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wintan @wintan · 10 days ago

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Sanctification by Faith: The Washing of Water and the Cleansing of the Way

"To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me." (Acts 26:18)

In the Old Testament, the pursuit of holiness was marked by physical boundaries, temporary cleansings, the cutting of bulls, and the endless shedding of animal blood. As Hebrews 10:4 declares, "For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins." It was a ritualistic system that stood outside of man, addressing the outward surface while leaving the inward nature untouched. But under the New Covenant, the administration of sanctification underwent a fundamental shift. Sanctification is no longer a matter of physical altars and animal sacrifices; it is hinged strictly upon faith, a faith that is birthed, sustained, and matured through direct exposure to the message and teachings of the Gospel.

When Jesus commissioned Paul in Acts 26:18, He revealed the precise sequence of salvation: the opening of eyes, the turning from darkness to light, the deliverance from Satan's power, the forgiveness of sins, and ultimately, an inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith in Him. Sanctification is not a mystical, instant event that takes place overnight, nor is it a passive state. It is an intentional, ongoing process of spiritual cleansing whereby our ways, habits, and outward walks are brought into complete alignment with the light of God.

The New Testament Priesthood: Shepherds and Faith Words

Under the Old Covenant, priests mediated God’s presence through physical offerings and ceremonial washings. In the New Testament, Jesus raised a new order of spiritual leadership, shepherds, pastors, and teachers who serve as stewards of God's mysteries. As Jeremiah 3:15 promised, "And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding."

These shepherds do not offer physical beasts on stone altars. Instead, their priestly duty is to dispense the words of faith. Paul describes this ministry in Ephesians 4:11–12, explaining that these gifts are given "For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ." They are placed in the Body of Christ to serve the faith rituals of the New Testament: the constant preaching, teaching, and unpacking of the doctrine of Christ.

As pastors declare the uncompromised Word of God, they show us the way of righteousness. When we hear these faith words, receive them into our understanding, and act upon them in our daily walk, our ways are systematically sanctified. The priest under the New Covenant feeds the flock with knowledge and understanding, giving us the spiritual materials required to purge our lives of ungodly patterns.

Degrees of Cleansing: The Water and The Blood

To understand New Testament sanctification, we must recognize that there are distinct degrees and depths to this cleansing process.

The Washing of Water by the Word: This is the practical, daily sanctification of our walk and conduct. Ephesians 5:25–26 tells us that Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it, "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word." It is the initial and ongoing cleansing that deals with the outward manifestations of Gentilic ways, the habits, speech, desires, and behaviors of our former life in darkness.
The Deeper Purging by the Blood: Beyond the washing of water lies a deeper, interior work, a purging that penetrates the deep roots of the soul, dealing with inward corruption, motives, and the Adamic nature through a high administration of Christ’s blood and Spirit. As Hebrews 9:14 asserts, "How much more shall the blood of Christ... purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"

While the deeper purging of the soul is a vital dimension of spiritual growth, the focus of our walk in the foundational stages of faith is the washing of water through the Word. The milk of the Word, as 1 Peter 2:2 calls it, and foundational faith teachings are designed specifically to handle and clean away our outward, worldly habits.

Light, Conviction, and the Turning Away

How does this water actually wash us? It operates through the revelation of light. As Psalm 119:130 declares, "The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple."

When a believer is consistently exposed to the teaching of faith, the Word of God brings light into the dark, unrenewed areas of the mind. David wrote in Psalm 119:9, "Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word."

Faith does not force a man against his will. Rather, when light shines through the preaching of the Word, we see the filthiness of our former manners for what it truly is. As 2 Corinthians 7:1 exhorts, "Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." We see that our anger, dishonesty, lust, covetousness, and Gentilic pursuits are inconsistent with our new life in Christ. Upon seeing this contrast through the lens of divine truth, we willingly choose to turn away from those filthy ways. The Word shows us the dirty garment, and faith gives us the capacity to strip it off.

