He WILL Keep Us From Falling
May 14, 2009
Here’s more from Grace Walk by Steve McVey.
“A guaranteed way to be defeated by the flesh is to focus on the sins that we want to avoid. That’s like going on a diet and then reading the menu at Pizza Hut every day just so we’ll know the foods we want to avoid! We don’t experience victory over the flesh by being preoccupied with it. We are to be obsessed with Jesus, not sin. ‘For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.’”(Ro. 8:5-6)
“Satan can’t make a Christian sin. The Bible says that God is able ‘to keep you from stumbling’. (Jude 24) A Christian’s problem isn’t that we are spiritually weak; the omnipotent power of Almighty God is in us. Our problem is that we focus on the temptation to sin and not onĀ Christ. We confess greater confidence in Satan’s ability to cause us to fall than in the ability of the Holy Spirit to keep us from falling.”
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Alan Hiu | May 15, 2009 at 3:14 am
Amen!
Romans 8:29 – 31 ~ For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?