Actual new birth in Jesus Christ versus a mere gaining of conservatism
Never be deceived that new birth in Jesus Christ is the mere gaining or demonstration of conservatism. That deception has been the downfall of more than a few. In that deception one goes back only two or three or a thousand lies ago in the same heart of the flesh without actually gaining a new heart in Jesus Christ. One is deceived that the mere living in reverse of one’s emotional history, even as skipping whole era’s is genuinely like “doing the self backwards” and doing what was taken as growth milestones in a supposed reverse order toward happiness instead of the former descending order toward chaos is proof of a recovery from the actual sin of former days. That might even be a better deception than it actually is to trick one into pride and false security if sin was not a living creature and not an emotional history at all but was truly mere “acts” with bad emotional consequences attached. But because sin is a living creature it can’t be done in reverse at all, much less as some supposed proof of having escaped it. Merely chewing the old cud as the supposed adornments/”proofs” of having gained Jesus Christ, or doing retro as “Church” “for a change” ( or retro political philosophies as “nation” ) is anti-Christ.
While there may be a small rest as one is backed off the worse experimentation demon’s have accomplished on one’s being in the light of surrounding saints of Jesus Christ, that is not the same as new birth in Jesus Christ for oneself. To wit:
Luke 11:21-26 When the strong man armed keeps his own house, his goods are in peace; but when the stronger than he coming upon him overcomes him, he takes away his panoply in which he trusted, and he will divide the spoil he has taken from him. He that is not with me is against me, and he that gathers not with me scatters. When the unclean spirit has gone out of the man, he goes through dry places seeking rest; and not finding any he says, I will return to my house whence I came out. And having come, he finds it swept and adorned. Then he goes and takes seven other spirits worse than himself, and entering in, they dwell there; and the last condition of that man becomes worse than the first.
Do not strive to be your own witness but rely totally on the Holy Spirit as your best honesty and you will be sure. The old milestones merely done in reverse are still liars.
New creature in Jesus Christ is NEW creature in Jesus Christ.
Ezekiel 36:25-28 And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your uncleannesses and from all your idols will I cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and keep mine ordinances, and ye shall do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Any who says or supports those who say that new creation is a thing for “later in heaven” or is metaphorical is anti-Christ.
Isaiah 44:8,9 Fear not, neither be afraid. Have I not caused thee to hear from that time, and have declared it? and ye are my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no Rock: I know not any. They that form a graven image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things are of no profit; and they are their own witnesses: they see not, nor know; –that they may be ashamed.
Let it not be said of you by the Holy Spirit:
Isaiah 44:20 He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
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Proverbs 3:5-8 Confide in Jehovah with all thy heart, and lean not unto thine own intelligence; in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will make plain thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes; fear Jehovah, and depart from evil: it shall be health for thy navel, and moisture for thy bones.
2Corinthians 5:16-18 So that *we* henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know him thus no longer. So if any one be in Christ, there is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new: and all things are of the God who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given to us the ministry of that reconciliation:
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen
Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it. 2 Kings 18:25
Anti-Christ tried the lie that God had sent him to conqueor Jerusalem through the Assyrians. But God says to the worshipers of demons who hate Jesus Christ and Israel: "But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, And thy raging against me." 2 Kings 19:27