Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Sinner or saint? Or both? I think NOT!





So I saw this picture on a facebook page....and I want YOU to know...this is NOT truth.  It sounds good and makes sense to why we feel a struggle inside- but it's not truth.  Like my good friend, Will Gunter says, "Your emotions are real but not always truthful."

The Bible makes it CLEAR that a person can only be in two states.

A sinner- or a believer, a saint.

As a sinner you are in Adam, - in Satan.

As a believer you are in Christ.

You cannot be both.

"It is not that you have a little of the Lord at times and a little of the devil at times.  There is no such thing as Jesus coming in parts, pieces, bits or blessings.  The Spirit does not deal with the sinner to bring him SOME salvation.  He brings him to the Lamb, and salvation is total and complete, based on the finished work at Calvary.  Likewise, at the moment of belief, the Holy Spirit places Christ in the awakened sinner.  It is not a thing, it is not an idea, nor merely a blessing, but the total Christ and His total Person with all His personality (fruit) and all His ministries (gifts), making the believer ready and prepared- to live the life of Christ!" - from Jesus Lost in the Church by Warren Litzman

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