"Living By the Spirit in the New Year!"

“Living By the Spirit in the New Year!”

 

He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.  

For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.       

Romans 8:3b-4, 13

 

A lot of times LIFE is what you make it, you face CHALLENGES and DECESIONS, sometimes EVERY day.  And facing a New Year, brings NEW CHALLENGES and NEW DECESIONS.  When we enter the New Year we want it to be BETTER than the old year.  And the way we face the NEW CHALLENGES and the NEW DECESIONS we make will determine the outcome of the NEW YEAR.

 

The MOST IMPORTANT thing that you will face in LIFE is where you will spend ETERNITY.  Many of us have made that VERY IMPORTANT, LIFE-CHANGING DECESION to give our HEART and LIFE to God, and to LIVE according to His Spirit.  We are able to do that because of Jesus Christ’s sacrifice of Himself on the cross for ALL MANKIND.  He came in FLESH and BLOOD, but WITHOUT a SINFUL NATURE.  And He CONDEMNED SIN in the flesh, in order to bring the fulfillment of the RIGHTEOUS REQUIREMENT of the law, because the Mosaic Law by itself could NOT bring the FREEDOM from sin to mankind. 

 

The goal is that mankind might be able to LIVE a LIFE of HOLINESS.  A TRUE BELIEVER lives by the Spirit and NOT by the flesh.  If you LIVE by the FLESH you will DIE a spiritual death as well as a physical death, and you will spend ALL ETERNITY in Hell, the place of UNENDING heartache, pain, agony, torment, torture and despair, with NO WAY OF ESCAPE, but if you LIVE by the SPIRIT, you will TURN AWAY FROM your SINS, and TURN TO God and LIVE for ALL ETERNITY in Heaven.  Where will you spend ETERNITY?

 

If you have NOT given your HEART and LIFE to God, and are LIVING by the FLESH, you are facing an ETERNITY in Hell with ALL its HORRORS. Why not face a New Year with FREEDOM from your sin, and make the MOST IMPORTANT DECESION of your LIFE, and face the CHALLENGES with a BRAND-NEW outlook, and TRUST God for GUIDANCE throughout the rest of your LIFE.  You have the opportunity NOW to TURN AWAY FROM your SINFUL LIFE-STYLE and to TURN TO GOD, with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART, CONFESSING your sins to Him, asking Him for His FORGIVENESS, BELIEVING, with ALL your HEART, that Jesus died for YOU, and is ALIVE in Heaven, making intercession for you, before God, then ACCEPT His gift of SALVATION, and begin the New Year, living your life by the SPIRIT and NOT by the FLESH.    Do it NOW, while you still can.  He’s waiting and coming SOON!!!