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"If I can deal with my temper and are able to be freed from sundry sins then I have the victory and am holy"

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2Corinthians 5:15 "And that he died for all, that they who live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them, and rose again."

Striving to live a good life makes a demand on you, making you live unto your own self or according to your own natural nature and power. This can never bring glory to Christ.

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Colossians 1:18 "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence."

Colossians 3:11 "Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all."

The most important thing to seek is Christ and not just to become a good person.

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Galatians 2:19 "For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God."

Living unto God is different and greater than living a 'good life'

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Galatians 2:20 "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."

The product of the Christian life is Christ which comes with the by-product of a good life.

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Jeremiah 9:24 "But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD."

A glorious life is hidden in the knowledge of God through Christ.

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John 14:12 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."

A good life is the result of an Ultimate faith in Christ as your all in all.

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John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me."

A good life is inaccessible without absolute faith in Christ as the reality of it.

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Philippians 1:21 "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."

The most vital thing to seek is Christ and not to become a good person

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Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes.

Christ is the ultimate of the Christian pursuit.

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Romans 14:7 "For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself."

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"It will take a long time to be free from this"

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2Corinthians 3:17 ,17 "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.",18 "But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."

True liberty does not come with time but is fully realized in the Spirit of God who is also the Spirit of Liberty

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Isaiah 61:1 ,1 "The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;",2 "To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;",3 "To provide for them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified."

James 1:25 "But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed."

Liberty does not is not the automatic produce of time but depends on the investments we make in the word of God which is the perfect law of our liberty

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John 8:36 "If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed."

If we genuinely call on the Lord to liberate us our Faithful God will set us free indeed. Time is not the issue a genuine encounter is.

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Leviticus 25:10 "And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and you shall return every man unto his possession, and you shall return every man unto his family."

The acceptable year of the Lord is the year of Jubilee (the year of total liberty) which comes every fifty years . I no longer have to wait for fifty years to experience total liberty for Christ has become my jubilee. In Christ Jesus I experience the Liberty that will take fifty years to experience

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"Everyone must do it my way"

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2Samuel 2:9 "And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel."

Colossians 1:18 "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence."

Jeremiah 17:5 "Thus says the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD."

Proverbs 3:5 ,5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not unto your own understanding.,6 "In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths."

Psalm 118:8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.

Romans 12:10 Be tender loving one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;

Romans 7:18 "For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not."

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