The Catalyst: Mixing the Word with Faith and Prayer

Hearing the Word alone is not enough to sanctify a man. As Hebrews 4:2 warns, the word preached does not profit if it is not "mixed with faith in them that heard it."

Sanctification happens at the intersection of hearing and believing. When the truth of God's Word enters your heart, faith must rise up to embrace it, declaring that this is God's standard for my life, and I yield my conduct to it. James 1:22 reinforces this truth: "But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves."

However, there is an indispensable catalyst that sets this whole process into dynamic motion: Prayer.

Prayer is the spiritual engine that activates the motion of faith regarding what we have heard. When you hear the Word of righteousness taught by your shepherd, you do not leave it in the realm of theory. You take those faith words into the place of prayer. In Jude 1:20, we are urged, "But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost."

In prayer, the Holy Spirit takes the water of the Word and applies it directly to your heart. Prayer cooks the Word into your spirit, breaking the inertia of carnal habits, weakening the pull of the flesh, and supplying the spiritual power needed to walk out what you have learned. Prayer turns static doctrine into active, sanctifying power.

Walking in Your Inheritance

You cannot inherit the fullness of what God has provided for you while walking in the filthy, unwashed manners of the world. As 2 Corinthians 6:17 commands, "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you."

Sanctification is the process that prepares you to possess your spiritual inheritance. As Colossians 1:12 affirms, we give thanks unto the Father, "which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light." As you stay under the ministry of New Testament shepherds, continually expose your heart to the sound teaching of faith, mix that Word with genuine belief, and catalyze it through fervent prayer, the water of the Word will wash away every Gentilic pattern.

Day by day, your eyes will be opened wider, your walk will grow brighter, and as Proverbs 4:18 promises, "the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." You will stand fully established among those who are sanctified by faith in Him.

Sanctification by Faith: The Washing of Water and the Cleansing of the Way

Oluwaseyifunmilayo @Oluwaseyifunmilayo · 3 months ago

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The Physical Reality of the Cross

I replied Uncle Jay's post on "what really happened on the Cross?" and I felt I should breathe it on here as well.

It's very interesting that some of us think that Jesus was just simply hanged and then, after a while, died. Nah, that was not the case.
I was speaking with one of my students the other day, and he was giving me a graphic description of how horrifying staying on the Cross was for Jesus. We all know about the lashes, the nailing, and the spitting on, but staying on the Cross was a whole different torture for Jesus.

The Struggle for Breath:
Since His leg wasn't standing on anything, and His arms were wide apart, His chest couldn’t find ease for the breathing process. He could easily inhale, but exhaling was difficult because He was literally hanging on His shoulders. It's like doing a dead hang, but worse (many of us can't even do that for more than 60 seconds; Jesus stayed there for hours).

The Physical Cost:
Because there was weight on His diaphragm and air couldn't come out easily, He had to drag His body up constantly, pulling on the nails in His legs and His wrists. This must have caused excruciating pain because the nails were close to His nerves. He went on with that until His muscles started giving way and cramping.

The Choice to Stay:
He had to go through all of that just to stay on the Cross when He actually had what it takes to get out and be freed from the pain, but He didn't.
He stayed because He saw a greater glory ahead of Him and knew that leaving at that point would lead to an abortion of the crowning of all the works He had been doing before that point. That last suffering was necessary for all the sufferings He had been going through to count and matter.

Our Own Seasons on the Cross:
I believe the Cross was symbolic to typify how those of us who follow the Lord will have to stay on our cross at certain seasons of our lives.
We have heard "carry your cross" and "bear your cross"—that's one thing I know we'll have to do all our lives; we'll carry our cross until we die. But staying on our cross in the pain and the hurt, and allowing the timing of the Cross to fulfill its course without deciding to leave in the midst of it, will bring us breakthroughs.

