Christian Fellowship Community Group
A safe place for Christians who Love Jesus Christ to meet and ask for prayer and share scriptures from the bible. We value the posting of Christian music, poems, stories and also personal testimonies. Please let us know your needs, concerns and have some fun getting to know each other. We treat each other with respect.
THE FULL GOSPEL
It can be stated without reservation that it is impossible to walk according the flesh and NOT sin. (Romans 7) On the other hand it can also be stated that it is impossible to walk according Spirit and sin at the same time.(Romans 8) There is an absolute either/or! Elijah:" Why do you go on limping with two different opinions? Is Baal god, follow Him, Is the Lord God follow Him!"
To live a sin-free life can be compared to walking on water, like Peter was. Looking at the wind and waves, he sank. It that the proof that it is impossible to walk on water? No, by no means. It is proof of the little faith of Peter, for the Lord admonished: "Why do you doubt?"
The victorious life, free from sin is a miracle of the grace of God in Christ.
When we "walk on water, the storm and waves" will be coming for certain in the form of temptations and try to divert our look of faith from the Lord Jesus Christ.
A. B. Simpson ABOUT TEMPTATIONS:
Let us also expect to be tempted. Most persons, after a step of faith, are looking for sunny skies and unruffled seas, and when they meet a storm and tempest they are filled with astonishment and perplexity. But this is just what we must expect to meet if we have received anything of the Lord. The best token of His presence is the adversary's defiance, and the more real our blessing, the more certainly will it be challenged. It is a good thing to go out looking for the worst, and if it comes we are not surprised; while if our path be smooth and our way be unopposed, it is all the more delightful, because it comes as a glad surprise.
But let us entirely understand what we mean by temptation. You, especially, who have stepped out with the assurance that you have died to self and sin, may be greatly amazed to find yourself assailed with a tempest of thoughts and feelings that seem to come wholly from within, and you will be impelled to say, “Why, I thought I was dead, but I seem to be alive.”
This, beloved, is the time to remember that temptation has power to penetrate our inmost being with thoughts and feelings that seem to be our own, but are really the instigations of the evil one. “We wrestle with principalities and powers”; that is to say, they entwine themselves around us as wrestlers do about the limbs of their opponents, until they seem to be a part of the evil is within ourselves, and that we are not cleansed and sanctified as we had believed. Do not wonder if you are assailed with temptation that comes to you in the most subtle forms, the most insinuating feelings, the most plausible insinuations, and apparently through your inmost being and nature.
It can be stated without reservation that it is impossible to walk according the flesh and NOT sin. (Romans 7) On the other hand it can also be stated that it is impossible to walk according Spirit and sin at the same time.(Romans 8) There is an absolute either/or! Elijah:" Why do you go on limping with two different opinions? Is Baal god, follow Him, Is the Lord God follow Him!"
To live a sin-free life can be compared to walking on water, like Peter was. Looking at the wind and waves, he sank. It that the proof that it is impossible to walk on water? No, by no means. It is proof of the little faith of Peter, for the Lord admonished: "Why do you doubt?"
The victorious life, free from sin is a miracle of the grace of God in Christ.
When we "walk on water, the storm and waves" will be coming for certain in the form of temptations and try to divert our look of faith from the Lord Jesus Christ.
A. B. Simpson ABOUT TEMPTATIONS:
Let us also expect to be tempted. Most persons, after a step of faith, are looking for sunny skies and unruffled seas, and when they meet a storm and tempest they are filled with astonishment and perplexity. But this is just what we must expect to meet if we have received anything of the Lord. The best token of His presence is the adversary's defiance, and the more real our blessing, the more certainly will it be challenged. It is a good thing to go out looking for the worst, and if it comes we are not surprised; while if our path be smooth and our way be unopposed, it is all the more delightful, because it comes as a glad surprise.
But let us entirely understand what we mean by temptation. You, especially, who have stepped out with the assurance that you have died to self and sin, may be greatly amazed to find yourself assailed with a tempest of thoughts and feelings that seem to come wholly from within, and you will be impelled to say, “Why, I thought I was dead, but I seem to be alive.”
This, beloved, is the time to remember that temptation has power to penetrate our inmost being with thoughts and feelings that seem to be our own, but are really the instigations of the evil one. “We wrestle with principalities and powers”; that is to say, they entwine themselves around us as wrestlers do about the limbs of their opponents, until they seem to be a part of the evil is within ourselves, and that we are not cleansed and sanctified as we had believed. Do not wonder if you are assailed with temptation that comes to you in the most subtle forms, the most insinuating feelings, the most plausible insinuations, and apparently through your inmost being and nature.
1 Corinthians 10:13
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. (King James Bible)
Smooth waters sholud NEVER be the expectation to the born again Christian. In fact the opposite is true in many ways. Once we become followers of the Lord Jesus Christ there is a big spiritual "target" painted upon our hearts and you can be certain that Satan has his guns aimed directly at us!!! Once we are saved trials can actually become greater and more intense the closer and closer we grow in the love and understanding of God.