01/07/26 DON'T GET SHORTED BY SINNING RELIGION

01/07/26 DON'T GET SHORTED BY SINNING RELIGION

Some of my friends attend churches that believe the doctrine of full salvation through the Blood and Resurrection of Christ, and the purifying, empowering, enabling, and gracious work of the Holy Spirit in fully surrendered believers (which I also believe and know to be true).

Some of my friends have pastors who preach, teach, and live the Entirely Sanctified life (also referred to as the Spirit-filled life).

I know there are people who claim to believe and live by this Biblical truth, but they do not. It is like the great number of people who claim to be saved, but they are not saved.

On the other hand, I have friends (Christian friends) who have longed for a consistent, faithful Spirit-filled life, but they have been told by pastors, teachers, relatives, friends, or popular ministers that they cannot be saved from all sin (or some sin, or any sin) in this present evil world.

I am guessing some of my friends who read my posts have probably been warned against my message. If you have been warned or led away from the life of victory, but you want to obey God, to please God, to follow God with your whole life (body, soul and spirit) every day and you would like to be able to resist any and all temptation, and you would like to live a life of righteousness and victory as a sacrifice of love rather than an oppressed fulfillment of an obligation, then I have Good News for you.

God does save His people from their sins. He saves believers from all sin. As Sacrifice, Redeemer, Intercessor, and High Priest, He is willing and able to save "to the uttermost" (entirely, completely), those who come to God through Christ. He saves us from the defeat of sin and from the domination of sin. He keeps those who walk in the light, those who live faithfully, from the penalty, the pollution, and the power of sin.

Salvation from sin inherited is provided in the same way that salvation from sins committed is provided: Christ died and rose again to forgive and cleanse us from all sin; the Holy Spirit came to enable, impower, purify the believer; we are saved by faith, and we live by faith, and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.

If God can save us from one sin, He can save us from more than one sin. In fact, we must be saved from all sin, or we are not saved from any sin. Breaking one commandment is the same as breaking all of the commandments.

If God can enable us to live obediently for one second, He is can enable us to be obedient for one minute, one hour, one day. God is able and willing to keep us for as long as we look unto Jesus as our Lord and Savior.

God enables believers to keep themselves in the love of God, to keep themselves unspotted from the world, to keep God's moral commandments (not the sacrificial, dietary, ceremonial laws of Israel), to keep us from falling, AND God will keep us, perfecting holiness in us.

I am not saying that it will be impossible for you to sin, or that you will not sin again in your future. I am saying that God's grace is sufficient to deliver you from all sin (its penalty, its power and its pollution). I am telling you that by God's grace you can walk in whatever light God gives you. I am telling you that you can keep His commandments (in other words, you do not have to willfully disobey any command God gives you). I am telling you that you can bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. I am telling you that by God's grace you can be dead to the world, and the carnal inclinations. I am telling you what God said in First John 2, which is what the entire Bible says (though the New Testament makes it much clearer).
1 John 2:1-6
1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.