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THE POWER OF FREEDOM & CHANGE

This is the problem with the majority of the modern day deceived church that teaches and spews out lies, and if foolish doctrines & seems to think and encourage works of the carnal corrupt flesh are somehow normal in being and living as a new creation in Christ Jesus. Unless sin is dealt with, unless we are delivered from under the dominion of sin, we cannot be restored back to a right standing with Christ. If we only truly believe we can come into the repentance grace faith and salvation of God. He will forgive clean us, we will no longer desire to sin anymore because we know the truth and the truth will set us free. Anyone who tells you all you have to do is believe but continue living in sin, or just try to sin less or if just try to obey you are somehow earning extra reward. These are deceived unstable Christians. The qualifications of an elder are these as outlined in

Titus 1:5:For this cause left I thee in Crētē, that thou shouldest set in order the things wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave thee charge;

6 if any is blameless, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of riot or unruly

7 For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;

8 but a lover of strangers, lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled;

9 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he be able both to exhort in the sound teaching, and to convict the gainsayers.

I would suggest these actually also apply to all of us Jesus' set apart servants. Did you notice it says they are to be blameless? An elder whom is giving into being a lover of the world and works of the carnal flesh, take for one example of porn is not living blameless, holy, self controlled, but is instead self- willed, unruly, greedy, and not holding to the faithful word according to God’s teaching or in being a new creation and has no business being appointed an elder or overseeing the pasture of Jesus' flock of sheep and lambs, whom is the true SHEPHERD, his sheep hear and listen to His voice not that of strangers or liars.

Colossians 1:9 And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

10 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

11 being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy;

12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,

14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,

20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

21 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

22 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,

23 if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven,

These are not merely suggestions as is being taught these days but these ARE the actual living realities of having become born again and baptised in the Holy Spirit and living as a new creation in Christ in the newness of spirit of life in the enabling resurrection power of Christ Jesus and the holy Spirit power leading in our daily lives.

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Yeilding to the holy spirit of God delivered free from the dominion of sin. Anyone telling you or me that you are still bound in chains to the perpetual works of the flesh through wilful sin, especially that of pornography and masturbation even without porn, has never had a true encounter with the living God, nor been broken by their sin into Godly sorrow, nor died to self, & been put through any sort of sanctification process or had any dealings or disciplining by Heavenly father. These are serious matters and we are to live in loving obedience each and every day, deny self and pick up our cross daily the Lord Jesus said not as a mere suggestion or as merely optional but as our daily living reality, to suffer in our flesh to not give In to the temptations of this world or the fleshes carnality wants and desires.

When i went through the process of repentance and came so undone, wept at the state of my disgusting sinful state and the sins I had allowed and was living in, and what I had done to my beautiful Lord Jesus and against my father in heaven & what those sins had also hurt & done and affected not only myself but others & then having received Holy spirit rebirth and baptised in the Spirit, Jesus wasted no time in transforming me into a new creation dealing with me & all my carnal selfish lascivious lusts of the flesh, he left no stone unturned and went through them all, systematically dealing with each and every one by one, from when I was even a child explaining teaching what were sins of the carnal flesh and giving in to them, how satan would tempt accuse and had decieved me, what satans tricks were and the three biggest are power through pride, elevating and serving self, vanity and how that is taught and displayed in this world through being a lover of self pleasures & clothing, etc, then Sex and Money, i didn't have a problem with materialism or so I thought, as even buying things one does not need is not living sacrificially or selflessly in meeting others needs and not to be accumulating or live selfishly, but he taught me to distribute and bless others with what he blessed me with and how to be a good steward of all of HIS resources, that I didn't own anything, it all belonged to Him and was only on loan to me until i departed from this realm and to bless others, especially to those related to me in the faith but whomever he directed me to by his spirit whom was in need, and in learning how to live out Jesus' commands practically in daily living, & in looking after the poor, needy orphans and widows and no longer live solely for self, and in the other gifts and fruits he also had developed given and blessed me with. It was all necessary & very relevant and important to know and understand and how to develop within my own spirit from the Holy Spirit of self control, self discipline & self denial in every single attitude I had, from my thinking and how to live that out effectively in my daily life & Jesus began an entire cleaning me up operation, and putting me through sanctification and delivered me and told me emphatically there were only two ways, two paths in this life in this realm and dimension upon earth, satan’s, the kingdom of darkness of evil and his entire hordes of demons or his as Jesus as the only way the truth and the life & only way to father in heaven and his kingdom of absolute truths & light, and that you get only one shot at it, after your dead it's too late then, and that I had to make a choice and decision there was no grey areas of in-between, it was either the broad way or the narrow way. Choose!

