Volition is your ability to choose. God gave us free will. With our freedom to choose, using volitional responsibility, most of the time we cause our own misery and suffering through the bad decisions we make. Wrong thinking, a human viewpoint is a self-imposed misery. Volitional responsibility applies to wrong thinking; wrong motivation; wrong decisions; and wrong or impulsive actions. “For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of that wrong for which he has done for there is no partiality with God” (Col 3:25). We can make a wrong decision based on sin, human good, and evil resulting in evil, erroneous emotions in our life, bad judgment, and false teaching. Self-induced misery and divine discipline can result. “He who sows wickedness reaps trouble and the rod of punishment will surely come” (Prov 22:8). “Occupation with the Lord is the instruction for wisdom but before honor, there must come humility” (Prov 15:33). “He who gets wisdom loves his own soul and he who cherishes understanding prospers” (Prov 19:8).

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You are what you think. “As a man thinks in his heart, so he is” (Prov 23:7). The real you is revealed by the thoughts and intentions of your heart. “As water reflects the face, so a person’s heart reflects the person” (Prov 27:19). God knows our thoughts, intentions and motives. Acquiring a divine viewpoint is so important. Arrogance will short-circuit this. The only way to shed arrogance is to let the Word of God shed light on the real you. Have you ever asked God to give you a personal examination? “Test my thoughts. Let me know where I am out of line.” Replacing human viewpoint with divine viewpoint thinking is a lifelong process.

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You have a choice. You can love the world which is the cosmic system, the things of the world which bring temporary pleasures in life. “If anyone loves the world the love for the Father is not in him” (1 John 2:15). Or you can love the Lord Jesus Christ and have permanent happiness. “He that loves Me will be loved by My Father and I will love him also and reveal Myself to him” (John 14:21). The cosmic system is the system of evil perpetrated by Satan to control believers and unbelievers. God’s system is grace. The world can’t provide the happiness and joy that comes from fulfilling God’s plan for your life. Love for God is true motivation to live the Christian way of life.

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Sin is anything contrary to the character of God. Sin is not an issue in being saved. In your position in Christ, all of your sins are forgiven, past, present and future. In your experience in Christ when you sin in order to be forgiven you must use 1 John 1:9, rebound. If you died today with unconfessed sin in your life you would go to heaven because of your position in Christ. Sin comes in three areas: things we think, say or do. The temptation to sin is not a sin. It’s the volitional act of succumbing to the temptation that’s sin. When you do the right thing in the wrong way it’s called wrongdoing. “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me” (Ps 66:18). Evil is the genius of Satan that contradicts God’s policy of grace. Evil is not truth. All sin is evil but not all evil is sin.

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Serving God is your purpose in life. This is why God left you here after you were saved. “Fear the Lord and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you” (1 Sam 12:24). You receive a spiritual gift from the Holy Spirit at the moment of salvation. Using your spiritual gift is one way to serve God. You must be filled with the Holy Spirit and have some spiritual growth for your gift to be effective. This is what the Lord Jesus Christ said about serving, “If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him” (John 12:26).

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If you are in Christ, you have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, and you are a new racial species called a Christian (2 Cor 5:17). We all have Adam’s genetically formed sin nature in our bodies and as a result, we are spiritually dead. This is why we need to be born again to have a new life in Christ. “God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth” (John 4:24). We worship God through the filling of the Holy Spirit and learning and applying the truth of the Word of God. By changing the way we think from a human viewpoint to a divine viewpoint and by acquiring divine wisdom we can replicate the life of Christ and re-present Him to our generation. “Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me. My yoke is easy and My burden is light” (Matt 11:29-30).

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Christ came to deliver you from the penalty and the power of sin in your life. Sin is anything contrary to God’s character or acting independently of Him and His provisions. Sin can be something you think, say or do. It’s not a sin to be tempted. There is no such thing as sinless perfection. “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us” (1 John 1:8-10). If you reject God’s Word and His will and stay in carnality, expect God’s discipline. “He that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he’s done and there is no respecter of persons” (1 John 1:8-10).

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We are one in Christ. When we believe in Jesus Christ we become a new racial species—a member of the royal family of God. “If anyone is in Christ he is a new creation” (2 Cor 5:17). God offers us a different way of living. You can have a life filled with meaning, purpose, definition, and lasting happiness. To live it, renovate your thinking—think divine viewpoint, not human viewpoint. “When wisdom enters your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion will preserve you, understanding will keep you” (Prov 2:10-11).

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God has blessed our nation abundantly. Yet we have turned away from God and divine establishment principles. We’ve taken our eyes off the Giver and are focused on the gifts, and we’ve become an arrogant nation. Our nation is involved in a lot of sin. Dishonesty, hypocrisy, and greed have become the norm. “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the Lord” (Jer 17:5). The Bible warns us we can’t change anyone but ourselves. That’s where it starts. We need to be spiritual influencers if our nation has any chance of recovering.

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Arrogance is the number one enemy of the Christian. Satan uses arrogance and you can’t afford to let him manipulate you by appealing to your arrogance. Arrogance is always identified by self-justification. Self-justification leads to self-deception which leads to self-absorption which ultimately leads to self-destruction. If you’re thinking, “Why did God have to discipline me” you’re in a bad place in life. “When arrogance comes, then comes dishonor” (Prov 11:2). Humility is the code word for respect for authority and its orientation for the grace of God. “A person’s arrogance will bring him low but a lifestyle of humility will attain honor” (Prov 23:29). When you take on this attitude of humility based on a divine viewpoint and orientation to the authority of God, humbling yourself, then God can use you. God promises that the humble believer who is grace-oriented will be promoted. “God opposes the arrogant but He gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6).

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