The Covenant.

The Covenant.

How do you, as one who stands in declaration to being a Christian; a follower of JESUS CHRIST, live understanding what means to truly be participating in The New Covenant?

And you who read this, at your convenience, please read every Scripture reference included in this writing, where The Scriptures used to show and reiterate the point have not been written out in full for your convenience, though they are included for it.

And please also know, if you do care to know; in that you care to discern correctly in what is being put to you as being something of The Truth Of GOD In CHRIST JESUS, you shall indeed do so.

It is by The Holy Scriptures that we may learn and gain Wisdom that leads to Salvation through faith which is in CHRIST JESUS, which will also include how we know to understand that whatever is being stated to us and spoken is being either of The Truth Of GOD or clearly is shown to being known as a lie which is of no benefit to any.

By the testimony of two or three witnesses every fact may be established.

And no liar has Eternal Life abiding in them, as only The SON shall Make you Free. John 8:31-47.

The New Covenant In The Blood Of JESUS: our entering into The New Covenant by faith and through our living from faith and towards faith is our now living under Grace.

And this differs from the old Covenant of being under Law because now, as a result of our being a partaker of Grace, the predominant and prevailing tendency of one's spirit; now being our New natural mental and emotional being; our New characteristic attitude; our New state of mind in how we regard anything and our physical inclination and tendencies in all conduct; and all to the final settlement of any matter, situation or circumstance, is now by our living in and abiding by, and evermore growing to our nature being of The Divine Nature; being in accordance with JESUS CHRIST and all The Word Of GOD. 2 Peter 1:1-11.
And it is by this that we know to recognise The Grace Of GOD in others.

In short, The New Covenant is and means to us, by our being of a genuine participation, our having a New disposition.

And this "New" means that it is something which was not previously known before.
2 Corinthians 5:14-21.

It is the Newness which grows and all the more to our recognising sin.
It does not, it must not live to maintain sin nor reverting back to rebuilding what we have once destroyed (the sin in our lives).

And if it is that we are found doing so then it is we live as proving ourselves to being a transgressor, and thus is our existing only to nullify The Grace Of GOD, rather than being partakers of Grace.

We are to live as being reconciled to GOD Through JESUS CHRIST.

HE Made HIM WHO Knew no sin, sin on our behalf, that we might become The Righteousness Of GOD In HIM.

And working together with HIM, we also urge you not to receive The Grace Of GOD in vain - for HE Says,

"At the acceptable time I Listened to you, and on the day of Salvation I Helped you";

Behold, now is "the acceptable time," behold, now is "the day of Salvation" - giving no cause for offence in anything, in order that The Ministry be not discredited, but in everything commending ourselves as servants Of GOD, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses, in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in sleeplessness, in hunger, in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in The HOLY SPIRIT, in genuine love, in The Word Of Truth, in The Power Of GOD;
by the weapons of Righteousness for the right hand and the left, by glory and dishonour, by evil report and good report;
regarded as deceivers and yet true;
as unknown yet well-known, as dying yet behold, we live;
as punished yet not put to death, as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing yet possessing all things.
2 Corinthians 5:21 - 6:10.

This is our living in order that we may indeed attain to The Resurrection from the dead.
Our laying aside all we knew before, to our living having Righteousness through our faith in CHRIST; The Righteousness, which from GOD on the basis of faith is that we may know HIM and The Power Of HIS Resurrection and the fellowship of HIS Sufferings, being Conformed to HIS death.

And wholly in like manner of the Apostle Paul, as he writes and knows to understand of himself,

...in order that I may attain to The Resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained, or have already become perfect, but I press on in order that I may lay hold of that for which also I was Laid Hold of By CHRIST JESUS.

Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward The Goal for The Prize of The Upward Call Of GOD In CHRIST JESUS.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, GOD Will Reveal that also to you; however, let us keep living by that same Standard to which we have Attained.

Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us.

For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross Of CHRIST, whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things...
Philippians 3:11-19.

..."But if, while seeking to be Justified In CHRIST, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is CHRIST then a minister of sin?

May it never be!

"For if I rebuild what I have destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor.