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I could choose death in this world or hell now & beyond and allow satan the devil to be my father and be under his and the worlds control and dominion. Or life in Christ the real abundant life, and die to self life and selfishness, die to satan and his entire kingdom and systems of darkness, to the world, to my carnal corrupt flesh. To instead walk in the example & footsteps of Jesus and begin a sacrificial crucified life. To pick up my cross daily and follow Jesus and make him Lord over every part of my entire life existence and being. Making him my entire pursuit & of worship in spirit and in truth, a life of prayer and in his service entirely set apart a continual sanctified devoted consecrated zealous passionate fulfilled life in God.

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I had been living in fornication and with a boyfriend, I knew I could no longer do that and had to get rid of him, I had looked at porn now and again, I had masturbated as well, I had sex toys, which I got rid of and binned, i would go to pubs to watch bands and have two pints of beer, I even got drunk sometimes, I used to smoke cigarettes and even weed at times, and I was a very late starter with trying out weed, I would shout and even sometimes throw inanimate objects & swear if I got angry, Jesus first delivered me from that and the weed and then from smoking, of which I would smoke up to 150 cigarettes a day!! I no longer went to pubs. I stopped listening to secular music. I no longer went to worldly music concerts. I got rid of TV programming. I became very selective, if I would stream anything wether that was a documentary or watch anything and pray about it first. I no longer would want to swear and so didn’t. I renounced it all, everything I had ever engaged in that was against God. Jesus even went through my clothing and I threw away t-shirts that had band names on them, or symbols that I understood were actually associated with the occult and satan’s kingdom of darkness, to just plain t-shirts. And anything that was immodest, short skirts, short dresses, anything tight, neck line too low or revealing. Anything my past boyfriend and clothing or underwear he had given to me. They all got binned. I binned discarded, destroyed and even burnt many items. From pictures, clothing, jewellery, books, cards, CDs, dvds, tv, badges, a laptop etc I was now in a consistent two way unceasing prayerful relationship with father in heaven and consulted him about everything. As I certainly didn't trust myself.

Heavenly father had never lied to me as it is impossible for God to lie so I trusted in Him implicitly with the trust of a child, and came to him like a unpretentious non precocious child, believed everything he had said and was teaching and telling me, explaining to me and training me in. Understanding the absolute ugliness of sin and all it's depravity in it's many forms made me actually tremble and shake and wretch that I had to run to the toilet and vomit. I saw myself stark naked and was completely bare nothing was hidden about me before the living God I was in my absolute raw state and in comparison to His purity & Holiness and wanted the ground to swallow me up at how ugly my sins made me & wilfully living and engaging in sins. The stink of my sins was rancid in my heavenly father's nostrils, and yes I was absolutely ashamed and it helped me understand the complete shame, guilt and embarrassment Adam and Eve felt in the paradise of Eden after they chose to wilfully disobey God. But then Jesus reminded me he had taken away all my shame guilt and I was forgiven. Then that came back with such a vicious ferocious vengeance through satan perpetually accusing me and through self accusation and beating myself up, especially satan used people I loved and other Christians to attack me. I also underwent very extreme warfare against satan and demons and his kingdom of darkness, they absolutely hated me being set free by Jesus and did everything to try and torment and attack and tempt me back to sinning. I soon learnt the quicker I overcame and resisted the devil he indeed would flee from me!! I had a lot of awareness about satan and satanists etc it took time to realise not to put my focus in or upon the enemy but ALL my complete focus on the victory in Christ Jesus and upon Jesus locking my eyes on all things him and his truths, keeping my complete focus upon such.

