What is the answer and the solution for every problem that a Christian WILL HAVE?

MessageOfTheCross · Jul 28, 2019

The answer is Grace from Jesus Christ and Him Crucified!

How do Christians receive Grace from Christ?; for drug addictions, alcoholism, sexual immorality, gambling, nicotine, a failing marriage, rebellious sons and daughters, financial problems, home foreclosures, jobless, sickness and disease, the works of the flesh and the like (Gal. 5:19-21), repeated sins, etc.?

CharliRenee · Jul 29, 2019

I suppose the following verses after 21 lies the answer, no?

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another.
Galatians 5:22‭-‬26 NASB

Lafftur · Jul 29, 2019

MessageOfTheCross said:

I'm thinking that I'd like to rephrase and finish your sentence @MessageOfTheCross .............

The answer is Grace and Mercy from the Father through Yehsua/Jesus Christ and Him Crucified AND Alive Forevermore!

Our Father in Heaven has opened The Door (Yeshua/Jesus)........we just got to walk through!

Come on! Just walk through!

The same precious Blood that flows at the Cross where our Savior died also flows at the Mercy Seat in the Holy of Holies! We don't have to live and stay at the Cross, we can enter into the Holy of Holies and encounter intimate fellowship with The Father, Son and Holy Spirit!

MessageOfTheCross · Jul 29, 2019

Lafftur said:

I'm thinking that I'd like to rephrase and finish your sentence @MessageOfTheCross .............

The answer is Grace and Mercy from the Father through Yehsua/Jesus Christ and Him Crucified AND Alive Forevermore!

Our Father in Heaven has opened The Door (Yeshua/Jesus)........we just got to walk through!

Come on! Just walk through!

The same precious Blood that flows at the Cross where our Savior died also flows at the Mercy Seat in the Holy of Holies! We don't have to live and stay at the Cross, we can enter into the Holy of Holies and encounter intimate fellowship with The Father, Son and Holy Spirit!

How can the answer be Christ and Him Crucified and not live at the Cross?

Dino246 · Jul 29, 2019

MessageOfTheCross said:

Because the answer is Christ: incarnate, crucified, and resurrected; not merely crucified.

If you live at the cross, you're only living part of what Jesus has for you.

Smooth · Jul 30, 2019

The answer is not only grace from Jesus Christ but rather every empowerment afforded believers: grace, wisdom, discernment, courage, strength, peace etc. 😎

MessageOfTheCross · Jul 30, 2019

The only way to God is through Jesus Christ (John 14:6)...the only way to Jesus Christ is by the Means of the Cross (Luke 14:27). The only way to the Cross is a denial of self (Luke 9:23). If any person tries to come any other way, Jesus says, "they are a thief and a robber" (John 10:1).

1. Jesus Christ is the source of all blessings.
2. The Cross is the means by which all blessings are given.
3. The object of our faith must be Christ and the Cross.
4. That being done, the Holy Spirit will greatly help us.

JSM

Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?

The wicked are those who do NOT have their faith in the promise of Christ and His sacrificial work at the cross, and God has declared that whatever other sacrifice they may bring, such as Cain did, it is a wicked abomination to God. The Lord also says that when one brings a sacrifice to Him with a wicked mind, that it is even much more an abomination. The wicked mind is without a doubt the mind that actually thinks his own works are pleasing to God just as Cain thought and expected God to be pleased with the work of his hands. God only looks at the object of one’s faith, and when He sees the heart of man believing unto righteousness, which is in the cross of Christ alone, He is pleased. Outside of that one object of faith, He cannot be pleased (Hebrews 11:6). It is the faith of the Son of God who loved us and gave Himself for us which we live by (Galatians 2:20), and in which God is pleased, or we aren’t living and He isn’t pleased.

Seeking God in His Word and experiencing Him through faith in the sacrifice of Christ!

Pastor Curtis

Once you leave the Cross to fix the problem...on your best day all you can do is try to patch it up! You cannot fix it! Because only the Cross deals with sin!

Pastor Tony Evans

MessageOfTheCross · Jul 30, 2019

“FAITH ALONE IN CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED

10 For as many as are of the Works of the Law are under the curse (the Believer can only be under Law or Grace; it is one or the other; one can only come to Grace through the Cross; if one is trusting in Law, whatever kind of Law, one is cursed): for it is written, Cursed is every one who continues not in all things which are written in the Book of the Law to do them (Deut. 27:26). (To attain the Righteousness of the Law, one must keep the Law perfectly, thereby never failing. Such is impossible, so that leaves only the Cross as the means of Salvation and Victory.)