"For through The Law I died to The Law, that I might live to GOD.
"I have been crucified with CHRIST; and it is no longer I who live, but CHRIST lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in The SON Of GOD, WHO Loved me, and Delivered HIMSELF Up for me.
"I do not nullify The Grace Of GOD...
Galatians 2:17-21a.

See Paul's heart here in his writing to the faithful of The Church at Philippi, and in The Foreknowledge Of GOD is his writing to all who will live to participate in The Grace Of GOD until The Last Day.
And see the heart of a man Of GOD in truth, who is partaking in The New Covenant and is admonishing those who are of the same spirit as he.

By his New disposition he is moved to weeping at those who maintain to walk yet still being enemies of the cross Of CHRIST, whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, whose glory is in their shame because of how they are in fact living; believing and walking, that they are mentally disposed to regard, savour and think yet still on worldly things, on worldly ways; meaning both physically and morally.

And whereas before this Mystery was first Revealed in The Wisdom and Purpose Of GOD which had been Kept Secret for long ages past, but was Revealed at the fullness of the times; this Mystery, which is CHRIST In you; The Hope of Glory, man did strive in his own strength to uphold The Law, and his spirit was under constraint of his own spirit and for conscience sake in all control of his spirit, and he had nothing else other than his faith in belief and devotion to GOD which, because of the weakness of the flesh, was and is always given to change.

But now we have The Helper, WHO Is The HOLY SPIRIT, Through WHOM, by faith in CHRIST JESUS we are Led, Disciplined and Strengthened to walk as a constant, to know even as much as a thought we may have which is impure to GOD; Through WHOM The love Of GOD is Poured Out within our hearts.

But still, we have free will.
And this is why many do not hear and do not know and they do not understand; and yet they will believe that they do.
And this is because they do not truly perceive the truth of our having free will in it all.

And it is through and by our own free will that we may now indeed grow in The Knowledge Of The Truth, yet still only because of The LORD and HIS SPIRIT.
Whereby is how Paul writes to those who know to possess love In The SPIRIT;

For this reason also, since the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be Filled with The Knowledge Of HIS Will in all Spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you may walk in a manner worthy of The LORD, to please in all respects, bearing fruit in every Good work and increasing in The Knowledge Of GOD; Strengthened with all Power, according to HIS Glorious Might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to The FATHER, WHO has Qualified us to share in The Inheritance of the Saints in Light...
Colossians 1:9-12.

For we, Through The SPIRIT, by faith, are waiting for The Hope of Righteousness.
Galatians 5:5.

This is because The LORD GOD Desires truth in our innermost being and in the hidden part HE Will Make us know Wisdom.
And this is why The New Testament Scriptures both say and warn;

But The Goal of our Instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith...
1 Timothy 1:5

... keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith.
1 Timothy 1:19

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
They profess to know GOD, but by their deeds they deny HIM, being detestable and disobedient, and worthless for any Good deed...
Titus 1:15-16.

Ours is, that is, our Baptism into CHRIST is, an appeal to GOD for a good conscience (1 Peter 3:21).

Our being Baptised into CHRIST is to be that we are Baptised into HIS death, in order that as CHRIST was Raised from the dead Through The Glory Of The FATHER so we too might walk in Newness of Life.
And having been crucified with HIM so that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin; for he who has indeed died in this way is the one who is Freed from sin (Romans 6).

These Scriptures are now of The New Covenant, and in their fulfillment is the fulfillment of where It Was Spoken;

"This Is The Covenant that I Will Make with them after those days, Says The LORD:
I Will Put MY Laws upon their heart, and upon their mind I Will Write them."

"And their sins and their lawless deeds I Will Remember No More."

Now where there is Forgiveness of these things, there is no longer offering for sin...
Hebrews 10:16-18 (Jeremiah 31:33-34).

And this is for us to understand this means our having the understanding that we may not continue in sin that Grace might in crease (Romans 6), which means that we now cannot continue in sin and then expect that GOD shall Remember our sins and lawless deeds no more.
To do so read on into Hebrews chapter 10, and fear.
Because the fear of The LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of The Holy ONE Is understanding. Proverbs 9:7-12.

