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The Daily Word of Righteousness
You Don't Have To Sin!, #9
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, (Titus 2:11,12—NIV)
The new covenant includes the grace that will help us overcome sin and become the slave of righteous behavior.
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. (Romans 6:22—NIV)
The above passage reveals that eternal life is a result of freedom from sin, slavery to God, and holiness of personality and behavior. How different from what is commonly taught today?
The new covenant includes all the commandments of Christ and His Apostles. These are to be obeyed until the eternal moral law of God is inscribed on our mind and heart.
This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. (Hebrews 8:10—NIV)
The end result of obeying all of the New Testament commandments is deliverance from sin and the growth of Christ in us.
Many Christian churches in America are in a state of apostasy. This is because we do not realize the goal is to overcome sin and grow in the image of Christ.
As always happens, when we do not eat of the right tree we end up eating of the wrong tree.
The Pentecostal-Charismatic people are shooting off into all sorts of unscriptural activities and pursuits, such as the faith and prosperity delusions, imaging, and reconstructionism. We are not pursuing righteousness in the personalities of God's people and so we are turning to novelties and unprofitable exercises.
Lately there is an emphasis on commandeering the Holy Spirit, attempting to use the Spirit of God to work miracles, to produce meetings with thousands of people in attendance, to "save a lost and dying world." How much of this is of God remains to be seen.
All I know is, the emphasis of the Gospels, the Epistles, and the Book of Revelation is on the behavior of God's people. This seems to be the one area that is neglected today in favor of the novelties of various kinds—religious pursuits that tend to overlook the patient growth of the believer in righteousness, holiness, and obedience to God.
I think the spirit of the False Prophet is among us. I think we wish to maintain our personality as it is and try to use the Gospel for our own benefit. Such self-willed Christianity is the False Prophet in the religious realm and Antichrist in the political-social realm.
If we would know the Lord we must come to Jesus, lay our life before Him, and ask Him to enter us and make us pleasing to Himself. It is only as we deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Jesus in all areas of our life, that we escape being deceived by the spirits that are at work in our day. (from You Don't Have To Sin!)