11 But that no man is justified by the Law in the sight of God, it is evident (because it is impossible for man to perfectly keep the Law): for, The just shall live by Faith ([Hab. 2:4], Faith in Christ and what He did at the Cross).

12 And the Law is not of Faith (the two principles of Law and of Faith as a means of Justification are mutually exclusive of one another): but, The man who does them shall live in them. (The Believer has a choice. He can attempt to live this life by either Law or Faith. He cannot live by both.)

13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law (He did so on the Cross), being made a curse for us (He took the penalty of the Law, which was death): for it is written, Cursed is every one who hangs on a tree (Gal. 3:13):

14 That the blessing of Abraham (Justification by Faith) might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ (what He did at the Cross); that we might receive the Promise of the Spirit through Faith. (All sin was atoned at the Cross, which lifted the sin debt from believing man, making it possible for the Holy Spirit to come into the life of the Believer and abide there forever [Jn. 14:16-17].)” Gal. 3:10-14

JSM

What is the curse of the "Law?" The curse of the "Law" means nothing goes right, everything is twisted. Anything and everything that is added to the Finish Work at Calvary Cross is "Law." That includes all Christian bibical discipleins such as: praying, fasting, tithing, reading the bible, Church attandance, ect.. It must be be Faith exclusively in Christ and Him Crucified (The Lamb of God) to recieve help from the Holy Spirit.

Dino246 · Jul 30, 2019

MessageOfTheCross said:

I notice that you haven't put any Scripture references with this list of steps. In other words, it's not Scripture, and it's not consistent with Scripture.

Nehemiah6 · Jul 30, 2019

MessageOfTheCross said:

The thought should be completed -- crucified, risen, ascended, and exalted.

There is no doubt that the cross of Christ and all that it signifies is of tremendous importance. But Scripture moves forward with the exaltation of Christ and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

But the answer to every human problem is indeed Christ in all His fulness and glory.

TLC209 · Jul 30, 2019

MessageOfTheCross said:

“FAITH ALONE IN CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED

10 For as many as are of the Works of the Law are under the curse (the Believer can only be under Law or Grace; it is one or the other; one can only come to Grace through the Cross; if one is trusting in Law, whatever kind of Law, one is cursed): for it is written, Cursed is every one who continues not in all things which are written in the Book of the Law to do them (Deut. 27:26). (To attain the Righteousness of the Law, one must keep the Law perfectly, thereby never failing. Such is impossible, so that leaves only the Cross as the means of Salvation and Victory.)

11 But that no man is justified by the Law in the sight of God, it is evident (because it is impossible for man to perfectly keep the Law): for, The just shall live by Faith ([Hab. 2:4], Faith in Christ and what He did at the Cross).

12 And the Law is not of Faith (the two principles of Law and of Faith as a means of Justification are mutually exclusive of one another): but, The man who does them shall live in them. (The Believer has a choice. He can attempt to live this life by either Law or Faith. He cannot live by both.)

13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law (He did so on the Cross), being made a curse for us (He took the penalty of the Law, which was death): for it is written, Cursed is every one who hangs on a tree (Gal. 3:13):

14 That the blessing of Abraham (Justification by Faith) might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ (what He did at the Cross); that we might receive the Promise of the Spirit through Faith. (All sin was atoned at the Cross, which lifted the sin debt from believing man, making it possible for the Holy Spirit to come into the life of the Believer and abide there forever [Jn. 14:16-17].)” Gal. 3:10-14

JSM

What is the curse of the "Law?" The curse of the "Law" means nothing goes right, everything is twisted. Anything and everything that is added to the Finish Work at Calvary Cross is "Law." That includes all Christian bibical discipleins such as: praying, fasting, tithing, reading the bible, Church attandance, ect.. It must be be Faith exclusively in Christ and Him Crucified (The Lamb of God) to recieve help from the Holy Spirit.

Are you implying that praying fasting reading the bible and going to church, all those who do these things are cursed? You say that all this falls under law?

I just want to be clear what it is you are preaching.

