Faith is what overcomes sin……

[Not me]

Faith is what overcomes sin….

No amount of self-effort will cause self to stop its sinning, for its sinning is in its functioning…

God, knowing this, He therefore put it to death on the cross with Christ to stop its functioning… It is man that does not know this and needs to be brought to see and experience the truth of it… For until he does, God will let man work himself up, trying to cause himself to stop himself from doing that which comes naturally…. That being an impossibility, God lets man struggle until he gives up, and stops looking to his own will and starts looking Heavenward for a Savior.. 

Then as he sees how faith is the only thing that can look Heavenward, an absolute trusting in God being the only thing left, for he has tried all else, and has seen the futility of his efforts… Then, as he try’s faith and tastes by experience, that faith in God is the only tool he needs to experience God.. Then he sees that all else has been but a distraction and a getting in the way of that one thing that will work to set him free from himself, that being, the faith that is willing to look Heavenward to do for it what it can not do for itself…

This moment by moment repentance from itself, this moment by moment turning from all that it is, to God is that one thing that will work, that does work, that will always work, the absolute impossibility of it ever not working, for it has the death of Christ as its foundation…. This faith in God to do in one what one can not do for oneself…  The work then becomes, to have the faith to stay looking to God, with one’s eyes fixed Heavenward, for the salvation that he has learned by experience, can only come from no where, but from above…

For scripture says;

‘if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body’

Meaning,,,

‘if by faith you put to death the deeds of the body’,

For the looking away from him who can’t, to Him who can, being the faith that overcomes sin, for to the degree of one’s looking, will be the degree of one’s walking in newness of life….

The issue being, man thinks he understands this truth because he mentally consents to it, it makes sense in his brain, so therefore he thinks he has all there can be had from this truth because of that consenting… But this truth, as with all truths, there is a difference between mentally agreeing with the truth of a statement and the experiencing of a truth…. One can read books and maps about a thing, yet be still a great distance from that thing, being, the mental image of a thing being different from the thing itself…

Scripture puts this truth forward as ‘be doer’s not hearer’s only, deluding yourself’, dividing the knowledge of the something, from the possessor’s of the something…. Even to the point of putting forth the caution, that because of this truth, some will delude themselves thinking that because they know, they have…

Our salvation is the manifestation of Christ in us, this is the only true test of whether someone knows by knowledge or by experience… If Christ is not seen, not tasted in one, that one, regardless of words or position is still a hearer of the truths they profess… For even Paul himself said, judge me according to the Christ you see in me, as so it should be with all…

For the knowing of Christ is the manifesting of Christ, all else is but one trying to climb over the fence rather then through the gate… Which is something that all try to do therefore does God let one struggle until one sees the futility of it, then faith steps in and produces its fruit…

For the new birth is the all of one’s salvation, the growing of this new creation, is in the struggle of faith to produce its fruit….

Unto Him who teaches with His eye on those that are His…

 

To the growing in Him, Not me 

[Heleadethme]

Amen...thank you for your postings.  I find them encouraging....there is nothing much else that matters to me anymore personally except 'getting there'.

There is a sense I think, for most of us at least, that when we come to faith in Christ we begin to be tutored by the Law in a way until we realize we can't keep it in our own strength.  It's like the difference between seeing the kingdom and truly entering it.  Moses saw the Promised Land but did not enter, because we can't enter it through the Law (but Joshua being a type of Christ in that sense, was able to lead the Israelites to enter the kingdom.)   Looking further at the Israelites as our example....they were brought out of Egypt, baptized in the Red Sea, but then a journey through the wilderness ensued before being able to enter the land of Promise, His rest.  Crossing that final barrier of flesh, the Jordan River at flood stage.  We come face to face with the impossibility of getting across, but thankfully what is impossible with us is possible with God.  By faith, amen.  He will make the way.

Edited November 17, 2021 by Heleadethme

[Not me]

3 minutes ago, Heleadethme said:

Amen...thank you for your postings.  I find them encouraging....there is nothing much else that matters to me anymore personally except 'getting there'.

