True Freedom.
I began an open-minded study of the main theocratic systems/religions, I also looked deeply into world systems and science. All ideologies cannot by definition represent "the truth". I did not want to be deceived or corrupted by any pre-existing ideas. To protect the purity of my endeavor I adopted a disciplined and thorough attitude to my search. I wasn't driven by fear or tradition. I knew deep down, I was a product of a corrupted world. True freedom should give you the power to make good choices. The true definition of freedom surely is contentment, rest, peace and self-control.
You may believe you have the right answers 'within yourself' A way in your own mind to achieve personal freedom or a knowledge of spirituality. Everyone born into this world has been, and is continually moulded by their surroundings. Through peer pressure, dead traditions, ideologies, worldly organisations, media influence and political persuasions. A lifetime of bias of Ideas and beliefs being drawn from an imperfect world, are in themselves imperfect. Your time in this world represents a continuous string of flawed personal experiences. Blinded from birth by your environment what do you really see? If someone was to gave you the 'absolute truth' could you recognise it? Would you be able to receive it?
Rules and regulations alone have no power to set your spirit free. Although rules and regulations are vital in themselves and do a lot of good, they can never represent a cure for the human condition. Yes it is true, that just and right laws make the world a safer and more secure place for us all. However the law is only required for law breakers. Imagine if you were to receive a new nature a renewing and healing of the old corrupt (Imperfect) mind, then you wouldn't need laws because the renewed good nature would automatically follow after what's right. Sin then is unrighteousness and as it spreads from its roots the direct consequence of this corruption of people in the world is war, divisions, strife, fear, murder, Idolatry, wrath, being easily offended, quick to anger, selfishness, arrogance, hatred, deception, theft and sexual deviance, depravity, death etc. In essence sin is a spiritual human condition, a progressive disease of soul and spiritual heart that ties up and tangles, infects and effects everything in some way a sinner does or says.
Worldly religions tell us that by following an organisation and obeying outward rules alone we can be justified, this cannot be true. Trying to tackle and solve a spiritual problem with a physical solution is impossible. It's like a person with a brain bleed rubbing healing cream on the outside of the head. The cream can never heal the root problem or stem the leak. It will never heal them or make them whole on the inside of their brain. It is impossible for outward laws and regulations alone to change you on the inside or make you a better person.
If you do not believe in God or a god then everyone worships and believes in something else as if it were a god. Trying to fill an empty void in soul and spirit the spiritually blind, who is separated from God in this world through the deceitfulness of sin will naturally worship the creation (Material things of the world) rather than it's creator. We see this in the world every day an unbeliever naturally worships himself their job, car, house a person, false deity or false god of some sort.
Galatians 4: 8Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
These everyday objects and things only become gods because the believer surrenders themselves and there time to serve them. The devil is the father of all lies a master deceiver.
John 8: 44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Nearly everything that our good God created in the world has been perverted corrupted or twisted in some way by man. From things worshiped and made by the hands of men to false religions, social stimulants, (drugs) music and technology all of these things replicate and pervert in some way the things of heaven. But without God without agape love or real substance without real power and without true spiritual gifts. Those who reject Jesus Christ in their souls reject true sovereign power and the real blessings of God.
Colossians 2: 8Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Those who reject Jesus Christ, can only ever follow after false riches, false freedom, false powers, false pleasures, false gods. satan controls the unbelievers unrepentant and blind heart by tricking the unbeliever they are already free. Through Christ denial they unwittingly surrender their free will to satan becoming slaves of sin. The unbeliever is then taken captive by satan to do his will and not their own. As the helpless slaves of sin and the devil. The unbeliever, reveals their true spiritual fallen state, by being easily offended, resentful of others, easily angered or violent, rebellious, hating truth, totally self centred and proud, displaying an unquenchable thirst for self gratification and the need for personal satisfaction weather mental, material or sexual. None of these attributes represent real freedom as the sinner is bound to them and cannot stop the works of them.