Because this is toward the inheritance of the Saints; our being partakers of The New Covenant as obedient children; those who have a heart after GOD'S Own Heart; a heart such as a man like David; that to us now, Through JESUS CHRIST, everyone who truly believes in HIM is then Freed from all things, from which we could not be freed through The Law of Moses. Acts 13:22-41.

And, as example and warning to us, we are given David's sin with Bathsheba, which shows to us that a man with The HOLY SPIRIT (1 Samuel 16:12-13) can still choose to sin in the flesh.

And sin, whatever sin that might be (all unrighteousness is sin, 1 John 3:1-10); being unconfessed and our being unrepentant of it; continuing in it, then it shall certainly lead to our death and eternal separation away from The Presence Of The LORD, no matter if we ourselves say that we are and believe of ourselves we are a Christian.

GOD Is The One WHO Justifies.
The LORD Is The One WHO Approves.
We cannot commend ourselves. 2 Corinthians 10.

The Message Of The Gospel is repentance for Forgiveness of sins.

And this is The Truth, regardless of how much we believe of ourselves that we are Christians who have taken hold of The New Covenant and that Judgement for sin no longer awaits us, as many false teachings and false brethren will believe and uphold. Psalm 51.

We should remember the example of king Saul from whom GOD, WHO Alone Sees the end from the beginning, Took Away HIS SPIRIT as HE did not do with David (1 Samuel 16:14, 2 Samuel 7:15).

Though in David's sin with Bathsheba, from David's broken and contrite heart he prayed,

...Create in me a Clean heart, O GOD, and Renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not Cast me Away from THY Presence, and do not Take THY HOLY SPIRIT from me.
Restore to me the joy of THY Salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.
I will teach transgressors THY Ways, and sinners will be converted (will turn back) to THEE...
Psalm 51:10-13.

I know a man who stands as a pastor, who very early in my Christian walk said to me that this passage of Scripture in Psalm 51 is not to us now as Christians, that we could not have The HOLY SPIRIT Taken Away from us, and he gave Ephesians 1:13-14 as his belief of this being spoken in The New Covenant.

But he is wrong.
He did not understand correctly, yet he is a man who stands before others to instruct and guide them in all matters pertaining to GOD.
Be careful in who you trust.
We have only ONE Teacher. Luke 6:39-40, Matthew 23:8-13.

There is nothing at all in Scripture which speaks of what David pleaded here in prayer to GOD not being possible to happen to us also.
If any believe that there is then please show it.

But whatever is not really there cannot truly be shown so that it is then seen by those who have eyes to see, because The Truth Of GOD will shed Its light that there is no more darkness in which anything can hide. And all may indeed be seen just exactly how it is according to GOD.

Our GOD Is The GOD Of our Strength.

...O Send Out THY Light And THY Truth, let them lead me;
Let them bring me to THY Holy Hill, and to THY Dwelling Places...
Psalm 43:3

THOU Hast A Strong Arm;
THY Hand Is Mighty, THY Right Hand Is Exalted.

Righteousness And Justice are The Foundation Of THY Throne;
Lovingkindness And Truth go before THEE.
How Blessed are the people who know the Joyful Sound!

O LORD, they walk in The Light Of THY Countenance.
In THY Name they rejoice all the day, and by THY Righteousness they are exalted.

For THOU Art The Glory of their strength, and by THY Favour our horn is exalted.
For our Shield belongs to The LORD, even to The Holy ONE Of Israel our KING.
Psalm 89:13-18

...For With THEE Is The Fountain Of Life;
In THY Light we see light.

O continue THY Lovingkindness to those who know THEE, and THY Righteousness to the upright in heart.
Let not the foot of pride come upon me, and let not the hand of the wicked drive me away.
There the doers of iniquity have fallen;
They have been Thrust Down and cannot rise.
Psalm 36:9-12.

In fact the warnings in Scripture are throughout all GOD'S Word and they state that there shall indeed be those who will call JESUS LORD and yet they shall be rejected by HIM, because of how they walked in their time, who did not even recognise that in all their time, though they named themselves a Christian, they had not The SPIRIT Of GOD; they had walked grieving The HOLY SPIRIT.

