Shalom,
Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is another great explanation of our Salvation!
Placed In The Light
If we walk in the light, as He is in the light,…the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin. — 1 John 1:7
To mistake conscious freedom from sin for deliverance from sin by the Atonement is a great error. No man knows what sin is until he is born again. Sin is what Jesus Christ faced on Calvary. The evidence that I am delivered from sin is that I know the real nature of sin in me. It takes the last reach of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, that is, the impartation of His absolute perfection, to make a man know what sin is.
The Holy Spirit applies the Atonement to us in the unconscious realm as well as in the realm of which we are conscious, and it is only when we get a grasp of the unrivalled power of the Spirit in us that we understand the meaning of 1 John 1:7, “the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin.” This does not refer to conscious sin only, but to the tremendously profound understanding of sin which only the Holy Ghost in me realizes.
If I walk in the light as God is in the light, not in the light of my conscience, but in the light of God — if I walk there, with nothing folded up, then there comes the amazing revelation — the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses me from all sin so that God Almighty can see nothing to censure in me. In my consciousness it works with a keen poignant knowledge of what sin is. The love of God at work in me makes me hate with the hatred of the Holy Ghost all that is not in keeping with God’s holiness. To walk in the light means that everything that is of the darkness drives me closer into the centre of the light.
AMEN! It is SO powerful to KNOW that SIN is no longer OUR problem! Not where eternal salvation is concerned! WHEN I confess (acknowledge) the sin I know of, HE freely and completely cleanses me from all other sin and unrighteousness! Unlearned people, ignorant of God's Word, accuse us with such ignorant phrases as 'greasy grace' and 'easy grace'. People who use such phrases are revealing their own complete ignorance of GOD'S GRACE! NOTHING, NOT ONE THING, can keep a born again believer out of Heaven when they leave this earth. NOTHING!!! The problem with these 'ministers' and 'teachers' is that they do not themselves understand the overwhelming POWER of the FREE GRACE of Almighty God! These 'teachers' and 'ministers' are confusing eternal salvation with our walk through this life! SIN will NOT keep us out of Heaven any more than not sinning will allow us in! IT IS THE GRACE of GOD that gives us the right to have Heaven as our home when we leave this earth simply by recognizing our NEED for the Saviour, and then RECEIVING JESUS as that ONE! HE has totally obliterated the ability of sin to keep us out of Heaven! Should we choose to sin (make a selfish decision to act against God's Word), then that choice can amd will affect our lives here on earth! There IS a consequence for going against God's Word in our decsions. It takes us out from under HIS protection and opens the door of our lives to the enemy to wreak havoc! BUT, if you find that YOU have done this, then go directly to 1 John 1:9 and ACKNOWLEDGE that sin, receiving the immediate forgivenesss that this verse promises! Refuse to be intimidated by those who do not understand this! Instead, PRAY for them, FORGIVE them, ask the LORD to send laborers into their lives who will be able to present the TRUTH in a way that they can understand in order to BELIEVE and RECEIVE what God has prepared for THEM! Now walk out your wonderful, powerful, FREEDOM in GOD so that the world around YOU can see HIM in your life! THAT is why we are even here! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Tell The World":
Shalom in Him!
