Choose Your Path Wisely

We are one with Jesus.

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)Ephesians 2:3-5

We are given new life in Jesus.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.2 Corinthians 5:17

We are freed from sin, because the body of sin is destroyed.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.Galatians 2:20

What is given as truth, must be accepted as truth.

We must consider ourselves dead to sin.

For he that is dead is freed from sin.Romans 6:7

We must consider ourselves alive unto God through Jesus.

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.Romans 6:4

Sin has been king of our lives, but we have a new Master.

We don’t answer to sin any longer. We answer to Jesus.

The victory has been given, now the choice is yours.

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:Colossians 3:3-5

Your sin and Jesus are at opposite ends of the spectrum.

To pursue Jesus, you must turn your back on your sin.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.James 4:4

To pursue your sin, you must turn your back on Jesus.

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?2 Corinthians 13:5

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.1 John 2:15-16

Your choice is critical, as it can have long-lasting, lifelong and/or generational effects.

If you are stuck in or are pursuing sin, it is only because you have chosen that path.

Repentance is the answer. It is a change of mind, that results in a change of heart and a change of direction.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.1 John 1:9