What Are You Made Of?

Our Scripture on yesterday reminded us that we must be born again in order to see the kingdom of heaven. We found out that many have only one part of the two step process in salvation (confession and accepting Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection in order to be secure in an eternity with God). My question to you today is, where is the disconnect? Why are we falling short as true believers of Christ?

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek, Romans 1:16. Are we ashamed of whom we are? Or are we ashamed of what we may become? Do we fear man more than we fear God? I really would like to hear from you all today concerning this because it grieves my heart (and I know it grieves God) to see so many people gather on Sunday and a great number of them have been hoodwinked into believing they are born again. Let me help us out a little. Salvation in Greek is soteria and it means deliverance, healing, safety, preservation and soundness. Okay, if you’re still, after umpteen years of being saved, continue to cuss people out, harbor unforgiveness, steal, cheat (homeboy hookup, taxes), lie, fight (my Lord) etc, you need to go back and check the two step process again. When we’ve been born again, there should be evidence of deliverance!

Yesterday’s Scripture talked about being born of water and of the Spirit. In the rebirth process, some of us have not allowed the Holy Spirit to do the work of delivering and healing us. When we’re born of the spirit of God, we need to allow him to cleanse us from all filthiness of the flesh.

If you really looked at your walk, what would you be made of, spirit or flesh?

Your thoughts?