Isaiah 44:3
King James Version
3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty,
and floods upon the dry ground:
I will pour my spirit upon thy seed,
and my blessing upon thine offspring:
All who hunger, and thirst, need to go to GOD.
For He is the FOUNTAIN of LIVING WATERS.
We need to drink from the cup of the LORD.
We cannot, and must not drink, from the cup of devils.
1 Corinthians 10:21
King James Version
21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord,
and the cup of devils:
ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table,
and of the table of devils.
All who thirst for truth, need to believe in JESUS.
John 4:10
King James Version
10 Jesus answered and said unto her,
If thou knewest the gift of God,
and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink;
thou wouldest have asked of him,
and he would have given thee living water.
We all need to be born again -- "born of water and of the Spirit":
John 3:3-7
King James Version
3 Jesus answered and said unto him,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born again,
he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus saith unto him,
How can a man be born when he is old?
can he enter the second time
into his mother's womb, and be born?
5 Jesus answered,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit,
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh;
and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee,
Ye must be born again.
We need to be sanctified.
For the purpose of this post, we share the teachings of Joseph, who taught me GOD's WORD, early on in 2020, when I was still a baby Christian.
What does "sanctification" mean?
We ITEMIZE his Scripture-based teachings here:
(Not one word was changed; links are mine.)
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Once we become born again, all our sins, past, present, future, are forgiven!
In that sense, we are justified and positionally pure, sinless, in God’s sight because Jesus paid the price for all our sins by His death.
He died in our place so we may live!
On another hand, practically or experientially, we cannot completely free ourselves of sin for the rest of our lives.
It can be minimized but not completely eradicated.
In other words, one cannot attain perfect obedience everyday for the rest of our lives.
The best we can do with the help of the Holy Spirit is to live a life of sanctification, where we undergo spiritual growth or maturity day by day until we leave this earth.
The sanctification process is achieved by walking in step with Jesus, through God’s Word
The degree of one’s sanctification will depend upon one’s rate of obedience to God’s Word.
For the rest of our lives as born again Christians, the challenge to stay away from sin will always be there.
Of course, Jesus is the solution and verse 25 deals with one’s sanctification process.
Romans 7:25
King James Version
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God;
but with the flesh the law of sin.
Unbelievers have only one nature, the sinful nature, mainly because they don’t believe in Jesus, the gospel, and God’s Word.
Born again Christians have two natures, the sinful nature remains but we are now given a divine nature.
Because the sinful nature remains, we can still sin, but now that the divine nature is there, we have the ability to defeat sin.
This battle between these two natures remains!
As Christians we must do our best to put to death our sinful nature during our lifetime.
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SCRIPTURE guidance through Joseph
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