Trust God » baptism http://www.itrustgodonly.com "Love One Another" Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:17:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Copyright © Trust God 2010 thetruth@itrustgodonly.com (John Park) thetruth@itrustgodonly.com (John Park) Podcast 1440 http://www.itrustgodonly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/trust-god-love-one-another.jpg Trust God http://www.itrustgodonly.com 144 144 Trust God is a site based on God, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit, The Bible, Spirituality and the carnal self. For truth, peace, happiness, love and freedom from the bondages of this world seek Jesus Christ. "Love One Another" trust, God, Holy, Spirit, Jesus, Christ, Who, Is, God, sermons, prophecy, forum John Park John Park thetruth@itrustgodonly.com no no True Confessions – Looking Inward http://www.itrustgodonly.com/true-confessions-looking-inward/ http://www.itrustgodonly.com/true-confessions-looking-inward/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 23:52:52 +0000 John Park http://i-love-god.itrustgodonly.com/?p=76

True Confessions – Looking Inward

True Confessions – Looking Inward Podcast True Confessions Come From A Contrite Heart None of us wants to look inward at ourselves and see the bad fruits we have stored up. We like to believe that we are good people. We convince ourselves that because we do not commit criminal acts that we are good [...]

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]]> http://www.itrustgodonly.com/true-confessions-looking-inward/feed/ 2 0:09:49 True Confessions – Looking InwardTrue Confessions – Looking InwardTrue Confessions – Looking Inward Podcast True Confessions Come From A Contrite Heart None of us wants to look inward at ourselves and see the bad fruits we have st[...] True Confessions – Looking InwardTrue Confessions – Looking InwardTrue Confessions – Looking Inward Podcast True Confessions Come From A Contrite Heart None of us wants to look inward at ourselves and see the bad fruits we have stored up. We like to believe that we are good people. We convince ourselves that because we do not commit criminal acts that we are good people. We also say things like, ” I’m not perfect, I make mistakes”. What’s wrong with us? We convince ourselves that we are good, yet on the other hand we are bad too. So have we convinced ourselves that we are blameless for our actions? Do we figure we are not bad because we’re not in jail? We like to think that since we are not perfect that it’s OK to continue living the way we do. We all know that the flesh is corrupt. All the flesh thinks about is itself. It doesn’t want anything to do with the soul or the spirit (our intellect). The carnal mind is going to keep on telling us lies as long as it can get what it wants. And as long as the flesh is dominate over our spiritual side, we will keep on deceiving ourselves. The flesh is man’s downfall, it wants what the world has to offer, not what God has to offer. As long as we obey the flesh we will be bent towards the world, not walking upright like God created us. To receive what God has to offer one needs to start by denying ones self and that is like death to the flesh. So in a carnal, fleshly way we pursue sensual pleasures, or things that gratify our appetites. Problem is that something is missing: “God”. You could go to church all week, volunteer, study your bible, etc., etc., but as long as your flesh is dominate you have no life in Christ. Mark 8: 34 – 37. Who do you worship, God or the world and the things that belong to it? You can’t have both. Although many people think they can. One of the problems is, is that as long as we can’t see any wrong in what we are doing than it must be OK, right? Wrong. We are completely blind to these things because we are still carnal. We have not awakened the soul and spirit yet. The only way to awaken our spiritual side is by denying ourselves and following Jesus to the tomb (this is not the baptism of water). The water baptism is a baptism that is a pledge made to God from a good conscience. After we die in Christ we then can be reborn to our true spiritual selves. This is the spiritual revolution that begins to take place. The flesh doesn’t understand what’s going on. The light of faith is darkness to the flesh. The flesh no longer has control of its normal faculties. This is where the battle begins. True Confessions In order to help reach this point we need to look inward. We need to acknowledge our sins. 1John 1: 8, 9 ‘If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all iniquity’. In order to acknowledge our sins we need to turn to Jesus for His help. Remember, we need to first deny ourselves, which means we need to want to give up our old ways of living, all of it,and pick up our cross. We will need it to nail the flesh upon it. Jesus is the way, follow Him. This is what He meant when He said,’ The road is long and narrow and few find it’. It’s not a matter of finding it, it’s right in front of you. You need to be willing to get on this road at all costs, no matter what tests and trials come up. It’s not a road for the lazy ones or the ones of the world. It’s for people who want to be known as a child of God. If you can turn your eyes inward and with all sincerity and honesty and willingness to clean yourself up, Jesus will be there to help you. He will even bring forth the sins you forgot. It is a deep and serious cleansing. The sins we remember and the ones shown to us by our Lor[...] John Park no no