And if doing so in this life, HE then cannot be with us forever (John 14:15-18).

Luke 11:17-28, Jude:12-13, Hebrews 6:4-8, Hebrews 10:26-31, 2 Peter 2:20-22, 2 Thessalonians 1:3-12, 2 Timothy 2:10-21, 2 Timothy 4:1-4, 1 John 2:18-29.

But now, By The Grace Of GOD, HE Gives to us HIS HOLY SPIRIT that we may, by HIS Guidance and Discipline and Work in our heart toward the Cleansing of our heart and Renewing of our mind; to our being Transformed; Conformed to The Image Of HIS SON; our LORD JESUS CHRIST, and so proving what The Will Of GOD is; know that which is truly Good and Acceptable and Perfect (Romans 12:1-3).
This is our no longer being slaves to sin, but our walking as slaves of Righteousness (Romans 6:10-19).

Now The LORD Is The SPIRIT; and where The SPIRIT Of The LORD Is, is Liberty.

But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror The Glory Of The LORD, are being Transformed into the same Image from glory to Glory, just as from The LORD, The SPIRIT...
2 Corinthians 3:17-18.

It is the dead, as dead we all once were and indeed are in our being apart from CHRIST, who then hear The Voice Of The SON Of GOD, who will truly live and coming forth to a Resurrection Of Life. (John 5:25-29).

In this, in all our living, we now live to Glorify our Heavenly FATHER and our LORD JESUS CHRIST, not living as putting GOD to open shame by our own rebellious conduct in our living. Hebrews 10:26-39.

We are given Instruction as Christians which we are to recognise and always look to understand, to follow and prove obedient to.
And the reason and purpose we are given Instruction is because of what some will deny is ours, and that is our own free will.

We absolutely have free will, now and always.
To truly love must come from a free will to love, in the desire for the one on whom our love is bestowed.

And as GOD Shows to us by HIS Great Wisdom and Mercy, being shown in David, his sin with Bathsheba and his prayer afterwards from a broken and contrite heart, it is an example of whether we love GOD, to know Godly repentance so as to obey GOD, or not; whether we truly desire to, or not.
And this is absolutely dependent and is shown in our own obedience and desire to do so in and by our own spirit.
And this is to whether we truly do and indeed prove to grow Spiritually.
That we know to love (1 Corinthians 13).

"If you love ME, you will keep MY Commandments.
"And I Will Ask The FATHER, and HE Will Give you another Helper, that HE may be With you forever; The SPIRIT Of Truth, WHOM the world cannot receive, because it does not behold HIM or know HIM. You know HIM because HE Abides With you, and Will be in you.
"I will not leave you as orphans; I Will Come To you.
John 14:15-18.

"If you keep MY Commandments, you will abide in MY love; just as I have Kept MY FATHER'S Commandments, and Abide In HIS love.
"These things I have Spoken to you, that MY Joy may be in you, and your joy may be Made Full.
"This Is MY Commandment, that you love one another, just as I Have loved you...
John 15:10-12.

Many do not, but they will walk and talk believing that they have done so and are doing so.

And when it is that they do not walk according to GOD, then it solely comes down to their own heart.

David had a heart after GOD'S Own Heart, and this is the heart which freely delights in The LORD and will grow Spiritually.

It is the heart who will, by The Leading Of The SPIRIT Of GOD, know to understand whenever it sins against GOD and then will seek repentance because of the sorrow and burden on that heart in its sinning against The LORD his GOD.
It begins and is maintained in its walk always being motivated by its own free will to do so.

The LORD Said to my LORD:
"Sit At MY Right Hand, until I Make THINE enemies a footstool for THY Feet."

The LORD Will Stretch Forth THY Strong Sceptre from Zion, Saying,
"Rule in the midst of THINE enemies."
THY people will volunteer freely in the day Of THY Power;
In Holy array, from The Womb Of The Dawn, THY youth are to THEE as the dew.
Psalm 110:1-3.

Like a city that is broken into and without walls is a man who has no control over his spirit.
Proverbs 25:28.