> Just as Jesus had the power to leave that Cross, sometimes we have what it takes to not stay on our cross and God will not be angry! But staying will bring us breakthroughs in the spirit that a thousand days of fasting and prayer wouldn't bring us.>

My Daily Prayer:
So, my prayer every day is that the Lord will teach me wisdom on how to:

- Stay on the Cross and bear the pain.
- Learn the right heart posture to have while enduring the pain.
- Bless in pain and not curse in pain, just like Jesus, who could still bless in that state and commit His life to God when His breath was giving way.
- I want to trust God enough to stay on the Cross even when it seems like my physical body is giving way.

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abiodun_akintelure @abiodun_akintelure · 12 days ago

PILL AND WATER

I just had one of those "wait, what just happened?" moments while feeding (hearing). I was listening to a sermon, and at the same time I started praying in the Holy Ghost.
Bruh. I literally felt like taking a pill, and then washing it down with water. The Word came in... and the prayer carried it straight down into my spirit.
Something just registered inside of me. Like my spirit got the download and said, "Bruh, I digged that. Locked in."Praying in the Spirit while the Word is preached? That’s cheat-code level. You eat the bread, and the Spirit seals it.

I observed that with my father also; Popsy go just munch am as the word is going on.

Let's give in to Word and Prayer. Ire ooo

wintan @wintan · 11 days ago

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The System of Faith: How Heaven’s Intelligence Transforms Every Sphere of Life

I was sharing with my family recently about how deeply and fundamentally we have misunderstood the true nature of faith. For so long, many of us have treated faith as if it were a mystical alternative to reasoning, a dark curtain we pull over our minds whenever human logic fails us. We often hear people say they are "walking by faith" simply because they have no explanation for what they are doing, why they are doing it, or where they are going. But most of the time, that kind of "faith" is entirely empty. It is a hollow, emotional leap into the dark, detached from divine truth and lacking any real spiritual weight.

Faith is a Divine Mindset, Not a Blind Leap

True faith is never a blind substitute for thinking. When you look at scripture, Hebrews 11:1 establishes that faith is a substance and an evidence. It is tangible, structured, and heavy.

At its core, faith is:

A complete system of thoughts
A living message
A divine intelligence
The direct delivery of God’s mindset into the human heart

It is a body of heavenly thought that informs a man how to walk in the Spirit, giving him spiritual optics to process reality as God sees it. It is not an absence of thought; it is the arrival of the highest form of thought.

From Formulas to Fruitful Reasoning

I remember when I was in school and I just came across some faith materials for the first time. Back then, I took faith to be little more than a forceful verbal confession of a stance, a tool to aggressively impose a spiritual result over a difficult situation even though I did not understand what was actually happening behind the scenes. I thought as long as I kept repeating specific phrases with enough intensity and conviction, I was operating in faith. I treated it like a spiritual formula to force my will into reality, completely bypassing the need to understand God's heart or align my mind with His counsel.

Starting to grow, however, I began to see that the Lord does not want us to turn off our minds or blindly chant formulas. He does not want unthinking, robotic followers who hide behind religious slogans. He wants us fully involved. As our minds are being renewed by His Word, our thinking actually starts becoming fruitful. We reach a place where our intellect is not bypassed but redeemed and elevated, allowing us to truly reason with God and engage His deepest thoughts.

God explicitly invites us into this exact dynamic in Isaiah 1:18 when He says:

"Come now, and let us reason together..."

Faith does not destroy human reason; it sanctifies it, raising our thoughts from the low, earth-bound logic of fallen man to the exalted intelligence of the Spirit.

The Scope of Faith: Infused Into Every Duty

Because faith is a complete body of thought, it means faith has a specific perspective, a distinct wisdom, and an authoritative stance over every single matter under heaven. We have subtly and mistakenly confined faith to "seemingly spiritual" moments, such as early morning prayers, Bible study, fasting, or church services. We act as if faith is an engine we turn on when we step into a church building and turn off when we step out into the secular world. But faith was never meant to be trapped inside religious routines or Sunday rituals.

