Repent and Believe Podcast w/ Cynthia Smalls

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I discuss: Do you even know what covenant you're under as a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ? We are under the blood covenant! A New Covenant, different and separate from the Old Covenant that Israel had with God! The one they broke! This is the New Covenant that Jesus has established for us, Gentiles:

Luke 22:20, "And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup, which is poured out for you, is the new covenant [ratified] in My blood"

FIRST things first, Christ has liberated us from the bondage of the Law of Moses! God wants His people to know that Jesus has fulfilled the Law on our behalf and rescued us from the penalty of not being able to keep all the Law. He saved us from God's curse/eternal damnation! We, New Covenant, born-again believers in Christ, are NOT commanded to do any parts of the Law, and that includes Tithing, or Sabbath-keeping, or keeping the 10 Commandments!

We fulfill ALL the Law by keeping 2 commandments that Jesus gave us. He summed up the whole Law by saying: 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” 37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 22:36-40

Soooo, 🤓 I HATE TO BREAK IT TO YOU TORAH-KEEPERS!

BUT US GENTILES (& THAT INCLUDES YOU TOO!) WERE NOT GIVEN THE LAW! So please for harmony's sake: STOP IT!! You're a STUMBLING BLOCK! YOU CAN'T DRAG US INTO THE LAW WITH YOUR MISINTERPRETATIONS!

Let me help you get your mind straight: We were Never Under the Old Covenant Law!!!!!! And please stop with all this calling Jesus by Hebrew names! You're not that deep! It just only proves how ignorant you truly are!

Don't believe me, study the following:

Malachi 4:4 - “Remember [with thoughtful concern] the Law of Moses My servant, the statutes and the ordinances which I commanded him on [Mount] Horeb 👉[to give] to all Israel.

Romans 2:14 - "For when the Gentiles, 👉which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves."

Psalm 147:19 - "He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and His ordinances 👉to Israel."

Matthew 5:47 - "And if you greet only your brothers [wishing them God’s blessing and peace], what more [than others] are you doing? Do not even the Gentiles 👉[who do not know the Lord] do that?"

Galatians 4:8 - "But at that time, when you did 👉not know [the true] God and were unacquainted with Him, you 👉[Gentiles] were slaves to those [pagan] things which by [their very] nature were not and could not be gods at all.

In Acts, chapter 17, these Greek (Gentiles) men worship everything but the True and Living God. They even erected an altar with this inscription: "TO AN UNKNOWN GOD." This altar was constructed for the purpose of acknowledging any god who had been overlooked! Not only did Gentiles not have a covenant with the God of Israel, they were oblivious to what Christ had done for the entire world: dying for the sins of humanity. So Paul preached them the Gospel. Namely telling them in Acts 17:30 that in "times past, God overlooked their ignorance, but now commands all men everywhere to repent."

Study, beloved, to show yourself approved! Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast for an encore episode (Originally Aired 5-20-22) as I exhort: We cannot be out here living any kind of way and still say we have fellowship with the Father and and His Son! We cannot grieve the Holy Spirit because we are disobedient as we wallow in willful blatant sin! Listen: You are either in the kingdom of darkness or the Kingdom of God's dear Son! Once we have sincerely repented of our sins, we live a life of holiness and righteousness in Christ! We don't buck up against the Holy Spirit's guidance and direction because we want to have our sin and eternal life simultaneously! Not happening folks! No having "your cake and eating too" over here!

Do you not know, that Christ Jesus paid a dear price for your soul, so that God's wrath will not be upon you!? Therefore, our lives should be reflective of the gratitude that we have for our salvation! This is not the hour nor the day to be playing both sides of Glory! Either you are for Christ or you are not! Jesus tells us in Scripture, that we must consider the cost when we come and follow Him! We are not to put our hand to the plow and then keep looking back, in longing, to that sinful life we've left behind!

No! We move forward as we look ahead to the approaching Day of His soon return! We set our minds on things above and not on our flesh, not on this world, and not on those things that will keep us from inheriting the Kingdom of God! 'Cuz don't forget, we will all give an account for the life we live - whether good or bad! Amen, be holy! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I discuss: 💥 The teachings of Jesus are clear on DIVORCE, REMARRIAGE, AND ADULTERY: If you remarry when you have a living COVENANT spouse, you commit adultery!

👉🏾 Mark 10:1-12: teaches that what God has joined together through matrimony, and the one flesh union, let no man put ASUNDER.

👉🏾 Matthew 5:32 - "But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery."

