Protector from Sin

Excerpt- 'Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness for by it God was manifest in the flesh. God-like-ness - godliness - is God manifest in human flesh. This Christ revealed even in the slave-form of man. Those who partake of the "divine nature" again manifest God in their slave-forms. God dwells in them, and walks in them. '

Php 2:6  Christ was truly God. But he did not try to remain equal with God.
Php 2:7  Instead he gave up everything and became a slave, when he became like one of us.
Php 2:8  Christ was humble. He obeyed God and even died on a cross.
Php 2:9  Then God gave Christ the highest place and honored his name above all others.
Php 2:10  So at the name of Jesus everyone will bow down, those in heaven, on earth, and under the earth.
Php 2:11  And to the glory of God the Father everyone will openly agree, "Jesus Christ is Lord!"
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Joh_14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Joh_15:4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

My thoughts-  People don't like to believe that Christ divested Himself of His divinity, but He did. God with God.  Jesus was with God and by Jesus all things were created.

Col 1:13  Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Col 1:14  In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Col 1:15  Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Col 1:16  For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him

Christ God, with the Father God, equal in all ways until Christ became FLESH. To become FLESH He gave us His immortality, and became subject to death. Christ truly took on the form of a slave, a servant. We are slaves, we are servants, but were are NOT slaves and servants to a hated, brutal, vicious, abusive master! Our Master is LOVE in all its truth.

We are born slaves and servants, we are NOT born with any divinity in us at all. We must be BORN AGAIN and we receive the Holy Spirit, and Christ lives in US, and we in HIM.  This is a MIRACLE of which we can scarcely fathom. Such LOVE to make this possible! To choose to JOIN with us, the Creator taking on the form of the Creature just so He could SAVE US!

Excerpt- 'When each mystery has run its course in time, certain results will become manifest. Of those who have yielded to the energies of Satan, it is prophesied:  Through yielding to satanic influences, men will be transformed into fiends; and those who were created in the image of God, who were formed to honor and glorify their Creator, will become the habitation of dragons, and Satan will see in an apostate race his masterpiece of evil, - men who reflect his own image.

Of those who have yielded to the life-giving energies which Christ brought with Him into humanity, and which through the Holy Spirit are ministered to each believer, it is written:   We must learn of Christ. We must know what He is to those He has ransomed. We must realize that through belief in Him it is our privilege to be partakers of the divine nature, and so escape the corruption that is in the world through lust. Then we are cleansed from all sin, all defects of character. We need not retain one sinful propensity.

As we partake of the divine nature, hereditary and cultivated tendencies to wrong are cut away from the character, and we are made a living power for good. Ever learning of the divine Teacher, daily partaking of His nature, we cooperate with God in overcoming Satan's temptations. God works, and man works, that man may be one with Christ as Christ is one with God. Then we sit together with Christ in heavenly places. The mind rests with peace and assurance in Jesus. '

Excerpt- 'The true Christian obtains an experience which brings holiness. He is without a spot of guilt upon the conscience, or a taint of corruption upon the soul. The spirituality of the law of God, with its limiting principles, is brought into his life. The light of truth irradiates his understanding. A glow of perfect love for the Redeemer clears away the miasma which has interposed between his soul and God. The will of God has become his will, pure, elevated, refined, and sanctified. His countenance reveals the light of heaven. His body is a fit temple for the Holy Spirit. Holiness adorns his character. God can commune with him; for soul and body are in harmony with God.'

My thoughts - 

Being truly God's will mean accepting a real, viable hatred of all things sinful. That hatred of sin, the Grace of our SAVIOR and His hatred for sin, will reveal our evil propensities, ALL OF THEM, but only if we allow. We are NEVER forced to give up a single sin. If we believe the giving up of any sin in our life is wrong, then we are NOT God's.  How do we know what is sinful and what is not? Sin is the transgression of God's law. Sin is NOT loving God, and NOT loving others as CHRIST would have us love.  If any action we commit goes against God's love, or the love we should possess for others, then it is sin. We can't know what sin is except we look to God's law. We know that it is ONLY through CHRIST that any sin we overcome is most assuredly overcome BY HIM IN US and NOT US ON OUR OWN. We need to have CHRIST closer to us in ALL things, not just a select few, but ALL THINGS, it is the only way we are protected by HIM, by being in Him and He in us.  If you have a body guard, the body guard is no good if he/she is not present with you in all situations. If you are abducted from your bathroom, it's only because you didn't have your guard in their with you and the abductor took a route to you that your guard was not covering. We want sin protection and the ONLY way we can have sin protection is to live IN CHRIST, and CHRIST IN US-- ALWAYS! He is the all in all, all Glory belongs to HIM, none to us.

May we take the time to realize that it is CHRIST alive in us through the HOLY SPIRIT that enables us to live for HIM. When we fall and fail, when we give into some temptation it is because we go around our  Protector from Sin to get to it, we need to seek forgiveness! We need to repent! We need to resist, we need to sacrifice, we need to pick up our crosses. We need to comprehend that we have a wicked enemy that will stop at nothing to entice us to leave our Protector from Sin and he's extremely skilled knowing our EVERY weakness. May we CLING tightly to our GOD, our SAVIOR, knowing it's only as we are connected to HIM, that we can live at all!

He is our HOPE!
He is our SALVATION!
He is our LOVE!
He is our LIFE!