8725	Forums / Theology Forum / Sin Vs Hypocricy	on: July 28, 2006, 03:59:59 PM
I agree that we must see ourselves as completely righteous in Christ. But really that is not the end of our viewing of ourselves as long as we are on this earth. Sometimes we ignore the reality of sin and try to focus on Christ so that we are in a greater inward battle trying to ignore the reality of sin and viewing ourselves as righteous but really not living with a true sense of the greatness of Christ. We fall into this trap out of fear brought on by ignoring our failure because we must have a good self image in order to understand the power of Christ in our lives. So we delude ourselves by this philosophy of willing ourselves righteous in Christ. This inward battle is putting us in a passive position so that we have more of a mixture of self will worship rather than real Christ centered worship. Our view of God is really the problem here. We create a god in which his holiness is just viewed as moral rather than the essence of all of His attributes. What we do is we think that God must have a completely righteous person in order for us to be an acceptable sacrifice in worship. We delude ourselves by thinking that we must view ourselves completely righteousness in order for us to feel accepted by Him in our worship. God is not viewing us from a position of moral equality where He will not visit us until be get everything rite. So that the end of His holiness is viewing ourselves as completely righteous. The end of His holiness in visiting us is so that we will see ourselves as unable in ourselves to get it rite. When He visits us in worship our reaction to His holiness is not predominately guilt but an awe at the greatness of God in Himself. We are overcome with a sense of His greatness, that is His glory so that when we are confronted with that sense of His holiness we are brought to the end of our viewing ourselves as able or good or having the attitude that if we try hard enough we will succeed. Unless we get a real sense of His holiness we will not consider His greatness and then we will not understand how the Spirit frees us from our incessant want out of our own ability. Once His presence is felt in a strong way we will feel strong in Him. Once we sense that strength and awesome holiness we will be free to view ourselves as unable in ourselves but completely able in Him. This is the end of becoming free in worship. There is a real sense in which the Holy Spirit witnesses with our spirits that all will be well. That we really have had a carnal appetite that we have tried to fill so that we could feel good about ourselves but it lacked the power of God and a true understanding of His holiness. When He visits us in this way our faith is strengthen, our love is without partiality, and our understanding of Him brings us to a confidence that is supernatural. We will see how far down sometimes we must go in order for Him in visiting us with this holiness, to show us the extent of the potential in the power of God witnessed to us by the Spirit.This is the end of His holiness.