You can learn how to be a winner.
How can you win the fight against sin?
When I was a young driver, I slid my first car off the road and flipped it on its roof. Not long after that I slid a second car off the road and flipped it on its roof. That was when the state of Arkansas decided that I needed to go to defensive driving class. Since taking defensive driving class I have become a much safer driver. In fact, I have not caused an accident in more than twenty years. I learned how to be a winner.
At the beginning of the first day of defensive driving class, the instructor asked everyone in the class that could drive ten feet without breaking a law or causing an accident to raise their hand. Everyone in the class raised their hand. The instructor then told us all that we really needed to do to learn to drive safely was to drive ten feet at a time for the rest of our lives. The instructor pointed out that every trip, no matter how long, was really just one ten foot drive after another.
The instructor was making a point that everyone of us could learn how to be a winner in the driving game by constantly being on guard for the behaviors and hazards that caused accidents. The rest of the two week class was just learning two things. First, how to identify as early as possible the behaviors in ourselves and others along with the external hazards that could lead to an accident. Second, how to adjust our driving as soon as we identified the danger so that we could avoid the accident.
In the same way, everyone that decides to pay the cost of total surrender to the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) so that they can become a Child of Truth (someone who obeys The Father of Truth because they love Him), can learn how to be a winner in the obedience game from the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ). Once you learn how to go ten minutes in obedience to the Father of Truth then all you have to do is go ten minutes at a time in obedience for the rest of your life. Your life, no matter how much longer it lasts, is really just a one ten minute interval after another.
The only way for you to be a winner in the obedience game is to be constantly on guard for the behaviors and hazards that lead to disobedience (Galatians 6:1). You really only need to learn two things. First, how to identify the weaknesses in yourself and others along with the hazards placed by the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) that could lead to disobedience. Secondly, how to make adjustments as soon as you identify the danger so that you can avoid disobedience.
However, unlike driving a car, you cannot rely only on your own skill at applying what you have learned in your own strength because your own strength is not enough to win (John 15:5). You need to live in the House of Truth by learning how to live according to the Book of Truth (The Bible) in order to win (John 15:7).
You are never alone in the House of Truth. The Man of Truth is your instructor in the House of Truth (John 8:31-32). The Father of Truth delights to have you in the House of Truth (3 John 1:4). The Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) will show you how to live in the House of Truth (John 16:13).
In the House of Truth, you will learn how to identify every hazard that the Father of Lies has placed in the way to keep you from obedience (2 Corinthians 2:11). In the House of Truth, you will learn how to find the way of escape from disobedience that the Father of Truth has supplied in every situation (1 Corinthians 10:13). In the House of Truth, the Father of Truth will give you everything that you need to live in obedience (2 Peter 1:3). In the House of Truth, the Spirit of Truth will you lead you around every obstacle so that you can live in obedience to the Father of Truth (Galatians 5:16).
You do not have to be strong enough on your own to win because the Man of Truth is strong enough to cause to you win. The Man of Truth has already encountered every obstacle to obedience and won (Hebrews 4:15). The Man of Truth will live in you if you will live in him (John 15:4). You can win the obedience game if you allow the Man of Truth to live in you (Colossians 1:27).
The Man of Truth can cause you to win but only if you are willing to do your part. The Father of Truth has sent the Man of Truth to save you from disobedience - not just the penalty of disobedience (Matthew 1:21). The Father of Truth sent the Man of Truth to be with you in the fight - not to fight the fight for you (Matthew 1:23). Your body does not want to live in obedience to his Father (Romans 7:23). You win the fight by making your body live in obedience to the Father of Truth (1 Corinthians 9:26-27). You win the fight by bringing your mind into alignment with the Book of Truth (2 Corinthians 10:4-6). You win the fight by getting rid of everything that would hinder you from winning and keeping your eyes on the Man of Truth (Hebrews 12:1-2). You win the fight by trusting the Father of Truth (1 Timothy 6:12). You win the fight ten minutes at a time until the fight is finished (2 Timothy 4:7). If you will obey the Father of Truth to the best of your ability in everything that you know to do then the Father of Truth will give you both the desire and the ability to obey Him even more so that you can win the fight (Philippians 2:12-13).
Perhaps you do not know how to come into the House of Truth. You can only come in by being born again into the family of the Father of Truth thru the labor of the Spirit of Truth (John 3:6-8). When you are born again the Father of Truth will be remove you from the family of the Father of Lies and place you in the House of Truth to live with the Man of Truth (Colossians 1:12-13).
How can you be born again?
You must agree with the Father of Truth by saying out loud that you have been disobedient to the Father of Truth (1 John 1:8-18). You must say out loud that you are putting the Man of Truth is in charge of every aspect of your life because you believe that he was raised from the dead (Romans 10:8-10). You must be willing to obey the Man of Truth in deeds not just words (Matthew 7:21).
Come into the House of Truth.