And love is benevolence; the desire to do only good.
And there is none Good except GOD Alone.

Just as GOD'S Heart was to Send HIS Prophets to HIS people when they sinned and rebelled against HIM, and were deceived into being led astray in all that HE Knew would ultimately lead to their death, because HE Loved them; then so is the heart which hears, repents, returns to obey in seeking to ultimately do The Will of The LORD their GOD.
It is a heart after GOD'S Own Heart; a heart which truly loves HIM.

And this is why we as Christians are given warning and instructions and examples throughout Scripture for us to recognise and take heed of. Romans 15:1-13.

But of all who will number themselves as Christians, who truly hears?
Who truly has a heart after GOD'S Own Heart?
Shown, not by their own commendations of themselves and of others; measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves with themselves, but By The SPIRIT Of GOD; faithful servants Of CHRIST who possess love In The SPIRIT.

And though we now are Given The Helper, WHO Is The HOLY SPIRIT, it does not mean in any way, shape or form that we are free of responsibility for our own choosing, our own actions in any wilful disobedience according to The Word Of GOD in The New Covenant, which we, if doing so, shall ourselves ultimately stand before HIM as the sole perpetrators of it all; there being no one else for us to blame at The Last Day but our own selves.

... For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, how much more will The Blood Of CHRIST, WHO Through The Eternal SPIRIT Offered HIMSELF to GOD, Cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve The Living GOD?

And for this reason HE Is The Mediator Of A New Covenant, in order that since a death has taken place for The Redemption of the transgressions that were under the first Covenant, those who have been Called may receive The Promise Of The Eternal Inheritance.
Hebrews 9:13-15.

It is always according to our own spirit; our own sentient element in when we sin however we will sin.
And it is because of our heart which shows who and what we still are and truly are before The LORD our GOD.

Some examples of such men in Scripture are David and the Prophets who spoke In The Name Of The LORD. 1 Peter 1:3-12, Hebrews 11:32-38.

Hear the exhortation James writes in what we have portioned as James 5:7-20.

But still, it will all come down to the heart and that heart's own free will as to whether one shall truly hear and follow, because that heart is indeed a heart after GOD'S Own Heart.
Just as this Scripture states:

Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been Approved, he will Receive The Crown Of Life, which The LORD has Promised to those who love HIM.

Let no one say when he is tempted,
"I am being tempted by GOD"; for GOD cannot be tempted by evil, and HE HIMSELF does not tempt anyone.

But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.
Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.

Do not be deceived, my Beloved Brethren...
James 1:12-16.

We are to learn, we are to grow, and this is essential.
And although it is all GOD'S Work; we, being HIS Workmanship, and only in and by GOD'S Strength and Wisdom may we succeed in that any one of us may be animated to walk rightly because our spirit is being Led By The HOLY SPIRIT as we sojourn in this world, we still have free will and it is all from our own free will, though it is all GOD'S Work; By Grace through faith.

Trust in The LORD, and do good;
Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness (feed on HIS Faithfulness).

Delight yourselves in The LORD;
And HE Will Give you the desires of your heart.

Commit your way to The LORD, trust also in HIM, and HE Will Do It.
And HE Will Bring Forth your Righteousness as the light, and your judgement as the noonday.
Psalm 37:3-6.

The whole responsibility for it all lays solely with ourselves, to walk as a man such as the Apostle Paul, ministering as a priest The Gospel Of GOD, that our offering might become acceptable, Sanctified By The HOLY SPIRIT.

And in it all is our not presuming to speak of anything except what CHRIST Has Accomplished through us, resulting in obedience by word and deed; essentially first in our own selves and then is our example and teaching to any and all others.

This is why we are told not to grieve The HOLY SPIRIT By WHOM we were Sealed for The Day Of Redemption:
Ephesians 4:30 - 5:2.

This means to attest to one's testimony of CHRIST; being Of CHRIST, that the Christian is who they say they are; they are who they professes to be.

And in this we are to put a constraint on ourselves, in that we must at least first recognise and choose to put such constraint on our own selves as to what we may allow to being shown outwardly, no matter what is happening inwardly in any struggles in our overcoming the flesh as we begin our walk and as we do walk along The Narrow Path in our now living toward our Sanctification By The SPIRIT through our faith in The Truth.