Sadly in the world sin is normalised, even most Christians think it's ok to go down the pub or even have sex toys even in their marriages!! I obviously stopped going to pubs and any worldly places that were in opposition to God. Jesus opened my eyes to see & distinguish with clarity what was of him and what was not. What was of the world and satans system, satans influences, worldly understandings, worldly wisdom and teachings compared to His Godly wisdom which is obviously far superior and is the only one that works effectively. How the devil is the prince of the power of the air and controls mostly nearly everything and the systems in this world! From radio, music, TV's media, newspapers, news in general, the internet obviously be selective! Wireless Transmissions of frequency energy and vibration are all done through the air. The WHOLE WORLD lays in the power of the evil wicked one 1 John 5:19 & Jesus taught me how everything became corrupted through mankind's sin & forsaking Almighty Creator God, what heavenly father said was the profane & what was sacred holy and acceptable in his sight, and what was not. And uphold such and he would help me….’take my yoke upon you for it is easy and learn from me, for my burden is light’… What idolatry actually was and is and how to make sure I would not be caught up in it. How to love God with my whole mind heart and soul with all of my strength and love my neighbour as myself. So much of the world was stripped removed from me layer by layer and i died to it, as too, dying to giving in to the desires of my carnal flesh. Scales of fine but old skin literally fell off my eyes, obviously I knew it was all wrong and heavy conviction was upon me. Heavenly father through Jesus explained how and why I fell into the sins I did & what I could learn from and by my many mistakes of sins, he patiently taught me & how to be an overcomer and how to live as a perpetual overcomer, how to overcome the world through my faith in him, how to live by faith and not sight, how to develop trust in Him, how to forgive others as he had forgiven me, that he would never leave, forsake nor abandon me though everyone else in my life had, I could only leave forsake & abandon Him, that I didn't have to choose to give in to sin, that I could live as an overcomer instead, he would help me every step of the way, and not to believe other Christians whom would lie to me saying it's not possible, that you HAVE to give in to the carnal sins of the flesh like fornication, porn, masturbation, getting drunk etc etc, that you will always struggle with those sins till the day you physically die in your body or Jesus returns, & that this was a lie from the enemy & the very pits of hell itself, i was no longer ignorant and I was now without excuse, he had given me everything possible to be more than a conqueror & victorious in Christ Jesus.

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I also needed deliverance from demonic spirits that I had allowed to enter into my life legally through living in a lifestyle of sins and dabbling with new age, tarot, oracle & angel cards, having looked into Buddhism,Thich Nhat Hanh, Hinduism, Islam, Hare Krishna, Rastafarianism-highly Salasi, Shintoism, tribal, native and south American shamanism the teachings of the cosmic serpent, and even attended a few meetings of hare Krishna which was held at a Quakers meeting house of all places! Having got caught up in psychology studying it and wanting to be a psychotherapist myself and psychiatry having had a mental illness major depression and extreme psychosis repeatedly. And to be delivered from the spirit of suicide. As I had lots of awareness and understanding about so many things as my earthly father had explained lots of things to me from a child and to question everything and everyone and not just believe things off face value. But these understanding which I thought everyone had been given from their own parents left me isolated and different and not fitting in very well within society or my peers very well even at lower school. That's another true story I'm not going to go into just now! All I can say is I have been through an incredible amount in my life that most people if they make it into their nineties will not have ever encountered or experienced, or go through.

