takes to rescue us from this dangerous mentality and to make sure we do not miss what He has for us. Whatever it takes

A decision day is approaching for each one of us as the darkness and the light separate ever increasingly in these final days. We will find ourselves pulled hard towards the light so God can plant our feet on the highway of holiness. Likewise, Satan will try to blind our minds and harden our hearts through our continued ‘little sins’ that seem relatively innocent to us.

If ever there was a time to yield ourselves fully to our God, to let His will become our will, this is it. Our God is Holy, and He wants holy children, ‘free indeed’ children, so we can walk hand in hand. Let all know this.  In the coming days, we are going to not only witness, but be an integral part of, our God rolling up HIS sleeves and displaying His power IN US to keep us from falling and to cause us to walk in full and complete victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil. 

The question of the hour is not “Is such a walk possible?”. The question each one of us needs to answer right now is...  “Do we even want that?” If the answer is yes, God will move mountains to make sure you are transformed into an overcomer, mounting up with eagle’s wings, staring down the enemy of your soul and shining brightly for all to see before His return. 

Blessings, 

Gideon

 

 

 

 

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  In the coming days, we are going to not only witness, but be an integral part of, our God rolling up HIS sleeves and displaying His power IN US to keep us from falling and to cause us to walk in full and complete victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil

 

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18 hours ago, Gideon said:

There has been a lot of ‘lively’ debate here lately on the forum as to whether or not a man can be ‘kept from sinning’. I use those words specifically because I believe there has been a misunderstanding about what I have been asked to share. I am the first in line to say that no man can stop sinning, no matter how hard he tries, no matter how long he tries, no matter how much he wants to stop dishonoring God with his actions. It is simply impossible. 

The truth is, however, that the scriptures are clear that what is impossible with man is possible with our God. God has promised us shields of faith that will not fail us in protecting us from the power of darkness. In the near future, if not today, each one of us will face the question of whether God can do, in us, what we ourselves are powerless to do.... deliver us from evil. We know He forgives us, delivering us from the penalty to our sins,  but as to delivering us from the power of darkness, unbelief pretty much rules the roost right now. 

 But that is not what this post is about. It is about the need for each one of us to honestly examine the state of our hearts. Through both the old and new testaments, we read story after story, verse after verse, parable after parable, about the deep evil of sin and God’s plan to rid the universe o its grip. 

Think about it. Hidden in that one sin in the garden, a simple disobedience to the will of the Father, were seeds that spawned every war, every rape, every child being abused throughout history.  That one sin spawned every addiction and perversion,  selfishness, abortion, and every evil act committed by men since the day Eve heard the first words of doubt from our enemy ..... “Hath God said...”?  All that spewed forth was simply unsprouted seed hidden in that one “small sin”. 

Listen, I pray we all understand. There is no small sin. As long as this is our thought process, sin will never become exceedingly sinful to us. We must understand this truth. 

All sin is exceedingly sinful to our God. Do we believe that? And we are told that we are to have the mind of Christ... God’s mind. When Paul was trapped in the prison cell of Romans 7, he wanted to cease from sin, but he simply could not. He longed to love his God with ALL of his heart. He did not. A part of him loved him. He wanted to cease from evil.  He did not. A part of him still loved darkness, rather than the light. 

And in this prison cell, Paul did not ever once settle down and ‘make the best of his human condition’, accepting his fate as a tainted vessel. No, he hated his imprisonment. And eventually, he came to the point he hated the source of his problem.... his old carnal nature. And that, dear friends, was the purpose of this place called Romans 7 that God made him .... and us.... pass through.

Do we see? We too have found ourselves imprisoned in the same prison Paul found himself long ago. The prison of our old fallen nature. There is a purpose for this prison we find ourselves. It is that we as God’s children strive to enter the rest of God, where the power of sin has been defeated in our lives. And in our earnest attempts to obey Him in all things, to please God with our lives, our actions, our thoughts, we will find two truths must rise to the forefront of our hearts.

1) Sin... all sin..... is exceedingly sinful. It is to God and it must become so to us. 

