| June 26 Evening Devotion |
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“Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust” (2 Peter 1:4) If you want to live in the power of your risen Lord, abandon forever the thought of pursuing pleasure for its own sake. This is what the Apostles meant when they said, saints are “dead to sin” (Romans 6:11). A saint who feels guilt, is a miserable saint, but there is “no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit” (Romans 8:1). If you’re saved, the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead will “give life to your mortal bodies” (Romans 8:11). Should divine life be stopped by fleshly lust? How can we partake of the cup of the Lord and yet drink the cup of Satan? Surely, if you’re saved, you were saved from lust and sin. If you weren’t, you need to examine yourself (2 Corinthians 13:5).For more on this subject, click here. Are you resting in a false security? If you think, “I can sin, because even God won’t stop me from being admitted to Heaven”, you’re probably not saved. “Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?” (Romans 6:1-2). Are you seeking, day by day, to live above worldliness and the pride of life? Don’t let His grace be wasted on you. Follow after holiness; it’s the Christian's crown and glory. The word “saint” just means “holy”. A saint who isn’t holy would cause more harm than good. Christ warned, “‘Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” (Matthew 7:21-23).
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