There is a sense I think, for most of us at least, that when we come to faith in Christ we begin to be tutored by the Law in a way until we realize we can't keep it in our own strength.  It's like the difference between seeing the kingdom and truly entering it.  Moses saw the Promised Land but did not enter, because we can't enter it through the Law (but Joshua being a type of Christ in that sense, was able to lead the Israelites to enter the kingdom.)   Looking further at the Israelites as our example....they were brought out of Egypt, baptized in the Red Sea, but then a journey through the wilderness ensued before being able to enter the land of Promise, His rest.  Crossing that final barrier of flesh, the Jordan River at flood stage.  We come face to face with the impossibility of getting across, but thankfully what is impossible with us is possible with God.  By faith, amen.  He will make the way.

Well said, and thanks, as I do taste of Christ in your writing, and yes, ‘getting there’ is the goal… May whatever time God grants to still be in the body, be a fruitful upon fruitful tree, so a full reward might be received…

Be so very, very blessed in your relationship with Him……..

A fellow follower of His, Not me 

 

[Walter and Deborah]

On 11/17/2021 at 6:34 AM, Not me said:

Faith is what overcomes sin….

No amount of self-effort will cause self to stop its sinning, for its sinning is in its functioning…

God, knowing this, He therefore put it to death on the cross with Christ to stop its functioning… It is man that does not know this and needs to be brought to see and experience the truth of it… For until he does, God will let man work himself up, trying to cause himself to stop himself from doing that which comes naturally…. That being an impossibility, God lets man struggle until he gives up, and stops looking to his own will and starts looking Heavenward for a Savior.. 

Then as he sees how faith is the only thing that can look Heavenward, an absolute trusting in God being the only thing left, for he has tried all else, and has seen the futility of his efforts… Then, as he try’s faith and tastes by experience, that faith in God is the only tool he needs to experience God.. Then he sees that all else has been but a distraction and a getting in the way of that one thing that will work to set him free from himself, that being, the faith that is willing to look Heavenward to do for it what it can not do for itself…

This moment by moment repentance from itself, this moment by moment turning from all that it is, to God is that one thing that will work, that does work, that will always work, the absolute impossibility of it ever not working, for it has the death of Christ as its foundation…. This faith in God to do in one what one can not do for oneself…  The work then becomes, to have the faith to stay looking to God, with one’s eyes fixed Heavenward, for the salvation that he has learned by experience, can only come from no where, but from above…

For scripture says;

‘if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body’

Meaning,,,

‘if by faith you put to death the deeds of the body’,

For the looking away from him who can’t, to Him who can, being the faith that overcomes sin, for to the degree of one’s looking, will be the degree of one’s walking in newness of life….

The issue being, man thinks he understands this truth because he mentally consents to it, it makes sense in his brain, so therefore he thinks he has all there can be had from this truth because of that consenting… But this truth, as with all truths, there is a difference between mentally agreeing with the truth of a statement and the experiencing of a truth…. One can read books and maps about a thing, yet be still a great distance from that thing, being, the mental image of a thing being different from the thing itself…

Scripture puts this truth forward as ‘be doer’s not hearer’s only, deluding yourself’, dividing the knowledge of the something, from the possessor’s of the something…. Even to the point of putting forth the caution, that because of this truth, some will delude themselves thinking that because they know, they have…

Our salvation is the manifestation of Christ in us, this is the only true test of whether someone knows by knowledge or by experience… If Christ is not seen, not tasted in one, that one, regardless of words or position is still a hearer of the truths they profess… For even Paul himself said, judge me according to the Christ you see in me, as so it should be with all…

For the knowing of Christ is the manifesting of Christ, all else is but one trying to climb over the fence rather then through the gate… Which is something that all try to do therefore does God let one struggle until one sees the futility of it, then faith steps in and produces its fruit…

For the new birth is the all of one’s salvation, the growing of this new creation, is in the struggle of faith to produce its fruit….

Unto Him who teaches with His eye on those that are His…

 

To the growing in Him, Not me 

Great post, thank you for sharing. 

LOL, Walter

[Not me]

4 minutes ago, Walter and Deborah said:

Great post, thank you for sharing. 

LOL, Walter

Your welcome, we are all in the love of God together, may the experiencing of that love, be ever increasing…

Unto Him be our all…

A fellow believer, Not me