2) No matter how hard we try, and we MUST try, we cannot extricate the darkness in us, for it is the US that is the problem. Our old carnal nature cannot be improved. It cannot grow from bearing bad fruit to bearing good fruit by our attempts, no matter how sincere we are, or how hard we try. 

Satan has laid a huge trap in Romans 7 for us. It is to give up our desire fro freedom from the power of darkness and t o get us to stop at “It is impossible for man”, so that we never cry out to our Father in Heaven, telling Him that nothing is too hard for Him. 

Guys, here is the point. Where is our heart on the matter? Lay aside the question of IF it is possible to be kept from falling to sin’s power. If our heart is not God’s heart on the matter, either way, we will be walking in disobedience, displeasing our God. If what some say is correct, that the limit of grace’s power is forgiveness alone, should we not still want to please the one who died for us to give us that forgiveness? 

If, for the sake of argument, Romans 7 is to be our home until the return of Jesus, and only then will we walk in victory over sin, then our hearts, should they not match Paul’s in his hatred of the darkness that still reigned over him? Should we not see ourselves as wretched men in our failing to walk pleasing to our God? Does it bring any honor to Him that we continue to sin? Do we think our continued disobedience somehow  magnifies grace? It does not. It cheapens it. 

Though many may now doubt it, God is about to awaken all who love the light found in His Son, Jesus Christ. “To what?” you ask? To what it means “to be saved to the uttermost”! To the full meaning of “the glorious liberty of the children of God”! Glory to God, it is coming! 

However,  if we remain content to dwell in shadowland, where we walk as double minded children, with one foot in the world and its pleasures and one foot ready for our mansion in Heaven, our God loves us enough to do whatever it takes to rescue us from this dangerous mentality and to make sure we do not miss what He has for us. Whatever it takes

A decision day is approaching for each one of us as the darkness and the light separate ever increasingly in these final days. We will find ourselves pulled hard towards the light so God can plant our feet on the highway of holiness. Likewise, Satan will try to blind our minds and harden our hearts through our continued ‘little sins’ that seem relatively innocent to us.

If ever there was a time to yield ourselves fully to our God, to let His will become our will, this is it. Our God is Holy, and He wants holy children, ‘free indeed’ children, so we can walk hand in hand. Let all know this.  In the coming days, we are going to not only witness, but be an integral part of, our God rolling up HIS sleeves and displaying His power IN US to keep us from falling and to cause us to walk in full and complete victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil. 

The question of the hour is not “Is such a walk possible?”. The question each one of us needs to answer right now is...  “Do we even want that?” If the answer is yes, God will move mountains to make sure you are transformed into an overcomer, mounting up with eagle’s wings, staring down the enemy of your soul and shining brightly for all to see before His return. 

Blessings, 

Gideon

 

 

 

 

I believe that a person who is saved is born again of the spirit...he is a new creation in Christ...he has been given a new heart....it is the heart that God judges....the flesh does not get born again, the spirit does....so now we are reborn with the spirit of Christ in a fleshly body....the spirit wars against the flesh at this point continually....we are to crucify the flesh daily....do we mess up? yes....but the Holy Spirit convicts us of our error and we take it to our Father in prayer and ask for forgiveness...repenting with a sorrowful heart of our wrongdoing.

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17 hours ago, Butero said:

I need for you to answer me this.  If everyone who desires to be absolutely free from the influence of sin will one day have this become a reality, and God will make sure of it, what is the purpose of your message?  What are you exhorting people to do?  If nothing, why the urgency in your message?  Isn't it just going to happen to the sincere Christian?  

Will this be the result of someone's ministry?  In other words, is some person going to come along and lead this movement, or will it just happen on its own?  Who or what are you preparing the way for?  Is it a person?  Is it a miracle?  When most preach, it is with a purpose, to get a response to make a decision for Christ or against Christ.  What are people being asked to do by you?  Just wait?  They are doing that now, going about their day to day lives walking as they know how.  What are you seeking to accomplish?  

This is not intended in any way, shape or form to be an attack on you.  I want that understood.  I am reading what you are saying, and I am trying to understand the purpose and what kind of response you are trying to get from the hearer.  All of what I am asking about are sincere questions, not underhanded attacks.  I feel it is important you are transparent as possible so we can make up our minds about your message.  I am genuinely confused by it.  Thank you in advance.

