"Living Out The Truth" -2

"But the Scripture hath concluded 'all' under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe." (Galatians 3:22) So, what makes those that were 'once' walking in the Lord fall away? Interestingly it might not be what you think it is; because, there is 'one thing' which can always come back to bite you, if you are not careful to destroy it: And what might that be? I think you know! You see; there are two things which happen when we come to Jesus Christ; we are given Life, and we are given death. What??? I hope you knew that; but just in case you did not, let me explain. We are given Life by our soul being reunited with God, and the Holy Spirit dwelling within us; this is Eternal Life with God, and is now a 'New Creation'. We are given death, by the fact that our 'old man' is to be crucified with Christ, and is to be considered as dead. Now then, the thing which I believe happens to cause those which were walking in the Lord to fall away, is that they never really crucified the old man, but have been dragging it along on their journey. This is really part of the lie which I mentioned yesterday; the lie being, that we can somehow hold onto those things which separate us from God, and yet walk with God. You might wonder how anyone one could think that, but you would be surprised to know. In John 8:32, there is this famous verse, "And ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free." Free from what? Free from the bondage of sin; which means free from that 'old man' which was born in sin, and is to be crucified with Christ on the cross, because, the 'Truth' be told, it was crucified with Christ on the cross. Which really means, that we have been made free from not only the bondage of sin, but we have also been made free from the corruption, because the body of corruption has been destroyed. Which then brings me to a very sensitive subject, and that is suicide; and why would someone take their own life after walking with the Lord for so long? I have been wondering this out in my mind, and can really see no other reason, other than that they needed to destroy the flesh; which was meant to have been destroyed on the cross, but instead, was being dragged around with them for all those years. Let me tell you this: there are many, many of our brothers and sisters which need to crucify the flesh, not destroy the flesh!!! Instead, they need to stop living the lie, and live out the Truth!!! If Jesus has set us Free, we are Free indeed! But like I said yesterday, many there are that want the Way and the Life, but do not want the Truth; because the Truth part requires that they part with the old man; and as I said, in this case, two out of three, is bad! "For 'if after' they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the Way of righteousness, then after have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." (2 Peter 2:20-22)