👉🏾Matthew 19:9: teaches that if a man or woman divorces and marries another, you commit ADULTERY.

👉🏾 Luke 16:18: teaches that anyone who divorces his/her wife/husband and marries another woman/man commits ADULTERY. And the man/woman who marries a DIVORCED woman/man, commits ADULTERY.

👉🏾Romans 7:1-3:

"Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

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"God hates divorce!

Remarriage to another, while your first covenant spouse is still alive, is sinful before God.

It is a continuous state of ADULTERY!

And no adulterer will inherit the kingdom of Heaven.

The marriage vow is an unbreakable covenant. The marriage tie is sacred and inviolable. Only death can break it!

Many churches today are filled with people who are divorced, both pastors and the laity. Places of worship are filled with adulterers, and in such places, God is not there for God is holy!

Because many so-called Christians lack the true KNOWLEGE of the Holy Holy Holy God, they have exchanged the glory of the very holy God with idols fashioned out of their own wicked deceitful hearts.

This is a very hot issue most pastors will not touch out of fear of losing their members, or when they do touch it, they get it wrong to tickle the itchy ears of their congregation.

Do not listen to the popular preachers. Most of them work for the devil.

God intended for NOTHING, absolutely nothing, to break or separate a couple, ie, if God put you together. Even if you caught your wife under another man or found your husband on top of another woman, THAT IS NOT A REASON TO DIVORCE BEFORE GOD!

You must forgive him or her! Nothing can "put asunder" the two who are now ONE flesh before God.

Adultery is not a reason to leave your wife or husband.

Prayerfully ask God to guide you to His revealed truth. He will NEVER change His word.

You must not stay with a violent spouse especially when your life is under threat. Separation is allowed, but you MUST remain single to maintain sexual purity.

Until the first covenant spouse dies, you cannot marry or enter into any sexual liaising. That is fornication and adultery. You must remain single, or be reconciled with your first spouse.

This is a hard thing to take, but the way to Heaven is not an easy road. It is the Narrow way

Only a few strive to enter through the strait gate. If you are DIVORCED & REMARRIED, take heed that you lose not your soul in because of the hardness of your heart!" Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I discuss & ponder: Why would you turn your back on Jesus and abandon your faith? What happened? What happened that was so tragic in your life that you felt it was in your best interest to leave Jesus? What was so debilitating that you thought it would be better to go back out into the "world" to seek help for what's going on with you? What happened? What was so devastating that you could not put your faith and trust in Lord Jesus to help you get through that grief, that loss, that devastation, that persecution? BECAUSE ETERNAL LIFE IS FOUND IN NO ONE BUT JESUS CHRIST, SO WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO GO? Who are you running to, if not Christ Jesus?

Or is it that 🤔 you wanted your sin more!? Those who want to be attached to this "world" at the same time, this process of isolation and sanctification will be brutal for you, and you will not last long at all! Being a coward is the opposite of being courageous in the heat of battle! That is why you tipped your hat to Jesus, and exited stage left! You couldn't withstand the discipline, the persecution, the opposition, and the stamina it took to work for Jesus in His harvest, spreading the Gospel among a pagan and godless society! You couldn't handle it! So you ran!

💥 DON'T BE A COWARD! STAY THE COURSE! WE ARE TO NEVER GIVE UP ON JESUS CHRIST!! 💥

Lord Jesus said, 26 “If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life [in the sense of indifference to or relative disregard for them in comparison with his attitude toward God]—he cannot be My disciple. 27 Whoever does not carry his own cross [expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come] and follow after Me [believing in Me, conforming to My example in living and, if need be, suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in Me] cannot be My disciple. 28 For which one of you, when he wants to build a watchtower [for his guards], does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see if he has enough to finish it?" (Luke 14).

Do you not know what He warns us in Revelation 21:8?

"But as for the 👉🏾cowards👈🏾 and unbelieving and abominable [who are devoid of character and personal integrity and practice or tolerate immorality], and murderers, and sorcerers [with intoxicating drugs], and idolaters and occultists [who practice and teach false religions], and all the liars [who knowingly deceive and twist truth], their part will be in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God! DON'T TURN YOUR BACK ON JESUS!

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I discuss: STAY AWAY FROM FALSE PROPHETESSES & TEACHERS that teach clever lies and destructive heresies such as "Once Saved/ Always Saved," "Prosperity Gospel," "Eternal Security," "BINDING AND REBUKING THE DEVIL," etc. "They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves of sin and corruption" (2 Peter 2:19). THEY ARE ALL LIARS AND APOSTATES! DO NOT BE DECEIVED!

