你呢, 有时因为邪恶的行为而被疏远并成为你心目中的敌人, yet now hath He reconciled. In the body of His flesh through death, 在他面前呈现圣洁、无可指摘、无可指责的: 如果你们继续坚定并坚定的信仰, 不要被感动离开福音的盼望, 你们都听说过, 这事传给天下万物; 我保罗被任命为传道人 (歌罗西书 1:21-23)
The old creation is a friend of the world but an enemy of God
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? 因此，凡与世俗为友的，就是与上帝为敌的 (詹姆士 4:4)
Before you were saved and reconciled with God, through the blood of Jesus Christ, by faith and regeneration in Him (the death of the flesh and resurrection of the spirit from the dead), you were the old creation and belonged to the world.
You were alive to the world and a friend of the world, but at the same time, you were dead to God because of your wicked works and lived in disobedience to God after the will of your flesh, as an enemy of God (以弗所书 2:1-3).
You were carnal and had a 肉体的心思, which is enmity with God. Because a carnal mind doesn’t submit to God and His law, which represents His will, but is prideful, 叛逆的, and pernicious and does the will of the flesh.
Your wicked works (罪恶) testified that you were an enemy of God and that you belonged to the world and the ruler of the world; 恶魔
You were a son of the devil and his (罪) nature dwelled in your flesh. You belonged to him and listened to him and obeyed him, by living sense ruled after the will, 欲望, and desires of the flesh and by doing wicked works.
Your mind was darkened and full of lies and deception, which kept you in bondage
Reconciled in the body of Christ
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For He is our peace, Who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in Himself of twain one new man, so making peace; And that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father (以弗所书 2:13-18)
But when you heard the gospel of Jesus Christ; and His perfect work of redemption, you believed in Him and made Jesus Christ your Savior and Lord.
By faith in His sacrifice on the cross and His blood and the identification of yourself with His death and resurrection from the dead, 通过再生, 你成为了新造的人; 新人, and were reconciled in the body of Christ to God.
All your sins and iniquities were forgiven! The blood of Jesus Christ, cleansed you from all your sins and iniquities.
Jesus Christ became your Substitute and through His death He abolished in His flesh the enmity between you and God, to present you holy unblameable and unreproveable in His sight.
The sacrifice and blood of Jesus Christ made you holy
Through regeneration in Him, you have become a new man; a saint. You have been made holy, so that you can walk in holiness; separated from the world devoted unto God, doing righteous works instead of wicked works (罪恶).
A saint is not someone, who has been declared holy after his or her death by people, because of his or her works. But a saint is someone, who has become a new creation; 神的儿子 (无论男性还是女性) in Jesus Christ through His blood and regeneration in Him and belongs to Him and walks after the Spirit in the will of God.
The new creation is a saint, the old creation is a sinner. Therefore the works of a person testify whether a person is a new creation or the old creation (另请阅读: ‘Do you always remain a sinner?').
A new creation walks in the will of God and does righteous works and the old creation walks in the will of the flesh and does wicked works
The sacrifice and blood of Jesus Christ made you unblameable and unreprovable
Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 因此, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless. And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things (2 彼得 3:13-16)
The blood of Jesus Christ is so powerful that it washed away all your sins and iniquities. By the blood of Jesus Christ you have been made unblameable and unreprovable, which means that He has made you without blame, without fault, without spot, and without blemish. You have been cleansed and no one can accuse you anymore, everything is under the blood of Jesus Christ.
Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 哥林多前书 1:8)
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself for it; That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That He might present it to Himself a glorious Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish (以弗所书 5:25-27)
No one shall be able to accuse you, as long as you walk after the Spirit in holiness and righteousness. Because Jesus will return for His Church; His Body, which is holy and without blemish, spot or wrinkle.
Continue in the faith grounded and settled
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, 那, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul (希伯来语 10:35-39)
As long as you stay in Him and continue in the faith grounded and settled, which means that you will walk by faith after the Spirit, instead of walking after the will of the flesh doing wicked works, you shall remain holy, unblameable, and unreproveable (另请阅读: ‘我能在地球上找到信仰吗?‘ 和 ‘Examine yourself, 无论你是否有信仰’.
But you have to watch that nothing and no one moves you away from the hope of the gospel. That task and responsibility lie with you and no one else.
每天, you make a choice and you decide on what things you spend your time on and with what things you fill your mind.
If you spend more time on (the things of) 世界, 然后 (the things of) God and His Kingdom and fill your mind with the things of the world, you will become world like instead of by renewing your mind with the Word of God you become like the Word.
Faith is built upon God’s Word
God’s Word is the truth and faith is built upon God’s Word. But if you listen to all kinds of preachers and/or read all kinds of ‘Christian books that teach doctrines, which derive from a carnal mind and changes the words of God in such a subtle manner that it may look spiritual, encouraging, and hopeful for the carnal eye, but in reality diametrically opposes the words of God and lead to perdition, then it won’t be long before you believe their words above the words of God and follow them and deviate from the Word and become lukewarm in the faith and the true gospel of Jesus Christ and the things of God’s Kingdom.
You shall no longer be grounded and settled in the Word, but you shall become unlearned and unstable and be tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, and you shall doubt and become fearful and shall not be able to resist temptations.
Only if you 更新你的想法 with the Word and stand on the Word, there shall be no room for unbelief, 怀疑, and fear and you shall endure and resist temptations and stay faithful to God.
How do you get faith? By spending time with God in prayer and read and study the Word of God and become a doer of the Word.
Faith is trust in God and believe His Word and obey and act upon His words. Therefore you have to get to know the Word, so that you will get to know God and be able to trust Him. Because how can you trust a person, if you don’t know the person? 确切地, 你不能
Faith is a seed and must grow. Faith will only grow and become strong if you take that little bit of faith and apply it in your life (另请阅读: '信仰就像一粒芥菜种’).
Faith doesn’t whine, 杂音, and complain. 所以, if you want to walk by faith, you should stop complaining and murmuring and stop allowing the circumstances, hardships, and problems to dictate your life and/or linger in the past, which is all part of the nature of the old creation.
Because the new creation, who walks by faith doesn’t murmur and complain, but fights the good fight of faith and takes the Sword; the Word of God and believe His words, obey His words and do His words and keep standing on His Word and in everything gives thanks to God and exalts God (另请阅读: ‘Thankfulness of the sons of God').
Fight the good fight of faith until the end
为信仰打那美好的仗, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession; That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: Which in His times He shall shew, Who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; Whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to Whom be honour and power everlasting. 阿门 (1 蒂莫西 6:12-16)
Let nothing and no one move you away from the faith and the hope of the gospel, but stay grounded and settled in the faith. 这不在于你如何开始, 但你如何完成. Therefore stay in Jesus Christ; stay faithful to Him, keep standing on the Word and fight the good fight of faith until the end, lay hold on eternal life, so that the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give you the crown of righteousness at that Day.
‘成为地球之盐’
