Realization and Resolution

The realization:

I can't live like other men and call myself a Christian.

The resolution:

I will not live like other men; I will be who I am in Christ.

If I keep trying to do as I have always done, then the results will be the same.  Or rather, they will actually be worse- if I know what is right and choose not to do it, it will be worse for me

• (No sacrifices can be made for people who decide to sin after they find out about the truth. They are God's enemies, and all they can look forward to is a terrible judgment and a furious fire.  - Hebrews 10:26-27 CEV
• If you don't do what you know is right, you have sinned.  - James 4:17 CEV
• If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.  - John 15:22 CEV )

 The new creature has a new attitude, a new purpose, and a new name

• Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.  - Philippians 2:5-7 NASB

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Spirit of Deep Sleep

There is a "spirit of deep sleep"; that's what God said.

It's back to Isaiah 29 again.

Astonish yourselves and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink! For the LORD has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes (the prophets), and covered your heads (the seers). And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, "Read this," he says, "I cannot, for it is sealed." Isaiah 29:9-11 ESV

GOD has poured this on us.

... to be continued

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