Part Three

Proof Texts The Devil and Well-Meaning People (The Unworthiness Peddlers) Use To Clobber You Over The Head To Make You Feel Too Unworthy To Receive Healing and Prosperity: Identified, Examined, Explained and Refuted

Chapter Ten

Does 1 John 3:4-9 Teach That A Christian Can Lose His Salvation? ABSOLUTELY NOT!

I Jn 2:12

12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

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Why does God HAVE to forgive our sins? It's for His Name's sake. God's honor and integrity are bound up in His Word, and so is the honor and integrity of Jesus Christ. I have said several times in this book that if anybody can find a sin that can overpower the blood of Jesus, then they might split hell wide open. But you see, His Name is involved in this, and He says that our sins are forgiven for His Name's sake.

We get on guilt trips and have feelings of unworthiness because we don't understand the blood of Jesus. We have a defective view of His blood. In fact, we have a lesser view of the blood of Jesus than the Old Testament saints did of the blood of a goat. We're saying that the blood of Jesus has no more power in it than the blood of a goat. But notice something, His Name is involved in this. His integrity, His reputation, His character is wrapped up in the fact that He forgives our sins. Our sins are forgiven for His Name's sake - whether we feel worthy or not, our sins are forgiven for His Name's sake!

Look at 1 John 3:4-9.

I Jn 3:4-9

4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.

6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.

7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Why was Jesus manifested? According to verse five, it was to take away our sins. Well, if He took them away, why do I have to worry about them? Keep in mind that this book was written to Christians. If Jesus was manifested for the express purpose of taking away my sins, why do I allow the Devil to hit me over the head with them, making me feel unworthy and taking me on a guilt trip to the point where I absolutely accomplish nothing for God? Why do I let the Devil do that if Jesus was manifested to take my sins away? If He took them away who am I to let the Devil throw them up in my face? Does this Scripture say that He took them away? Yes, it does.

I Feel Too Unworthy To Receive Healing and Prosperity Because The Bible Says If I Sin I Can No Longer Abide In Him. IT ABSLOUTELY DOES NOT!

Look at verse 6. "Whoa, Brother Jay. What about this - every now and then I slip and fall. Does that mean that I no longer abide in Him?" NO. Look at the word "sinneth" in this verse. It was written in the Greek present tense and means "continuous action in present time". I can translate this verse like this, "Whosoever abideth in him does not continue the practice of sinning...." I do not continue the practice of sinning, but I do sin intermittently and occasionally, but it is not a continuously practiced thing. When God saves a person, He changes that person so that he does not continuously practice sinning. When he slips, it's periodic. When you look at this verse from the original Greek, it says a completely different thing from the King James Version, but this is exactly what it says and what it means - "Whosoever abideth in him does not continuously practice sinning...." When I was lost I continuously practiced sinning - I didn't care, in fact, I liked it. Now when I sin, the Holy Ghost convicts me on the inside like an explosion going off. I know immediately when I sin, and I feel bad about it. That's the work of the Holy Ghost. So, I don't continuously practice sinning.

I Feel Too Unworthy To Receive Healing and Prosperity Because The Bible Says If I Sin I Am Of The Devil. IT ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT!

Let's go a little further. Look at verse 8. Look at the word "committeth". It's written in the Greek present tense and means "continuous action in present time". The verse really says this, "He that is continuously practicing the committing of sin is of the devil...." A Holy Ghost, born again person will not do this. I'm telling you a truth here, people. When a person has been saved the Holy Ghost does a work in his life, and the Holy Ghost stops a man from continuously practicing sinning. His flesh may rise up and jump out and do something here and there, but it's periodic. His continuous practice is walking with God. So, the person who continuously practices committing sin IS of the Devil, that's for sure.

Before I got saved I continuously practiced sinning. I was as much of the Devil as anyone, and so was everybody else before they got saved. But when I got saved something happened on the inside of me that made things different. The Holy Ghost began a work inside me, and one of the things that He did, and still does, was convict of sin. When I sin my heart (spirit) hurts and if I keep messing around and don't repent, it will affect my physical body - I'll get sick. But God's Holy Spirit convicts me of my sin; therefore, I do not continuously practice sinning. It's sporadic, but that type of sinning is under the blood of Jesus.

I Feel Too Unworthy To Receive Healing and Prosperity Because The Bible Says If I Sin I Am Not Born of God. IT ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT!

Look at verse 9. Here we go again. "Whosoever is born of God doth not continuously practice sinning...."(Greek present tense again). When we begin to see what these Scriptures really mean it will set us free.

Now we can go back to 1 John 1:7 and see that the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us and keeps on keeping on cleansing us from all sin - continuous action in present time.

