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Continuing the series on Christian Lies, today we address Lie of the Christian Religion #7: “You must rededicate your life to Christ.”

Is “rededication taught in the Bible for New Testament Christians?”

Should you follow the flock and do it like all other Christians?

Read today’s article and find out!

I can’t count how many times I went to church as a child and answered Preacher’s call to “rededicate my life to Christ.”

And boy, was I honest!

Every time he thought he would be able to do it “if I tried hard enough”…if he was determined enough…he gritted his teeth hard enough.

It has been said that the definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”…

IF that’s true, then I was definitely a crazy Christian for a LOT of my early life.

But that is what happens when we try to live the Christian life by our own efforts. We failed. And again.

It’s funny, my copy of Steve McVey’s “Grace Amazing” was sitting on the couch open to a page that made this very point and said…

“God will not let you succeed”…

You see, you have to reach a breaking point, a point where YOUR effort… YOUR effort and YOUR performance no longer work to live the godly lifestyle, before you can begin to rest in the sufficiency of Christ. ..

(I called this point “Hit Rock Bottom” in my book, Christ Through Me)

What an amazing creator!

He literally GIVES us salvation, a gift, invites us to be partakers of his divine life… and literally LIVES the Christian life for us after salvation. Most Christians would agree with me that salvation is not by works but a free gift from God. But they find it hard to understand that the Christian life should be lived in the same way.

Paul wrote to the Galatians about this (Galatians 3, the message, emphasis mine)…

“Crazy Galatians! Did someone put a curse on them? Have they gone crazy? Something crazy has happened, because it is obvious that they no longer have Jesus crucified in the clear focus of their lives. His sacrifice on the cross was certainly put before them.” of you clearly enough.

2-4Let me ask you this question: How did your new life begin? Was she working hard to please God? Or was he responding to God’s Message to you? Are you going to continue with this madness? Because only the crazy would think that they can complete with their own efforts what God started. If you weren’t smart enough or strong enough to start it, how do you think you could perfect it? Did you go through this painful learning process for nothing? It’s not a total loss yet, but it certainly will be if you keep this up!

5-6 Answer this question: Does the God who generously provides you with his own presence, his Holy Spirit, working things in your life that you could never do on your own, does he do these things because of your hard moral effort or because you trust God? the? do them on you? Do not these things happen among you as they happened to Abraham? He believed in God, and that act of faith turned into a life that was right with God.

7-8 Isn’t it clear to you that people who put their trust in Christ (not people who put their trust in the law!) are like Abraham: children of faith? It was all established in advance in the Scriptures that God would settle things with non-Jews by faith. Scripture foreshadowed it in the promise to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”

9-10 So those who now live by faith are blessed along with Abraham, who lived by faith; this is not a new doctrine! And that means that anyone who tries to live by his own efforts, independent of God, is doomed to fail. The Scriptures support this: “Cursed be every person who does not comply with all the details written in the Book of the law.”

I don’t think I could have said it better myself 🙂

So it is not by rededicating OUR power and OUR life to God that we live the great Christian life…

It’s just trusting God, by faith, to live it out through us!

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