If Habakkuk 2:4, Romans 1:17, and Galatians 3:11 all declare that "the just shall live by faith," then faith must be infused into our very breath. The word "live" covers the entirety of human existence, not just our spiritual exercises. Faith is able to handle every single work and sphere of life:

In the Home: Faith has a thought for how you wash the dishes and a divine culture for how you manage your household.
In the Worksite: Faith has an intelligence for how you mow the lawn and an integrity for how you negotiate corporate contracts.
In Academics: Faith has a doctrine for how you study for and write your examinations in school.
In Relationships & Warfare: Faith has a wisdom for how you lead your family and how you stand firm in spiritual battles. There is no aspect of human life that is exempt from the jurisdiction of faith.

Salvation in the Everyday: Every Engagement as a Divine Classroom

What we must urgently realize is that when we come into the divine program of salvation, everything about us becomes an arena for our growth, and every single earthly engagement becomes a tool designed to save our soul. God does not divide your life into secular and sacred compartments.

When you enter the program of salvation, your corporate job, your academic examinations, your business dealings, your household chores, and your family interactions are no longer just mundane earthly activities; they are divine classrooms.

There is a specific God-ordained expectation over that job. There is a spiritual standard for how you prepare for and write that exam. God uses those everyday responsibilities as instruments to strip away carnal pride, impatience, dishonesty, slothfulness, and self-reliance, weaving the character, endurance, and righteousness of Christ into your soul.

The Final Assessment: The Summation of Faithfulness

This is profoundly sobering because at the end of our journey, we will be assessed by the summation of our faithfulness in everything we were engaged in, not merely by the moments we spent doing "seemingly spiritual" things. God will not only judge how loud you prayed in the sanctuary or how articulately you quoted scripture. He will evaluate how you represented His mind in the office, how you handled money, how you treated your spouse, how you studied for your exams, and how you maintained the attitude of your heart while doing chores.

When we relegate faith only to prayer and fasting while handling our daily duties through human frustration, mere routine, carnal strategy, or fallen human logic, we step outside the pleasing will of God. Hebrews 11:6 warns us plainly:

"But without faith it is impossible to please him..."

This means that if our ordinary, everyday duties are not animated and directed by the divine thought system of faith, it becomes impossible to please God in those very tasks, no matter how much effort we put into them.

Living the Mind of Christ

When you stand in your kitchen, cook a meal, drive through traffic, manage your home, or sit at your office desk, you are meant to be executing the mind of Christ and allowing that moment to work out your soul's salvation. If you perform those tasks under the weight of anxiety, complaint, or self-sufficiency, you are living by the fallen mind of Adam. But when you infuse faith into your breath, every seemingly carnal duty is transformed into a sacred avenue of salvation and spiritual refinement.

Living by the faith of the Son of God means bringing Heaven's economy and intelligence into every square inch of your daily reality. It means looking at your marriage, your career, your exams, your finances, your struggles, and your quietest moments, and asking:

What is God's thought over this matter?
What is the divine reasoning here?
How is God using this to save my soul?

When you align your mind with His message, your daily walk ceases to be a chaotic struggle of guesswork. Every routine action becomes an act of worship, illuminated by a renewed mind, anchored in the living substance of God's Word, and accumulating a glorious summation of faithfulness that will stand before the Son of God on that day.

The System of Faith: How Heaven’s Intelligence Transforms Every Sphere of Life

wintan @wintan · 3 months ago

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TECH AND MY FAITH: SURVIVING IN BABYLON

Episode 3: The Diet of Babylon

The first victory of Babylon over a man is not in what he does.

It is in what he consumes.

Before identity is altered, appetite is trained. Before compromise becomes visible, it has already been digested in secret. This is why the dealings of God with men often begin, not with their actions, but with their intake.