TLC209 · Jul 30, 2019

Jesus Christ is the answer. He is the truth the way and the life. Those who follow Him will have everlasting life. Forsaking oneself and you will gain your soul. What ever problems we face, we are given strength through Christ Jesus. God will never forsake us nor abandon us in our time of trials. We can depend on Jesus and Him alone. The risen Christ. Victory was won on the cross by His death. But Jesus lives and His Holy Spirit gives our Spirit life.

To all who believe He is Living water and the bread of Life.

MessageOfTheCross · Jul 30, 2019

Nehemiah6 said:

The price was paid for sin at the Cross; the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; access to God the Father was granted.

The only way to God is through Jesus Christ (John 14:6). The only way to Jesus Christ is by the Means of the Cross (Luke 14:27). The only way to the Cross is a denial of self (Luke 9:23). If any person tries to come any other way, Jesus says, "they are a thief and a robber" (John 10:1).

1. Jesus Christ is the source of all blessings.
2. The Cross is the means by which all blessings are given.
3. The object of our faith must be Christ and the Cross.
4. That being done, the Holy Spirit will greatly help us.

Paul said we preach Christ Crucified - 1 Cor. 1:23 (the only answer and only solution). He didn't say we preach Christ and Him risen. He didn't say we preach Christ and Him ascended. He didn't say we preach Christ and Him exalted, did he? Paul said this will be a stumbling block and foolishness to the unsaved. However to us who are being saved (sanctification) it is the power of God.

MessageOfTheCross · Jul 30, 2019

TLC209 said:

If it's not Faith in Christ and what He did for us at the Cross, then it's Faith that God will not recognize. The apostle says, "Christ shall profit you nothing" (Gal. 5:2). He says, "Christ is become of no effect unto you" (Gal. 5:4). THAT INCLUDES YOUR PRAYERS!

That's the terrible problem that affixes itself to most Christians. They are trusting in things other than the Cross, making Christ of no effect. This guarantees spiritual failure. In fact, when the believer do this, they fall from Grace. In other words, the goodness of God, which, in effect, is the Grace of God, can no longer be extended to such Christians. The end result of such a position is bleak indeed!

Our battle is not against acts of sin, but the fight is to keep our Faith in who Christ is and what He did on the Cross, so we stay in His death, burial, and resurrection and are, therefore, victorious. That is the only way we are triumphant in Christ (II Cor. 2:14). And that is the only way He can work in us both to will (change our desires), and to do (give us the power of the Holy Spirit) (Phil. 2:13), so we can overcome sin. This is the only way believers can yield themselves as God’s servants (slaves) of obedience instead of being slaves to sin unto death (Rom. 6:16).

Remember, the scripture tells us in Acts 10 that Cornelius:
Was a devout man (but unsaved)
Who feared God with all his house (but unsaved)
Gave much alms to the people (but unsaved)
And PRAYED to God ALWAYS (but unsaved)
Saw in a vision (but unsaved)
An Angel of God came to him (but unsaved)
The Angel knew his name (but yet, unsaved)

All these things were wonderful, and certainly noticed by the Lord; but they did not save the man, even as they do not save anyone now; being religious does not constitute Salvation; there must be an acceptance of Christ and His Finished Work, if one is to be saved as Cornelius and all of his house did by hearing and believing the Gospel in its truth and righteous context from Peter. (John 3:16; Rom. 10:9-10, 13)

Placing your Faith in Christ while ignoring the Cross is another Jesus. 2 Cor. 11:4

JSM

Dino246 · Jul 31, 2019

MessageOfTheCross said:

It's really helpful when you understand and apply the context of a verse instead of making up an entire doctrine without the context.

Paul said nothing about Christ crucified (not capitalized!) being "the only answer and only solution." Rather, he said it in a particular context: The Greeks search for wisdom and the Jews ask for signs. Christ on the cross was neither, because He didn't die to satisfy their idle curiosity, their wants, or their aberrant religious views. Christ crucified is foolishness to Greeks and a stumbling block to Jews. There is a particular reason that it is foolishness to Greeks, and a particular reason that it is a stumbling block to Jews. Ignore the context and you end up with unbalanced beliefs.

TLC209 · Jul 31, 2019

MessageOfTheCross said:

If it's not Faith in Christ and what He did for us at the Cross, then it's Faith that God will not recognize. The apostle says, "Christ shall profit you nothing" (Gal. 5:2). He says, "Christ is become of no effect unto you" (Gal. 5:4). THAT INCLUDES YOUR PRAYERS!

