Is your relationship with GOD sacred and is HIS Word your final authority?
As I wrote in the last blog:
The unrepentant person: The Word of God is optional for my choices.
The repentant person: The Word of God is the final authority for my choices.
Our relationship with FATHER must be based on a repentant heart. Yes, we will mess up and when we do, we must repent. FATHER understands our humanity and that is why grace abounds on our behalf. However, we must purpose to walk in HIS final authority.
Luke recorded by The Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 26:
19 “Therefore, King Agrippa, I (Paul) was not disobedient to the Heavenly vision, 20 but declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they must repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance.
21 For these reasons the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.
22 Therefore, having obtained help from God, to this day I stand, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come-
23 that the Christ would suffer, that He would be the first to rise from the dead, and would proclaim light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.”
“Works benefitting repentance” means: to turn to God and demonstrate it with a changed life.
Paul also spoke and is recorded by The Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 17:
30 “In the past God tolerated our ignorance of these things, but now the time of deception has passed away. HE commands us all to repent and turn to HIM.”
There is no genuine faith in Jesus Christ without repentance.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Hebrews chapter 6:
1 Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
2 of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
In order to move on to deeper Truths, we must have a foundation of repentance.
Paul continues:
3 So with God’s enablement we will move on to deeper Truths.
4 It is impossible to restore an apostate. For once a person has come into God’s light, and tasted the gifts of the Heavenly realm, and has received the Holy Spirit, 5 and feasted on the good Word of God, and has entered into the power of the age that is breaking in,
6 if he abandons his faith, there is no use even trying to lead him to repentance. By their sin of apostasy they re-crucify the Son of God, and have publicly repudiated Him.
7 For men’s hearts are just like the soil that drinks up the showers which often fall upon it. Some soil will yield crops as God’s blessing upon the field.
8 But if the field continues to produce only thorns and thistles a curse hangs over it and it will be burned.
It is vital that we walk with a repentant heart and yield good fruit. By focusing on FATHER’S Word and fully obeying It in all situations, we will be found trustworthy to receive the sacred, deeper Truths.