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Because of having allowed the world to enter into me through fornicating with it's understandings, ways, offerings and shiny illusions and making friends with it and being close friends with worldly influenced people, inclusive of certain Hellywood films and TV programming, and worldly secular music and just the philosophies, teachings and ideologies of the world and even through many magazines & books, because I had allowed myself to allow it to enter into my mind thinking and immerse myself in it, and through other worldly lost people and associations and their carnal opinions and understandings, & become so lost in so many areas and ways of the world in my own life. Satan’s system only ends up hurting using and abusing you. It tramples over you, it violently beats you up hurts steals kills and destroys everything in you and from you. Especially the precious things & truths of God. It only laughs in your face and mocks you when your in the gutter. Then it spits on you and crumples you up like a useless vile piece of rubbish of excrement and discards you with utter contempt. It's all empty valueless, and based on lies. Jesus taught me that when temptation was overwhelming and taking over me to get on my knees and pray until I would be delivered and not to give in to said temptation. I sat at Jesus' feet as his disciple his learner and follower and he diligently taught me, and through the gospels and his words, and through prayer, day in day out, no human did. Jesus is still my head & I am under his and Heavenly fathers absolute Sovereign authority as I yield and bend willingly to how they direct and God's holy spirit leads and guides me into all truth and to his will over my own self will. I understood how I needed to be set apart and separate from the world, but how to shine his light forth, being salt and light in loving my neighbours, everyone around me and even my enemies. How to live in non resistance repudiating all evil and any violence, how to live out Jesus' commands by and through his indwelling. I understood at last his words, he opened them up to me like never before, as I was very well acquainted with his word from 11 till my late twenties I spent most of my life and time reading it every day, even when I was at work at break times and my lunch break I would pray and get it out and read it, it wasn't until i received genuine supernatural rebirth in the Spirit that I began to understand heavenly bread and Gods words in the scriptures by and through the holy spirit and not just by the letter, and it being a two edged sword like the sword the high priest used for the animal sacrifices cutting away and separating removing from me the flesh from the spirit. Of Jesus’ words of spirit and life were literal in their outworking and in their consummation in my own life!! That my old self that old man/ woman had to be completely broken to release the now new spirit life into not just my spirit but deep within to my very soul, my every day thinking my hearts motivations and everyday living. And I began understanding them and his truths in and through and by His Spirit that was now operative in my own daily moment by moment life. Before i had tried to serve him through my own will, my own volition, strength and power and wondered why it was so difficult & like walking through thick mud and why I miserably at times failed. When I received the Holy Spirit it was like a secret that was suddenly revealed as a revelation in my own life and I was like now I get it! Now I understand how this is all possible to walk by the spirit and NOT the flesh! Jesus explained to me behaviour modification is one thing. But true holy spirit indwelling transformation cannot be done through your own power or strength, it has to come from him supernaturally and he does it by his grace through our faith & not only imputes but imparts his righteousness into our lives. What an awesome phenomenal gift privilege & honour that we are not to take for granted ever!!

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Because when I came across so many Christians sadly they said it was normal to be caught up in the world & sin and be no different than the worldly, & would find it highly amusing & hilarious when I said; well Jesus said and taught something entirely different and I believe, I believe when he said he can deliver me it's possible, because all things are possible to the one who believes and with God. And He did! Jesus affected every area of my life the transformation was absolutely dramatic, radical and revolutionary from the depths of me, all that and who I was, and how I thought, my very thinking, my very heart that is the seat of all our motivations and how I responded and reacted, eating and partaking metaphorically of Jesus' flesh and drinking of his blood his life his very DNA, started coursing through my veins my blood stream, each and every cell, every part of me and every one of my organs was so profoundly affected altered and changed from the inside out, to see as my father in heaven sees, I received as it were a complete transplant as He gave me His heart, His spirit eyes and ears & a new heart, a circumcised heart from the hard calloused heart that was in wilful sinful rebellion and circumcised from the carnal soulish fleshly desires. I began to see everything as rubbish and counted it all as loss compared to the illustrious riches that can only be found received & given in Christ Jesus alone. You get to really know and understand him, and his life through aligning yourself and your own life with his truths, sufferings and experiencing many of them in and through your own life.

There is so much to my testimony and I would like to share it on here in it's fullness at some point. I am just giving tiny snapshots in this piece. But I was absolutely shocked when I attended churches and how the majority within them hadn't ever been born again, nor even knew Jesus, nor had been delivered from satan, the world, or carnal sins, or of self, never died to self, never been crucified or buried with Christ, or experiencing the power of the resurrection life, that there was an absolutely lackadaisical attitude towards sin and sinning and it was taught this was the norm? That alkies, stealing, binge drinking, unmarried dating courting couples in fornication is ok, adultery and remarriage between Christians is ok, drugs is ok, smoking is ok, acting and being just like the world is ok normal, acceptable and accepted, pornography is normal amongst congregants, gossip, greediness, as are pedo’s, practising homosexuality, witchcraft, wizardry and sorcery is all ok. Swearing is ok. Dressing immodestly is ok. Living for self is ok. If these people could only understand and grasp the sorrow and heartache that comes from rebellion and disobedience, and from allowing the ways of the world to seep in and take hold, if I could only convey that to so many.

But you see the truth is this! Jesus does save, redeem, heal and deliver restores and sets you free! He did me. He can you!! I was the worst of sinners! He wants to redeem the failures, the down and outs, the sinners those who know how much they have done badly and lived wrongly. He works with these sorts of people. He can't work with people who think they are good, great, wonderful and staying just as they are, in their sins, held captive and bound in them, thinking there's nothing wrong with them. But that they need to actually repent! It's when you are brought to your knees literally crying out help me Lord!!! Only then He can work with you in delivering you. Only God is good.

