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To: gregor who wrote (9359)	11/6/1997 8:42:00 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 39621

Greetings Gregor my fellow servant and soujourner in Christ. Your questions reveal a deep desire in your heart to overcome this world and to become a full citizen in the kingdom of God. I prayed to God that he would give me and answer to your question. In the middle of the night God awakened me with the clear answer to your question. He gave me three Scriptures in the answer and showed me how they fit together as a solution to your question. The Scriptures were: 1John 1:8-10, Rom. 12:1-2, Rom.7:14-25. Now I will try to put into words what God spoke in my heart. Your question is: how do we overcome the flesh as we wait for the fullness of our inheritance--our glorified and resurrected bodies. When we accept Christ, God recreates our human spirit and fills us with the Holy Spirit as an aid to overcome the lusts of this house of clay. He writes his laws on our hearts and puts them in our minds but the old laws of the flesh continue to live side by side with this new law of our recreated spirits. In Rom.7:25, Paul says "So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin." and earlier Paul had said "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?". The Scriptures here reveal the very heart of your struggle. We have this treasure of our new birth in earthen vessels. How do we overcome these earthen vessels with the Spirit and the Word of God. First, you must establish in your heart that the righteousness that you have gained is a righteousness of faith and not of yur own works. In other words, Gregor cannot overcome the lusts of the flesh. You cannot gain goodness by obediance to the law but only through faith in Jesus Christ. It is His righteouness that makes you righteous. Rom. 3:21-24. "But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." So it is important to firmly establish in your mind that you cannot get your righteousness by following laws or by doing this or that. You can only receive your righteouness through faith in Christ. The problem then is: how do you walk in this righteouness and do the desires of the flesh? This is where the growth of your Christian life comes into play. Remember that the kingdom of God grows as a grain of mustard seed--it is a process. Paul said 'I am saved, I am being saved and I will be saved'. How do we practically walk in this righteouness that Christ has bought for us without doing the lust of the flesh--in other words, how do we overcome sin? Memorize and establish these Scriptures in your heart. Rom. 6:3-4-- "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also shnould walk in newness of life." Rom. 6:14 "For sin shall not have diminion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace." To fully understand and apply this Scripture you need to understand and apply another Scripture: 1john 1:8-10. "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us." Consequently, you have the righteouness of God in you through the sacirfice of Jesus. As you walk in that righteousness satan and your flesh occasionally deceive you and cause you to sin. You immediately acknowledge and confess your sin and "is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us frojm all unrighteousness." Do you get this critical point Our righteouness is from Jesus. As we walk in that righteouness, we sometimes are deceived into sin, but as soon as we confess our sins the Lord instantly cleanses us and we continue in His righteouness. Jesus sits as your advocate at the right hand of God is continuously interceding for you. So your salvation is instant since your spirit is instantly recreated when you confess Jesus as Lord, but your salvation is also a process of renewing your mind until it comes into full conformity with the desires of your recreated spirit and the Holy Spirit who live within you. Rom. 12: "I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto god, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye tranformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." So brother, the answer to your question is: you are a son of God now even as you live in this house of clay. You are to enjoy the fruits of the kingdom of God now. Your righteouness is of Jesus and not of yourself. When satan and your flesh deceive you, immediately repent and restore your righteouness according to 1john8-10. You are to walk in and enjoy the righteouness Jesus purchased for you 24 hrs a day. We shall receive the fullness of our inheritance at the resurrection. The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteouness, peace and joy. Finally, memorize the 13th chapter of 1st Corinthians and live in its revelation. May Christ abundantly bless you and give you the fullness of His blessing according to the desires of your heart. Emile, a servant of Christ and called to proclaim the Gospel once and forever deliverd onto the Apostles.