The Narrow Road Underground

Do not take chances or even get close to disobedience of God’s commands (sin)

“Be gentle with one another, sensitive. Forgive one another as quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you.” Ephesians 4:32 (MSG)

Change your way of budgeting and spending money. Even the motive of why you work must change!

“Did you used to make ends meet by stealing? Well, no more! Get an honest job so that you can help others who can’t work.” Ephesians 4:28 (MSG)

Stop talking until you can control your words to be only helpful and kind, building up others

“Watch the way you talk. Let nothing foul or dirty come out of your mouth. Say only what helps, each word a gift.” Ephesians 4:29 (MSG)

Think how children break their parents hearts. Disobedience cuts you off from God’s grace leaving you stuck and trapped in sin!

“Don’t grieve God. Don’t break his heart. His Holy Spirit, moving and breathing in you, is the most intimate part of your life, making you fit for himself. Don’t take such a gift for granted.” Ephesians 4:30 (MSG)

Do not stop until you completely change your words, attitudes, and deeds. You will know you are right (righteous) when you are gentle and forgiving

“Make a clean break with all cutting, backbiting, profane talk. 32 Be gentle with one another, sensitive. Forgive one another as quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you. ” Ephesians 4:31-32 (MSG)

1/ Remember baby food is the foundation of repentance and turning to a life of obedience “… Let us not again be laying the foundation of repentance and abandonment of dead works (dead formalism) and of the faith [by which you turned] to God…” Hebrews 6:1 (AMP)

2/ The will of God for a new Christian is to learn to walk in the Spirit “As you have therefore received Christ, [even] Jesus the Lord, [so] walk (regulate your lives and conduct yourselves) in union with and conformity to Him.” Colossians 2:6 (AMP)

/ Stop living the perverse empty life like everybody else lives

“So this I say and solemnly testify in [the name of] the Lord [as in His presence], that you must no longer live as the heathen (the Gentiles) do in their perverseness [in the folly, vanity, and emptiness of their souls and the futility] of their minds.” Ephesians 4:17 (AMP)

1/ The invisible Spirit of God, like the wind, changes a person from within

2/ Being born again is not a mental religious opinion, but a life altering change by God’s Spirit literally entering into the new believer, making them a new creature

3/ The Holy Spirit enters into a person causing a spiritual  eruption of new life

How do you get your sins forgiven? “…Truly I say to you, unless you repent (change, turn about) and become like little children [trusting, lowly, loving, forgiving], you can never enter the kingdom of heaven [at all]." Matthew 18:3

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” Matthew 7:21-23

Watch below or listen to my podcast on itunes, Narrow Road Underground, 7STEPS Episode 2

Do you know how to appropriate grace so that “sin shall not have dominion over you”? Since grace reigns through righteousness should settle any question you have of whether or not grace has power!

The amazing gift of Jesus Christ not only means forgiveness for our past crimes [sin] but also floods us with grace power to stop offending God through a life of crime, and instead drives us to a changed life where righteousness reigns and controls us!

How Do You grow in faith and the knowledge of Christ?

Titus 2:11-14 (NKJV) 11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, 13 looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.

Luke 2:40 AMP “And the Child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace (favor and spiritual blessing) of God was upon Him.” [Judg 13:24; 1 Sam 2:26.]

God Pours Out Grace To Grow Us Spiritually

“So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” Acts 20:32 NKJV

He gives us a new way and more exciting way to experience the power of His grace through giving.

Rather than tithing 10-20% like Israel, God invites us to be sowers like He is because a sower operates by the laws of the harvest.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich. 2 Corinthians 8:9 NKJV

Grace empowers us to give!

“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.” 2 Corinthians 8:9 NKJV

1/ God gave His Son for a sacrifice for our sin And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21

2/ Jesus gave up everything to make us rich … As it is written: “He has dispersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever.”

3/ God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. [9:8]