Our obedience must first be willing to GOD, to desire to know to understand, to learn so as to grow in The Wisdom Of GOD, in Godly sincerity, according to all HIS Word, that we live upholding The Word and not living in contradiction to HIS Word to us.
As The Scripture says;

... and that from childhood you have known The Sacred Writings which are able to Give you the wisdom that leads to Salvation through faith which is in CHRIST JESUS.

All Scripture is Inspired By GOD and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in Righteousness; that the man Of GOD may be adequate, equipped for every Good work.
2 Timothy 3 15:17.

As Paul writes to The Church at Ephesus, who at that time were indeed of the first of Creation to believe in CHRIST JESUS; and just as he speaks in The Foreknowledge Of GOD to us also, who since that time til now and to The Day of Eternity will listen to The Message Of Truth, The Gospel of our Salvation - having also believed:

...to the end that we who were the first to hope in CHRIST should be to the praise of HIS Glory.

In HIM, you also, after listening to The Message Of Truth, The Gospel of your Salvation - having also believed, you were Sealed In HIM with The HOLY SPIRIT Of Promise, WHO Is Given as a Pledge of our Inheritance, with a view to The Redemption Of Possession, to the praise of HIS Glory...
Ephesians 1:12-14.

This means, that we who hope in CHRIST should walk always to the praise of HIS Glory; in whatever we do in word or deed.

In CHRIST, we, after listening to The Message Of Truth, which is The Gospel of our Salvation; that being repentance for Forgiveness of sins, having also believed in the same, which means our walking as upholding It, we then are shown to bear witness to being genuine and declaring The Truth of The HOLY SPIRIT Of Divine Assurance, WHO Is Given as Security of our Inheritance until The Redemption of GOD'S Purchased Possession.

For this we patiently wait.

Purchased, of course, with HIS Own Blood and so being to the praise of HIS Glory in those who walk as being Released from their sins By HIS Blood.

This comes only through faith in The LORD JESUS and Truthfulness Of GOD for all the Saints.
We do not give HIM Honour, we do not and cannot worship in spirit and Truth when we will live being apart from the Truthfulness Of GOD. That is, being apart from The faith.

But there is no question, there is no doubt, that in the beginning of our walk and throughout, we are going to struggle with our fleshly nature in our putting it to death and in our trials and tribulations as we lay aside the old self in putting on the New man facing whatever is GOD'S Will for us to endure for HIS Name's Sake.

If one does not know struggles with the flesh, both external and from within, then they surely are not walking rightly.

It is with difficulty that the Righteous is Saved. 1 Peter 4:12-19.

After all, for the one who may have lived thirty or forty years or however long one has lived according to the flesh, it is not going to all at once be a total instant transformation to being perfect; though we are, before GOD, and not according to our own selves, perfect by Virtue of The LORD JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF; but only if we will, in humility, truly walk as a constant in fixing our eyes on JESUS, The Author And Perfecter of our faith.

But what will happen; what should happen in what is The Purpose Of GOD to happen; is the Christian begins to recognise when they are either thinking or speaking or doing what is contrary to The Will and Word Of GOD, and consequently it is now shown in their living to their now being different to how they once were in their living, before they first confessed JESUS LORD and believed in their heart; to when they lived without GOD, and that means, according to the flesh.

And in such living, that is, according to the flesh, even for the Jew such as the Apostle Paul who lived when known as Saul believing in and observing The Law (Philippians 3:4-9), it was and is as he understood and preached, impossible for any, whether Jew or Gentile, to attain to their obligation of dying to the flesh; their putting to death the deeds of the body By The SPIRIT Of GOD (Romans 8:12-14); for their now, in The New Covenant, being as worshipers of GOD in spirit and truth, to being Made Perfect in conscience (Hebrews 9:9-15).

And this is because it is of The HOLY SPIRIT WHO Indwells the one who truly believes:
The HOLY SPIRIT Of Promise.

Flesh and blood cannot Inherit The Kingdom Of GOD.