Titus 3: 3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
In truth the sinful fallen flesh can never be satisfied and will always be at enmity with God (The enemy of God). The only power the devil has, is the power we surrender to him in our obedience to his lies. As long as the heart remains unrepentant, sin remains and the enemy has power. Secretly reigning in the unbelievers heart satan takes occasion through the deceitfulness of sin to manipulate and distract away from anything that is truly of Christ. Through the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ at Calvary and by his resurrection. The natural law and curse of sin and death has been utterly defeated. Those who have repented of all sin and who now follow Jesus in spirit and in truth, who are living by faith through Gods words, have passed from a condition of waking death into an eternal and abundant life. Sins stranglehold destroyed forever through the power of Christ's own blood. A blood washed, sanctified and Holy Ghost filled Christian is able to move from a position of true freedom and absolute victory. The enemies of Christ and God are vanquished utterly spoiled through the work of Jesus Christ on the cross!
When the enemy troubles us, a true Christians can say, "it is written" "through the blood" "It is finished" the curse is broken. The curse that empowered us all to fail through our inherent sinful nature, is now revoked. Blessings and promises now empower us to succeed. let us all then deny ourselves and picking up our cross daily follow after Christ alone. The message of the cross is not a message of defeat but triumph! A message of tremendous power and promise of prophecies fore filled. He loves us and predestined us, he chose us for himself. As we abide through Jesus in faith by his living word (The Bible), in the light as he is in the light. We obtain the guarantee of victory through his blood.
A true believer has full assurance by faith through obedience and love that they are saved. My salvation which Jesus himself purchased with his own precious blood as he hung alone, on that cruel tree for me in my place. Now I am able to abound in his grace to be made whole to live free from sin and to wax strong in his spirit. He has healed me and made my crooked path straight. I see his face shine, he is all.. he is all mine. Above only and not beneath The head and not the tail. The blessings and promises of Abraham are ours, by faith in Jesus we are blessed in all things in all ways for always. Blessed in our coming in and blessed in our going out. We who are his can face any situation because God is greater than any situation we face. The curse has been reversed. We are more than conquerors through Christ who strengthens us. Greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world. We are free, to praise the Lord all Glory be to God we are FREE!
Romans 6: 6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Colossians 2: 14Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
satan hides within the glitter and vanity of this world, in it’s false freedom’s and temporary shallow reward. The world newspapers show that often the pursuit of these things ends with an early death, mental illness's, ill heath and disease and will always end in eternal separation from our heavenly father (sovereign creator). The bible say’s,
Romans 6: 23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The devil knows that if he can sugar coat the poison pill of sin and death and deliver this to the spiritually blind person (Those who deny Christ as their Lord) they will not only swallow it but come back for more time and time again. Does that sound like your life?
Revelation 20: 10And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Time and time again sinners reject the true freedom and saving power, joy and real satisfaction of knowing there loving father through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Psalm 16: 11Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Salvation can only come through the blood of Jesus Christ. A new covenant promise written in Gods word, through the shedding of the Lord Jesus Christ's own blood. A promise of promises that transcends all worldly states, philosophies, ideologies, ascending into heaven itself. The blood of Jesus possess's the power to deliver mankind from their perpetual corrupted state. Redeeming mankind back into a relationship with the creator father God. All have sinned and fallen short of God's glory.
God has given man a FREE WILL. By nature we are born sinners children of wrath and disobedience. It's our choice to serve God through faith in Jesus Christ the light of the world or the devil through the deceitfulness and darkness of sin. Only when we repent of OUR SINS and surrender our hearts to God through Jesus Christ can God begin the work on the inside of a soul. Shining his light on the inside through his living word, showing us what and who we really are, thus delivering us from ourselves. Then and only then can we begin to heal and be restored, set free, forgiven, saving us by bringing us back into a personal relationship with him.
Will you continue to be deceived? Not truly living, Merely existing in sin and death? Moving from one defeat to the next? To deny, Jesus as Lord is to deny, real life, real joy, real freedom. Will you give your life to God through Jesus Christ? He gave his life for you. If you would repent of your sins and follow him you will receive true life and real victory through the cross. A worldly choice only goes so far, Jesus wants to give you a real chance. A chance to be saved from self and sin to be free from the curse of death and the law and receive life eternal (See home page)
True Freedom then is the word of faith coming alive in our hearts. True Christians are fellow members of Christ’s own body, as doers of the word. God's promises and real sovereign power are manifested through those who believe. As we draw from the true vine in prayer, we become lights shining into a dark world inspiring others to hunger and thirst after the righteousness of Christ. Souls true and anchored in Christ the Savior, our eternal rock.
