07/21/2024
"THE WAR WITHIN" Many times in our lives we battle with the things we do, say and think, bringing to thought, will I make this run successful? How can I reach the other side? These are normal thoughts we all have and the reason I teach and preach protect your salvation daily. I'm a strong believer that my walk with Jesus will be tried each and every day. I often say, keep your salvation in your hip pocket. One must understand that satan's territory reaches from the center of the earth to the floor of Heaven. And one must also know that " Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied." Makes me wonder, is this the reason we used to sing " When the Saints go marching in?" Then we all know that Jesus said, "enter you in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in there at: Because strait is gate, and narrow is the way, that leads unto life, and few there be that find it." You see why I teach daily salvation? Even I, a minister of God's word must live by this. Now here is what the Apostle Paul wrote: "For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but "SIN" that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but "SIN" that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin." Can you now see why we must protect our salvation daily? We must overcome the sin in our daily lives, that is, the sins we do over and over again, because there is a scripture regarding that and it speaks about those that trodden underfoot the Son of God and counted His blood an unholy thing. Overcome the things that tempt you each and every day, get your house in order and free from those daily sins that you may dwell in, for there is no lasting joy to be found there. Call out to Jesus and He will listen, ask him for help and He will help, ask Him for strength, and He will make strong. Will the devil stop tempting you? NEVER! But we all must win each battle he brings to us, and in the end we win "THE WAR WITHIN." I'll end with this, "My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his way." God bless you all. Apostle N. K. Coleman SOTL Evangelistic Ministry International.