Jesus came to Earth to Change Our Lives—R Fritz
We need to help ourselves by taking the hand of Jesus. Once we choose who our Lord and Savior are when we have decided who leads our life. Jesus took the penalty for all our sins to the cross. That penalty was required because we were given that sentence of eternal death for sin where God refuses to be around sin. Sin did not go away, and we are required to repent to turn from it. We did not get a free card to keep on sinning because Jesus took our penalty which is eternal death, it was so we could spend eternity with God. That sinful nature does not automatically make us sinless when we choose Jesus, our heart changes but until we know God’s expectations or laws, we will keep doing the same as we always have done. Even when we are told about the Ten Commandments, we cannot do the right thing on our own. Sin was our nature all our life, why do we want to change because we get to do what we want? We do not want to change because we think we have freedom and that is what got us in trouble because there are consequences for our lawlessness physically and mentally. Hebrew 10:26 says “For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there is no more sacrifice for sins.” Jesus cannot pay the price of death repeatedly; he could only die once for our sins for us to get eternal life.
The Bible talks about lawlessness. God has always had laws except after Adam and Eve sinned when they were kicked out of the Garden of Eden for sin and they only had one rule to obey. When people left Egypt for the promised land and Moses went up in the mountain to bring back tablets of stone with rules to live by the people were already looking to worship a golden calf and most died in this land because of lawlessness. God gave the Jewish people six hundred thirteen laws to be followed. God has always had rules or laws to live by, we choose when and if we will follow them. Complete freedom is lawlessness because we think that is what God has given us or what God wanted for us, far from God’s truth. God’s word does not give freedom of all speech, because we will be judged and condemned for these words. Matthew 12:36-37 says, and this is Jesus’ speaking “But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgement. For by thy words, thou shalt be justified, and by thy words, thou shalt be condemned.” This talks about every word we speak shall be judged, it does not say we can say what we want without repercussions with us having to answer why we spoke the words we did. Sometimes it is better to keep our thoughts to ourselves because of God’s accountability. We are accountable for what we do after we choose Jesus. We are saved by grace not by our works by God, some people get the two mixed up. Liberty comes from the Holy Spirit where God’s words are spoken through us and then our speech becomes free.
The Holy Spirit was given to us to live in for those who obey and follow him. The Holy Spirit can still come upon people like what happened in the Old Testament. When the Holy Spirit came our heart was changed and laws were written on our hearts where we know right from wrong where the Holy Spirit will let us know by convicting us through our thoughts and feelings when we have done something wrong, and we need to repent or acknowledge the Holy Spirit with our words and actions. God’s laws were on tablets of stone and then written on our hearts with the Holy Spirit in charge. We can choose to listen or we can brush off what the Holy Spirit says to us. If we brush off what the Holy Spirit tells us over time, we will not hear from him and we will be on our own until he decides to communicate with us. Our prayers will not be answered, our actions do have consequences. We might not like what happens to us, but God has a reason for what happens to us. It goes back to God’s purpose for our life.
When we want to be free of things, it can start problems for us, free will was given to us for us to make decisions with our minds. God gave us free will so we could choose him, he did not want to force us. Freedom also comes with responsibilities. We think we should be able to do what we want but our freedom can take somebody else’s freedom away and we do not even think about that because we are focused on ourselves and do not think about the person next to us. We are not thinking about freedom for anybody else. Some people have laid their lives for our freedom thinking about all of us not just ourselves. One of these was Jesus who laid down his life for his friends. John 15:12-16 says, and this is Jesus’ speaking “This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things I have heard of my Father I have known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring fruit, and that your fruit should remain that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, that ye love one another.” When we focus on ourselves, we are not focusing on God. We do not hear God through the Holy Spirit because we are working through the flesh. We are therefore not prepared to lay our life down for a friend or anybody else.
We need to focus on God’s ways and ask the Holy Spirit what we should do because our fight and future is through the Spirit not in the flesh. The things we want to speak in the flesh have little relevance compared to what we speak through Spirit. In the Spirit is where we affect people mentally and physically, where our prayers affect many. We want to change somebody with our words to make a difference, and so do I. What I learned was instead of me trying to persuade somebody, it was I trying to do it versus speaking the words given by the Holy Spirit that will change somebody permanently. Isaiah 55:11 says, “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” If we want to make a difference in somebodies’ life, we need to become a student of the Holy Spirit because God’s word or when the Holy Spirit speaks the words from our mouth, those words will not come back void and will accomplish what God has for whom they were spoken to. Give me a message and sit back and see the results. God Bless.
