FREEDOM FROM SHAME
Brother James, OIC
Isa 54:4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
There is a time coming even today that if you will heed these words your past will no longer haunt you, familiar spirits will flee and shame will vanish. The years of widowhood from being bound in death, depression and despair will be over and you will enter into a new life of joy where hope lives and true love abounds. This is your day of salvation.
Jesus Christ is much more than a topic for a social gathering. He is the Risen Living God, Creator of the Universe, the Savior of the world, our Living Hope, our King. He is our Husband, Intimate Lover and Best Friend and only He can clean out the shame inside of you and fill the emptiness with Life.
Jesus that is taught in many forums today is a combination of worldly solutions and a few scriptures. That Jesus is not the real Jesus. The real Jesus strictly through Faith in His Word will miraculously deliver unto you ALL OF GODS PROMISES:
2Co 1:20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
And it is His Promises that cause you to become a New Creature wherein the Spirit of Christ, which is the Divine Nature lives:
2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
The corruption that shame causes in ones life is a corruption that will keep one bound to loneliness and depression all their lives unless they allow Gods Promises to heal them and deliver them from its devastation. And sadly many religious folk will through their misapplication of Gods Word only foster that spirit of shame in you. But the True Risen Savior has come to do one thing and one thing alone to rid you of guilt and shame of your past.
There is a very flighty and watered down attempt at describing what Jesus did for you on the Cross. You will hear over and over that Jesus died for your sin; He Did but that is not enough to know with a knowing that brings life today exactly what occurred on the Cross of Calvary:
2Co 5:21 For he hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be the righteousness of God in Him.
With your flesh you will always serve sin. But you no longer have to identify with your flesh. Your new identity is Christ in You the Hope of Glory! The Apostle Paul said these things by the Spirit of Christ in Him as he walked in the daily deliverance that only living in Gods Word can bring:
Rom 6:17 -23 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 7:22-25 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Rom 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Rom 8:5-9 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ (Anointing), he is none of his.
Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but CHRIST LIVETH 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.
Christ the Son of God was God He was the Word made flesh (see John 1:1, 14) and it is the Spirit of Christ (Anointing) that Truth births in you (see Gal 4:19). It is this anointing that destroys the yokes in your life whether they be guilt, shame, depression, anger, etc (see Is 10:27). The Word of God The Holy Bible contains Living Words of Life they are Seed which produces the Spirit of Christ in us as we understand spiritually the Word of Truth(see Mt 13:1-8; 18-24)
Today is the day of salvation. Paul instructs us
Php 3:8-14 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Be at Peace in Christ!