This is a fair question, and I have no problem answering it. There are two things that must happen. Hearts must be softened and if needed, broken, before victory can be put on. Think of it as the plow breaking up the fallow ground, ready for the precious seed to be planted and to sprout to new life. I can certainly point out the great need for this breaking, but it will be the Spirit Himself who brings each one of us to the point we see our great need. 

But what else needs to happen? Sleeping saints need to understand the HOW of holiness.... the putting off of the old nature and the putting on of the new. How can they believe unless they hear the truth and how will they hear the truth unless someone shares it with them? 

Please do not mosunderstand me here. I have no illusions of grandeur here. Yes, I have been given a message and I have and will continue to share it, in hopes that some seed will hit ground properly prepared ground. But I have shared this exact message with no ‘evolving’ for over eleven years now, and it was only on the last four months that the Lord has made fit to meet others with pretty much the same message I share. They did not learn it from me. They did not learn it from another man, God opened their eyes just as He did mine.

Brother, what I see happening is a wildfire type scenario. Once the message is embraced, and the old man reckoned to be dead, for indeed he is, everything changes. The doctrines stay the same, but they are like the skeleton holding up our body. They themselves are not life. It will be like a forest fire stoked by the wind. Hundreds... thousands of small burning embers will be cast out into the world and each one will set others ablaze, which in turn will set others. I am just one burning ember, there is a whole church to awaken . I will simply try to do my part the best I can, whatever God may have for me.

I may be wrong but I do not see the church.... and here I speak of the organized Church..... meeting this with much enthusiasm. I pray I am wrong. But I do see multitudes of strugglers, some in church, some having left church, and some far outside the bounds of church, those who know they need a miracle to walk in the freedom that God promises us, finding, and walking in that freedom. That may be what it takes to convince the naysayers. That is my prayer. 

I hope this helps in some way. 

Blessings, 

Gideon

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4 hours ago, naominash said:

Thank you, Gideon.

 

I am in deep thought and study about this. I have discussed it with my husband. As I was talking, I began to think, 

"I like Gideon's attitude because I know I believe that we as Christians can have increasing victory over sin by the power of the Spirit."

You actually took the words out of my head when you mentioned that even if a sinless state is impossible, that we should desire to be perfect. I believe that is the mark of someone who is being sanctified. 

I still am not sure that we can be completely without sin. But I am more excited to agree with you that increasing Holiness and a desire for that should be stirred up in our generation today. A pure desire to please God and study His Word is what I need, as well as community, and working to save others.

 

 

Let me explain a bit more about this ‘sinlessness’. First, as I said, it is not an ‘achievable state’, meaning our efforts will fall miserably short. Trust me, after 38 years of trying, and trying HARD, I know it for a fact. The truth is, it was only when I finally admitted my total inability to walk in holiness that God opened up the truth to my understanding. Why then? Because when we come to the point we have NO strength, He increases might. 

Let’s get one thing out of the way here first. How has it gone in 11 years for my own walk? Have I sinned.... and here I am not talking sins of omission? Absolutely. This place we stand on is the high ground of Jesus’s victory. He plants our feet there and tells us to “occupy til He comes”. There is no battle to take the high ground. The battle is far easier. We are told to hold onto it by faith!

So when we finally  see our great need, tired of being tempted and yielding to it, tired of our lack of spiritual fruit, tired of feeling like God is often a million miles away, tired of feeling condemned even when we read clearly that there is no more condemnation, we have finished 90% of the course leading to FREE INDEED. 

Getting to the point we can admit to ourselves that we do indeed need more from our God is a hard thing for believers to do. We have a hard time admitting that our best is not good enough. But nothing can substitute for brokenness, for it is in that soil that faith can sprout. 

So when we finally come to the point of hating our carnal nature, of longing to walk in the free indeed that Jesus promised us, we are ready for the one thing we are asked to do by God. We are asked to do no work. We do not have to “get ourselves ready to receive.”. The truth is, that is why we are coming to Him for victory, because we have seen what a losing battle it is to try to make ourselves ready! LOL. 

