This is the MOST DANGEROUS thing for Christians
Most people won't think of this. It's not Satan, some conspiracy or end time prophecy of doom. It's not a nation, or religion, or political system or party. It's something very, very close to the heart... in fact, it is precisely something that can reside in your heart.
Want to know what it is?
In one word - Guilt.
Many of us think feeling guilty is the right thing to do. And so naturally their lives are so focused on their sins causing their guilt. The most frequent thing in their prayers and in their talks with God is not His Love, Grace and Glory... no, it's just sin, sin, sin... well with a mindset like that where will you go?
The truth is that as a true, real, child of God in whom the Spirit of the Most High resides - you are righteous in Christ, forever... not in the past, not in the present... but in the past, present and future!
You say, but wait, how can I be cleansed and made pure, forever? I get it that it works for the past, but how can you say it works for my sins of today and tomorrow, too?
Friend, if when you sin you don't feel bad, you're not a real Christian, you're not a temple of the Spirit of God. Every believer in Jesus that is true and real will hate sin in their lives - but that does not mean they need to carry a Guilty Conscience. In fact, this guilty conscience betrays an ignorance of what Jesus has done. It is because we do not understand the significance of Blood in the Bible and the Sacrifice and if we do, we only understand it from the mindset of the Old Covenant without a Revelation of who Jesus truly is.
The book of Leviticus is not your everyday book but it was one of the most powerful pictures of Jesus repeated over and over and over. I will not go into details at all here. Simply, I want you to see what people did when bringing an offering of a bull, goat or sheep - the person making the offering (and there are several kinds, etc) had to put their hand on the head of the bull.
When the person placed their hand on the bull or animal, a spiritual transference occurred... the perfect animal (i.e. without any defects or blemishes) became sinful with the sinfulness of that person. The person's uncleanness and unholiness and transgressions and sin and GUILT was transferred to the animal. Then the animal would be killed, it's blood sprinkled in various places, it's parts burned or disposed of according to the sacrifice type.
The key part I want you to see is the transference happened with the laying on of the person's hand on the animal's head. That person took the animal's perfection (sinlessless, holiness, purity, clean conscience) and transferred his guilt and sin, etc to the animal.
The animal is a picture of JESUS and the sacrifice is a picture of what Jesus did for us - but with ONE BIG DIFFERENCE... that Sacrifice had to be done daily, frequently, yearly, whatever it had be done over and over. But that's not the same thing with Jesus! You see, the animal here is a picture of Jesus who is called the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world by John the Baptist, a Levitical Priest himself, who according to Jesus was the greatest among those born of women!
We who are in Christ, who are true, Spirit-dwellings of the Most High, guess what? Well, this transference has already occurred and stretches the fabric of time itself to go and cover our past and future sins!
It's difficult for us to comprehend because it is Grace and we are not used to Grace! Grace is not something the world has done a very good job teaching us (in fact, it never teaches us Grace). The greatest travesty in the church today is this utter confusion about Grace and the Covenants and the Baptisms and all this. We do not understand! We are mixed up. One second we speak Grace - the Ministry of the Spirit (as Paul calls it in 2 Cor 3) and then the next sentence, we speak the Ministry of Death, the Law, the Letter!
So what happens when people don't realize this? What happens to people who hold onto a guilty conscience because they think it's the right (aka religious) thing to do?
A Guilty Conscience darkens your image of God so you see Him as judging, condemning and hateful when He is forgiving, blessing and loving.
A Guilty Conscience doesn't allow you to see the Blood of Jesus and His Grace, so that you live in the ministry of Death (the Law).
A Guilty Conscience, therefore, attracts the curse (Deut 28).
A Guilty Conscience - this is why it is so dangerous - attracts the enemy, just as it did to Job. (please read this to understand more about this)
A Guilty Conscience robs you of everything God has done for you.
If it's sunny, the sun will be darkened in your eyes. If you are blessing, suddenly fear of the curse comes. If you are righteous, you can not enjoy the Lord because you feel guilty. If you see visions, dark will be your visions. And most dangerous of all, a guilty conscience opens up a real door for spiritual attacks that leads to very, real, physical consequence.
And yet there's something worse! What happens when you are one who is teaching others in the "ministry" or at home as a parent, etc? Wow! That's where SO much damage is done.
Close that door by asking God to see His Grace, right now, today. You can either search in this blog about His Grace or go and search elsewhere (see for example, Mel Bond). But wherever you go, please go and ask the Spirit of God to show you this. Don't delay this. For a good start click here to read this post.
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In one word - Guilt.
