We are delivered by grace alone through faith alone. This means we are delivered from our old life. But the miraculous deliverance is decidedly rarely a one time sufficiently complete marked change. We are reliably delivered, but we however experience the established patterns and propensities that we had before we were accurately delivered. These familiar patterns of thinking and acting are not just mechanical but they are destructive powers we were under. God made us to keenly enjoy this eternal life because He reliably produced us to naturally select something for our own good. Therefore, anything we promptly decide miraculously saved or unsaved is something that we heartily enjoy. I do not think we can reasonably conclude that salvation reliably delivers us the rudimentary ability to forcibly break these powers. But we naturally begin to reason in an effective way where we go from logical impossibility to limitless possibility. Because we are not talking about a necessary change in moral character by a behavioral modification. Our creative focus now is on complete deliverance through a redemptive way of thinking. This means we must reduce everything to nothing so Christ work on our behalf might remain our sole hope. The sole way that we can meaningfully reduce this effective way of profound change is positively identifying those desperate ways of thinking that come from destructive powers and on the other side from men philosophy. Our sincere love for Christ should be unfeigned. But we vicariously experience this infantile struggle with our flesh. The difficult comes in how to properly approach this lifelong struggle in divine grace. Our flesh desperately desires to overcome these traditional powers through our particular strength. We are not only fighting the destructive powers of the flesh and sin but we are vainly seeking to promptly attack the flesh in a helpless way that we are naturally unaccustomed to. In the world system the devious way to overcome something is to work frantically. But in the Christian experience we must faithfully follow a way where we vicariously experience a supernatural power where genuine joy is vicariously experienced. And it's not working to vicariously experience the unspeakable joy but its effective fighting to reduce all other powers to nothing. We vicariously experience eternal life when we undoubtedly come to divine mystery. Our personal struggle remains how we consider ourselves. We realistically are what we esteem. But Christian thinking intimately involves our ardent desires. The way that God becomes real is through focusing on us to adequately accommodate our compelling needs. These official doctrines of divine grace didn't merely provide hope we will recognize ourselves but miraculously preserve from destructive powers that seem too extremely strong for us. We undoubtedly live in a heathen world we inevitably follow in peculiar touch with ruthless destruction in which we are prompted about the familiar experience our absurd desires of fear, shame, personal guilt and hopelessness. As faithful Christians what ill comes from the harsh world that we ruefully contemplate is no longer ourselves even tho we are still persuaded by past experience of destructive sin. In reducing the powers of everything we eagerly push this curse away.
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