The Strategy of the King’s Table

In the opening movements of the captivity, something very deliberate was arranged.

“They were appointed a daily provision of the king’s meat, and of the wine which he drank…”

This was not generosity. It was strategy.

Babylon understood something many believers ignore: if you control a man’s diet, you can shape his nature.

Food in this context was not merely physical. It was cultural, intellectual, spiritual. It was an impartation system.

The king’s table was a curriculum.

Diet as Formation

Scripture consistently ties consumption to transformation.

“As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

“Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.”

“Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”

These are not disconnected instructions. They reveal a law.

Man becomes what he consistently receives.

This is why the battle for your inputs is more serious than the battle for your outputs.

Outputs are fruits. Inputs are roots.

Daniel’s Refusal: A Spiritual Intelligence

“Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself…”

This is one of the most powerful quiet decisions in scripture.

He refused before he was pressured.

He discerned before he was taught.

He separated before he was shaped.

This was not legalism. It was sight.

He understood that there was something in that table beyond food. Something that carried the essence of Babylon. Something that, if received continually, would weaken the inward formation of God.

This is the kind of discernment that men like Watchman Nee labored to bring the church into, the ability to recognize spiritual content within natural things.

The Modern Table: Digital Consumption

Babylon today does not primarily feed you with food.

It feeds you with content.

Endless streams of:
images
ideas
opinions
cultures
desires

This is the new king’s table.

And it is more aggressive than ever.

Because it is:
portable
personal
continuous

You carry Babylon in your pocket.

Algorithms as Priests of Formation

What makes this generation unique is not just access, but automation.

Systems now study you, learn you, and serve you accordingly.

This is not neutral.

The more you consume, the more you are shaped. The more you are shaped, the more your desires are refined. The more your desires are refined, the more Babylon knows how to feed you.

This is a cycle of formation.

What used to be a table is now an intelligent system.

The Subtlety of Defilement

Defilement is rarely sudden.

It is gradual.

A weakening of conviction
A dulling of sensitivity
A normalization of what once troubled you

Until eventually, what once resisted Babylon now agrees with it.

This is why the instruction is not merely to avoid evil, but to guard the heart.

Because by the time evil is visible outwardly, it has already been welcomed inwardly.

The Alternative Diet

Daniel did not just reject. He replaced.

“Let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.”

This is deeply symbolic.

God does not call men to emptiness. He calls them to a different source.

“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”

There is a diet that sustains divine life.

The Word
Prayer
Fellowship with the Spirit
Truth meditated upon

These are not religious activities. They are sustenance.

Without them, a man will inevitably feed elsewhere.

Apostolic Insight: Formation is Organic

Paul labored with this burden:

“My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you…”

Formation is organic. It is slow. It is consistent. It is the result of what is continually received.

This is why you cannot claim to desire Christ and yet feed consistently on what contradicts Him.

The contradiction will resolve itself.

And it will not resolve in your favor.

The Discipline of Refusal

Spiritual growth requires refusal.

Not everything is permissible for a man who seeks formation.

This is where many fall.

They want depth without discipline.

Formation without restraint.

Christ without the cross.

But every true formation includes denial.

A saying no to what weakens
A saying yes to what strengthens

Treasures in Darkness

There is something else.

When a man refuses Babylon, he often feels like he is missing out.

But scripture reveals another dimension:

“I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places…”

There are riches reserved for the consecrated.

Insights
Depth
Clarity
Authority

Things Babylon cannot give.

Because they are not found in noise.

They are found in separation.

Conclusion: What Are You Feeding On?

This is the question that determines everything.

Not what you profess
Not what you post
Not what you appear to be

But what you consistently consume

Because that is what is forming you.

Babylon is feeding a generation.

God is also feeding a people.

One leads to mixture.

The other leads to manifestation.

Choose your table.

