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From: "Kennedy Time" <[email protected]>
To: "Lucrisha Davies" <[email protected]>; "Faith Mafukidze"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 2:35 PM
Subject: Freedom From Sin's Slavery Must Be Accepted By Faith
FREEDOM FROM SIN'S SLAVERY MUST BE ACCEPTED BY FAITH
Faith is something you do about what you know. Knowledge means nothing
unless it is acted upon.
The children of Israel received the good word that God had given them
Canaan for a homeland. That information would have meant nothing at all
to
them if they had remained in Egypt as slaves. But the Bible says, "By
faith [they] forsook Egypt...by faith they passed through the Red Sea
(Hebrews 11:27, 29).
The Israelites did not march to the border of Canaan, fire one volley
of
arrows, and expect all the enemy armies to drop dead. The land was
theirs,
but they had to possess it "one dead soldier at a time."
What does that have to do with my getting victory over the grip of sin?
Everything! Christ settled the issue of slavery to sin by declaring you
emancipated from its dominion, but you have to believe it to the point
that you do something about it.
It is not enough to say, "Yes, I believe Christ forgives sin. I believe
he
is Lord. I know he can break the power of sin in my life." You are
mentally consenting to what you heard, but faith is more than that.
Faith
is stepping out on that promise of freedom and acting upon it.
Believers overcome the evil power of this world through faith. True
faith
is the only thing that can help you stand up with confidence against
the
powers of temptation. Self-control is possible only when, by faith, the
truth about being emancipated is accepted.
"For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his
commandments are not burdensome. For whatever is born of God overcomes
the
world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith"
(1 John 5:3-4 NKJV).
"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about
like
a roaring lion, seeking who he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the
faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your
brotherhood in the world. But may the God of all grace, who called us
to
his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while,
perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. To him be the glory and
the dominion forever and ever" (1 Peter 5:8-11 NKJV).
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