2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from The Truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Even understanding that most do not have ears to hear today, it is evident, that there are still some few who do. For the few who do have ears to hear, and have not been blinded by religion, your path is about to shine this year brighter than ever before simply because you have placed your faith in The Finished Work of Christ without adding anything else to it. The LORD has Promised to surround those, who hear The WORD and keep THE Faith, with His Goodness (which is what leads us to repentance, Romans 2:4) and to drop fatness (plenty of Blessing) in His Path for us. (Psalms 65:1)
Proverbs 4:18 declares the path of the just is like the shining light that shines more and more unto the perfect day. The path of the just is a PATH OF FAITH because we have been JUSTIFIED BY FAITH (Romans 5:1). Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God (Romans 10:17). The Word of God is our instruction IN RIGHTEOUSNESS (2 Timothy 3:16) and the Righteousness of God is revealed in the Gospel from faith to faith. Romans 1:16-17 reveals the gospel is CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED as it says the gospel of Christ is the power of God unto salvation (salvation of any kind in the Word of God ALWAYS speaks of the cross of Christ). If the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel of Christ (cross of Christ) and our instruction from God is the Word of God, the only way we can receive true saving, sanctifying, instruction from the Lord is to have our faith anchored exclusively in the cross.
1 John 1:7 proclaims that if we are walking in the light as the Lord is in the Light we are in fellowship with Him AND THE BLOOD cleanses us from all sin. “And The Blood”, speaks of the cross and lets us know there is no light outside of faith in the cross of Christ for salvation, deliverance, blessing, or anything else the Lord has for us.
This is why Paul preached Christ and Him crucified and wrote that adding anything else for victory causes Christ to become of none effect. (1 Corinthians 1:17) The Lord is found ONLY in the light of the cross. If we can do anything other than believe, to obtain victory, Christ did not need to come and die. All principalities and powers were defeated as Christ triumphed over them making an open show of them in His cross (Colossians 2-14-15) This is still the only way you can triumph over anything hindering you from being conformed into the image of Jesus Christ, which should be your focus. (Colossians 2-14-15) The devil transforms his angels as ministers of light and they are the one’s leading every one to a place they call beyond the cross which is darkness in all reality. We are told to GO BACK to our first love, (the cross) not beyond it. The Lord is waiting on you to take a stand and come out of the fear of man, which has you trapped. (Proverbs 29:25) He is speaking to many of you today. Please do not continue to push him aside worried about what everyone else will think.
2 Corinthians 2:14 proclaims there is never ending victory for the children of God even today and every today. This scripture not only convicts me due to the lack of victory I experience at times, but also encourages me, revealing to me there can be uninterrupted victory in my life. If I do not understand from where my victory comes, I will be found trying TO DO many things to find it. Let us look at what the scripture says.
2 Corinthians 2:14
Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place.
Notice where the triumph is found. In Christ. This exclusively speaks of faith in what Christ did at the cross, and not just in “a” jesus. The Apostle Paul tells us there is “another gospel”, “another jesus”, “ushered in by another spirit”. If our faith in Christ is separated from His finished work, we have a faith the Lord does not and will not recognize. The Apostle Paul writes, “As you have RECEIVED the Lord Jesus Christ, WALK YE ALSO IN HIM.” The Word of God reveals we can be in Christ, yet fail to walk in Him. Walking in Him SIMPLY means to keep our faith in what it was in when we were initially saved. The same finished work of Christ that saved you from hell will also save you from a gossiping tongue, lusting spirit, envy, strife, alcohol, drugs, terrible marriage etc… My bible says all principalities & powers were defeated by Christ as He triumphed over them, making an open show of them IN HIS CROSS. (Colossians 2:14-16) Only a religious spirit would try to bring works in as part of deliverance. The only legitimate deliverance ministry is the ministry like that of the Apostle Paul, the preaching of Christ and Him crucified. There is no other way to be delivered from sin. So many, with their lips, say they know this, but listen to what is being ministered. Remember, many are called, but few are chosen. (Matthew 22:14)You can walk away from whatever it is holding you down, choking the life out of you simply by placing your faith back in the cross of Christ. If your faith is in what He did, you will be identified with His cross, and experiencing the victory that was provided you there. God bless.