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wintan @wintan · 3 months ago

Our personal growth in the faith is not just for our own benefit but to make us qualified to be effectively part of the body (1 Corinthians 12:12) , that is when love is truly said to be worthy to qualify us for the opening of eyes for the next phase of faith walk. If I don't build up faith, I can't love the brethren(Galatians 5:13) because faith is the process that accumulates into an estate called love, for example, if I am lazy at prayers, I would not be able to function in brotherhood well because I would be a weak-link in intercession, so also if I don't build up stature in giving, I would make others lack, it is not just about me but about the brethren, God does not want to make us good just for ourselves alone but to make us shareable in the house of God. so when I am paying and giving attention to my growth, I am building capacity to love the brethren the more(Ephesians 4:16 ).

wintan @wintan · 3 months ago

Questions & Guidance Thread

I come from a family and church that believes so much in ancestral curses and village people syndrome, I have seen certain trends playout through generations, I am seeing certain traits in me, I am trying to ho0ld ojn to faith and not face them or concentrate on them like i used to back themn, but I am scared i don't have all the time to grow up before the trend catches up with me, what kind of prayer do I pray now?

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wintan @wintan · 2 months ago

Thread 🙏 Prayer

We raise prayers for the nation, we ask that an end comes to the massacre of lives in the Nation Nigeria due to the barbaric actions of the Islamic terrorists.

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Toluwase @Toluwase · 18 days ago

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Mehn.... So much darkened understanding ....so many gentiles... walking after the vanity of their mind😞

I now see the reason why Paul had to pray that prayer for the Ephesians church "The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,"
— Ephesians 1:18 (King James Version)

This is a great warfare... And my heart aches for them😞

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wintan @wintan · 17 days ago

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The Present Continuous Ministry of Jesus: How Purchased Salvation Is Administered Today

Salvation was fully purchased at the cross, but purchase is only the foundation. A remedy sitting in a medicine cabinet cannot heal until it is taken. In the exact same way, a purchased salvation is of no practical effect in our daily lives unless it is continually received, applied, and walked out.

Purchased at Calvary, Administered from the Throne

On the cross, Jesus declared, "It is finished" (John 19:30). The total price for human redemption was paid once and for all. However, His work did not end when He rose from the dead and ascended to heaven. Today, Jesus sits at the right hand of God, actively carrying out His present continuous ministry as our High Priest, Mediator, and the Living Teacher of the New Covenant.

While the legal work of salvation was finished at the cross, the active administration of that salvation continues daily. Jesus did not leave us to figure out the Christian life on our own. He is alive right now, continually ministering His life, His Spirit, and His Word into our hearts so that what He bought for us on Calvary becomes our real, daily experience.

Beyond the New Birth: Salvation as a Living Curriculum

Many believers treat salvation as a one-time event—a prayer prayed, a decision made, or an altar call attended. The new birth is indeed the essential gateway where our dead human spirit is quickened to life by God. But the new birth is just the beginning of the journey.

Salvation is also a living curriculum of doctrine, divine commandments, and daily instructions for life.

The Apostle Paul tells us in Romans 5:10, "For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life." Notice the phrasing: we were reconciled by His death, but we shall be saved by His life. That is an ongoing, continuous process.

Jesus gave us specific teachings, light, and wisdom to guide our steps. When we hear His Word, yield to His Spirit, and obey His instructions, His salvation moves from being a theological concept outside of us to an internal reality within us. Obedience is how divine truth is woven into the very fabric of our souls.

The Diligent Process: Building Upon Faith

Because salvation is a daily administration, it requires our active cooperation and spiritual diligence. The Apostle Peter explicitly describes this deliberate process in 2 Peter 1:5–10:

"And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."

Peter does not say, "You have faith, so sit back and wait for heaven." He says to give all diligence to add virtue, knowledge, self-control, and love to that faith. Salvation is a progressive development. As we obey the daily promptings and instructions of the Holy Spirit, these virtues are internalized, accounted unto us, and built into our character.