Many of us think feeling guilty is the right thing to do. And so naturally their lives are so focused on their sins causing their guilt. The most frequent thing in their prayers and in their talks with God is not His Love, Grace and Glory... no, it's just sin, sin, sin... well with a mindset like that where will you go?
The truth is that as a true, real, child of God in whom the Spirit of the Most High resides - you are righteous in Christ, forever... not in the past, not in the present... but in the past, present and future!
You say, but wait, how can I be cleansed and made pure, forever? I get it that it works for the past, but how can you say it works for my sins of today and tomorrow, too?
Friend, if when you sin you don't feel bad, you're not a real Christian, you're not a temple of the Spirit of God. Every believer in Jesus that is true and real will hate sin in their lives - but that does not mean they need to carry a Guilty Conscience. In fact, this guilty conscience betrays an ignorance of what Jesus has done. It is because we do not understand the significance of Blood in the Bible and the Sacrifice and if we do, we only understand it from the mindset of the Old Covenant without a Revelation of who Jesus truly is.
Crash course in the Biblical concept of Sacrifice
The book of Leviticus is not your everyday book but it was one of the most powerful pictures of Jesus repeated over and over and over. I will not go into details at all here. Simply, I want you to see what people did when bringing an offering of a bull, goat or sheep - the person making the offering (and there are several kinds, etc) had to put their hand on the head of the bull.
When the person placed their hand on the bull or animal, a spiritual transference occurred... the perfect animal (i.e. without any defects or blemishes) became sinful with the sinfulness of that person. The person's uncleanness and unholiness and transgressions and sin and GUILT was transferred to the animal. Then the animal would be killed, it's blood sprinkled in various places, it's parts burned or disposed of according to the sacrifice type.
The key part I want you to see is the transference happened with the laying on of the person's hand on the animal's head. That person took the animal's perfection (sinlessless, holiness, purity, clean conscience) and transferred his guilt and sin, etc to the animal.
The animal is a picture of JESUS and the sacrifice is a picture of what Jesus did for us - but with ONE BIG DIFFERENCE... that Sacrifice had to be done daily, frequently, yearly, whatever it had be done over and over. But that's not the same thing with Jesus! You see, the animal here is a picture of Jesus who is called the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world by John the Baptist, a Levitical Priest himself, who according to Jesus was the greatest among those born of women!
We who are in Christ, who are true, Spirit-dwellings of the Most High, guess what? Well, this transference has already occurred and stretches the fabric of time itself to go and cover our past and future sins!
And by that will [i.e. the New Covenant or Testament], we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all... And where these have been forgiven, an offering for sin is no longer needed. Heb 10:10,18
It's difficult for us to comprehend because it is Grace and we are not used to Grace! Grace is not something the world has done a very good job teaching us (in fact, it never teaches us Grace). The greatest travesty in the church today is this utter confusion about Grace and the Covenants and the Baptisms and all this. We do not understand! We are mixed up. One second we speak Grace - the Ministry of the Spirit (as Paul calls it in 2 Cor 3) and then the next sentence, we speak the Ministry of Death, the Law, the Letter!
Take home this one thing - Jesus' Sacrifice is a SINGLE sacrifice for ALL time -your time, your life.
So what happens when people don't realize this? What happens to people who hold onto a guilty conscience because they think it's the right (aka religious) thing to do?
A Guilty Conscience darkens your image of God so you see Him as judging, condemning and hateful when He is forgiving, blessing and loving.
A Guilty Conscience doesn't allow you to see the Blood of Jesus and His Grace, so that you live in the ministry of Death (the Law).
A Guilty Conscience, therefore, attracts the curse (Deut 28).
A Guilty Conscience - this is why it is so dangerous - attracts the enemy, just as it did to Job. (please read this to understand more about this)
A Guilty Conscience robs you of everything God has done for you.
If it's sunny, the sun will be darkened in your eyes. If you are blessing, suddenly fear of the curse comes. If you are righteous, you can not enjoy the Lord because you feel guilty. If you see visions, dark will be your visions. And most dangerous of all, a guilty conscience opens up a real door for spiritual attacks that leads to very, real, physical consequence.
And yet there's something worse! What happens when you are one who is teaching others in the "ministry" or at home as a parent, etc? Wow! That's where SO much damage is done.
Close that door by asking God to see His Grace, right now, today. You can either search in this blog about His Grace or go and search elsewhere (see for example, Mel Bond). But wherever you go, please go and ask the Spirit of God to show you this. Don't delay this. For a good start click here to read this post.
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body, and since we have a high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Heb 10:19-22
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