What does Your Confidence Rely On?

James 4:15-17
King James Version (KJV)
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

If your confidence is in your own strength and might, let me tell you it will fail. If your confidence is on human intellect alone, it will fail. If it is on money, it will surely fail. If it is on military might or power, it will fail.If it is on people, it will fail too.If it is on spiritual powers other than Christ's it will fail miserably. You may still be boasting in these, but your rejoicing will come to end.This is not what we were made to be. Good was meant to be formed in you. All good is in Christ alone. All good things has been placed on Christ by the Father in Heaven.If Christ is fully formed in us, all good things we would inherit. But, how would you know what is good, if good is not formed in you. For you to know what is good, good must be formed in you first. You can't guess what is good. You will have to experience what is good in your life first, before you can do what is good in your life. We can't be playing the guessing game with what is good.

Doing God's will on earth is the best thing you could do. But, how can you do God's will, if Christ is not formed in you. All of God's will is in Christ alone. If we do God's will, we will have Chrstformation in us. If we totally do God's will, we will have full Christformation in us.You know that you should do God's will on earth, but you end up doing your own selfish will. Doing our own selfish will is the same as doing the Devil's will because selfish will or ambition comes from the sinful nature of the Devil in us. You have not put to death the misdeeds of the sinful nature of the Devil in you. How will God's will be done in you or through you if you havent put to death the sinful nature of the Devil in you? The very thing that you have depended or relied on from the sinful nature of the Devil in you will fail you miserably. These are the acts that you could have depended or trusted upon and they will fail you in the end because the Devil's end is coming soon too!

Galatians 5:19-21
New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)
The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

There will be no Christformation in you, if you keep depending on the sinful nature of the Devil in you with these deplorable acts.

Warning for the Righteous

Ezekiel 3:20-21
New International Version (NIV)
“Again, when a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, and I put a stumbling block before them, they will die. Since you did not warn them, they will die for their sin. The righteous things that person did will not be remembered, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. But if you do warn the righteous person not to sin and they do not sin, they will surely live because they took warning, and you will have saved yourself.”

Can a person who has been shunning the sinful nature of the Devil be deceived again? Yes, he can, if he has not put to death all the misdeeds of the sinful nature of the Devil in him. He had failed to depend on God the Holy Spirit because if He did, he will be surely led to destroy the misdeeds in him. Can all the good things he had done before he was deceived again be destroyed too? Yes, if he continually disobeys God the Holy Spirit, it will show unbelief. Can you belief at one time and now you don't. Yes, if there is unbelief in you whenever God the Holy Spirit leads you to God's word and you do not obey Him at all. Disobedience to God the Holy Spirit will result with no Christformation in you. Let this be a warning for the righteous to be alert at all times so that they may obey God the Holy Spirit for full Christformation in them and not be complacent or careless at any point.

Hebrews 3:12-19
New International Version (NIV)
See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. As has just been said: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.” Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness? And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.

You are Kicking Against the Pricks.

Acts 9:1-8
King James Version (KJV)
And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man. And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.

If you have stubbornly decided to kick against the pricks, it is you who is going to get badly hurt in the end.You may be carried away by your zealousness for upholding what you consider as keeping the law but it is not my laws you are keeping, said the Lord Jesus Christ to Saul who became apostle Paul after this incident and meeting on the way to Damascus. You claimed that you were helping God in keeping His laws but you yourself have committed murder, even Steven who was my faithful servant (Acts 7: 54-8:1). Now, you shall be blind for a while. Wake-up! This was Saul's wake-up call, because he was doing the things that God never told him to do. He was doing it to please the sinful nature in him.It gave him pride and had developed into destructive arrogance because no one had warned him that what he was doing was sin against God.

Here in the passage above the Lord Jesus Christ stops him from committing this sin.Saul becomes blind so that he will wake-up and sin no more. He wakes up after God had shut his eyes for three days. He was in total darkness until Ananias prayed for his eyes to be opened. This temporary blindness was necessary because it was the confidence in his flesh that had made him proud at heart. He cared not about man or taking their lives through death. So blindly religious! This physical blindness opened his spiritual eyes and he began to see now that he was sinning against God. More so, the Lord Jesus Christ prophesied over Saul that he would become "a light unto the gentiles" after this visitation if he would truly repent from all his past sins. Made blind to be a light?