Juanita Bynum (who is every bit the seducing "prophetess" and false lying teacher), by setting up this ungodly "Prayer Institute," is in essence, ALLUDING that Jesus' teaching on how to pray is not sufficient! For she claims that the "Lord opened up to her the libraries of Heaven as it relates to prayer," and, therefore, because of what the Lord showed her, she is uniquely "qualified" to teach YOU how to pray at the low low cost of $1,499, which has been discounted from $1,999 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️! Folks wake up! This is yet another one of her (and the like) money-making schemes to dupe the unlearned and the simple.

🎯 The Lord Jesus Christ TAUGHT us how to pray and ask the Father of what we have need of (FOR FREE!!!) in Luke 11:1-4; 9-10; 13.

"And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. 2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. 3 Give us day by day our daily bread. 4 And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil." Amen!

9 "And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."

10 "For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened."

13 "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?"

🎯 Not to mention, the Lord is our Advocate in Heaven who intercedes on our behalf! We don't need a witch nor a warlock to charge us money to teach us how to pray!! And not only that, we have Holy Spirit! The Bible tells us in 1 John 2:27, "But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you, so you don't need anyone to teach you what is true. For the spirit teaches you everything you need to know and what he teaches is true it is not a lie. So just as he has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ."

🚩 At the end of the day, it is all about remaining and abiding in Christ Jesus so that we are not led astray by traditions and commandments of men, lest we be carried away by every wind of doctrine! Beloved, as we await the coming of our Lord, we are to live holy and consecrated lives unto God; walking in righteousness! John also teaches us in verse 24, of 1 John 2 - "So you must remain faithful to what you have been taught from the beginning. If you do, you will remain in fellowship with the Son and with the Father. And in this fellowship we enjoy the eternal life he promised us." Well there we have that beloved!

The promise of eternal life is for the one who remains faithful to Jesus and endures until the end! THAT one shall be saved! Those who listen, follow, and obey Jesus... are the ones "no man can pluck out of His hand!" Come out from amongst these false PROPHETESSES and teachers, they will always lead you astray! Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I discuss: Abiding faithfully in Jesus does secure our salvation! No one wants to hear that they can lose their salvation. It's frightening to even think about it, especially when it was promised to them by their pastor! AND THIS IS WHERE WE HAVE A PROBLEM! Salvation is conditional. Our salvation is thus conditionally based by and on God’s terms. It is when, and only then, you remain in Jesus Christ, that you are secured.

The truth of the matter is that the dogma of "Once Saved/ Always Saved" is a doctrine of devils and a tradition of man that is leading, and has led, many to be put BACK on that BROAD WAY that leads to ETERNAL DESTRUCTION! Eternal life is promised and to be greatly prized by those who have sincerely repented of their sins and have placed their trust and faith in Jesus Christ as both Savior AND Lord. They abide in Jesus habitually! They are not off somewhere committing willful blatant sin! Once we are in the Body of Christ, we are commanded by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself to remain in Him. To abide in Him and not become withered broken off branches, who will be bundled together and thrown into the fire to be burned, when we cut off fellowship with The Vine! And we do this when we turn our backs on Jesus and get ourselves tangled up and enslaved by sin all over again (study 2 Peter 2: 18-22)!

💥 You cannot live in willful sin and truly expect just because you've "made a confession for Christ" that you have automatic entrance into the Kingdom! We have all been deceived by the apostate church that we can live life in any kind of way, and God must keep His promise of eternal life for all who claim the Name!

Those in the OSAS camp are of the mindset that no true born-again believer can fall from grace and, thereby, lose their salvation no matter how they live their lives! That's great DECEPTION! We can and most certainly forfeit our salvation by returning back to our old wicked ways of living before coming to Christ. The Bible likens that to a dog who returns back to its vomit or like a washed pig who returns back to the mud. Oh, it is possible to lose your salvation that was so graciously given to you! What secures our salvation is repentance and following Jesus faithfully until the end! You have to turn from sin, otherwise, what's the point of receiving a Savior, if you're just going to keep on doing your weed, fornicating, masturbating, lying, stealing and all manners of the works of the flesh?

We must work out our salvation with fear and trembling! The Bible is REPLETE with Scripture after Scripture that warns us of the DANGER when, we who are born-again, GO BACK to practicing habitual sin! Peter tells us, "Therefore, believers, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you [be sure that 👉🏾your behavior reflects and confirms your relationship with God]; for by doing these things [actively developing these virtues], you will never stumble [in your spiritual growth and will live a life that leads others away from sin]; 11 for in this way 👉🏾entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly provided to you" (2 Peter 1:10–11). Amen!