So what does He ask of us? To exercise our faith, and appropriate His victory as our victory!That is why Paul said in Romans 6 that there are two facts we are told we must KNOW as truth

1) When Jesus died, so DID we. Our old carnal nature died with Him. 

2) When Jesus rose from the dead to newness of life, so DID we. We have been given brand new natures, natures that love the light and hate the dark. Natures that want to yield totally to God. Natures that can be caused to obey Him in all things. Natures that are laden with small dormant fruiting buds, ready to swell and pop. 

People ask me a lot “Well, if what you say is true, why are we not simply walking in the power of our new nature right now? “ Great question! The answer of course is,

“According  to your faith be it unto you.”

When the Israelites entered the promised land, God told them He had already given them the land, amen? He said that every step they took would be theirs. But, they still had to exercise their faith by walking it out in the real world and taking it.  Same goes for us. 

Naom, we have all been new creatures since the day we were born again. That term is no religious lingo. It was a real new birth from above. And we have had these as our possession. The problem is, they are still in their packages, tied with a bow, unopened and thus unused. To walk in them requires simply acknowledging the truth of who we are.... and who we no longer are.  I find speaking out loud works best, because when my ears hear my voice speak truth, my faith is like a lamp finally plugged into the socket. 

People say “My faith is too small.” I answer and say “You have just enough.” All God asks each of us to do is plant the faith we do have, for that faith, no matter how seemingly small, is the faith God has given you. It is dynamo faith. And if we will plant it, and reckon our old man as dead, not dying, but truly dead (because he IS), we will be amazed when God starts to grow that faith at an amazingly fast pace. 

When we put on our new natures, we are finally in agreement with God, so guess what? Two CAN walk together if they are agreed! That is why in Revelation, we are told that the end time saints overcame the devil by the blood of the lamb AND the word of THEIR testimony! Glory to God. 

So, back to ‘sinlessness’. Now we understand that it is Him who keeps us from falling, not us. He not only make a way of escape in every temptation, but He also causes us to take  that way of escape! Glory!!  We still have fleshly bodies, but not fleshly natures. Paul tells us in Romans 8 that we are NOT in the flesh, but in the Spirit, and we owe the flesh NOTHING. Our job is to arm ourselves with those amazing promises. 

So how is it possible to fall? Easy. Our faith wavers!  When we first begin, we are like toddlers just learning to walk. We can fall. Not because our nature is not new. Not because our old nature still lives. Simply because our shield of faith is small, and our arm is weak. We have finally begun to fight our good fight of faith, with the point of it being that our faith grows larger and larger and eventually,we simply become established in the faith. Devil, watch out when that happens. 

If we fall..... not when, but like John tells us...IF we sin, we confess it, we repent, and immediately we hoist our shield of faith back up that we are new creatures in Christ and the devil has no power over us. Talk about frustrating the devil! LOL. And guess what? Even IF we slip, and we get back up and believe again unwaveringly, our faith GROWS. 

When I had my visitation, it was such a powerful experience that my faith was HUGE right off the bat. I went two full years with never having my conscience convict me of wrongdoing. The first time I slipped was devastating, but it was needed, for it was getting to the point I was leaning to believe sin was impossible. It is possible, but only as my  shield of faith was lowered. 

So, is it possible to walk without any offense? Absolutely! Why do I believe that? Because our new nature cannot sin. Our job is simply to fully clothe ourselves with our new nature, and having done all to stand? STAND therefore!  Once a man or woman is spestsblished in the faith, they find it to be marvelously true that a good tree CANNOT bear bad fruit! Why? Our God cannot lie! 

Blessings,

Gideon

P.s. I know I am probably wearing you out here with my mini-novel, lol, so I will stop and let you digest what I have written. Feel free to ask any questions

 

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2 hours ago, Gideon said:

This is a fair question, and I have no problem answering it. There are two things that must happen. Hearts must be softened and if needed, broken, before victory can be put on. Think of it as the plow breaking up the fallow ground, ready for the precious seed to be planted and to sprout to new life. I can certainly point out the great need for this breaking, but it will be the Spirit Himself who brings each one of us to the point we see our great need. 

