marhig
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Ok so how? Righteous how? How are you righteous because of Jesus. Because I'm telling you this, if your heart still leans on the flesh, if you still love this world and the things of it, if you are still wilfully sinning even though you know it's wrong before God then you don't even know God. Because those who truly belong to God and Christ are those who turn from sin and obey God, doing his will and they do it willingly because they love him and they want to please him, those who love him more than their own lives, who put him first and deny themselves, bare their cross and follow Jesus.
You're saying that Jesus has made you righteous, but without a complete change of heart then thats not the truth, because once we are born of God then our whole being changes our old life has gone and we walk in newness of spirit, putting on Christ and he is seen in us and through us. You will know Gods true people by their fruits and they are not those still living their own lives thinking it's ok to so because they are elect and above others. Gods people are humble, they know they aren't anything without God, and it's the holy spirit within that's special, not them! And their hope is for all to hear the word and believe, for every single person to know God and Christ, they want as many as possible to be saved from this world and Satan, but many love their flesh and lives first and they don't want the things of God. And some find a religion that caters for this, but those churches that don't teach the truth are not the way of God and Jesus. If your not being taught to turn from sin and obey God and live your life according to his will and do what's right before him, then you belong to a false church, because Jesus and his apostles all taught that those who belong to God are to love him with all their heart and do his will and turn from sin!
You say that I boast, but no I don't, I just know what I was like before and how much God has changed me. I know that the way i lived before is not in a way that pleases God. And the spirit is teaching me every day to turn away from those things and the things of this world, and the things that I once loved are dead to me now. And it's nothing that I've done, because without Christ and the grace of God, I'd still be living like that. It's only through him and those that belong to him that I even had a chance to know the living God.
Now I know how precious that this life that I've been given is, and I don't want to lose it. I've never felt a love and peace like it, nothing in this world compares to it and I hope for everyone to have the chance to know God. But there is a price to pay and that price is our life, we are to sacrifice our flesh for God, he can't do anything with a hard heart so our hearts must be soft and ready to do Gods will, and if we truly belong to Christ then we should be willing to lose our life for Christs sake and lay it down so that Christ by the spirit can do his work within, and change our hearts to be more like his and then he through his people can bring as many back to to God as possible.
God just wants us to love him, but not with just words, but with a love in action. He wants us to love him by living it out and be doers of the word and not hearers only.