But in this, through all of the mistakes, of which there shall be many along the way as we learn and grow, and to each their mistakes in their own manner, yet being sin which is common to all, GOD'S Grace Is Sufficient for the one who lives by faith in CHRIST JESUS The LORD.

HIS Blood, by which we are Cleansed from our sins, is the only Cleansing there is for us; HIS Blood which Releases us from our sins in the process of our Sanctification, which we must remain in throughout all the days of our living.
It is a New and constant way of living. Hebrews 10:19-25.

It is our living from faith and towards faith as a constant, in order that we may now grow in The Grace and Knowledge Of GOD to our abiding in love and The Peace Of CHRIST; exulting in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, Hope; Hope which does not disappoint.
Because the love of GOD has been Poured Out within our hearts Through The HOLY SPIRIT WHO Was Given to us. Romans 5:1-5.

We shall overcome.
We shall not remain doing the same fleshly things over and over again and not being able to recognise it and never overcoming.
Though some who live professing The Name shall do so.

And of course, this means that we shall be of those who do and will recognise when we are in error; because of The HOLY SPIRIT.

...A Righteous man falls seven times, and rises again.
But the wicked stumble in time of calamity.
Proverbs 24:16.

The Covenant which GOD has Made with HIS people, by Grace through faith in JESUS CHRIST, The SON Of GOD; is that The LORD Puts HIS Laws into their minds and Writes them upon their hearts.
And HE Will be their GOD, and they shall be HIS people.

And they shall not teach every one his fellow Citizen and everyone his Brother, saying, 'Know The LORD,' for all shall know HIM, from the least to the greatest of them.
For HE Will be Merciful to their iniquities, and HE will Remember their sins no more.

Time is short and The Day is coming.
Everything you think and speak and do is Seen and Known and Understood and is Written Down By GOD.
Nothing can be hidden from HIM.
Nothing is missed.

As a Christian, it is for us to be mindful of what many who profess to be Christian today show themselves not to being mindful of.
That, just as the Jews and the Pharisees believed of themselves in the time of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, in The Days of HIS Flesh, that they were of GOD; that GOD was their FATHER, and yet HIS MESSIAH Told them clear and contrary to their own belief, so it is possible and does and indeed shall prove to be for many "Christians" today.

..."If you are Abraham's children, do the deeds of Abraham.

..."Why do you not understand what I AM Saying? It is because you cannot hear MY Word.
"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father.
He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in The Truth, because there is no Truth in him.
Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

..."He who is Of GOD hears The Words Of GOD; for this reason you do not hear, because you are not of GOD."
John 8:39, v 43-44, v 47.

And as Paul wrote to those in his time, who believed and walked in error, so it shall prove to be of and for many today.
Those of whom will live professing to be Christian yet their beliefs and interpretations of The GOD Breathed Word conflict with those who were Apostles Of JESUS CHRIST By The Will Of GOD, in that they live to contradict their words which they spoke and wrote In The SPIRIT;

...Are you so foolish?
Having begun By The SPIRIT, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
Did you suffer so many things in vain - if indeed it was in vain?

Does HE then, WHO Provides you with The SPIRIT and Works Miracles among you, do it by the works of The Law, or by hearing with faith?

Even so Abraham believed GOD and it was Reckoned to him as Righteousness.

Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham.

And The Scripture, Foreseeing that GOD would Justify the Gentiles by faith, Preached The Gospel beforehand to Abraham,
"All the nations shall be Blessed in you."

So then those who are of faith are Blessed with Abraham, the believer.
Galatians 3:3-9.

The LORD Knows those who are HIS.

HE does not Consider a man further that he should go before GOD in Judgement (Job 34:21-37).

And I saw A Great White Throne and HIM WHO Sat Upon It, from WHOSE Presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them.

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before The Throne, and Books were Opened; and another Book was Opened, which is The Book Of Life; and the dead were Judged from the things which were written in The Books, according to their deeds.

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were Judged, every one according to their deeds.

And death and Hades were Thrown into The Lake of Fire.
This is the second death, The Lake of Fire.

And if anyone's name was not found Written in The Book Of Life, he was Thrown into The Lake of Fire.
Revelation 20:11-15.