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- You and God's Spiritual Laws
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- Let's consider the things concerning God's spiritual laws.
- Now we need to start at the very beginning, "US". Each one of us
- needs to understand our position in relationship to the things
- of God and the spiritual world.
- Two things just keeping popping up. One is a word and the
- other a phrase. Let's take the word in the way it is usually used.
- "I am so unworthy!" Now meekness is one thing but the denial of
- one's position is something quite different. If we could put a
- TENSE in our voice or in the hearing of others when we talk like
- that it would be great. BEFORE being saved we are indeed unworthy.
- AFTER being save, however, we are Sons of God and joint heirs with
- Jesus. Our new position MAKES us worthy. Secondly, the idea that
- God is going to reward someone who is not consistent with
- Scripture. And that is exactly what old Satan wants because he
- knows what the answer is. And he also knows you won't come to God
- because of this. This way you bind God's hands in trying to help
- you.
- I was very very unworthy of God's grace shown me in Christ
- Jesus. There can be NO DOUBT OF THIS. But after meeting and
- accepting Jesus to say I am still unworthy is something else. For
- if I am, what did Christ do for me? Oh, He took my sins away.
- He caused me to become a New Creature. He caused me to be born
- into the Family of God. He made me a Child of the King. And I
- could go on and on with the blessings that have came. The question
- is where does the word unworthy fit in all of this, in a present
- tense? Surely, a child of the King or joint heir with Jesus CANNOT
- be unworthy! He surely was before salvation but THIS WORD HAS NO
- PLACE in his life now. Yes one can praise God for His attention
- and grace when we were lost but that was before our experience with
- Jesus. There is a reason for why satan fights so hard to keep us
- thinking that we are unworthy; For what can one who is not worthy
- receive from God, except forgiveness and the New Birth. Both of
- which change our status with Him from unworthy to worthy. That is
- the very reason for Jesus, to restore our position with God. Yes,
- it is not us but Him we say. Let me ask; did He become a Child of
- God? Was He born into the Family of God? Did He become a Joint
- Heir to Himself? NO WE DID BECAUSE OF OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.
- So it is not correct to call ourselves as born again
- Christians, unworthy. As sinners we were,but now we are not, we
- have inherited a new position with God.
- You might say this is just semantics. Well let me ask you this-
- - Can one who is unworthy approach the Throne of God for anything
- other than forgiveness? The Word says we are to approach it
- boldly! This is so that we might find mercy and grace in OUR
- TIME OF NEED. We don't always do this for we are tricked into
- believing we are NOT WORTHY to do this by satan.
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