Gerbolski said:

Believe ye the word

Rom 10:9-10
(9) That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
(10) For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Rom 10:13
(13) For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

We have to be very careful with the word of God, you can say something as simple as what the word says to be saved, and get falsely accused of saying that you do not believe in taking up your cross daily and following Jesus.

And we have to believe all the word of God.

Eph 2:8-10
(8) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
(9) Not of works, lest any man should boast.
(10) For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

To come to Christ, we had to get drawn to Christ by his Spirit, and then we were able to make a decision to accept Christ or not, to accept the free gift, not to work towards the free gift, but to accept, receive the free gift.

And we came to him as sinners needing a savior, and God tells us to come to him in repentance, and to acknowledge what he done for us, and receive him as the Lord and savior of our lives.

It is a very simple gospel, and after we have done that in truth, we are indeed saved, have been born again, and now he empowers us to live a godly life, he did not empower us beforehand, he empowers us after we have received the free gift, and then we can by the power of the Holy Ghost take up our cross daily and follow him.

Rom 6:6-8
(6) Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
(7) For he that is dead is freed from sin.
(8) Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

It says that our old man is crucified with Christ, we either believe it or not.

That is what Christ did for us, the sin nature was nailed to the cross, the old man was nailed to the cross, and it says that we died with Christ.

It is not that our old man is being crucified with Christ, but that the old man is crucified with Christ, Jesus did not do a half done deal concerning defeating the power of sin.

But even though that is so, and the sin nature has been put out of commission, that does not mean that the sin nature is not there, because the old man can come back to the surface, and as the bible says none of us have attained in our walk with God, and that we die daily.

Eph 4:22-23
(22) That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
(23) And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

And every now and again, even though Christ defeated the power of sin on the cross, we still have to put off the old man now and again, which shows that we still sin, we no longer practice sin, but because we are not perfect and are being perfected, we still fall into sin now and again.


If the word says we are sanctified (set apart), and are being sanctified, we do not get to decide and change the words to fit our doctrine, if the word mentions both, then it is both.

We really do have victory in the name of Jesus over sin, and we are daily learning how to walk by faith, in our walk with God, and we are continuously growing in grace and faith, it is a life long process.

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Gerbolski said:

Luk 9:23
(23) And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

I will post comments from Jimmy Swaggart on this.

Here is a comment on deny himself :

(Jimmy Swaggart)

(not asceticism as many think, but rather that one denies one's own will-power, self-will, strength, and ability, depending totally on Christ)

Now here is a comment on, and take up his cross:

(Jimmy Swaggart)

(the benefits of the Cross, looking exclusively to what Jesus did there to meet our every need)

And here is a comment on daily:

(Jimmy Swaggart)

(this is so important, our looking to the Cross; that we must renew our Faith in what Christ has done for us, even on a daily basis, for Satan will ever try to move us away from the Cross as the Object of our Faith, which always spells disaster)

And lastly, here is a comment on the words and follow me:

(Jimmy Swaggart)

(Christ can be followed only by the Believer looking to the Cross, understanding what it accomplished, and by that means alone [Rom. 6:3-5, 11, 14; 8:1-2, 11; I Cor. 1:17-18, 21, 23; 2:2; Gal. 6:14; Eph. 2:13-18; Col. 2:14-15])

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Gerbolski said:

One area of false teaching we have to be careful about, is what some call having faith in your faith to save you, and faith in your faith in other ways as well.

Which is often preached behind prosperity gospel pulpits, and is said in a very tricky, slie way.

What God calls us to do is to cease from our own works, and to rest in his salvation.

And to keep our faith in what he has accomplished on the cross, and then the Holy Spirit can work in our lives, and CONFORM US TO HIS IMAGE.

We are born again, and as born again Christians, we now allow God to do his work in us, so that Christ can be reflected in and through our lives.

We first place our faith in God, to come into the kingdom, and now we continue to do so as well, because we are now in the kingdom.

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