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Originally Posted by Aquila
Are you sinless Michael?
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Its funny. When I teach on this its so predictable. Instead of examing the word and our relationship to it I always get asked if I am sinless. However I will bite.
Im not aware of any sin in my life.
If one has sin in their life I believe they should be very afraid. Yeshua said:
19: As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Rev. 3:19
As long as the sin is unrepented of one would be in danger of the chastening of the Lord. Yes Christians have forgotten about that. Yet its just as valid today as it was in the first century.
Now some will say I preach a message of fear. Now youre catching on!
First off I will say our fellowship with Christ is the deepest and most passionate one we will ever know. His lovingkindness is better than life. If he is real to you at all you know this is true.
To abide in him is the purpose and answer of life to a disciple. Yeshua says if we love him we will keep his commands. The passion and feelings should be real to you. Yet if its not backed up by a life of consistent obedience it is mere emotionalism that does not last.
If a believer does commit sin they can confess and ask forgiveness and move on. Yet if sin lingers and you are truly a child of Elohim he will search you out to punish you to the end you may turn from it and back to him.
So one cannot teach the whole counsel of Elohim without teaching both the love and fear of him.
Nothing has hurt the Church more in past few decades than the doctrine of "unconditional love".
Thats what the devil wants us to believe. There is no conditions on the love of Yeshua. He however said the opposite:
21: He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
John 14:21
10: If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
John 15:10
The reason many have a "faith crisis" is because they have never consistently walked in the light as he is in the light. Therefore they have not known his personal love.
Or maybe once they did and now are not walking close like before and cant find him in that special intimacy.
Yeshua says he will
MANIFEST HIMSELF to those who keep his word. He said if we keep his commands we will abide in his love. So indeed there are conditions to his love.
Abide in him. Be perfect with his teachings. Be blessed.