EKKLESIA, message 5

"Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." (‭Hebrews‬ ‭4‬:‭1‬ KJV)
The grace that brings salvation has appeared to all men that have sinned and come short of the glory of God, "teaching us", who have been washed by the Blood, to draw close to the throne of grace where we who are new creatures in Christ can obtain help in time of need. Having access by the grace of God, "wherein we stand", if we continue in His word, "building up ourselves" in the faith of Christ, "praying in the Holy Ghost." As we are the temples of God, not by works of men, but by the Holy Spirit, "which dwells in us, unless we are reprobates who hold the truth with unclean hands. God is not mocked. "Those who sow to the flesh shall reap corruption. Break up you fallow ground and sow not among the thorns." Be not as despisers of those that are good, who are born of God are righteous, even has Christ is righteous because of the death and resurrection of the Just One, the Lamb of God whose blood was shed before the foundation of the world, manifest on the cross, The King of glory bearing the sins of us all, was crucified by wicked hands hating the Light and Perfection of Beauty. Sinless Savior. Almighty God! that as many as should believe on His glorious name, which is above all names: The WORD, JESUS, THE CHRIST OF GOD, for the remission of sin, (this is the refreshing, that is, in Jesus Christ there is no sin, but eternal life, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, wherein we rejoice) in the Comforter and Anointing Who teaches us to deny ourselves and take up our cross and follow Him, as those who are "alive to God, reckoning ourselves dead unto sin and awakened in "newness of life" offering our bodies as living sacrifices unto God, "making no more provisions for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof...and not swerving from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits in ungodly men and women, teaching whom they may devour, who war against the saints and precious souls. We must be sober and vigilant. Because our adversary, the devil, goes about through the earth as prince of the power of the air, destroying precious souls through the deceitful lusts of the flesh, the pride of life and lust of the eyes. "All this will I give you, if you worship me". So many have. And many are. Because there are now so many anti-christs, we have no need for teachers of vain traditions and philosophies of cunning men. But the Spirit reveals the things and ways of God to those that are His, "a peculiar people" redeemed from all iniquity. "And you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins" (Eph. 2:1)
The Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the bondage of sin and death", wrote the apostle Paul, who was beaten and imprisoned and "dying daily" for his testimony of "Jesus Christ and Him crucified". "I do not frustrate the grace of God" (by building up again that which was destroyed) "Awake to righteousness, and sin not!"
The pride of life is "earthy, sensual and devilish". The enemy comes in like a flood of ungodliness upon the whole world "which dwells in iniquity". "LOVE NOT THE WORLD, neither the things that are in the world". We are admonished in the Holy scriptures to flee fornication and idolatry, to live soberly (and not to foolishness or jesting), but to love God with all our strength and to hate evil, which is in the corruption of the world through lusts of the flesh without compromise.. "Hold to the One, despise the other". Take heed that no man deceive you.