But what else needs to happen? Sleeping saints need to understand the HOW of holiness.... the putting off of the old nature and the putting on of the new. How can they believe unless they hear the truth and how will they hear the truth unless someone shares it with them? 

Please do not mosunderstand me here. I have no illusions of grandeur here. Yes, I have been given a message and I have and will continue to share it, in hopes that some seed will hit ground properly prepared ground. But I have shared this exact message with no ‘evolving’ for over eleven years now, and it was only on the last four months that the Lord has made fit to meet others with pretty much the same message I share. They did not learn it from me. They did not learn it from another man, God opened their eyes just as He did mine.

Brother, what I see happening is a wildfire type scenario. Once the message is embraced, and the old man reckoned to be dead, for indeed he is, everything changes. The doctrines stay the same, but they are like the skeleton holding up our body. They themselves are not life. It will be like a forest fire stoked by the wind. Hundreds... thousands of small burning embers will be cast out into the world and each one will set others ablaze, which in turn will set others. I am just one burning ember, there is a whole church to awaken . I will simply try to do my part the best I can, whatever God may have for me.

I may be wrong but I do not see the church.... and here I speak of the organized Church..... meeting this with much enthusiasm. I pray I am wrong. But I do see multitudes of strugglers, some in church, some having left church, and some far outside the bounds of church, those who know they need a miracle to walk in the freedom that God promises us, finding, and walking in that freedom. That may be what it takes to convince the naysayers. That is my prayer. 

I hope this helps in some way. 

Blessings, 

Gideon

Forgive me if I am such a poor communicator. Wait? Not at all if one is truly ready. Now is the day of salvation! For many, perhaps most, it is going to take some time for the Spirit to bring deep conviction of need. It is not easy to get to the point one has NO strength. God purposes it that when a man sets his sights on walking holy before God, he tries and tries HARD. The result? Romans 7 failure.  

It is when we come to that point however, that we are fully ready to cast off our old nature like a filthy rag and to slip into our new nature, which fits us perfectly. For me, it was opening my mouth and out loud, reckoning myself dead to sin and alive unto Him. The result was immediate for me. For others it may be different. Some may have huge feelings of joy. Others, perhaps not. It makes NO difference. We are not awaiting an ‘experience’. We are simply telling God that we are in full agreement with Him, no matter how ludicrous it may sound! LOL. We ARE dead to sin’s power, deep in our core. It may be a bit before the results surface in our lives but if we waver not, and believe that we DO receive, we SHALL have. 

My prayer is that by tonight, heck, by the end of the hour, some will say “I am ready to believe, Lord.” And step into the nature that has been theirs since the day they were saved. 

I hope this helps. 

Blessings, 

Gids

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1 hour ago, Yowm said:

We've been given a message as well, a message from Jesus, the prophets and apostles. Why do we need a new message? Is not Scripture sufficient? *

If it's just a matter of peoples eyes that need opening to Scripture then as you say, 'God must open their eyes'.+

 

*All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. (2Ti 3:16-17)

 

+And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. (Mat 16:17)

+And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he vanished from their sight. (Luk 24:31)
 

Do you think my message is “new”? Brother, the message is that we have not believed what has already been given to us! We are new creatures and sin has no more authority over us. That is true for every born again believer. But it resides for most as a hard seed of truth deep in their core being, lacking water to sprout and bring forth fruit. 

My message is simply to believe what God has already done for us. He has put to death our old man, yet mos spend year after frustrating year trying to kill him. 

Reckon him as DEAD! When we do that, having seen the futility of every growing in holiness by our own efforts or the passage of time, and line our testimony up with God’s as to who we are are who we no longer are,and Satan cones knocking again, as he always does, he has a surprise awaiting him. Instead of a beaten down child of God trying his best to be a good Christian, he sees a warrior in full armor with his shield of faith held high, confessing that he owes his fleshly nature NADA. 

This message is not my message, not by a long shot. It is simply scripture, amazing truths we may have memorized but never believed as OUR promises NOW, promises we have made into greT motivational posters to be framed and hung in our living rooms but up til now, never really believed. 