Then in 1 John 1:8 he says to Christians, "If we say that we Christians have no sin, we deceive ourselves....", but we do not continuously practice sinning. And when we do slip and stumble, it messes up our fellowship with God, but it does not mess up our relationship with Him. When I got saved, I became a son of God, and that will never change. My fellowship is effected when I sin, but when I confess that sin to God my Father, my fellowship is restored immediately.

The greatest damage that you can do to yourself as a Christian is play games with God. I know people who play around with God and kid themselves about the condition of their lives. Don't do that! Get honest with God. If you have sinned, confess it to God, admit it, pull out all the stops, and don't hold anything back. Confess it, and God will restore your fellowship.

1 John 2:1-2 says that if any man does sin he has an advocate, who is also our propitiation. When I consider the myriad of provisions that God has made in His Word for the Christian's sin problem, it absolutely boggles my mind. Something that really bothers me though is the defective view that some of God's children have of the blood of Jesus. It's an insult to Jesus for us to think that His blood has no more power, or even less power, than the blood of a bull or a goat which covered the sins of the Old Testament people for a year. To say that you can lose your salvation instantaneously by committing a sin, is an insult to the blood of Jesus Christ. That completely contradicts what the Bible says, because a Christian is not going to continuously practice sinning. When he does, though, he goes through a continuous wash cycle of the blood of Jesus.

I could care less if a person feels that they can lose their salvation except for this one thing - as long as you let the Devil and well-meaning people take Scriptures and misinterpret and misuse them and make you feel unworthy and no good, you will never exercise the power of God in your life - and that really bothers me a lot! We in the churches talk the talk, do our dead level best to walk the walk, but we have been misled about sin. What I'm teaching you in this book is as popular in some churches as a screen door on a submarine. Many Christians believe that you can lose your salvation - I don't, and I can prove it! First of all, when you consider what Jesus did and the fact that what He did is still in operation today, there is not a sin in this world that has guts enough to raise its ugly head and say to the blood of Jesus, "I can overwhelm You." That sin does not exist! Second, I do not continuously practice sin.

When God saved me, He changed me. I used to continuously practice sinning, lived for it. But when God saved me the Holy Ghost did a work in me that turned me around, and I have never gotten over it - and don't want to! That is the result of the work of the Holy Ghost in my life. He fixed me so that I do not continuously practice sinning, and neither does any other saved person.

Therefore, why in the world do you let the Devil drag up a sin and threaten you with it? You need to learn the power in the blood of Jesus, and tell the Devil to take his wimpy sin and get out of your face, because the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, continuously cleanses you from all sin including that one! When you learn how to do this, you will have the ability to exercise the power of God in your life.

The Holy Ghost Is At Work In Us

Do you know how and why I learned all this? I HAD to learn it, because I was not a very good guy. I needed to know who I was in Christ - I needed all the help from God I could get. So I searched this out, learned it, and got on top of it. If it was up to me and my ability to be able to serve God, I'd be gone in a flash.

But, you see, the Holy Ghost did a work, and therefore, I do not continuously practice sinning, because the Holy Ghost won't let me. When I do smash my finger and something rips out of my mouth that I shouldn't have said, it's sporadic, not a continuous thing. When I do have a temper fit, it's sporadic, not a continuous thing. The Holy Ghost does not let me continuously practice sinning.

How Much Does God Have To Do For You To Enable You To Get Off The Guilt Trip Down Unworthiness Detour?

This is what the Apostle John said, "Whosoever is born of God does not continuously practice sinning...." (1 John 3:8). But he had just finished saying in 1 John 1:8 that if we Christians say that we have no sin, we lie. How could he mean that we will never sin when he had just said, "....if we say we have no sin, we lie...." What he is saying is very simple - sure we sin, but it's sporadic, it's not a continuous thing. And when it does happen, the blood of His Son, Jesus Christ, continuously cleanses and keeps on continuously cleansing me from all sin. If that's not enough, Jesus continuously functions as my advocate. If that's not enough, Jesus continuously functions as my propitiation, which means the satisfaction for my sins. If that's not enough, the Bible says that God does not impute sin to a Christian. And if that's not enough, bless God, the Bible says that God imputes righteousness to Christians. HOW MUCH MORE DO YOU NEED?

If what I’m teaching you here is not true, don’t you realize the logical absurdities of it? Here they are! The blood of Jesus continuously cleanses me, a Christian, of all my sins unless I committ one. Then His blood is powerless and worthless. It will not work when I need it!

I continuously have a lawyer who has never and can never lose a case unless I sin and need him. Then he either won’t defend me or he can’t defend me. As such, my lawyer is absloutely useless to me.

I am continuously having satisfaction for my sins through Jesus unless I sin and need him. Then His propitiation goes out the window because it lacks whatever it takes to satisfy God on my behalf.

If the above three things the New Testament presents so plainly are this useless, worthless and powerless, then in the name of common sense, they shouldn’t be in the Bible at all!

