The Narrow Road Underground

To achieve the unity of spirit, God gives powerful grace gifts to all believers. We call them motivational spiritual gifts through which each person views and interprets people and events differently.

Romans 12:6 GW God in his kindness gave each of us different gifts.

Ephesians 4:7 GW God’s favor has been given to each of us. It was measured out to us by Christ who gave it.

Romans 12:3-8 GW Because of the kindness [grace] that God has shown me, I ask you not to think of yourselves more highly than you should. Instead, your thoughts should lead you to use good judgment based on what God has given each of you as believers. [4] Our bodies have many parts, but these parts don’t all do the same thing. [5] In the same way, even though we are many individuals, Christ makes us one body and individuals who are connected to each other. [6] God in his kindness [grace] gave each of us different gifts. If your gift is speaking God’s word, make sure what you say agrees with the Christian faith. [7] If your gift is serving, then devote yourself to serving. If it is teaching, devote yourself to teaching. [8] If it is encouraging others, devote yourself to giving encouragement. If it is sharing, be generous. If it is leadership, lead enthusiastically. If it is helping people in need, help them cheerfully.

You do not need to volunteer, you have already been called

“Who were chosen and foreknown by God the Father and consecrated (sanctified, made holy) by the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and to be sprinkled with [His] blood: May grace (spiritual blessing) and peace be given you in increasing abundance [that spiritual peace to be realized in and through Christ, freedom from fears, agitating passions, and moral conflicts].” 1 Peter 1:2 AMP

“…elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.” 1 Peter 1:2

elect = eklektos, ek-lek-tos’; from Greek 1586 (eklegomai); select; by implication favorite :- chosen, elect.

2 Timothy 1:7-9 NKJV “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. [8] …share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God, [9] who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began…”

You cannot do something to earn salvation from God!– surveys prove most people think you must work to earn eternal life– people think by good works salvation can be earned– if you were convicted of murder you could not work to pay your debt!“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23 NKJV

Do you know how to appropriate grace so that “sin shall not have dominion over”? Do you know how to draw on God’s grace so that you never have depression or burnout? Do you know how to experience the great freedom grace gives to resolve your financial pressures? Do you know how to grow to maturity in your walk with God by the power of God’s all-sufficient grace?

You must understand the four phases of spiritual life, then you need to know what God requires of you to grow spiritually and please your Lord. We are not left to our own opinions for this, but God’s Word provides clear steps of action for every Christian to take. This is covered in the Seven Steps of Obedience To Spiritual Maturity found in 2 Peter 1.

God is the creator of everything, and His laws are justly placed over all His domain including every person who ever lived and will live. As real as the government of each country has authority over its inhabitants, God has authority over everyone. His laws are just and for the good of all mankind. Like traitors who rebel against their own nation, the vast majority of this world will not bow to His authority. Romans 3:5-20 (NKJV) 5  But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.) 6  Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world? 7  For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? 8  And why not say, "Let us do evil that good may come"?--as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just. 9  What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin. 10  As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one; 11  There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. 12  They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one." 13  "Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit"; "The poison of asps is under their lips"; 14  "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness." 15  "Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16  Destruction and misery are in their ways; 17  And the way of peace they have not known." 18  "There is no fear of God before their eyes." 19  Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20  Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die in our place to pay for all our lawbreaking and rebellion. His blood fully paid for all people's crimes, legally giving everyone the opportunity to become an adopted child of God.But, those who refuse must be brought to justice for such grave criminal activity. None are right before God, all are convicted criminals.Soon Christ will actually return to earth and this time bring judgment to all sinners. God's word warns us all that when that day comes it will be capital punishment for the wicked and the beginning of heaven on earth for the saints.

The world screams get even, but the teachings of Jesus change the world!Matthew 5:43-46 (NKJV)43  "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'44  But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,45  that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.46  For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 3 Ways to Demonstrate God’s Love To Our Enemies1/ BLESS THOSE WHO CURSE YOU2/ DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO HATE YOU3/ PRAY FOR THOSE WHO SPITEFULLY USE YOU“love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,”Learn more at my website http://kingdomlife.klptv.org/

In life when you are born you start as an infant and physically grow up. The same must be true when you are born again. Real change transforms a broken and sinful person into an obedient child of God. Change is a must and God has His mysterious ways to mature his people.

First of all, at the point of repentance, the Holy Spirit enters the spirit of the broken sinner. This is what it means to be born again. And now the supernatural transformation begins. That is right, the Almighty God pours Himself into the human spirit.

Everything about this is miraculous! Can you comprehend the fact that the living God lives inside a person’s spirit? This is not a theological theory, but a new reality! The great promise of Ezekiel, “I will put a new spirit in you” is fulfilled in every true Christian. Everything is DIFFERENT! Everything changes!