Godlike Productions - Discussion Forum
Users Online Now: 1,190 (Who's On?)Visitors Today: 77,244
Pageviews Today: 129,513Threads Today: 42Posts Today: 881
01:33 AM


Back to Forum
Back to Forum
Back to Thread
Back to Thread
REPORT ABUSIVE REPLY
Message Subject I'm another Gay Christian - Discuss
Poster Handle Visitor
Post Content
God’s planned path of holiness must then come through a different way than either a physical or mental path. Much like our personal “born again” experience, to find holiness we must move beyond mere fact and principle, to faith and experience. For our initial and complete salvation was destined to come through one Person, Jesus Christ, and our salvation in him begins in faith and is perfected through faith. He becomes our righteousness and hope. Through him we have our being and it is by him we live and move. We regain in salvation a relationship with him not based on the fear of judgment, but on love and freedom. It is in this continued walk of freedom, through the Holy Spirit who is sent to lead us into all truth, that our inner natures are exposed. This enlightenment from him is not so much to convict us, for we were born with this condition, although we do feel a sense of remorse that we do not love God with our whole hearts. He is aware that we cannot change from this self-centered nature that has been passed on to each of us, through our natural father, Adam. As the scriptures state: “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned.” Romans 5:12. This “death” is the loss of our spiritual holiness or the image of God, which led each of us to rebel against the laws of God. It was not only for those acts of rebellion that Christ came and died but also to restore the image of God in the human heart, in fact “perfecting holiness in the fear of God.” “I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh,” declares the Lord in Ezekiel 36:26. His plan for believers is to conform them to the image of His Son, and we know in John 1, that Christ is the very image of God. His will for us is this conformity, “for this is the will of God, even your sanctification.” 1 Thessalonians 4:3. Entire sanctification then, is a restoration of inward holiness purchased by Christ for the heart of every Christian.
 
Please verify you're human:




Reason for reporting:







GLP