06/06/26 FULL SALVATION
Have you ever noticed how people confuse being in the physical flesh with being in the carnal mind?
We are all in the physical flesh (even Jesus was in a physical body, but believers who are filled with the Holy Spirit are not in the flesh (they are not carnally minded).
The carnal Christian can, and will, obey God, but he contends with an inherent inclination to disobey God.
God will deliver believers from their internal conflict if they surrender all and trust God to purify them from all sin, as He said He would.
It is then that we can love God with our whole heart. God not only delivers believers from sin's penalty and guilt (from our past), and sin's power (in our present behavior), but He also delivers from sin's pollution (our inherent double mindedness).
God provides clean hands and a pure heart to those who trust Him fully.
Psalm 24:3-4
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
James 4:7-8
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Titus 2:11-15
11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.