We are beginning to witness His people arming themselves with the truth of who Christ has already made them. As as they take the precious blood of the Lamb, and combine it with the words of THEIR testimony as to what that blood has accomplished in them, simply because God said it, to their amazement, they discover the way to the land of  FREE INDEED has been in them the entire time. 

And  when they believe these truths, that sin shall not have dominion over them, that they can do all things through Christ who strengthens them, that they WILL take the way of escape that God has promised to give us in every temptation, that Satan WILL fleee when we resist him steadfast in the faith, to their joy and amazement, they will begin to witness real victory manifesting itself I their walks and dormant buds beginning to swell and bear fruit, the very nature of the one who is now no longer just WITH us, but IN us!

blessings brother

Gideon

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20 hours ago, angels4u said:

In the coming days?

Starting when ?

 

30 minutes ago, Gideon said:

Forgive me if I am such a poor communicator. Wait? Not at all if one is truly ready. Now is the day of salvation! For many, perhaps most, it is going to take some time for the Spirit to bring deep conviction of need. It is not easy to get to the point one has NO strength. God purposes it that when a man sets his sights on walking holy before God, he tries and tries HARD. The result? Romans 7 failure.  

It is when we come to that point however, that we are fully ready to cast off our old nature like a filthy rag and to slip into our new nature, which fits us perfectly. For me, it was opening my mouth and out loud, reckoning myself dead to sin and alive unto Him. The result was immediate for me. For others it may be different. Some may have huge feelings of joy. Others, perhaps not. It makes NO difference. We are not awaiting an ‘experience’. We are simply telling God that we are in full agreement with Him, no matter how ludicrous it may sound! LOL. We ARE dead to sin’s power, deep in our core. It may be a bit before the results surface in our lives but if we waver not, and believe that we DO receive, we SHALL have. 

My prayer is that by tonight, heck, by the end of the hour, some will say “I am ready to believe, Lord.” And step into the nature that has been theirs since the day they were saved. 

I hope this helps. 

Blessings, 

Gids

If you are ready, and tired of failure and fully realizing that no matter how hard you try to be holy and to resist sin’s power, NOW! :)

Gids

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12 minutes ago, Gideon said:

Do you think my message is “new”? Brother, the message is that we have not believed what has already been given to us! We are new creatures and sin has no more authority over us. That is true for every born again believer. But it resides for most as a hard seed of truth deep in their core being, lacking water to sprout and bring forth fruit. 

My message is simply to believe what God has already done for us. He has put to death our old man, yet mos spend year after frustrating year trying to kill him. 

Reckon him as DEAD! When we do that, having seen the futility of every growing in holiness by our own efforts or the passage of time, and line our testimony up with God’s as to who we are are who we no longer are,and Satan cones knocking again, as he always does, he has a surprise awaiting him. Instead of a beaten down child of God trying his best to be a good Christian, he sees a warrior in full armor with his shield of faith held high, confessing that he owes his fleshly nature NADA. 

This message is not my message, not by a long shot. It is simply scripture, amazing truths we may have memorized but never believed as OUR promises NOW, promises we have made into greT motivational posters to be framed and hung in our living rooms but up til now, never really believed. 

We are beginning to witness His people arming themselves with the truth of who Christ has already made them. As as they take the precious blood of the Lamb, and combine it with the words of THEIR testimony as to what that blood has accomplished in them, simply because God said it, to their amazement, they discover the way to the land of  FREE INDEED has been in them the entire time. 

And  when they believe these truths, that sin shall not have dominion over them, that they can do all things through Christ who strengthens them, that they WILL take the way of escape that God has promised to give us in every temptation, that Satan WILL fleee when we resist him steadfast in the faith, to their joy and amazement, they will begin to witness real victory manifesting itself I their walks and dormant buds beginning to swell and bear fruit, the very nature of the one who is now no longer just WITH us, but IN us!

blessings brother

Gideon

Reckon him as DEAD

The old man is to be dead .     But why don't you explain what you mean by RECKON him DEAD . 

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