Admitting Failures Brings Strength

Failure is the best teacher! If we never fail, we are not learning, nor are we becoming stronger. If we admit the failures, we can grow stronger.

 
Those who use flattery and praise instead of instruction and realization will hold others back.

Proverbs 29:5: "A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet"
James 1:12 "Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him."

1 Peter 5:10 "And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you."

James 1:2-8 "Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind."

God allows us trials to build our emotional and Spiritual muscles so that we can be useful for His Work that He has for us.

 
Those who avoid trials and cannot admit their failures will not grow; they remain spiritual and emotional infants until they confess to be cleansed by God.

Unbelievers Do Not Understand Us But We Understand Them

Unbelievers are not going to understand us, but we understand them because we used to be them.

1 Corinthians 2:14 "The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned."

Christ Transforms!

Christ transforms those who have trusted in Him. This is why I don't believe in "reformation", "reforming" tends to suggest He takes what we are and makes us better, but He does not, He removes what we are and replaces it with His Spirit.

 
2 Corinthians 5:17
"17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new [a]creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."

2 Corinthians 5:16-18 "…16 So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:"

Galatians 6:15
"For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation."

Romans 6:4
"We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life."

Ephesians 4:22-24
"to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; / to be renewed in the spirit of your minds; / and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."

Our flesh is tempted and falls from time to time, but our Spirit is that of Christ. When we fail He disciplines us to bring us back into obedience.

Hebrews 12:5-7 "…5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you. 6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.” 7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?…"

1 Corinthians 10:13 "13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

God is our help when we are tempted; if we fall, we confess it to be cleansed, get up, and start again to obey Him.

Cleansing from Sin our entire lives!

Those who think we "can" sin all we want after salvation are probably not saved because when I became born again, I didn't want to sin, and when I fell into weakness and temptation, I was miserable until I repented. Then, after repenting, I never did those things again. When Christ changes us, we no longer want to sin and can never be comfortable in it again.

1 John 3:9. "No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God 's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God."

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The World will call you Rebellious, but it is They Who are So!

They called you rebellious because you didn't say or do the things they wanted you to; you walked with Christ while they walked with the world.

 
John 15:18 "“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you."
1 John 2:15 "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him."

Romans 12:2 "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."

Loving God's Truth

Love of the truth searches God's Word to follow His principles. False love of the truth is misinterpreting it to fit cultural desires.

Matthew 15:7-9 "…7You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: 8‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. 9They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ ”

Those who become the angriest when Scripture is brought to bear are those who are in rebellion against God.

 
Ezekiel 33:31
"So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain."

Isaiah 1:11-15
“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts? Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly."

Those who adhere to cultural "Christianized" practices to pretend to please God are also those who negate most of God's Word while claiming they are "Bible believers." When confronted with their error and disrespect for God's word, they rage as though we did something wrong, when it is they who cause division.
God is not impressed with the things we decide to do for Him that He never commanded. Just saying we are doing something for God does not mean it is pleasing to Him.

This modern culture lives by the erroneous notion that it is a good thing to sing; "I did it my way." It has become the cultural religion of our day to praise self and do what pleases us, rather than seeking Christ.

 
Amos 5:21-23
“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard. Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps."

Micah 6:6-8
"With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?"

Are the holidays we claim are for God really for Him? I think not, because of the ritual, the pomp, and assigning to God what He never commanded.

 
To walk humbly with our God means we will seek Him for His ways and not our own. His way is simple and unadulterated with human thinking. His way is always the best, even if we don't understand or see the results we would like.

 
The more we obey Him the more we understand the debth of life and the blessings from obedience. We miss blessings when we do things our own way.

Isaiah 55:8-9
8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts."

Those who choose their own ways over God's are hardening their hearts and reducing their own thinking to foolishness.

 
Proverbs 18:2 "A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion."

Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction."

Let's not be fools, let's grow in wisdom and see the Spiritual blessings God has for us!