When I was a young driver, I slid my first car off the road and flipped it on its roof. Not long after that I slid a second car off the road and flipped it on its roof. That was when the state of Arkansas decided that I needed to go to defensive driving class. Since taking defensive driving class I have become a much safer driver. In fact, I have not caused an accident in more than twenty years. I learned how to be a winner.
At the beginning of the first day of defensive driving class, the instructor asked everyone in the class that could drive ten feet without breaking a law or causing an accident to raise their hand. Everyone in the class raised their hand. The instructor then told us all that we really needed to do to learn to drive safely was to drive ten feet at a time for the rest of our lives. The instructor pointed out that every trip, no matter how long, was really just one ten foot drive after another.
The instructor was making a point that everyone of us could learn how to be a winner in the driving game by constantly being on guard for the behaviors and hazards that caused accidents. The rest of the two week class was just learning two things. First, how to identify as early as possible the behaviors in ourselves and others along with the external hazards that could lead to an accident. Second, how to adjust our driving as soon as we identified the danger so that we could avoid the accident.
In the same way, everyone that decides to pay the cost of total surrender to the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) so that they can become a Child of Truth (someone who obeys The Father of Truth because they love Him), can learn how to be a winner in the obedience game from the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ). Once you learn how to go ten minutes in obedience to the Father of Truth then all you have to do is go ten minutes at a time in obedience for the rest of your life. Your life, no matter how much longer it lasts, is really just a one ten minute interval after another.
The only way for you to be a winner in the obedience game is to be constantly on guard for the behaviors and hazards that lead to disobedience (Galatians 6:1). You really only need to learn two things. First, how to identify the weaknesses in yourself and others along with the hazards placed by the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) that could lead to disobedience. Secondly, how to make adjustments as soon as you identify the danger so that you can avoid disobedience.
However, unlike driving a car, you cannot rely only on your own skill at applying what you have learned in your own strength because your own strength is not enough to win (John 15:5). You need to live in the House of Truth by learning how to live according to the Book of Truth (The Bible) in order to win (John 15:7).
You are never alone in the House of Truth. The Man of Truth is your instructor in the House of Truth (John 8:31-32). The Father of Truth delights to have you in the House of Truth (3 John 1:4). The Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) will show you how to live in the House of Truth (John 16:13).
In the House of Truth, you will learn how to identify every hazard that the Father of Lies has placed in the way to keep you from obedience (2 Corinthians 2:11). In the House of Truth, you will learn how to find the way of escape from disobedience that the Father of Truth has supplied in every situation (1 Corinthians 10:13). In the House of Truth, the Father of Truth will give you everything that you need to live in obedience (2 Peter 1:3). In the House of Truth, the Spirit of Truth will you lead you around every obstacle so that you can live in obedience to the Father of Truth (Galatians 5:16).
You do not have to be strong enough on your own to win because the Man of Truth is strong enough to cause to you win. The Man of Truth has already encountered every obstacle to obedience and won (Hebrews 4:15). The Man of Truth will live in you if you will live in him (John 15:4). You can win the obedience game if you allow the Man of Truth to live in you (Colossians 1:27).
The Man of Truth can cause you to win but only if you are willing to do your part. The Father of Truth has sent the Man of Truth to save you from disobedience - not just the penalty of disobedience (Matthew 1:21). The Father of Truth sent the Man of Truth to be with you in the fight - not to fight the fight for you (Matthew 1:23). Your body does not want to live in obedience to his Father (Romans 7:23). You win the fight by making your body live in obedience to the Father of Truth (1 Corinthians 9:26-27). You win the fight by bringing your mind into alignment with the Book of Truth (2 Corinthians 10:4-6). You win the fight by getting rid of everything that would hinder you from winning and keeping your eyes on the Man of Truth (Hebrews 12:1-2). You win the fight by trusting the Father of Truth (1 Timothy 6:12). You win the fight ten minutes at a time until the fight is finished (2 Timothy 4:7). If you will obey the Father of Truth to the best of your ability in everything that you know to do then the Father of Truth will give you both the desire and the ability to obey Him even more so that you can win the fight (Philippians 2:12-13).
Perhaps you do not know how to come into the House of Truth. You can only come in by being born again into the family of the Father of Truth thru the labor of the Spirit of Truth (John 3:6-8). When you are born again the Father of Truth will be remove you from the family of the Father of Lies and place you in the House of Truth to live with the Man of Truth (Colossians 1:12-13).
How can you be born again?
You must agree with the Father of Truth by saying out loud that you have been disobedient to the Father of Truth (1 John 1:8-18). You must say out loud that you are putting the Man of Truth is in charge of every aspect of your life because you believe that he was raised from the dead (Romans 10:8-10). You must be willing to obey the Man of Truth in deeds not just words (Matthew 7:21).
Come into the House of Truth.
Labels: Commitment, Grace, Ozarks
posted by The House Of Truth @ September 08, 2012
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