Do not kick against the pricks. I say it again, do not try to be wise in your own eyes. You cannot sin and keep on sinning and say that God had told you to sin. He did not and He never will do such a thing. You have been obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in you all this while. Repent now!(More to come...)

Now is Your Time of Grief

John 16:21-22
New International Version - UK (NIVUK)

A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no-one will take away your joy.

As much as there is pain and anguish there is great hope too, just as a woman with excruciating labour pains suffers with the hope that she will be able to see her bundle of joy! But, bear in mind always, anything can go wrong. The mother could die and not see the child and the child could die not seeing the mother. This has happened to many before. Child birth is a matter of life and death. Do not take any thing for granted. Like wise, so is Christformation in you!

The link from the mother to the child is the blood. So is it with Christformation in you. The link with Christ and the believer is the power of the blood of Christ. The power of the blood of Christ paves the way for full Christformation in you. Full Christformation in you is the promised eternal inheritance in Christ.

Hebrews 9:13-15
New International Version (NIV)

The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God! For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.

One More Great Shaking is on its Way

Hebrews 12:25-29
New International Version - UK (NIVUK)
See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.The words once more indicate the removing of what can be shaken— that is, created things— so that what cannot be shaken may remain.Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.

Christformation in you is the kingdom that cannot be shaken.This kingdom is built upon all the divine natures of Jesus Christ our Lord and therefore, it cannot be shaken. Heaven and earth will pass away but the Word of God that is formed in us will remain forever. Every created thing can be shaken but the new creation of God through Christformation in you cannot be shaken. Another great shaking is coming.
This time all ordinary creation without Christ formed in them will be shaken and removed. It is only when you have the divine natures of Christ formed in you that you will be able to worship God in spirit and truth with reverence and awe. You will realize then who our God really is. The kingdom that cannot be shaken has the obedience of Christ formed in all it's subjects where as the ordinary kingdom have subjects who only obey the sinful nature of the Devil in them. This ordinary kingdom is a kingdom of disobedience towards God. Until then the prophecy of Isaiah the prophet of God would apply to them.

Acts 28:26-28
New International Version - UK (NIVUK)
Go to this people and say, You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them. Therefore I want you to know that God's salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!

Gentiles are people who are despised by the proud and arrogant who have the sinful nature of the Devil formed in them through the years of hardened sinful living.

I will Send Confusion into the Enemy's Camp.

Even the very Elect will be Deceived.

Matthew 24:24
New International Version - UK (NIVUK)

For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect— if that were possible.

Even the very elect of those with Christformation in them can be deceived if they continue obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in them which they have not put to death it's misdeeds. Imagine the first Adam speaking like the last Adam. Doing miracles and showing great signs and claiming it is from God when it is not. What confusion and deception it will bring to believers of Christ! The last Adam is the Lord Jesus Christ and the first Adam is the one who brought the sinful nature of the Devil into mankind. The first Adam represents disobedience to God and the last Adam- obedience to God. Through the Lord Jesus Christ we learn obedience to God.

As there can be false Christs who would claim that they are as powerful as Christ our Lord, there would be false Christformation in those who would claim that they are filled with the power of God. Watch it! You cannot be obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in you and yet be a prophet of Christ.Also, you cannot be obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in you and have Christformation in you. You cannot claim that you have the power of Christ in you, when you still obey the sinful nature of the Devil in you.

Your outside appearance may not be what you are in the inside. It may all be for a show of piety. The Lord Jesus warned against such hypocrisy. On the outside you may appear as though you obey God but actually in the inside, secretly, you only obey the sinful nature of the Devil in you. You can cheat men but you cannot cheat God. He can see through you and see what is in your heart. Disobedience to God might still be ruling all your ways. You may appear you are doing God's work on earth but God knows the confusion you are responsible for.

Matthew 23:27-29
New International Version - UK (NIVUK)
Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.

Actually, you may be building the synagogue of Satan by continually obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in you. Your mouth may claim heaven but your heart is far away from God and His Kingdom. Secretly, you do things to please the sinful nature of the Devil in you which you are not freed from. All your show of piety will come to an end by the Light of Christ shinning on you. Light will end all darkness.

Revelation 2:8-9
New International Version - UK (NIVUK)
To the angel of the church in Smyrna write:
These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again.I know your afflictions and your poverty-- yet you are rich! I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.