KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE:
You have the right to be happy as a child of God. Not only that, but you have stupendous reasons for it.
To have integrity to God is to have integrity to what He’s given you by grace.
Most Vows Never Surpass a Person’s Selfishness – blog 7/19/24
What is it about selfishness that destroys a vow? Well, for starters, a selfish person cannot exercise true integrity to their good conscience. It’s an impossibility because the law of integrity is the Word of God, and the law of selfishness is the human flesh. Since these are mutually exclusive entities, they cannot coexist in harmony.
Most Vows Never Surpass a Person’s Selfishness – blog 7/19/24
Most vows never surpass a person’s selfishness. Why? Because, in general, people lack integrity. Vows depend wholly on integrity.
An authentic person is a happy person. Their integrity guides them and, as a result, they avoid emotional pitfalls that drag them away from God’s plan for them. They perpetuate their happiness by digesting the Word of God daily.
The fruit of the Spirit reaps spiritual truth, the fruit of the flesh reaps fleshly truth.
William MacDonald on Heb 6:6
They have reached the place where the lights go out on the way to hell…The enormous guilt of apostates is indicated the words “since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame” (v6). This signifies a deliberate, malicious spurning of Christ, not just a careless disregard of Him. It indicates a positive betrayal of Him, a joining of forces against Him and a ridiculing of His person and work.
There are a LOT of so-called “Christians” who want God’s blessings, but not God. They want to stick their filthy hands in the “cookie jar” labeled “grace”, but they don’t want to be cleansed by God first. They don’t want saving faith, only faith that God will satisfy their desires for blessings.