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God’s people are a peculiar people, a holy people, different than the world, not better, just different & there is actually a distinction! What actually is the good news of the Gospel? Do you even know? How is Jesus actually our Saviour? What does he save us from then? What was the point of his sacrificial crucified life death burial resurrection and ascension?! How does he transform us? Are we left as orphans left to flounder and remain as locked up prisoners to sins, to satan, to the world ‘Babylon’ and ‘Egypt?’ Did you know a type and shadow of Jesus was Moses who set Gods people free from their slavery to Egypt? Did you know that's what Jesus as our redeemer frees us from today? Slavery to the world, sinning, death and the grave & being held captive to it all! Do you know that?! When a prisoner whom is guilty does their time in their cell, and that cell door is unlocked and opened they are now set free from living in that cell. Amazing isn't it?! Sin is a prison cell but Jesus unlocks even the hand cuffs and the door so you are no longer bound or need to be held captive to your sins. You can walk out from being held captive and walk away and out of imprisonment and start living your new redeemed restored transformed life, you don't have to go back to it either. Because that's the power of what Jesus accomplished upon that cross, his life, death burial and through his resurrection power and ascension. It wasn't for nothing!!!

It’s power can cancel out a life of past sin, justify us, and give us a new beginning Romans 4:25; 2 Corinthians 5:17. Its power and life is available for conquering present sin Romans 5:10; 6:14, and gives us power over our adversary Luke 10:19

https://www.openbible.info/topics/jesus_saves_us_from_sin

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Jesus showed me Ezekiel 16 and related it to my own life and how I began with him at 17, well my love for him began at three years old really, but then i left & wandered away from him in my late twenties nearly thirty, it took some time for the world to begin entering into and affecting my life but it certainly did, but the depictions in that chapter of Ezekiel 16 we're very precise and accurate of my own life, and I am so grateful Heavenly father refused to leave me alone. But I hadn't received actual proper supernatural rebirth until he called me back to him and to repentance. And it was and is so profound that I was and am never the same person, and I can reassure you, anyone, once you experience & have that, will never remain the same person or being ever again. It's impossible!! This is a phenomenal gift and also the gift of grace that just seems to elude so many people. And it's heartbreaking.

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Am I now perfect? No, I have inherited a corrupt nature, it is part of my corrupt condition sadly. I may not always do or say the right thing, I may not always meet other people's needs as Jesus would. I fall short of God's absolute Holiness, but I am enabled and empowered though to live my best according to God's gift of grace and inheritance of ability, He enables and imparted to me. I don't engage in fornication, or look at porn or masturbate or engage in worldly activities and entertainment that God hates. Nor do I even want to. My desires have been completely changed and transformed. Those things of sinning no longer appeal to me. The world in all it's stark reality of lies no longer appeals to me. I can at last rest in Jesus Christ and it's wonderful!! I'm not going to go into all the I don'ts, but the I do’s made possible in Christ Jesus and his indwelling and the Holy spirits infilling. I do not set my mind, thinking, heart eyes & ears on anything wicked, worthless or that's only going to invite demons to interfere and bring torment into my life & only going to lead to temptations to sin or cause problems blockages and barriers, in my interpersonal intimate holy two way responsive relationship with Heavenly father. I love him so much and forgiving me & His gift of grace that set me absolutely free!! Psalm 101:1-8 I embrace who I am in Christ Jesus and my identity in him. Jesus reigning within. Jesus gave me the desire and inclinations, submitting to God's righteousness of living a holy set apart life and resist the devil, resist temptations to sin and see sins for how unnatural and defiled they truly are, Jesus setting me free from being a slave of sin, becoming a slave of righteousness & obedience and bearing the fruit of holiness that Jesus made possible. Giving me the desires in practicing God's righteousness & bringing forth the fruits of Christ Jesus. Those who do not obey Gods will cease to be His son's & daughters.

For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”

2 Peter 2:20-22

I cannot obey him as if I never inherited corruption generationally back down to and from my very first ancestors of parents Adam and Eve the mother of everyone living, and whom they were created to be before they sinned and in a state of perfection, but I can obey and do my best as Jesus is the the one whom writes in to my life as the author finisher and perfector of my faith in Him, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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I occupy myself nearly all of my time with all the things of Jesus and in doing the will of my father as I am utterly obsessed with all things Him! And in how I can best love and serve Him & others and my neighbour and whomever. Because he is living and alive in me as is His Holy Spirit power is operative within me! I want to do the will of my father it is as food and breathing for me.

