he saved
us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He
saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, Titus 3:5
A whole new generation
of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to “accept” Christ
without forsaking the world.
But what says the Holy
Spirit?
You
adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred
toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of
God. James
4:4
and
“If any man love the world, the love of
the Father is not in him” 1 John 2:15
This requires no
comment, only obedience.
It is an error to
assume that we can experience justification without transformation.
Justification and regeneration are not the same; they may be thought apart in
theology but they can never be experienced apart in fact!
When God declares a
man righteous He instantly sets about to make him righteous.
The error today is
that we do not expect a converted man to be a transformed man, and as a result
of this error our churches are full of substandard Christians. Many of these go
on day after day assuming that salvation is possible without repentance and
that they can find some value in religion without righteousness.
A revival is, among
other things, a return to the belief that real faith invariably produces
holiness of heart and righteousness of life!
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