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1st step of Salvation

                 Responsibility before God :  4 R's of Salvation


This step is all about being responsible before God for our attitudes, behavior, lifestyle, choices/actions. The middle letter of sIn is I or an egocentric nature that is self-centered, selfish, self-will and rebellious to our authority especially the authority of God. Therefore, we don't believe what God says and become disobedient to God. This is the totally depravity of man's nature in anyone born in the Adam and Eve family.

Jesus said in Mark 7:21-23 that this is what God sees when He looks into our heart: "For from within out of the heart proceeds; evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man."

 Worst yet, mankind is totally dishonest about their true nature. Jeremiah 17:9 says: “Our heart is deceitful above all thing and desperately wicked, who can know it?" We can know it. : the wickedness that resides in all of our hearts. Self-deception and dishonestly dominates our thinking regarding our true nature. We are clueless regarding both our unrighteousness and our self-righteousness, which speaks of both the sins of the flesh and the sins of the spirit!

   One of the greatest tragedies in life is that children learn to mimic their parents attitudes and behavior and particularly are more affected and infected by their parents negative attitudes and behavior. Family dynamics where there is a lack of conflict resolutions are very damaging to children's growth and leads to children becoming “stuck in the past” where their mind-set is always focused on the pain of the past. They cannot enjoy today or plan for the tomorrow because they controlled by the painful events of the past.

 Arrested Development or stunned growth of children takes place when children are traumatize by issues of rejection or abandonment by a parental figure. Some children become victim of either incest or sexual molestation by adults. Some children are abused either emotional or physically. Many other children are damaged by their parents divorce or the death of a parental figure.

  The end result of childhood traumas is that children bury their pain and undeserved shame in their subconsciousness which causes them to be tormented daily by it. Many of them will try to anesthetize their pain by using drugs and alcohol. This will lead to these individuals engaging in criminal behavior so they can rob and steal to get money to buy their drugs.

 These victims of arrested development have a lot of self-pity and anger which leads to them finding scapegoats to blame for their behavior. They will not take responsibility for their behavior and they will not be willing to deal with their issues They must become willing to be proactive about their issues and take responsibility for their behavior and lifestyle.

 The sins of their parents have definitely affected and infected them, but they are still responsible for the choices they make. Most important of all, they must take charge and become proactive about dealing with these issues in order that their own children will not repeat the cycle and end up becoming “damaged children in adult bodies.”

Why do we do what we do? That is, choosing to do things that are detrimental to our health and well being? Is it not because there is lodged deep in our soul an evil force that we were born with. This evil force will always cause us to be totally selfish and really to hurt anyone, who gets in our way. This evil force will quickly drives us to the road of self-destruction.

"Now we know that whatsoever the law says it says to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God." (Romans 3:19)


All of mankind are without excuse:  we are all guilty before God!




Development of Sanctication-First Step

Questions with Answers found in this section of Scripture: 

      1.  What is the most important quality that we need to add FIRST to our faith?


      2.   What is the will of God according to this section of Scripture

      3.    What is virtue?

      3.    What is the gravest sin in the Church

      4.     What two qualities will sexual immorality destroy inside of us?

       5.     What relationships will sexual immorality destroy?

2 Peter 1: 5 “…giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue-which is moral excellence (2 Peter 1:5a).  It doesn’t say, add, church involvement, or soul winning, or separation. To our precious faith add moral excellence. Does that sound a little odd?  In I Thessalians 4: 3-the Word of God says; “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles, who don’t know God…For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. 

Therefore, he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit. (I Thessalonians 4:3-5, 7-8). In I Corinthians 6:18-20 the Word of God declares:  Flee sexual immorality, as every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immortality sins against his own body.  Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.


Sex is sacred and marriage is a picture of the intimacy, oneness, and purity that the Lord wants in His relationship with a believer. “For this reason a man shall leave his    father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.  This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
  1. Sexual immorality is one of the gravest sin in the church.  It destroys relationships and families. Satan has used sexual immortality to destroy the ministry of pastors, who gnvolved in an illicit relationship.
  2. Many men in the church have an insatiable appetite for pornography that destroys their relationship with both their wife and the Lord.
  3. Too many women in the church love their soap operas and they often have romance thoughts about being involved in an affair.
  4. Adding moral excellence to our precious faith will create much stability and strength in our character in addition to gaining God’s favor and many blessings from the Lord.
  5. Sexual immorality is one of Satan’s favorite tool for enslaving those who are involved in it.Sexual immorality will destroy a person’s character and conscience.  Therefore, ADDmoral excellence to your precious faith
  6. To illustrate character I would use cement that is wet and mix with gravel, when it is first laid down on the ground.  When it is settle it will become hard and sturdy.  Moral excellence is the beginning of a foundation that will soon become hard and sturdy.

(Abstain from sexual immortality)


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