How do we live in the power of forgiveness? Let me suggest one of the steps to doing that. we are told in Philippians 3:4-9 that we should not have confidence in the flesh, and Paul gives a testimony of how he could have done that, but we need to understand that we are what we are by the grace of God (1 Corinthians 15:10). It may sound strange to say that struggling to overcome the sins of our past is pride, but it is prideful to say that I do not believe that God can forgive something that He has said that He will forgive. This actually makes us more powerful that God by determining that we are the judge and executor of that judgment. Throughout Scripture God demonstrates that He does not call the worthy, He makes the called worthy. Humility is not seeing ourselves as worthless, Humility is seeing ourselves as God sees us. All that we accomplish in this life is because God works in and through us! Why does He do this through us? One word: GRACE! We need to learn to accept the Biblical view of who we are in Christ, not because we … READ MORE

Have you ever felt unworthy of the gift of Salvation? In those moments try to remember that the great persecutor of the church, Saul of Tarsus, became the great Apostle to the Gentiles. If God can make a Paul out of Saul, just think what He can make of you and Me! You see my friends all of us are born separated from God, and there is nothing we can do to gain our position. God does not save us because we are worthy of salvation, God saves us by His will and choice. He does not love us because we are His children, He chooses to love us because we are His creation. I remind you that Romans 5:8 says, “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Paul said in 1 Corinthians 15:10, “I am what I am by the grace of God!” We have a relationship with Christ because of the Work He did in His incarnation. We need to choose to live in the power of the resurrection each day of our lives.… READ MORE

Humanities sinful nature needs changing, but only God, working through His Holy Spirit, can transform the sinful human heart, through the power of His Word. In 1 Peter 1:3 we are reminded that God, “has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” At death a believers hope becomes reality as they enter the glorious presence of God and the full unhindered, joyous fellowship with the Trinity, the angels, and other saints (Romans 5:1-2) The means of the appropriating this living hope and eternal inheritance is spiritual Birth, and the power for that appropriation was demonstrated by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Christ rose from the dead, forever securing His children’s living hope in heaven by finally conquering death (cf. 1 Corinthians 15). We need to recognize that as a follower of Jesus Christ we become a new creation, and while we cannot change our spots, God make us something new! We must learn to live in that newness as we experience a metamorphosis from this life to the next.… READ MORE