No. 1333: To equate what we do BEFORE SALVATION - WITH THE ONE MAKE FOR SALVATION, THE TANKS FROM forces of darkness!

No. 1333:
To equate what we do BEFORE SALVATION - WITH THE ONE MAKE FOR SALVATION, THE TANKS FROM forces of darkness!

Picture a temple where "everything" is permitted, which soon also it is in Christian Norway in becoming!

2 Cor. 10. 4 Our weapons are not of people, but their power from God and can add strongholds to ruin. We tear down imaginations, 5 and all big and proud that rises against the knowledge of God. We take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

I'm shocked at how little knowledge of God's word and the reality it is to be human as believers overlook. The Bible portrays our lives as non-believers and believers as two opposites.

Before we become Christians, we are dead in our sins and transgressions. How much can one then expect of a dead human being? Nothing!

At Corinth, the 1,000 tempelskjøger on a population of about 150,000. In other words, we can say that there was a 30,000 adult men who circumvented these prostitutes, most of which came to faith in Corinth had in other words certainly had intercourse with most of these. When the entire city of men visited them, as they were then bound after what many Christians believe to 1,000 women, all born-again!

The whole idea is then absurd if one is bound to a wife and to live with her, as unsaved. But what scripture says? That it is from the day we receive salvation, that our life begins. Everything we've done BEFORE SALVATION, BELONG TO THE PAST. EVERYTHING WE DO THAT SAVED - BELONG TO THE FUTURE!

We can not expect anything of what has happened before salvation as an unsaved man is dead in his sins and transgressions.

Efes. 2. 1. And you He made alive, you who were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 that in time past ye walked according to course of this world, according to the prince of the air forces, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience 3 among whom also we all once lived in our flesh lusts; comparing the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature children of wrath, even as others. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in sins - by grace you are saved.

Here we see what it means to be a non-believer, and a believer.

Here are the terms of a non-believer:
In which were dead in your transgressions and sins, which in time past ye walked according to course of this world, according to the prince of the air forces, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, among whom also we all once lived in our flesh desires, as we the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature children of wrath, even as others.

Here the only negative words and expressions, nothing else!

Here are the expressions on us believers:
And you He made alive, but God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in sins - by grace you are saved.

Here is the only positive words and expressions, nothing else!

Jesus meet on several occasions people had more relationships and marriages behind him, what did he say? The same message every time, I forgive you and go and sin no more. Although these had x number of partners!

Jesus 'message and Jesus' Gospel is the same today as it was back then. That for anyone who comes to faith, then begin a whole new life.

Joh. e. 4 29 Come, see a man who told me everything I've done!

Notice that Jesus rebuked the woman, why? She changed and began to live the new life. The old life was a thing of the past!

Joh. e. 8. 11 She said, No, Lord! no. Jesus said, Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more!

Notice that Jesus did not go over to the person or the spouse. No, now everything was forgotten, gone and new life was beginning. When everything was new, and from the day so came it: "Sin no more!"

Final Comment:

I will not write so much more in this article than to add to these articles as I want you to read.
Going to write two article to this topic, so there's more!

Related links:
http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2016/09/no-1332-two-shoes-and-arnhild-gjendem.html
http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2015/03/no-915-all-that-one-makes-before-being.html
http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2015/04/no-918-old-life-behind-it-when-it.html