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-Righteousness:
The New Nature of the Believer.
Never Sin Again.
I receive hundreds of pieces of mail a week from Christians. One of the
most common letters, and the one that grabs my heart the most, goes something
like this:
Brother Martin,
I love the Lord very very much. I try and I try, but I find that despite
all my efforts, I cannot get the victory over sin. I have prayed,
fasted, and done everything that I can think of, but it always seems
to come back and get the best of me. I wonder if I will ever overcome.
I feel so alone, and find it hard to talk about this with people
I know, for fear that they will not understand. I am at the end of
my rope, and do not know what else to do.
Sometimes I feel like giving up. I love the Lord, and I know He loves me.
But sometimes I wonder what He thinks of me. I feel I am letting Him down,
or that He is getting tired of forgiving me over and over for the
same things. I am such a failure. Am I doomed to this the rest of
my life? Am I even saved? Please help me!!
The purpose of Christianity is to bring you to the place where you will
never sin again.
The answer is not obvious. You will never come to this information
via reasoning and logic. No religion or ethical system will teach you what
you are about to learn. It is given by revelation, and that from the Word
of God.
Of all the messages and lessons you have learned since you learned
the truth of the gospel, this is by far the most important, and the most
powerful. You are going to find it a struggle going through these lessons.
It has been the experience of past students to have encountered great opposition
during this study. Within these lessons are the great truths which will release you from the snares and chains of the enemy. You will slip from bondage, and be freed of guilt, fear, and darkness. I am not being
overly dramatic in saying that this is the most important restorational
teaching since the Charismatic and Prophetic teachings of the seventies
and eighties. Many of the people who send me letters like the one above
are tongue talking, laying on of hands, Christians. They have power
for ministering to the lives of others, but are struggling with sin
in their own lives. They feel as if it is all for naught if they cannot
resolve this problem. This is where we are going. Without this, all is
for naught and we are living as mere men. If these truths are received
with an open mind and meditative heart, you will see the light of the overcomers.
The final chapter is about to open, and there will be an body of overcomers.
Can it be true? You ask.
Is it really possible?
Is it possible for you to _not_ sin?
If victory over sin is not a possibility in Christ, then the new birth
is a failure, and Christ died in vain.
Most have thought that the purpose of redemption is to save man from hell.
God redeemed man so that we would be capable of, and go on to do: good
works!
Ephesians 1
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 2
10 For we are his workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus to good works,
which God hath before ordained that we
should walk in them.
Tit 2:
16 Who gave himself for us, that he
might redeem us from all iniquity,
purify to himself [his own] special
people, zealous of good works.
1 Thessalonians 5
23 And the very God of peace sanctify
whole spirit and soul and body be
preserved blameless unto the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
These are frightening words to the believer who has not overcome the world.
Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil.
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