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When you truly love someone and all they have done and all that they are and all who they are and I obviously mean Jesus and God here. He is the sole object of your love, that's all you can think about, meditate upon and be all consumed with 24/7, 7 days a week 365 days a year, year in year out, and in the doing of what is asked of us and being led by the Spirit.

All those wasted years and of such precious time I squandered & spent as a mess in utter rebellion just feeding and indulging in my carnal flesh and living solely for self until it came out of my very nostrils and was completely spiritually dead, a zombie, the walking living dead, heavenly father has wonderfully made up a day as if a thousand years with Him & in Him! I at last am no longer in a chaotic out of control sinful way of life living & mind. I now have absolute peace, the peace that transcends, surpasses all human understanding, the peace only Jesus can give not as the world gives, of serenity stillness and obviously made peace with my father in heaven.

"Love will always manifest itself in the degree to which it is willing to suffer towards the object of its love." ~Corrie Ten Boom

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They want to remove obedience and say all you need to do is believe, well truly believing in what Jesus accomplished and the outworking of what he has and is doing in our lives from the inside out is following and walking out our faith living in Christ Jesus is IN obedience, and will be the proof our faith is real, genuine, active living and alive and authenticated! Those not obeying are fakes false and tares and have fallen away allowing the devil to sidetrack them with lies as he is the father of all lies!

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Many may have become religious in their houses of desolation, but forgot what it means to submit to the power of God's Sovereign authority and yeilding to Christ Jesus' headship & the holy spirit living in the liberty afforded in and by Christ Jesus that gives us the ability & power to follow and obey him out of gratefulness, thankfulness and love, that love which God first bestowed upon us & when we received initial amazing saving grace, because we were forgiven much, we love much.

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Don't allow false deceived fallen away Christians sidetrack you and make you believe lies about what sin is. Which is siding with the devil and evil. If we are not gathering with Jesus we are scattering away. Jesus said if you are not for or with him you are against him.

Jesus came to save sinners from wilful habitual sinning, he came to set the captives free from their captivity to sin and to be delivered and from the works of the devil, because sin IS the works of the devil.

Are we going to continue with the Lord Jesus or allow ourselves to be sidetracked by lies? May we keep our eyes on Jesus and continue to endure with him until the end and then we will be saved.

Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in ·sin, that ·grace may abound?

2 Be it not so. We who died to ·sin, how shall we any longer live therein?

3 Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptised into his ·death?

4 We were buried therefore with him through ·baptism into ·death: that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, thus we also might walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have become like-natured with him in the likeness of his ·death, we shall yet be also in the likeness of the resurrection;

6 knowing this, that our old ·man was crucified with him, that the body of ·sin be done away, that we no longer be in bondage to ·sin;

7 for who hath died is justified from ·sin.

8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

9 knowing that Christ raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more lords it over him. 10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once for all: but in that he liveth, he liveth to God.

11 Thus ye also reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ

12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

13 neither be presenting your members to sin as weapons of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not lord it over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.

15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? Be it not so.

16 Know ye not, that to whom ye are presenting yourselves as bondmen unto obedience, his bond- men ye are whom ye are obeying; whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness?

17 But thanks to God, that, ye were bondmen of sin, but became obedient from the heart to what pattern of teaching ye were delivered;

18 and, freed from sin, ye came into bondage of righteousness.

19 I speak after men's manner because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members enslaved to uncleanness, and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, thus now present your members enslaved to righteousness unto sanctification.

20 For when ye were bondmen of sin, ye were free as to righteousness.

21 What fruit therefore had ye then in the things ye are now ashamed of? for the end of those is death.

22 But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.

23 For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our •Lord.

This is what happens in real time when you become a genuine new creation in Christ Jesus and it just keeps getting more and more profound & refined year in year out.

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We learn so much in suffering, we want to enter into suffering not because of giving into sins or living a sinful way of life, but because we are willing to suffer in our flesh to gain victory over sin and not engage in it! And suffering is the way of the cross & in a multitude of other sufferings too, is a necessary testimony in the crucible of such refining fires transforming our minds and hearts, we become unified aligning ourselves and joining in the fellowship of Jesus Christ's suffering and the unity in his death and then resurrection life.

