"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil."
Jeremiah 13:23
Before the soul can know anything about salvation, it must learn deeply and experimentally the nature of sin�and of itself, as stained and polluted by sin. The soul is proud�and needs to be humbled. The soul is careless�and needs to be awakened. The soul is alive�and needs to be killed. The soul is full�and requires to be emptied. The soul is whole�and needs to be wounded. The soul is clothed�and requires to be stripped. The soul is, by nature, self-righteous, self-seeking, buried deep in worldliness and carnality, utterly blind and ignorant�filled with presumption, arrogance, conceit, and enmity. It hates all that is heavenly and spiritual. Sin, in all its various forms, is its natural element. To make man the direct opposite of what he originally is�to make him love God instead of hating Him�to make him fear God instead of mocking Him�to make him obey God instead of rebelling against Him�to make him to tremble at His dreadful majesty instead of defiantly charging against Him�to do this mighty work, and to effect this wonderful change requires the implantation of a new nature by the immediate hand of God Himself! Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good who are accustomed to doing evil.
This is a deep scripture. This shows that the men who are born as vessels of wrath cannot alter the foreordained path "fitted" unto them. This is referring to the two trees, and of how their fruit is the determining factor:
"The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies." Psalms 58:3
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!
Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
And you know that He (the SON of GOD) was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.
Whoever abides in Him does NOT sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested,.
that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever has been born of God does NOT sin, for His seed remains in him;
Whoever has been born of God does NOT sin!!!!!!!!!
Whoever has been born of God does NOT sin!!! Does NOT live in sins! But ABANDONS then to live a GODLY life! Transform yourself!
Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
A dog is a dog. No matter how much you treat your dog like a person, it is still going to act like a dog.because you can�t change its nature. But what about people? Can people change? Can a person have his or her life changed
even if they�ve made a total mess out of it?
Jesus said, �You must be born again.� Why? To dwell in the Dwelling place of God! The change that you need is drastic�.
as drastic as being born all over again. To be �born again� speaks of a spiritual rebirth�God changing you, reforming you,
recreating you. Only God can meet the deepest need of your life. If you drink from the wells of success, drugs, sex, or religion, you will thirst again. Only God can quench your spiritual thirst and change you for the better.
Only God can change you for better but our Churches do NOT teach that if you did NOT change yourself then you still live in sins!
How to CHANGE youself? :angel: ABANDONING your sins and lovers to live a GODLY life through FAITH in the Son of God.
If you did NOT allow God to CLEANSE you of your sins then most probably you still lie in a dirty pit of your sins!
Our corrupt world kills youuuuuuuuuu. But God saves you from your mud pit of life! Get out of it!
He (GOD) also brought me up out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, And established my steps.
"The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be God, the Rock, my Savior!2 Samuel 22:47
2 Samuel 22:3 my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation.
He (GOD) is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior--from violent men you save me.
Psalm 89:26 He will call out to me, 'You are my Father, my God, the Rock my Savior.'
Do you want to CHANGE your life? God wants to change your life too. Will you let Him? Start by realizing you are a sinner.
Recognize that Christ died on the cross for you. Repent of your sins and ABANDON your sins.
TURN from them to God to live in a RENEWED life! This is what we call REPENTANCE!
If you live in sexual immorality with your lover in Egypt you are NOT transformed yet!
You still live in sins..in your sexual immorality!
Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous
He who sins is of the DEVIL, for the devil has sinned from the beginning.
In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest:
Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.
For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should LOVE one another
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in DEATH.
Whoever hates his brother is a MURDERER, and you know that NO murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God. And whatever we ask we receive from Him..But WHY?
Because we KEEP His commandments and DO those things that are PLEASING in His sight.
What are His commandments/COMMANDS:
And this is His commandment: that we should bBELIEVE on the name of HIS SON Jesus Christ and LOVE one another
Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him (GOD), and He (GOD) in him.
If you still live in sexual immorality or other sins then God does NOT live in you and you live in SINS!
You live NOT with God in this case but with your sins!
Abandon your sins and transform your life raising up from your mud pit of sins to be WASHED of your iniquities.
Therefore be IMITATORS of God as dear children. And WALK in LOVE, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints, neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
For this you know, that no fornicator, UNCLEAN person, nor covetous man,
who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light!
(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. Ephesians 5
�Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.�
Bothers, do not let it happen to you as it is said in the true proverb: �A dog returns to his own vomit,� and, �a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.�
Do not be dogs and swine but stand up from your mud pit and get cleansed abd dressed in the robe of Righteousness imputed us by God through our FAITH in His beloved Son Jesus!
God can change you and give you the power to face your problems and to be the person He wants you to be to bring Him GLORY!
Romans 12: we should be living sacrifices, transformed in our minds so that we please God and do His will.
The attitudes that should characterize believers: humility, service, love and peace.
