Self denial

When we are saved we get a few kinds of funny bones. The first one is that we get a new will. Our old self will is destroyed and we get Gods will. So we first of all naturally know we are sinners. A believer wants to be like Christ. Christ has conquered and has taken the spoils. He owns everything. So the believer wants to rise up to be blessed in the heavenlies.

But we know that we can face trials in this world. We get weakened by our trials. To be like Christ is to experience the effects of the gospel. We experience the life of Christ like feasting at a table. We rise up as if we were ascending to the rock stretches out over the mountain and we have the vision of our lives as Christ conquers. But in trials we grow weak.

When we experience weakness it is necessary for Christ to come to our aid. We naturally draw near to Christ because we know that He is our greatest friend when we are the weakest. But we must also face the dread of the trials because the devil will attack us at our most vulnerable part of the trial. We rise up to curse the evil. When we experience the line between blessing and cursing then we rest in our weakness.  Repentance for the christian is a sweet dependence.

This means that because we are given a new will that we no longer are at odds with Christ to give up control. He already provided us with everything. We naturally want to lean on Christ in our trials. This is biblical self denial.

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Im wondering when we talk about this anger that we hold onto whether its something we describe that we can control. Because the next part of the reasoning is that God is on the other guys side saying to you...give it up bro. lol I mean when Christ was encouraging us to forgive others, to seek forgiveness , He had already given us all the things we need in blessing us. Im not describing something that we hold onto that becomes an issue. This is what ive been talking about when I distinguish the fundamental truths with those things that are secondary.

In this day and age I find the most things that we talk about that is forbidden is our control. I mean it gets to the point where we obsess about whether we have overstepped the forbidden territory. I become suspicious when I hear the sermon taught as a method to be obedient to Christ. In other words the warnings are like ultimatums that if not heeded will destroy our christian lives. It seems to me that we are making the sermon sound like we can earn salvation. If we build it up and make it sound like we could screw it up then are not we saying that we can control God?