🚩 Hebrews 10:26-27, "For if we go on willfully and deliberately sinning 👉🏾after receiving the knowledge of the truth👈🏾, there no longer remains a sacrifice [to atone] for our sins [that is, no further offering to anticipate], 27 but a kind of awful and terrifying expectation of [divine] judgment and the fury of a fire and burning wrath which will consume the adversaries [those who put themselves in opposition to God]." Amen!

🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I discuss today's text: "Thus says the Lord, “Cursed is the man who trusts in and relies on mankind, making [weak, faulty human] flesh his strength, and whose mind and heart turn away from the Lord."

"The man who trusts in man” is the person who rejects God and relies on his own strength and ingenuity or who looks to other people for help and rescue rather than God. Such a person is cursed with a dried-up, empty life. He is destined to experience hardship, distress, and eventual death. Correspondingly, the person who trusts in the Lord, is richly blessed! THIS individual thrives, grows, and prospers, even in the heat of challenging circumstances!!

Beloved, some of us got our eyes on the wrong things, namely this Babylonian world - which is a type of Egypt. Our priorities are out of order 😔! Those who claim Jesus' Name, are not completely putting their COMPLETE trust in Him. Rather, they seek security from the government, from their jobs, from their marriages, and from their bank accounts. And that got me to thinking the other night and I posed this pondering thought over there on Facebook:

"Even on a humanistic level, 🤔 why would anyone trust in ANYTHING this "world" has to offer? Especially, when Satan is the "god of this world!" On the face of that alone, makes one weary! Do not be deceived! Our Lord God affirms, in this regard, these biblical truths:

🎯 1 John 2:15-17 👉🏾"Do not love the world." ..."For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life."

🎯 2 Corinthians 4:4 👉🏾 Satan is "the god of this world."

🎯 Jeremiah 17:5 👉🏾"Cursed is the man who trusts."

We are to put our trust in no one but the Lord. He tells us in Matthew 6:33-34, that our priority, which is first and of great importance, is to seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. That's our focus! We are to seek God's way of doing and being right, the attitude and character of Him - which is all about holy & righteous living as we await our coming Savior! Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below). Today's episode is one that should not be missed! For I will be discussing: Without repentance, there is no forgiveness of sin. Peter, the apostle, said in Acts 3:19, "Repent therefore, and turn again, 👉🏾 that your sins may be blotted out." Amen!

Repentance, properly defined, is necessary for salvation! In the Bible, the word repent means “to change one’s mind.” The Bible also tells us that true repentance will result in a change of actions (Luke 3:8–14; Matthew 3:8, Romans 6:15-19; Galatians 5:19-26; 2 Corinthians 5:15; Matthew 16:24-28). Beloved, study these Scriptures for yourselves. In summarizing his ministry, Paul declares, “I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds” (Acts 26:20).

So the question on the floor: Is repentance necessary for salvation? The short answer is Yes! For salvation comes through repentance!

Some people say that you can believe in Jesus as “Savior,” but not as “Lord.” That is, you can believe in Him, but never repent of your sin. You can believe in Him and be saved, even if your life goes on just as it was before you came to Christ. Well, we know that this false teaching is none other than that damnable "Once saved/Always saved" false doctrine! Some people even claim that if we say repentance is necessary for salvation for the forgiveness of sins, we’re adding works to the Gospel. They claim that if repentance is required, then we’re no longer saved by God’s grace alone, but by WHAT we DO as well.

But what does Scripture say?

🎯 Jesus says, “I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance” (Luke 5:32)

🎯 Jesus told His disciples to proclaim “repentance and forgiveness of sins” in His name to all the nations" (Luke 24:47).

When the apostles preached in the book of Acts, they called people to repent of their sins in order to be forgiven:

🎯 "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." (Acts 2:38)

🎯 And Paul in Acts 20:20-21,

"20 [you know] how I did not shrink back in fear from telling you anything that was for your benefit, or from teaching you in public meetings, and from house to house, 21 solemnly [and wholeheartedly] testifying to both Jews and Greeks, urging them to turn in repentance to God and [to have] faith in our Lord Jesus Christ [for salvation].