That's the terrible problem that affixes itself to most Christians. They are trusting in things other than the Cross, making Christ of no effect. This guarantees spiritual failure. In fact, when the believer do this, they fall from Grace. In other words, the goodness of God, which, in effect, is the Grace of God, can no longer be extended to such Christians. The end result of such a position is bleak indeed!

Our battle is not against acts of sin, but the fight is to keep our Faith in who Christ is and what He did on the Cross, so we stay in His death, burial, and resurrection and are, therefore, victorious. That is the only way we are triumphant in Christ (II Cor. 2:14). And that is the only way He can work in us both to will (change our desires), and to do (give us the power of the Holy Spirit) (Phil. 2:13), so we can overcome sin. This is the only way believers can yield themselves as God’s servants (slaves) of obedience instead of being slaves to sin unto death (Rom. 6:16).

Remember, the scripture tells us in Acts 10 that Cornelius:
Was a devout man (but unsaved)
Who feared God with all his house (but unsaved)
Gave much alms to the people (but unsaved)
And PRAYED to God ALWAYS (but unsaved)
Saw in a vision (but unsaved)
An Angel of God came to him (but unsaved)
The Angel knew his name (but yet, unsaved)

All these things were wonderful, and certainly noticed by the Lord; but they did not save the man, even as they do not save anyone now; being religious does not constitute Salvation; there must be an acceptance of Christ and His Finished Work, if one is to be saved as Cornelius and all of his house did by hearing and believing the Gospel in its truth and righteous context from Peter. (John 3:16; Rom. 10:9-10, 13)

Placing your Faith in Christ while ignoring the Cross is another Jesus. 2 Cor. 11:4

JSM

You didnt answer my question. You did a nice job of running around the bush. Burning bush as it may, it still beats answering the question..

So again I ask, are you implying that praying fasting going to church and reading the bible falls into the law? And therefore anyone who does such is cursed?

And just to mention I do not believe in half of what you wrote. Atleast not in the context you are using to make it fit your doctrinal belief. There is some errors in doctrine there that seems to be a stumbling block. Thats just my observation. But I appreciate your passion for Christ. I really do. God bless you.

TLC209 · Jul 31, 2019

MessageOfTheCross said:

Acts 25:17 “When his accusers came here for the trial, I didn’t delay. I called the case the very next day and ordered Paul brought in.18 But the accusations made against him weren’t any of the crimes I expected.19 Instead, it was something about their religion and a dead man named Jesus, who Paul insists is alive.

1 Corinthians 1:22 It is foolish to the Jews, who ask for signs from heaven. And it is foolish to the Greeks, who seek human wisdom. 23 So when we preach that Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended and the Gentiles say it’s all nonsense.

Paul did not believe when Jesus died on the cross that Jesus was the Christ. He was persecuting Christ and His followers. It was on the road to Demascus that Paul encountered Jesus. The Living Christ. That is when Paul believed Jesus is the Christ.

The preaching of Jesus dying on the cross is an offense to the jews because they do not believe Jesus is the messiah and much worse it makes them look evil for killing Him. So to them it is an offense and for us it is Glory for God. Through the blood we are redeemed. Jesus is alive.

That is why Paul believed. He did not believe because of the cross. He believed because Jesus was and is resurected and alive. Paul gives further detail of the encounter with Jesus in Acts 26.

MessageOfTheCross · Jul 31, 2019

TLC209 said:

No.

MessageOfTheCross · Aug 3, 2019

The Believer is required to obey the Word of the Lord. He cannot do that within his own strength...

“16 Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey (the Believer is either a slave to Christ, for that’s what the word “servant” means, or else a slave to sin, which he will be if he doesn’t keep his Faith in Christ and the Cross); whether of sin unto death (once again allow us to state the fact that if the Believer attempts to live for God by any method other than Faith in the Finished Work of Christ, the Believer will fail, no matter how hard he otherwise tries), or of obedience unto Righteousness? (The Believer is required to obey the Word of the Lord. He cannot do that within his own strength, but only by understanding that he receives all things through what Christ did at the Cross and his continued Faith in that Finished Work, even on a daily basis. Then the Holy Spirit, Who Alone can make us what we ought to be, can accomplish His work within our lives.)” Romans 6:16

JSM

MessageOfTheCross · Aug 3, 2019

What is the answer and solution to all sin? (massacre in El Paso, Texas left 20 people dead and 26 injured at a crowded Walmart)

What is the answer and the solution for every problem that a Christian WILL HAVE?

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