Daily Bread - 06/19/07
1 John 3:7 - Little children let no one deceive you, he who does righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
We are made righteous (justified) by faith in Jesus Christ alone (Romans 5:1, 9; Galatians 2:16). However, it is essential to remember that part of being made righteous is that we have received the righteousness of God so that we may live righteously (Romans 10:3-10; 2 Corinthians 5:21). In that we have the righteousness of God we are righteous even as He is righteous.
The power of deception is an ever-increasing influence among men that will ultimately result in the great apostasy (Matthew 24:24; 2 Timothy 3:13; Revelation 12:9) . One of the things that Satan attempts to do is to deceive God's people into thinking that they can continue in sin and still have fellowship with God (1 John 1:6). Paul underscores the fact that those who have sin in their life are unrighteous and will not inherit the Kingdom of God, "Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor abusers of themselves with mankind," (1 Corinthians 6:9; Ephesians 5:6).
All sin comes out of the satanic influence and, as John describes here, from a satanic nature (1 John 3:8; John 8:44; Ephesians 2:2-3). All righteousness comes out of the holy realm from a righteous nature (1 John 2:29; 1:9; Romans 6:18). To participate in sin is to participate in the works of the devil. Sin is opposed to the work of Jesus who was manifested to destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:5). Everyone who is born of God has been called to overcome the wicked one (1 John 2:13-14). Satan was and is a rebel against God (Isaiah 14:9-17; Ezekiel 28:12-14). All who follow his rebellion (sin) are opposing God. Jesus Christ who came to redeem men and set us free from the power of Satan is greater in power and influence if we will only follow Him. His mercy is so great that if we do sin He is there to intercede on our behalf (1 John 2:1). If we will confess our sins He is faithful and just to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9).
Be blessed,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
abidingplace.org
About Me
- Carol L
- San Diego area, California, United States
- I started this blog back in 2005, but in 2006 began dedicating it solely for the purpose of posting email messages called, Daily Bread, sent out Monday through Saturday by my pastor, Mark Spitsbergen. These daily emails contain fresh revelation that Mark gets from the Word of God by the Holy Spirit for that day for the church that God has called him to pastor, Abiding Place. 1 Peter 4:11 says, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God gives that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen." Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (John 14:6), and He says, "The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life." (John 6:63). For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).
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