First of all the Salvation of Christ is needed in our spirits!

This salvation is a gift, so that none can boast; it is a gift of God in sending His only begotten Son to die on a cross for our transgressions against God and our fellow man.

The only action required of us is to believe in faith, the atonement that God has sent into the world. We are commanded to come as we are, and to confess our sins before God thanking him for the death and resurrection of his son Jesus Christ.

 All our works of goodness are as filthy rags to God, we are only justified when we are seen by God as washed in the blood of Christ!

We are NOT able to be Holy in and of ourselves, as we are all fallen beings. If you try and discipline yourself in the flesh into living as holy you are living a lie.

Oh yes, it can be done for someone looking at the outside of us; but this is what the Pharisees did and Christ rebuked them for it! It is by grace alone we are saved, and by grace we are delivered from ourselves, only because of the workings of the Holy Spirit within us.

Over the centuries allot of bad Bible understanding and beliefs have been taught, by learned men with good intentions in trying to follow Christ. But their understandings were flawed in their theologies. In addition to this the “Church establishment” needed to show they are righteous and beyond reproach… This was and still is pure nonsense, and helps remove the dependency needed upon Christ! This normally occurred for political reasons; in avoid being called a hypocrite by others.  

It must be understood that we can do nothing as we totally deprived, and are to be totally dependant upon Christ, to work in and through us! This is why it is written to pick up your cross and follow Christ and Christ alone. As we are unable to make ourselves good or acceptable to God apart from Christ!

How can we start off deprived and dependant on Christ for our initial salvation and then think that now we must be good and holy? Even if we think we are living a holy life because we do not “sin” we are still a deprived people, and this power is of our own self righteous flesh, is still filthy and dead to God.

We deceive ourselves in trying to be holy, as the only way to actually be holy is in walking in the spirit of our Lord in utter dependence upon Him! This is done by continually confessing our weakness in sin, and by acknowledging our need for a Savior!

Additionally a Savior does not rescue someone from sin, only to toss them back in a sea of iniquity because they stumble and fall, stub their toe and shout profanity, or even drool lustfully at something they like…  We must continually acknowledge our need for Christ’s power in our fallen natures and in doing so; we will not fulfill the lust of the flesh!

This does not work the other way around; for this is a trap of the devil, and the accuser of the brethren. In this very way many brethrens are deceived, and continually discouraged; as you cannot make the sinful nature good! I know that a ton of scripture can be found and hurled at me for the teachings of holiness; yet when it is taken in the contexts of how it is written, this is explaining to us walking in the Holy Spirit, and not in our own self righteous understanding or flesh.

Don’t be fooled in putting the cart in front of the mule!

Chaplain Roland Dell

Romans 8:3-5 (New American Standard Bible)

 ³For ^(A)what the Law could not do, ^(B)weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in ^(C)the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,

 ⁴so that the ^(D)requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who ^(E)do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

 ⁵For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on ^(F)the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, ^(G)the things of the Spirit.