What’s one of the most evil and persistent strategies against you today? It’s this: to get you to move away from or doubt foundational, starting point truth, so you can’t get anywhere well. You’ll be offtrack from the start.
So, God gave you the Holy Spirit and the apostle Paul the grace and power to warn you by writing about three things: the changes God made to you, the threat to deceive you about them, and how to not be moved away—and avoid suffering the results.
Colossians 1:21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. 22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without fault and free from accusation— 23 if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
How incredibly well-off you are with God! How wonderfully practical it is when we think of each other in keeping with how God thinks of us. (That’s living by faith.) He’s right about us: He’s made us holy, without fault and free from accusation—so don’t be moved away from that. It’s when we’re lured away from the awesome truth of how God has made us (holy and faultless) that demonic and fleshly accusations begin to find their mark in our minds. (“You can’t be that good. Look at your behavior and thoughts. You’re going to suffer for that!”) Nothing has changed concerning our condition; we remain holy and flawless in Christ, but everything begins to change in our believing…and we’re not free from accusation. That’s the strategy against you.
Remember: since Christ moved into you, you also moved into the new realm of the body of Christ. In that place, in Him, your new way of living is to believe and enjoy the truth about what God did for you, which means you’ll reject and defeat the lies that tell you anything less or anything else.
The point? Don’t be moved away from the gospel of God’s grace to you in Christ. Start there—or restart there!—and think about it. That’s how you won’t be moved. For you and me, that’s reality.
2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
In other words, what He did for you, how He started with you, and how you remain in Him! .That’s how you won’t be moved away from God’s starting point, and how you can help others remain anchored in the truth.
See you later.