In sanctification and honor…..

[Not me]

1 Thessalonians 4:4 (NASB20)
that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

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In sanctification and honor, short, sweet, to the point, as to how one’s behavior is to be, so stands the bar one is to measure oneself against…Which bar, being so high, no amount of self-effort can be sufficient to bring it to pass….

But the way of the cross can….

Once one is willing to enter into one’s death with Christ on His cross by faith the way stands open before one…. For scripture does say if one’s eye offends one pluck it out, and again, if the hand offends, cut it off…

But Christ has done one so much the better, He has cut one off from the life one was born into when one was born into this world… He has cut the believer off from everything that could possibly cause and lead one into sin… He has not changed the nature of sin, or one’s fallen nature’s desire for sin, He has separated the believer from that fallen nature by taking the believer to death with Him…. He has put to death the believer, being crucified with Him is the greatest freedom one could possibly know, it is the entering into God’s rest…. Which is all accessed by the heart choosing it would rather die then sin, then the faith of the heart embraces its death with Christ and one is made free from sin by that faith….

Paul says he glorifies in nothing but the cross of Christ, because there is where he was put to death, it is there his freedom from sin, where freedom from himself is found….

Blessed are they that find that freedom…. 

 

A fellow believer, Not me 

[branchesofHim]

10 hours ago, Not me said:

Paul says he glorifies in nothing but the cross of Christ, because there is where he was put to death, it is there his freedom from sin, where freedom from himself is found….

Good reminder that when one is born again that they should not yield to their body, but to their spirit which is in Christ. This same point was made to the Colossians and the Romans. Shalom

1 Thessalonians 4:[3] For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
[4] That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
[5] Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Colossians 3:[3] For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
[4] When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
[5] Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
[6] For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

Romans 7:[5] For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
[6] But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
[7] What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
[8] But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

[Not me]

3 hours ago, branchesofHim said:

Good reminder that when one is born again that they should not yield to their body, but to their spirit which is in Christ. This same point was made to the Colossians and the Romans. Shalom

1 Thessalonians 4:[3] For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
[4] That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
[5] Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Colossians 3:[3] For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
[4] When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
[5] Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
[6] For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

Romans 7:[5] For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
[6] But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
[7] What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
[8] But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

Hello, thank you and yes, it is true, there are many of the same truths put in scripture in many different ways… Be blessed in the seeing and the experiencing of them…

A fellow follower, Not me