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Part 14. How Do We Assure Ourselves That We Are Dead To Self? by louisadiks: 9:48am On May 29, 2011
There are three vehicles that have been assigned by the Holy Spirit to carry us into this realm of being dead to self: The vehicles of Sanctification, Consecration and Baptism.
SANCTIFICATION means to be set apart to God while Consecration means to a larger extent separation unto God from a carnal use to a sacred use. There are two known types of sanctification, Absolute and Progressive sanctification. In Absolute Sanctification, the works done by Christ Jesus on the cross of Calvary through the shedding of His blood restored us to God our Father. The scripture in Hebrew 13:12 confirms this thought:
Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered without the gate.
Also the scripture reveals that Christ had sanctified us by His Spirit. 1 Peter 1:2 states:
Elect according to the fore knowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
The scripture states in 1Cor.1:30:
….But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
As born again children of God, the scripture in 2 Thess. 2:13-14 reveals to us that from the beginning we were chosen of God and sanctified in Christ.
But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
At birth we are cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ, washed and sanctified. The scripture in Hebrew 2: 11 confirms this thought:
For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren.
Therefore we should not trample under foot the blood that sanctified us. This is also revealed to us in Hebrew 10:29 which states:
Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of Grace?
The Progressive Sanctification is a daily cleansing of our soul life with the word of God. In John 17:17 the Lord prayed: Sanctify them through thy truth thy word is truth. The food of the soul is the word of God even as our natural food is meant for our natural body. As we feed on the word day and night our minds are being transformed daily.
The scripture in Rom.12:2 states: And be not conformed to the world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. The word of God states that we should not be “conformed” to the world but should be “Transformed”. To be transformed is to be changed which is the same as to be transfigured, that is passing through a process of metamorphosis from the old nature to a brand new nature just as the nature of a caterpillar being transformed to the nature of a butterfly. The Holy Spirit is working in us to bring about this transfiguration as was revealed of our Lord at the mount of Transfiguration.
The scripture in Ephesians 4:23-24 states: And be renewed in the spirit of your mind. And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Also the scripture in 2Cor. 3:18 confirms this change that is about to take place in the lives of those whose minds are stayed on the Lord. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
CONSECRATION is the act of setting apart our whole lives only for the service of the Lord and not for any other use. Therefore we have to conform to the new and living way that Christ has consecrated for us through the veil that is His flesh. There are certain obligations which are binding on us as believers who desire to fulfill the demands of the brazen Laver. Firstly, we must be in conformity with God and His word daily and commune with Him. Secondly, we must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. God, as a researcher of our heart requires true worship led and directed by the Holy Spirit. Thirdly, we must in full assurance of faith lay aside doubts and sinful distrust of God’s word, for without faith it is impossible to please Him. Fourthly, we must cleanse our heart from guilt and evil consciences; then lastly, our bodies washed with the water of baptism to show before witnesses in the natural and in the spiritual that we have submitted to the cleansing of the Spirit and raised up to walk in the new and living way.
BAPTISM is the word coined from the word Baptizo which means immersion. It is an act by which the medium covers the recipient inside and outside. There are three levels of Baptism which forms one Baptism. These are (a) Water Baptism (b) Baptism in the Holy Spirit (c) Baptism into Christ Jesus.
Having a foreknowledge of the meaning of Baptism, we have to prepare ourselves to be immersed in water, the Holy Spirit and in Christ Jesus. For water baptism the medium is water and the Baptizer should be a born again, Spirit-filled anointed disciple of Christ. We should ensure that the baptizer qualifies else it becomes a mere formality and a phase for the transference of demonic spirits. In the case of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, the Baptizer is Christ Jesus. The Lord immerses us into the Holy Spirit and we are raised up completely surrendered to the Holy Spirit to be used for His work these last days.
The scripture confirms this in Matthew 3:11:
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worth to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.
The Baptism into Christ is often done by the Holy Spirit. Here we are buried in Christ Jesus no longer to be seen but Christ. We are no longer found in the outer court but in the Holy place, a realm we work in total obedience to the Holy Spirit. At this spiritual status we are meant to fulfill the demands of the Golden candlestick, the Table of Shewbread and the Golden Altar of Incense. A Believer who is not dead to self cannot be baptized into Christ Jesus. The following scriptures places believers in the Holy place of a higher spiritual status than those in the outer court thus they are either part of the Woman Company called the Church or they are of the Manchild Company called the Sons of God. The whole creation is waiting to see the Manchild manifest the ultimate power of God to bring about the deliverance of the whole earth. Please see diagram D
It is at this stage of spiritual growth we can safely say that we have fulfilled the scripture in 2Cor.5:17 which states:
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new. Beloved, the scripture in Rom. 8:1 reveals that in Christ Jesus we shall not suffer any condemnation or judgment.
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Romans 8:1KJV
Finally brethren: For the earnest expectation of the creature waited for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. Romans 8:19-23 KJV.

TO BE CONTINUED! Louisadikibarasika bassey okokon

Re: Part 14. How Do We Assure Ourselves That We Are Dead To Self? by inedi: 3:41pm On May 29, 2011
what is your source of your threads?
Re: Part 14. How Do We Assure Ourselves That We Are Dead To Self? by louisadiks: 8:22pm On May 29, 2011
Beloved if you have been followimg the message from part1 to part 13 you would'nt be asking such a question.i will refer you back to part1 .The message is from the Lord to the true sheep who hears the Masters voice and follow. Those who are led to this wall receive the word with great joy and spiritual understanding is given to them Isaiah 28 verses 9 and 10.If you are one of the sheep then humble yourself and go back to part 1 of the message it comes from our Lord jesus Christ, louisadikibarasika

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