11/01/25 COME OUT FROM THE DECEPTION

11/01/25 COME OUT FROM THE DECEPTION

Just to show you how deception has run rampant in the Church, consider how many people who call themselves Bible believing Christians deny that God wants to and can and will cleanse and has cleansed believers from all sin, and they deny that Christians can obey God, keep His commandments, and do that which is pleasing in His sight.
The Bible clearly teaches that God desires all Christians to be cleansed from all sin, and the Bible clearly teaches that God can and He will cleanse His people from all sin, and God has purified believers from all sin in the past.

The Bible clearly teaches that God enables, empowers believers to obey Him and keep His commandments and do that which is pleasing in His sight.

This is not to say that we become absolutely perfect or that we will be forced to move into heart purity or that we are not able to go back into sin or that we might not sin after we have been saved.

It is to say that God's will, grace, salvation through the Blood of Christ, the Power of the Holy Spirit, and the Truth of the Word of God is able to save to the uttermost, cleanse us from all sin, always lead us in triumph in Christ, deliver us from all temptation, purify us even as Christ is pure, make us more than conquerors, as long as we walk in the light, continue in the faith, continue in grace, continue in Christ and continue in His love.

Sinning religion is the norm for the average professed "Christian" because people have been deceived into easy believism rather than actually trusting Christ for salvation from sin (that is, salvation from the penalty, the power, the pollution of sin). Sinning religion is Satan's religion, and it is man's form of godliness, which denies the power of God.

According to the Bible:
God desires His people to be holy, pure, and righteous.
God commands His people be holy, pure, and righteous.
God provides for His people to be holy, pure, and righteous.
God enables His people to be holy, pure, and righteous.
Christ is coming back for a bride that is holy, pure and righteous.
God requires His people to be holy, pure, righteous.

Being saved, being Christian, being acceptable to God, being pleasing to God is not a human achievement, but rather it is a Divine work (accomplishment) manifested in those who trust the Lord for deliverance from sin.

The saints of God (holy ones because of God's active redemptive work) enjoy the life of walking in the Spirit and not fulfilling the lusts of the flesh because salvation is a Divine and miraculous work of God, received by faith in the ongoing and active grace of God.

Holiness is not a set of rules or a list of external observations; it is loving the Lord with your whole being, it is being conformed to the image of Christ, it is dying to the world, the flesh and the devil, it is Christ in me, the hope of glory, it is love from a pure heart, it is walking in the light as He is in the light. It is a definite work of saving grace, just as justification and regeneration are instantaneous, Divine works of God, received by faith in the atoning work of Christ.

If your doctrines (beliefs) do not lead you out of sin and into holiness of heart AND life, then your doctrine is not from God or found in His Bible. If your holiness fills you with pride and arrogance, you do not have the holiness of God. If your holiness ends your growth in grace and knowledge, then your holiness is a deception.