When we claim to walk in truth then we will walk our
talk!!!! So have you died to self yet??? To be all we are called to be in this walk
requires that we let go of the old so we can be made new!!!!! In this we can
commune in peace because we can dwell with the Most High and move in His will
alone!!!!! Scripture gives a compass for help in " Ephesians 4:22-24 King
James Bible........That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old
man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the
spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after the Most High
is created in righteousness and true holiness". The rest is up to you and
it requires dying to ourselves in full repentance to be made new!!!!!
Scripture for Meditation
"I have been
crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me;
and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of Most
High, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
That, in reference to
your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted
in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit
of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of Most High has
been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
More than that, I
count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ
my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but
rubbish so that I may gain Christ,
Therefore consider
the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil
desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.
And He was saying to
them all, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and
take up his cross daily and follow Me.
"Truly, truly, I
say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains
alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
And He was saying to
them all, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and
take up his cross daily and follow Me. "For whoever wishes to save his
life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who
will save it.
Even so consider
yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to Most High in Christ.
Therefore I urge you,
brethren, by the mercies of Most High, to present your bodies a living and holy
sacrifice, acceptable to Most High, which is your spiritual service of worship.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of
your mind, so that you may prove what the will of Most High is, that which is
good and acceptable and perfect.
Therefore, since
Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose,
because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live the
rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will
of Most High.
Now those who belong
to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
So then, brethren, we
are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh-- for if
you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you
are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive
to Most High in Christ. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so
that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body
to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to Most High
as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness
to Most High.
"He must
increase, but I must decrease.
Instructing us to
deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and Most
Highly in the present age,
So as to live the
rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will
of Most High.
"So then, none
of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.
"And he who does
not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.
That, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside
the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,
But may it never be
that I would boast, except in the cross(burden) of Christ, through which the
world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Now if we have died
with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
Knowing this, that
our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be
done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has
died is freed from sin.
That, in reference to your former
manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in
accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of
your mind,
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