🎯 Here Paul is giving his testimony to King Agrippa about what happened to him on the road to Damascus when the Lord Jesus Christ stopped him in his zealous murderous pursuit of Christ's followers in Acts 26:16-18,

16 "Get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you [to serve] as a minister and as a witness [to testify, with authority,] not only to the things which you have seen, but also to the things in which I will appear to you, 17 [choosing you for Myself and] rescuing you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, 18 to open their [spiritual] eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive 👉🏾forgiveness and release from their sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified (set apart, made holy) by faith in Me.’" Amen!

🚩 Without repenting of your sins when you hear the Gospel preached, whereby you make a conscious decisive choice to turn from your wicked lifestyle and turn to God, so that through Christ's atoning sacrificial work at the cross, we can receive forgiveness of our past sins and have them wash clean by the precious blood of Jesus that was shed for us, there will be no forgiveness of sins! How are we to receive the gracious gift of salvation, that we did not

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I discuss: The evidence of the new birth is righteous behavior in the life of the believer. Sanctification is evident in a changed life. God changes us from the inside out. The purpose of sanctification is to get us prepared to meet the Living God on the Day Christ returns. We are being set apart from the "world" and consecrated, isolated, unto God for His purpose - that's sanctification. That is why the Lord commands us to be holy as He is holy! "For without holiness, no man shall see the Lord" (study Hebrews 12:14). We cannot stand before a holy God in unrighteousness. And those of us who have called on the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved, we are commanded to live a life of holiness and righteousness - a life that is NOT characterized by sin. Sin is not a lifestyle any longer. The evidence of our faith, is a holy life in Christ Jesus, as we are led by the Spirit of Christ.

“No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in Him, and he cannot practice sin because he is born of God” (1 John 3:9). To “practice” sin, is to sin AS A WAY OF LIFE. A true believer (one who follows, listen, and obeys the teachings of Jesus Christ) does not live in habitual sin.

All areas of our life should be in the process of being conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ. Sin is abnormal and unnatural for the believer. Why? Because Christ Jesus died for our sins, and nailed its dominating power to the cross. Romans chapter 6, tells us that sin is no longer our master. In Christ, we can live a life of righteousness, because He has set us free from the slavery of sin! We are no longer in bondage. We must be willing participants in our sanctification. Why? So we don't shrink back in fear when He returns, having lived a life of sin, instead of holiness! "And now, dear children, remain in fellowship with Christ so that when he returns, you will be full of courage and not shrink back from him in shame" (1 John 2:28). Amen! Be prepared to meet the King of glory! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast as I discuss: We still seem to think holiness is optional! We think we have a choice whether or not we are going to be holy today or we are NOT going to be holy today! Wellllll, we better all wake up! Not only is holiness commanded of us, but without it, no man, no woman will see the Lord! Let me help us out: We are NOT supposed to be sinning as born-again children of the Living God! Irregardless of the fact that we still live in these flesh bodies that has the potential to sin! The Lord Jesus would never tell us to do something ("Go, and sin no more." John 8:11) if it weren't possible to do it in His Name, by His strength. He would never tell us to do something if it wasn't in our born-again, blood-bought devotion, & allegiance to Him to get it done! He sent us help to be trained in righteousness when He sent us His Holy Spirit! So we are without excuse!

Lord Jesus informs us (His true sheep who listen, follows, and obeys Him) in John 8:12: “I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.” He also tells us in verse 31, “If you abide in My word [continually obeying My teachings and living in accordance with them, then] you are truly My disciples. 32 And you will know the truth [regarding salvation], and the truth will set you free [from the penalty of sin].” Amen!

Listen beloved, you got to be serious about your own salvation. The Lord has told us we must work it out with fear and trembling. Has not Romans 6:11 told us "to consider ourselves, dead to sin and our relationship to it broken?" We are alive to God [in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus. We must be studying! Instead of trying to figure out ways to get around holy and righteous living. The born-again follower of the Lord Jesus Christ is expected, Yessss, expected to walk in holiness and sin not! Yes, we are still living in this flesh body, but the Lord told us what to do when we are tempted. We are not to give the devil a foothold into our lives. James 4:7 tells us exactly what to do when you and I are tempted! We are to submit ourselves to God, resist the devil and he will flee! So if you are not submitting, and you are not resisting, then you are not obeying God! And this is where we get caught up! Yes we love God, but we must also fear Him!! For He has the power to cast both body and soul in ! We must put away all sin, crucify the flesh and obey Jesus! This will do us all well as we await the Day of His coming! We must be prepared to meet our risen King! Amen! Be holy. Live clean. Consider all your ways before the Lord! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!