Disclaimer*
This is not talking about the question of what if a person is on their deathbed, and cannot do anything for the Lord before they pass. This is about those who still actively have breath and should have no excuses to whether they obey the Lord or not.
God commands. If we have the Holy Spirit within us, He enables us to obey. Peter could only come to Jesus on the water, because Jesus said come! A command not a suggestion. Anything God commands us to do, He will equip us and enable us to obey. He will never give a command without there being a way to obey in immediate obedience.
“I can’t” shouldn’t be in our vocabulary unless it’s referring to something that goes against the commands of God . Another reason would be if we are surrendering our lack of ability to His Ability. To die to self , is the realization that “I can’t “ keep doing what I have always done nor keep the “I was born this way” mentality and live!
We must surrender to the Lord and be born again if we are ever going to experience true eternal life with the Lord forever. We must experience true regeneration or newness of life, if we are ever going to experience the life the Lord has for us. The purposes and tasks ahead that He has prepared for us can only be accomplished when we say not my will , but Thine, God’s Will be done; An act of total surrender to the Lord. We must commit to and follow Him, if we profess Him as Savior.
We have the choice between two masters. If we choose the Lord as our master, His Lordship cannot be separated from His role as Savior. He cannot save us to the uttermost , if we never say yes, Lord to the laying down of the things that are hostile and an abomination in the eyes of a Holy, Sinless, Perfect God.
Thanks be to God, that Jesus covers us and that His sacrifice makes us justified and forgiven , in right standing with God , Our Creator. But while we have breath may we strive to honor the One who gave His life for us, who paid such a high cost to redeem us.
Let’s not take this lightly. If we don’t strive to obey Him here, let’s not fool ourselves thinking we will obey Him in perfect Eternity where Jesus will forever reign.
If there is not a desire to honor and obey the Lord , then does the Holy Spirit who only does and says what God the Father and Jesus do and say, truly dwell within you? Does your heart cry “Abba Father” and do you have a desire to please Him or do you want to live how you want , being deceived by the enemy that you will still go to Heaven?
*All Scriptures from the World English Bible
Romans 8:1-17
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.† 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; 7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be. 8 Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.
9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. 10 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. 15 For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba!‡ Father!”
16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
Romans Chapter 6
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection; 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, 9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him! 10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God. 11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! 16 Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered. 18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. 20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Matthew 7:21-23
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’ 23 Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
Continued on Part 2
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