If we are not born again we cannot see the kingdom of God. Only those who have been born again by the Spirit of God will know the kingdom of God because before being born again I am dead, blind to the things of God. But God being so kind makes me alive. I am born again. I am raised to spiritual life and die to my sins. This happens when the Spirit generates me. He breaths on me and makes me alive. When this happens I am made holy and acceptable - without any sport of darkness.
No one who has any spot of darkness, any defilemnrt of sin, can see God. It is impossible. He is perfectly holy. He has no spot of sin and only those who are holy like he is can know Him. The goodnews is that He makes us holy. This happens because of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus our Saviour and Lord who gives the Holy spirit, along with the father, and we are born again - made new and holy with an incorruptible nature made by Him.
Then this comes the rest of our lives, until we die and go straight to be with the Lord, as we learn to be holy as he is holy. We learn to live out our holy status. You must be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy as obedient children, not following after your former lusts, which you followed in ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, by holy.
if you call on God the father, who judges us based on our actions, the fruit of our lives, pass your time here in your temporary home in reverence of God. Work out your salvation with fear and rambling, for the Lord is a jealous and holy God. He judges us not based on color or gender, or age but on our actions. This is not a works based salavtion I am speaking of - the faith that justifies us also produces holy actions. Put off your old person, who is corrupted in sinful lusts and put on your new person who avid created in holiness and righteousness. We have been chosen before the foundation of the world to be holy.
If today you knoe the conviction of the Spirit, conviction which leads to repentance and joy and life, then repent right now of those former ways. Lift up your weak knees, raise your head and look to Jesus the author and perfector of the faith who for the joy set before him endured all hardship, all temptation. Temptation to sin is not sin. When we are tempted let's raise up the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God and with our voices declare the name of the Lord which is a strong tower. Run to the Lord in those hard times and seek the holiness that He requires. Friends I say these things so that you do not sin, but if you do sin we have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ the righteous who is the propitiatiom for our sins. Confess your sins to him and to a Christian brother or sister and be healed. Bring sin out into the light. Do not shrink away in shame. God will be gracious to you.
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