When you get a handle on this, and the Devil pulls your wimpy sin up and tries to remind you of what you did 30 seconds ago, 30 minutes ago, 30 days ago, or 30 years ago, where do you think you can tell him to go? James 4:7 says that you can resist the Devil and he will flee from you. When the Devil tries to pull up my sin and slap me in the face with it, I start popping Scriptures back at him that talk about what Jesus did about my sin problem. I do it so fast that he can't get out of my presence fast enough. He is in the next county before I know it, because he doesn't like to hear what I know about what Jesus did for me.

Therefore, I have the authority and boldness to charge the throne room of God (Hebrews 4:16) that I may obtain whatever I need from God. When I found out that I didn't have to worry about my sin problem anymore, I got a Holy Ghost boldness that most Christians still don't know about

This Book Was Written To Get You Off The Devil’s Guilt Trip Down Unworthiness Detou

The reason I'm putting this in a book is so you will receive revelation knowledge of the depth of God's love for you and so you'll know that God is not holding your sin against you. I want you to know that you can have overcoming power in your life. But as long as you allow the Devil and the well-meaning Unworthiness Peddlers to use and misuse God's Word against you and hammer you over the head with it, you'll never have the power of God rise in you beyond the level of your feeling of unworthiness. I'm teaching you how to get rid of unworthiness. Shove it under the blood, dear Christians. Jesus' blood can handle it. MY HOPE IS BUILT ON NOTHING LESS THAN JESUS' BLOOD AND RIGHTEOUSNESS! That's where I rest my case. When I stand at the judgment seat of Christ, that will be my one claim and my only plea - the blood of Jesus. And if that's not enough, I'm lost. But if His blood is enough, then I'm as safe as that blood is powerful. So, I don't worry about it. I depend on the inner working of the Holy Ghost in my life, because the Spirit of God changed me when He saved me. He stopped me from continuously practicing sin. I still stumble and miss it. I still have a temper a lot worse than I ought to have, but bless God, it's not as bad as it used to be. Every day I get better, praise God.

When the Holy Ghost comes into a life He changes that life. I do not believe that just because a person comes down an aisle, fills out a card, and gets wet in a baptismal tank that that is salvation. I believe in a Holy Ghost salvation where there is a complete turn around in a person's life. Listen, God turned me around. I knew something was going on inside of me, because I completely changed. I didn't like the same people that I used to run with, I liked a new kind of people - Christians. I did not like to read the Bible before, but now I can't get enough of it. The Holy Ghost changed me! I have never gotten over being saved. I've never been the same since.

I've learned what I have in Christ. I've learned what Christ did for me, and what He did for me in the past is still at work for me now. I found that God does not impute sin to me, He imputes righteousness. I found out that I do not continuously practice sinning, because the Holy Ghost inside me won't let me. I found out that I occasionally sin even though I am a Christian, but when I do the blood of Jesus Christ continuously cleanses me and keeps on keeping on cleansing me. I found out that Jesus Christ is continuously my lawyer arguing my case before God in heaven. I found out that the death of Jesus is my propitiation in that it continuously satisfies God concerning my sin problem. Praise God, I will not let the Devil mess with me over my sin problem!

Charge Hell With A Squirt Gun

When the Devil wants to put me down and make me feel despondent over my short comings (and he does), I start quoting these Scriptures to myself and to him. As I do this my faith rises, my confidence level rises, and before very long I'm ready, again, to charge hell with a squirt gun and put the Devil's fires out. He doesn't bother me too much any more with this, because he knows I'll run him off with the Word of God just like Jesus did in the wilderness in Matthew 4. Satan kept on coming at Jesus, taking the Scripture out of context and lying about them. Jesus took the same Scripture and hit him right over the head with them and finally chased him right out of the wilderness.

What I'm doing in this book is showing you how to do the same thing. You will never overcome the Devil by your own power and wits, but you can do it with the Word of Almighty God. The next time Satan gets in your face with your sin and short comings, you begin to tell him the things which I have shown you and watch where he goes. And as you quote God's Word I want you to watch your confidence level rise. Then as your confidence level rises back up you'll be able to exercise God's power more at that point than you ever have.

I want you to know that you can obtain healing and prosperity even when you don't feel worthy enough. Your feelings of unworthiness are lies of the Devil anyway.

My worthiness, bless God, is based on the blood of Jesus Christ, and that blood is the only thing that makes me worthy. When I base my approach to God on Jesus and His finished work God welcomes me into His presence. Therefore, I can go into the throne room of God anytime I want to or need to. I'm not going to back up like I'm ashamed or like I don't belong there and don't deserve to be there. I DO deserve to be there - based on what Jesus did and is doing, for Jesus paid it all! So when I walk into God's presence I go to Him standing straight up with my eyes right in His face, because I am worthy. For me to back up into His presence and be ashamed to face Him is an insult to what Jesus did. It's an insult to His blood and His work. What Jesus did was enough, and I'm going to act like it.

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