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That's the truth of our life as a new creation in Christ, the genuine authentic high calling and walk in Christ Jesus. You are going to suffer, & for Christ & it is meaningful & necessary and how to suffer well, without getting angry, blaming God, or self blame, falling into self pity, or woe is me etc. etc. But if you suffer for doing good and endure it patiently, God is pleased with you. It becomes as a sweet savoury incense wafting up to God & heavens throne itself. Go through Jesus' own life and examine deeply his life & of the early disciples & Christians & the letters of Peter. The deeper we go with Christ the more the suffering. It is our eternal level of demonstration and display of Gods love.

To share in everything with Jesus is to be unified with him in life & into eternity. There is no resurrection life without the crushing of Gethsemane agony & suffering, & with the crucifixion of self.

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There is much purpose in it. There are no short cuts to sanctification or to glorification. Sadly today the contemporary churches refuse to tell the truth of what it means to count the cost in living as Jesus' disciple and how normal & imperative it is to enter into the sufferings of Christ. So many sadly live in entitlement, we are NOT entitled to anything in this life, but privileged to full inheritance of relationship with Heavenly father and unity of fellowship immovable with Christ, indeed entering in to his sufferings.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 states of the majority of Christians in the end times, this was written to for and about Christians:

Cheap talk is a form of godliness without power. Words without deeds and of sufferings is cheap, many lives are devoid of any self sacrifice, any crucifying or gruelling effort, and suffering through endurance and perseverance and never learn to bear up under great trials of sufferings and the willingness to suffer. The Laodicean delusion are so fat in their flesh but are poor blind and naked, yet believe they are in need of nothing!

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We learn far more about ourselves God & Jesus who want to mould and shape our character to whom God wants us to conform into the image of his Son, to depend completely & far more on our father in heaven.

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There is power and purpose in affliction. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.

Ephesians 1:17

How do we think we ever get to know and having a knowing of our God?

Now if we are children, then we are heirs-heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. I consider that our present sufferings are not worth I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

Romans 18:17-18

We become also co-heirs in Jesus' sufferings.

Not only so, but we also *glory in our sufferings*, because we KNOW that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, *hope. And hope does not put us to shame*, because *God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us*.

Romans 3:3-5

This is meant to be our hearts cry that we see everything is rubbish and dung compared to our illustrious riches of being unified in Christ Jesus. Knowing the hatred, the rejection, the slander, the betrayal, the isolation, the attacks, trials, testings, persecutions, the struggles against temptation & sin & through our sufferings being dead to sin, so that we too can share in his glory!

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And to also suffer & self sacrifice for our fellow brothers and sisters and others. Not just in words but in deeds!! For their needs. And willing to die for them. Just as Jesus did for us- no greater love has one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. Do we pray asking our father in heaven: 'I want to share in your beloved son & my beloved Christ's sufferings to comprehend it's purpose, grasping understanding him and so to become more like him?'

Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith- that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

Philippians 3:8-10

"You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have."~Corrie Ten Boom

How was Gods love manifest to all humanity? Through Jesus Christ's sacrificial crucified life death burial resurrection and ascension. So how do we then demonstrate & reflect His love back to Him and to others? It is sacrificial, it is crucifying, it is selfless, it costs us, and is at an expense to ourselves, and it is made and exhibited in & through suffering or we are merely lovers of self.

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. 1 Peter 5:8-11

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And we can also then help & comfort others in how we have been loved and comforted, how our father in heaven spoke to us such tender personal encouraging words of spirit and life and his love over us in abundance in our fruitful privileged suffering, it is not in vain. (2 Corinthians 1:6-7, 8-11; Hebrews 10:32-39)

Jesus was a man of sorrows & acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not. Everyone's faith has to be proven to see the genuineness of our faith. It's easy to serve God when everything is easy, it's when it gets very tough, when we go through excruciating painful life events and grief, loss, heartache, pain & indeed suffering wether that be physical and psychological torture, do we truly understand how to exercise our faith in God walking by the unseen as seen, and deepening our intimacy with Him. And learning to be led by the spirit of God not being led by our flesh, or not giving in to the devil, not going after selfish ambitions, self validation and power, or dominionism, or self aggrandisement, personal gain or greed.

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. Romans 8:14

Are you then a true son or daughter of God? Are you led by your flesh or by God's Spirit? Do you want to please your flesh? Or do you want to please God?

For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Romans 8:5-8