2 Peter 3
9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance
© Sheldon Ray 2011
You may believe you have the right answers 'within yourself' A way in your own mind to achieve personal freedom or a knowledge of spirituality. Everyone born into this world has been, and is continually moulded by their surroundings. Through peer pressure, dead traditions, ideologies, worldly organisations, media influence and political persuasions. A lifetime of bias of Ideas and beliefs being drawn from an imperfect world, are in themselves imperfect. Your time in this world represents a continuous string of flawed personal experiences. Blinded from birth by your environment what do you really see? If someone was to gave you the 'absolute truth' could you recognise it? Would you be able to receive it?
Rules and regulations alone have no power to set your spirit free. Although rules and regulations are vital in themselves and do a lot of good, they can never represent a cure for the human condition. Yes it is true, that just and right laws make the world a safer and more secure place for us all. However the law is only required for law breakers. Imagine if you were to receive a new nature a renewing and healing of the old corrupt (Imperfect) mind, then you wouldn't need laws because the renewed good nature would automatically follow after what's right. Sin then is unrighteousness and as it spreads from its roots the direct consequence of this corruption of people in the world is war, divisions, strife, fear, murder, Idolatry, wrath, being easily offended, quick to anger, selfishness, arrogance, hatred, deception, theft and sexual deviance, depravity, death etc. In essence sin is a spiritual human condition, a progressive disease of soul and spiritual heart that ties up and tangles, infects and effects everything in some way a sinner does or says.
Worldly religions tell us that by following an organisation and obeying outward rules alone we can be justified, this cannot be true. Trying to tackle and solve a spiritual problem with a physical solution is impossible. It's like a person with a brain bleed rubbing healing cream on the outside of the head. The cream can never heal the root problem or stem the leak. It will never heal them or make them whole on the inside of their brain. It is impossible for outward laws and regulations alone to change you on the inside or make you a better person.
If you do not believe in God or a god then everyone worships and believes in something else as if it were a god. Trying to fill an empty void in soul and spirit the spiritually blind, who is separated from God in this world through the deceitfulness of sin will naturally worship the creation (Material things of the world) rather than it's creator. We see this in the world every day an unbeliever naturally worships himself their job, car, house a person, false deity or false god of some sort.
Galatians 4: 8Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
These everyday objects and things only become gods because the believer surrenders themselves and there time to serve them. The devil is the father of all lies a master deceiver.
John 8: 44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Nearly everything that our good God created in the world has been perverted corrupted or twisted in some way by man. From things worshiped and made by the hands of men to false religions, social stimulants, (drugs) music and technology all of these things replicate and pervert in some way the things of heaven. But without God without agape love or real substance without real power and without true spiritual gifts. Those who reject Jesus Christ in their souls reject true sovereign power and the real blessings of God.
Colossians 2: 8Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Those who reject Jesus Christ, can only ever follow after false riches, false freedom, false powers, false pleasures, false gods. satan controls the unbelievers unrepentant and blind heart by tricking the unbeliever they are already free. Through Christ denial they unwittingly surrender their free will to satan becoming slaves of sin. The unbeliever is then taken captive by satan to do his will and not their own. As the helpless slaves of sin and the devil. The unbeliever, reveals their true spiritual fallen state, by being easily offended, resentful of others, easily angered or violent, rebellious, hating truth, totally self centred and proud, displaying an unquenchable thirst for self gratification and the need for personal satisfaction weather mental, material or sexual. None of these attributes represent real freedom as the sinner is bound to them and cannot stop the works of them.
Titus 3: 3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
In truth the sinful fallen flesh can never be satisfied and will always be at enmity with God (The enemy of God). The only power the devil has, is the power we surrender to him in our obedience to his lies. As long as the heart remains unrepentant, sin remains and the enemy has power. Secretly reigning in the unbelievers heart satan takes occasion through the deceitfulness of sin to manipulate and distract away from anything that is truly of Christ. Through the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ at Calvary and by his resurrection. The natural law and curse of sin and death has been utterly defeated. Those who have repented of all sin and who now follow Jesus in spirit and in truth, who are living by faith through Gods words, have passed from a condition of waking death into an eternal and abundant life. Sins stranglehold destroyed forever through the power of Christ's own blood. A blood washed, sanctified and Holy Ghost filled Christian is able to move from a position of true freedom and absolute victory. The enemies of Christ and God are vanquished utterly spoiled through the work of Jesus Christ on the cross!