A Perpetual Reception Into Fullness

Scripture reveals that salvation operates in three continuous dimensions:

We have been saved from the penalty of sin through the sacrifice of Jesus at the new birth.

We are being saved from the power and influence of sin as we yield to His daily doctrine, word, and discipline.

We will be saved from the very presence of sin into the final, glorious redemption of our bodies when He returns.

If we stop receiving His daily instruction, we stall in the curriculum. Jesus is actively standing as the Great Shepherd and High Priest of our souls, continually purifying us, correcting our alignment, and revealing the Father's heart. Receiving salvation is not a single gesture made years ago; it is a daily, perpetual surrender to the living voice and authority of Jesus Christ until we come into the full measure of His stature.

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mena_sophia @mena_sophia · 17 days ago

_me 200,000 minutes later_

but indeed, it's really sad.

I think in a world where the battle of 'whose hands hold the real truth?' is raging, attitude matters a lot. This is one reason I really appreciate what Rev. said tonight, holding the banner of truth to win them also in love. Rod of Iron that crushes, I believe on God's side is authority yet with meekness. But on the other side is brutality and lack of mercy.

To seek Truth, I believe we must first be humble, sincere, inquisitive and fearful. Yet these are not enough, if you're like me, you tried and gave up but heaven had mercy upon you.

In reality though, heaven must have mercy upon you. And that is entirely God's choice to have mercy upon those He will have mercy.

If that is the case, we should be very careful around matters of truth. If the owner gives it to who He wills, we cannot become over-entitled; though God ordained for all men to come to know the truth. Yet it could have been us speaking against truth but glory to God.

I believe it begins by acknowledging there is God. Then going on to see the kind of God you are referring to, cus many people believe there is God but it is not the true God.

Next lies the matter of the True God. You can't find Him if you're proud. Pharoah was very proud, He saw that this God is powerful but refused to acknowledge Him and eventually met his end. He came from a people who believed in many gods, like a pantheon, so the supernatural was not strange to him; but he could not stop and consider what manner of God this was and check again?

These recent conversations call for sincerity. I know say my knee bend some time ago the last time this wave came around. But God is merciful. I felt I was attacked too sha.

But we must check our hearts again, not to start doubting truth, but to sincerely keep holding onto the mercy we have found.

Many of us have lingua, myself inclusive, but how much of Spirit have we carried? Breath? So that we will not assume where we stand in the face of a storm and end up falling yakata.

Be a seeker. A humble seeker, and tie that desire to love found in God.

Pharisees and Saducees are what we could call theologians of their time, well versed in the law and the prophets. Yet Jesus came and said they erred in the same scriptures and at another point said, they don't even know the scriptures. What was the end? They wan kill Jesus. The people who defended the gospel were not as versed as them, but had breath and it surpassed them.

Somewhere there, I wanted to see whether I should start learning theology to have answers to use to answer these arguments but I remember that the great apostles were majorly fishermen. He that is within us is greater than he that is in the world. That does not neglect learning sha. I think the apostles also studied as they grew too cus I'm not sure if it would have been sensible if they just didn't do any studying of the law and prophets at all.

Also, blindness is bad. Don't hate the people speaking or speak rashly back to them. Rather fear for them knowing that what we also say must come from authority of understanding.

I felt for these men speaking against Egfm; our Fathers in the body of Christ, those with evident walk with God have that fear and trembling nature. From my observation, they don't have all the light and revelation, but they have clear bond with Jesus. They don't approach matters of truth rashly, especially the older they grow. They even apologise when they are wrong. When we are so confident that we lack fear in matters relating to truth, disaster is doing press-up on our doorstep.

I sha hope what I said made the sense I'm thinking I'm making. If not, please correct my head o. Anything I said that is doing bende pose, please correct me o. Orisirisi is flying in the air this season, so I thank God for this space.

My prayer for everyone and especially for myself is that we will not be lazy to seek well.

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