“What is sanctification, how it operates in the heart and life of the believer, and how the Holy Spirit works with us our entire lives to bring our condition up to our position in Christ Jesus.”
Book: Sanctification by Jimmy Swaggart www.jsm.org
I found reading the whole book very helpful in getting the information embedded in me. There is a lot of repetition, but it actually helps in the learning process.
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Be sure to keep God Almighty [Father] in his supreme position — when reading the book and understanding santification.
page 10:
“Everything comes from God [Almighty] through what Jesus did at the Cross then the Holy Spirit will work mightily on behalf of the believer and guarantee victory.”
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Remember:
It is God Almighty’s plan and will that all who accept salvation will be saved.
Jesus paid the sin penalty and God Almighty [Father] accepted the payment. It was God Almighty who resurrected Jesus.
Jesus requested God Almighty [Father] to send us the Holy Spirit to help us.
We cannot be victorious against sin or Satan [although salvation is secure] by our own strength, ability, willpower, faith, or efforts. Only the Holy Spirit has the power to be victorious over sin or Satan.
The Holy Spirit inspires anyone who comes to God Almighty through Jesus to seek God in the first place.
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The Bible Scripture has a lot of things you are to do as a Christian. It is easy to get convinced that you are to be doing them through your own willpower and strength even though you are saved [through Jesus Christ and his payment of the sin penalty] — BECAUSE YOU ARE SAVED.
However, you are to allow the Holy Spirit to do them through you as you do not have the ability to do them in your own willpower and strength.
I think where I got messed up is that I thought I was to follow the scriptures on the do’s, but I failed compeletely every test of God. Each time the scripture tells of what a person should be doing, it does not say then and there that it is through the Holy Spirit working through you that gets it done. It is easy to get to thinking YOU ARE TO DO IT, however, because you are saved through Jesus Christ paying the sin penalty at the cross, that you get the Holy Spirit to do what you are being told to do [via scripture].
BUT ——- one has to follow God’s plan of victory as HE has it set up to work. The Message of the Cross by Swaggart presents this plan.