8011	Forums / Main Forum / Why Faith Is A Must	on: January 19, 2007, 08:53:01 AM
So why does God allow some to carry the desires of strong habits in thier members? Allow?? I hear that...you see we can explain through any means our limited or vast knowledge BUT they still exsist. I have thought about this in light of the sins of the fathers, visiting, or it is the kind of fear of God that was ingrained in the child through the philosophy of life that visits the child. In any habit we are desiring to sin greater than we are desiring to live righteously. But in regeneration we are changed and we are made holy by Christ righteousness. That is we receive new desires that are intrinsically stronger than our desires to sin. But there is a growth process in all of this. The principle is not that of equal desires, but the principle is we have new desires and we must become acquainted with our new desires. We must reckon ourselves to be righteous as we are made in Christ. In our former life we were used to viewing reality as we understood our relationship to God and living without the fear of God or with the fear of God. That is the reason we understood life in the way we did. That is the reason we chose to go along with the habits of our forefathers. And even so we see that God also incorporates earthly fathers in a group. That is we are susceptible to the sins of a generation of fathers by the philosophy of that generation. So as i have stated that there are some things that we must be original on as a new generation. We must rebel in the sense that we are determined to see the sins and we are not going to repeat the sins. Remember that a generation of Israelite was not able to enter the promise land while they were still alive. I mean they were set on the shelf so to speak. There is a sense in which what we desire over a number of years will be so ingrained that we are not able to overcome the habits so that we are seen as maybe a Solomon, or even a reprobate. But fathers are spiritual fathers mainly. We are to be original in the sense that we no longer serve masters that are bringing us along in a world philosophy but we are to look to our spiritual fathers so that we learn how to over come our philosophical blindness. So we must be in the process of opening up the wells of Abraham that have been covered over by past fathers. We must be original in this opening process. We must get back to the basic fundamentals and start from the beginning at the bottom of the well. And i think this is where we find ourselves in this generation. Do we have the bravery to see the contrast, and expose the truth in an apologetic fashion or are we going to repeat the sins of our fathers? But we really are being changed by grace. If we view these things as God views them in some fashion then we will be able to over come the wrong desires. It is like we have been changed but we do not realize it at first in a really circumspection way. The desires are not very profound and so we do not have a really good understanding of the Spirit and the unseen ways. But we look at our lives as believers in that we are going to struggle with sin. We are going to wage war with sin and the world. We are in the present in a fierce battle. And the battle has already been won. Every day we fight we fight a battle that has already had a victorious outcome. The problem is we are blinded by our sin, and the worlds philosophy. We are duped. But we are so much to be in prayer so that when we see a falsehood we immediately reckon it a lie and we oppose it. And so if we lay down our arms and become passive in the struggle then we are going to continue the bad habits that are going to be a weight around our necks. And as we engage in this battle we are all gifted in different ways . So we are going to be like minded in our approach but our workings are all going to be different. As we are confessing sin and rejoicing in Christ. As we are becoming more like Christ, and as the Holy Spirit is working in our hearts we are gaining confidence in the supernatural process and our faith is going to increase against the opposition. So that when we look back in the past we are going to say , i have obeyed you law , i have kept your statutes. Why , because we are always warring against the world the flesh and the devil and we are living in the righteousness of Christ.  We are reckoning ourselves to be what we are.