"HUMAN NATURE" SUICIDE
Is a "mandatory" requirement by God in order to live ETERNALLY with Him in the SPIRIT
"HUMAN NATURE" SUICIDE
FIRST took place at the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. Adam & Eve willfully chose to commit (spiritual suicide) for a taste of something that God had forbidden. One rebellious act (and ONE ALONE) cost them their perfect created human spirits ability to (obey) motivated by their love for God, and every person born into this world since that time, have a disobedient by nature a (self-love) for themselves above any love for God. This can bee seen even in the infant new born baby who when it needs attention will scream to the top of its lungs until it is satisfied with the attention given it.
Human beings are so polluted in mind and character that they cannot be anything other than a (fallen being) void of real love in all of its forms. DEATH CAME UPON ALL MANKIND!
There is a physical death that came to God's creation, and there is a spiritual death that came to God's creation. There is therefore a required "spiritual suicide" a mental binding by choice of the natural man in human nature by the one who comes to Jesus Christ that must also take place in order for (life) to be restored to humanity as God initially desired. To claim Christianity without a personal "natural spiritual death" by choice is to be self-deceived in Christianity. How can man be something he/she is inherently NOT by birth? They must "die" to self in their minds! There is no room in the Christian life if it's real for the individual self.
People like "Justin Bieber" and "Kaine West" who hang on to their celebrity status while claiming Christianity have NOT died to the self, if they have done so, their "old man" who they were before they claimed to follow Jesus would be for them (a thing of the past.) Their lives would have taken on a radical change had they truly surrendered to Jesus Christ. But, because both are still basking in their (celebrity status) is proof that their form of Christianity is a SHAM. This however, is NOT confined to these two men alone. Many today who claim to be Christians don't really know what Christianity is. They live the false Christianity while they claim the true. Satan exudes his perverted joy in these kinds of (carnal Christians) because he knows that just because of how they are seen by their fans, will sweep thousands into his false Christianity and they will not be prepared to meet Jesus when He returns.
Unless one's life takes on a radically different condition from what it was previously before they surrender to Jesus Christ, they haven't surrendered! There can be NO celebrity status with man, and be the humble servant of Jesus Christ at the same time. This deception is also found in all of today's modern Christian music performers as well. They exude self-pride when they perform. It's doesn't matter that they use the words (Jesus or Holy Spirit) in their lyrics, that is NOT being Christian, that is being presumptive in thinking that just because you form i.e. (write a song) with those words isn't proof that you're a saved individual, nor does it glorify God, if your performance is done before others to (feel) something, or to (gain fame) for yourself or the band in which you are a member.
Christianity today is so polluted with man's idea of what Christianity is, that they cannot see the real truth of what it means to follow Jesus Christ. Millions of Christians don't even understand the Cross of Christ or what took place there. All they see is Jesus Christ hanging there in their place and they accept His sacrifice in their place as their substitute, but they have no real love for what that sacrifice really detailed because they can't see anything but His suffering for them. There was MUCH more to the Cross of Christ than His physical suffering. His physical suffering was what we deserved, that is why He suffered it to be inflicted upon Himself. It played (NO part) in your redemption other than draining His life force from Him to die in your and my place as a substitute to satisfy the just demands of the broken law of God. Because your and my sin was placed upon Him Jesus must die, but His death was your and my deserved death BOTH the physical and the (eternal second death). Because He had no sin (death for Jesus) was not warranted either physically or spiritually. He did it for YOU and for ME.
It's the (soul that sins) it must die, but Jesus had (no sin). Eze 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. Jesus shouldn't have died on the Cross because He had NO SIN, but He did DIE there. WHY? He was the Savior of the entire WORLD from Adam to the last human being born on Earth just before He returns. How did He do it? How could a man who didn't deserve to die because He had no sin DIE? It was entirely by His choice friends! Jesus chose to die for the world even though He didn't have too. But in order to save the entire World, the (death of humanity) IN CHRIST must die in order for you and me to live IN HIM. It was His perfect life lived that is imputed to the believer in Jesus Christ that (saves) us NOT His physical "blood" which was no different than ours should we have been hanged on other crosses around Him that day.
When today's Christians say "the blood, the blood" it's the blood of Jesus Christ that has cleansed me from all of my sins. They are without understanding as to what they speak! They should be saying "it's the LIFE, the LIFE" of Jesus imputed unto me because I believe. His (perfect life) imputed unto me and that is what (saves) me because when the FATHER sees me today, He sees the perfect LIFE of Jesus Christ IN ME! That is what saved me! Is the BLOOD important then? YES! Why? Simply because it contained the LIFE of Jesus Christ. Lev 17:11(a) For the life of the flesh is in the blood. Life must be laid down for mankind in order for them to (have life), this was illustrated in the Garden of Eden when God Himself drew "first blood" to provide a covering for the fallen pair. Gen 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
This animal skin (covering) was symbolic of the (covering IMPUTED) LIFE of Jesus Christ to the one who accepts His LIFE and DEATH on the Cross for them. The "blood" bled out of those animals killed by God to provide a covering, had NO saving power. They could only provide a covering for the physical nakedness of Adam and Eve. However, when it comes to the willful sacrifice of the Life of Jesus Christ which provided the covering (spiritually) when it's imputed to the believer could only be effective to the believer through His death on the Cross NOT His bleeding out on the cross. It's His perfect life lived in your place, that He imputes to you as a believer that then makes your personal life of obedience acceptable to God because its His obedience NOT your own.
In order to have
this life of Jesus Christ, the human being must decide to and be willing to
commit "SPIRITUAL SUICIDE" in the
natural man. To be "born again" new in Jesus Christ as a new creation IN HIM. Eph 2:10 For we are his [God the
FATHER'S) workmanship, created (re-created spiritually) in Christ Jesus unto good works,
(the WORKS of JESUS CHRIST) which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. (those good
works). How do we walk in those (good works)? We walk in them IN and THROUGH
the imputed perfect LIFE of JESUS CHRIST as a new creation IN HIM. It's NOTHING
we DO or ever can DO, it's a COMPLETED WORK of redemption IN CHRIST ALONE.
2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
The WATCHMAN !!!