WARRIOR, THE RAW & REAL TRUTH IS THAT YOU HAVE AN ENEMY, WHO COMES TO STEAL, KILL, AND DESTROY. ONE OF HIS PRIMARY TACTICS IS TO CAUSE YOU TO DOUBT & QUESTION WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE TRULY SAVED OR TO KILL, STEAL, AND DESTROY YOUR CONFIDENCE IN WHAT GOD HAD SAID. GOD SAID YOU ARE SAVED, YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, YOU ARE NOW HIS CHILD, AND WHATEVER GOD DOES IS FOREVER! (ECCLESIASTES 3:14) THE REASON THE ENEMY ATTACKS THE ETERNAL SECURITY OF THE BELIEVER IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF CAUSING YOU TO LIVE AS THOUGH YOU ARE UNSAVED. THE ENEMY WANTS YOU TO DOUBT WHETHER OR NOT YOU REALLY BELONG TO GOD, FOR IN DOING SO, YOU WILL NEVER LIVE FOR GOD. GOD WANTS YOU TO SERVE HIM, THE DEVIL WANTS YOU TO SERVE SIN.
HERE WE SEE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SALVATION & SANCTIFICATION. SANCTIFICATION MEANS “THAT ACT OF MAKING HOLY, CONSECRATING, OR SETTING APART FOR A SACRED PURPOSE.” EARLIER, IN OUR WARRIOR SALVATION, WE HAD SAID THIS WAS ALL ABOUT WHAT GOD HAD JOINED TOGETHER. WARRIOR SANCTIFICATION IS ALL ABOUT WHAT GOD HAS SET APART. WE MUST BE SANCTIFIED IF WE WANT TO “FEEL” WHAT IS ALREADY A “FACT.” THIS HAPPENS THROUGH OUR ALLOWING GOD TO SEPARATE US UNTO HIMSELF THROUGH THE PROCESS OF SANCTIFICATION, THAT OF WHICH WE WILL BEGIN TO DISCUSS IN THIS TOPIC.
WHEN IT COMES TO THE SANCTIFICATION PROCESS OF BELIEVER, IT IS ALL ABOUT QUALITY TIME SPENT IN GOD’S WORD WITH DAILY APPLICATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF SEPARATION. THE BIBLE SAYS IN JOHN 15:1-5, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.” (VS. 1) “Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.” (VS. 2) “Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.” (VS. 3) “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.” (VS. 4) “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” (JOHN 15:1-5) WARRIOR, IN VERSE THREE, JESUS SAID, Now ye are CLEAN through the WORD which I have spoken unto you.”
USING OUR INSTRUMENTS AS SERVANTS UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS PRODUCING FRUITS OF HOLINESS, SO THAT WE CONTINUE TO TRULY EXPERIENCE THE “FEELINGS” OF BEING SAVED JUST AS WE DID THE FIRST TIME WE GOT SAVED. THERE HAS ONLY EVER BEEN ONE FIRST TIME. ONE REASON MANY TEND TO ASK TO BE SAVED OVER & OVER AGAIN IS BECAUSE THEY MISS THAT “FEELING” OF BEING SAVED, THAT OF WHICH CAN BE “FELT” CONTINUOUSLY THROUGH THE SANCTIFICATION PROCESS. IF WE WANT TO “FEEL” CLEAN, WE MUST “STAY” CLEAN. THIS IS WHERE THE WARRIOR SANCTIFICATION PROCESS COMES INTO PLAY. AS WE CONTINUE IN GOD’S WORD THAT MADE US CLEAN THE FIRST TIME, WE WILL CONTINUE TO “FEEL” CLEAN, ALL THE TIME, HOWEVER, IF WE DON’T, WE WON’T.
WHAT CAUSED YOU TO FEEL SAVED WAS THAT YOU WERE OBEDIENT TO WHAT GOD’S WORD SAYS. IT “FELT GOOD, & THAT SAME GOOD “FEELING,” WILL BE “FELT” EVERY TIME WE ARE FAITHFULLY OBEDIENT TO “WHAT THUS SAITH THE LORD.” AS WE LOOK BACK AT ALL OF THE STEPS THAT WE HAVE TAKEN, WE WILL NO LONGER QUESTION OUR SALVATION BECAUSE OF OUR SANCTIFICATION. LATER ON IN JOHN, OUR SWEET, LOVING JESUS, PRAYED FOR HIS FATHER TO SANCTIFY US IN TRUTH, SAYING “Thy Word is Truth.”
WARRIOR, WHEN YOU ALLOW THE WATERS OF THE WORD TO SANCTIFY THE WORKS OF YOUR LIFE, YOU WILL “FEEL” SAVED. OUR HEAVENLY FATHER IS CONCERNED WITH OUR “FEELINGS,” ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THAT WE ARE EMOTIONAL BEINGS. GOD WANTS YOU TO “FEEL” LOVED, TO “FEEL” CHOSEN, TO “FEEL CLEAN, TO “FEEL” SPECIAL, TO “FEEL” COMFORTED, TO “FEEL JOY,” & ALL OF THESE FEELINGS THAT WERE “FELT” AS A RESULT OF OUR SALVATION, WILL CONTINUE TO BE “FELT” AS A RESULT OF OUR SANCTIFICATION.
WARRIOR, NEXT WE WILL DISCUSS THE WARRIOR TRANSFORMATION!
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