{"id":11061,"date":"2024-04-03T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/servias.org\/?p=11061"},"modified":"2024-03-30T07:08:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T12:08:49","slug":"you-are-perfected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/servias.org\/?p=11061","title":{"rendered":"You Are Perfected!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a><em>You are perfected in Christ by His unconditional Love!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1<sup>st<\/sup> Thessalonians chapter 5:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">23&nbsp; Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; <strong>and may your whole <u>spirit, soul, and body<\/u> be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">24 He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are a three-part person, we have a spirit, soul, and body.&nbsp; When we give our life to Christ, He perfected our spirit man immediately.&nbsp; This did not apply to our souls or our bodies.&nbsp; We are accountable to renew our minds and put our bodies under subjection to our spirit.&nbsp; Our spirit was sealed by The Holy Spirit, but the other two parts were not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul also wrote by The Holy Spirit in Hebrews chapter 10:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">11&nbsp; And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">12 But this Man (Jesus Christ), after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the Right Hand of God,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">14 <strong>For by one offering <u>He has perfected forever<\/u> those who are being sanctified<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is an unconditional act of Love!&nbsp; We don\u2019t lose our salvation every time we sin.&nbsp; Our Heavenly Father\u2019s grace and mercy are sufficient to keep us from losing our salvation.&nbsp; By Jesus Christ\u2019s one perfect sacrifice He made us perfectly Holy and complete for all time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further, in Hebrews chapter 12:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">18&nbsp; For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">19 and the sound of a trumpet and the Voice of Words, so that those who heard it begged that The Word should not be spoken to them anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">20 (For they could not endure what was commanded: &#8220;And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">21 And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, &#8220;I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the Living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn <strong>who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of <u>just men made perfect<\/u><\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">24 to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant, and to the Blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As members of the church of the Firstborn all our names have been legally registered as citizens of Heaven! &nbsp;We have come before Our Heavenly Father Who judges all, and Who lives among the spirits of the righteous who have been made perfect in His Eyes!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are now to come closer to God and approach HIM with an open heart, fully convinced that nothing will keep us at a distance from HIM. For our hearts have been sprinkled with blood to remove impurity, and we have been freed from an accusing conscience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now we are clean, unstained, and presentable to God inside and out! &nbsp;So now wrap your heart tightly around the hope that lives within us, knowing that God always keeps HIS promises!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Discover creative ways to encourage others and to motivate them toward acts of compassion, doing beautiful works as expressions of Love!&nbsp; Let the perfection of our spirit man be manifested in our words and actions toward others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are perfected in Christ by His unconditional Love! 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