When the enemy troubles us, a true Christians can say, "it is written" "through the blood" "It is finished" the curse is broken. The curse that empowered us all to fail through our inherent sinful nature, is now revoked. Blessings and promises now empower us to succeed. let us all then deny ourselves and picking up our cross daily follow after Christ alone. The message of the cross is not a message of defeat but triumph! A message of tremendous power and promise of prophecies fore filled. He loves us and predestined us, he chose us for himself. As we abide through Jesus in faith by his living word (The Bible), in the light as he is in the light. We obtain the guarantee of victory through his blood.
A true believer has full assurance by faith through obedience and love that they are saved. My salvation which Jesus himself purchased with his own precious blood as he hung alone, on that cruel tree for me in my place. Now I am able to abound in his grace to be made whole to live free from sin and to wax strong in his spirit. He has healed me and made my crooked path straight. I see his face shine, he is all.. he is all mine. Above only and not beneath The head and not the tail. The blessings and promises of Abraham are ours, by faith in Jesus we are blessed in all things in all ways for always. Blessed in our coming in and blessed in our going out. We who are his can face any situation because God is greater than any situation we face. The curse has been reversed. We are more than conquerors through Christ who strengthens us. Greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world. We are free, to praise the Lord all Glory be to God we are FREE!
Romans 6: 6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Colossians 2: 14Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
satan hides within the glitter and vanity of this world, in it’s false freedom’s and temporary shallow reward. The world newspapers show that often the pursuit of these things ends with an early death, mental illness's, ill heath and disease and will always end in eternal separation from our heavenly father (sovereign creator). The bible say’s,
Romans 6: 23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The devil knows that if he can sugar coat the poison pill of sin and death and deliver this to the spiritually blind person (Those who deny Christ as their Lord) they will not only swallow it but come back for more time and time again. Does that sound like your life?
Revelation 20: 10And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Time and time again sinners reject the true freedom and saving power, joy and real satisfaction of knowing there loving father through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Psalm 16: 11Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Salvation can only come through the blood of Jesus Christ. A new covenant promise written in Gods word, through the shedding of the Lord Jesus Christ's own blood. A promise of promises that transcends all worldly states, philosophies, ideologies, ascending into heaven itself. The blood of Jesus possess's the power to deliver mankind from their perpetual corrupted state. Redeeming mankind back into a relationship with the creator father God. All have sinned and fallen short of God's glory.
God has given man a FREE WILL. By nature we are born sinners children of wrath and disobedience. It's our choice to serve God through faith in Jesus Christ the light of the world or the devil through the deceitfulness and darkness of sin. Only when we repent of OUR SINS and surrender our hearts to God through Jesus Christ can God begin the work on the inside of a soul. Shining his light on the inside through his living word, showing us what and who we really are, thus delivering us from ourselves. Then and only then can we begin to heal and be restored, set free, forgiven, saving us by bringing us back into a personal relationship with him.
Will you continue to be deceived? Not truly living, Merely existing in sin and death? Moving from one defeat to the next? To deny, Jesus as Lord is to deny, real life, real joy, real freedom. Will you give your life to God through Jesus Christ? He gave his life for you. If you would repent of your sins and follow him you will receive true life and real victory through the cross. A worldly choice only goes so far, Jesus wants to give you a real chance. A chance to be saved from self and sin to be free from the curse of death and the law and receive life eternal (See home page)
True Freedom then is the word of faith coming alive in our hearts. True Christians are fellow members of Christ’s own body, as doers of the word. God's promises and real sovereign power are manifested through those who believe. As we draw from the true vine in prayer, we become lights shining into a dark world inspiring others to hunger and thirst after the righteousness of Christ. Souls true and anchored in Christ the Savior, our eternal rock.
2 Peter 3
9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance
© Sheldon Ray 2011
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Scriptures found on this website in bold blue text are taken from the King James Version of the Bible (Unless otherwise stated). To gain greater wisdom and to better understand the full context of the scriptures. Please refer to the full chapters found here in the
Holy Bible thank you. http://www.truejoy.co.uk
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