05/20/25 KEEPING IT HONEST

05/20/25 KEEPING IT HONEST

You really might want to read the passages I have included.

How strange (spell that, "W A R P E D") that anyone who calls himself a Christian, would believe and teach that God (Who is a jealous God and will not allow His people to have any other gods before or beside Himself) would require less commitment, faithfulness, honor, love, submission, chastity from His holy Bride (Christians, the Church), His redeemed, His beloved, than the men of this world demand from their unregenerated, pagan wives.

How warped (spell that, "T W I S T E D") that anyone would claim to be in a right relationship with God while loving the world or the things of the world, or while being "friendly" with the world, or while walking in darkness, or while yielding to another master, or while sinning.

Sin, as a deliberate disobedience to the known law of God, not only breaks our fellowship with God, it breaks our relationship with God. It is a false narrative to draw a distinction between our FELLOWSHIP and RELATIONSHIP, our STANDING and our STATE in Christ, also referred to as our POSITION in Christ and our CONDITION as humans.

Sinning religion allows for spiritual infidelity in those who claim salvation through the name of Christ.
If you have sin in your life, if you are allowing sin in your life, you have not only broken FELLOWSHIP with God, but you have also broken your RELATIONSHIP with God.
If you have sin in your life, if you are allowing sin in your life, your STANDING and your STATE with God is broken.
If you have sin in your life, if you are allowing sin in your life, there is no difference in your POSITION or your CONDITION.

Sin separates from God. It only took one sin to separate Adam and the entire human race from God.
The wages of sin is death. Sinning can be a single act or a continuous lifestyle.

God's redemptive work includes His Holy Spirit leading us into light, truth, holiness and leading us away from darkness, deception.

God saves sinners, but He transforms them into saints (holy ones), He transforms us from the kingdom of darkness to the domain of light. He conforms us to the image of His Son. By God's salvation, we are new creatures, old things are passed away and all things become new.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Titus 2:14
14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

2 Corinthians 11:2
2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

As new creatures in Christ, we are created unto righteousness and true holiness, so that we might walk in righteousness and true holiness all the days of our lives. Though we, as sinners, yielded our bodies to be slaves of sin, we as redeemed children of God, now yield our bodies to righteousness and holiness (the sanctification).
Ephesians 2:8-10
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 4:22-24
22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Hebrews 9:14
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Sweet and bitter water does not flow from the same fountain. Figs do not come from olive trees, nor olives from a fig tree. We cannot obey God and man at the same time (when they are in conflict). We cannot walk with or in darkness and walk in the light at the same time. We cannot disobey God's commands and love God at the same time. And the list goes on.

Christ died to make us holy. He died to purify us to be His bride.
Ephesians 1:4
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Ephesians 5:25-27
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Colossians 1:21-23
21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

Jude 1:24
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

If someone tells you that these passages do not mean what they say, contact me with questions and I will be happy to discuss it with you.

For the sections of this post, which I did not add Bible verses, I could have. If you have questions about those comments, let me know.