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**********ADVERTISEMENT ********** MARCH Broadcast Calendar Featuring: Kenneth Copeland, Gloria Copeland, George Pearsons, Jerry Savelle, Dr. Don Colbert, Mary Colbert Feb. 25-March 1 Marvels, Wonders and Extraordinary Manifestations George Pearsons and Jerry Savelle Sun., March 3: Jesus Made You Rich Kenneth Copeland March 4-8 Developing and Training the Born-Again Human Spirit Kenneth Copeland Sun., March 10: The Seed Faith of Your Words Kenneth Copeland March 11-15 Keys to Developing the Born-Again Human Spirit Kenneth Copeland Sun., March 17: Faith in Action Kenneth Copeland March 18-22 The Year of Abundant Harvest Gloria Copeland and George Pearsons Sun., March 24: Faith Works Kenneth Copeland March 25-29 Live Your Best Life in Divine Health and Wholeness Kenneth Copeland, Dr. Don Colbert & Mary Colbert Sun., March 31: Whatever You Say Will Be Kenneth Copeland Broadcasts subject to change without notice * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * WATCH ON dish® CHANNEL 265 Roku® apple tv® 4th Generation bvovn.com YouTube® KCM.ORG KCM APP PODCAST DAYSTAR Network Trinity Broadcasting Network SPANISH BROADCAST ENLACE or ES.KCM.ORG/MEDIOS kcm.org/watch/find-a-station ***************************************** * * * * * * article continues * * * * * * That’s the devil’s worst nightmare! When it happens on a grand scale, his day is going to be over. So, he constantly tries to push us, as believers, the other way. He tries to keep us from conforming to the image of God by squeezing us into the world’s mold. He bombards us with negative influences and messages through the secular culture around us and pressures us to think, talk and act like the world. He lies and tells us that holiness is legalistic and outdated, and that we’ll miss out on all the fun in life if we commit to it. Sometimes the devil even goes as far as to suggest to some gullible believers that, because Jesus has already paid the penalty for our transgressions, what we do with our bodies doesn’t matter—that it’s actually OK with God for us to sin. Talk about a deadly lie! It’s never going to be OK with God for us to sin because sin’s wages are deadly. It opens the door of our lives to its author the devil who, as Jesus said, is the thief that comes “to steal, and to kill, and to destroy” (John 10:10). God loves us! He doesn’t want the thief to have access to us. He sent Jesus to deliver us from him so that we “might have life, and…have it more abundantly” (verse 10). He gave us His Word and His indwelling Holy Spirit so that we could leave the ways of sin and the world behind and walk in God’s higher ways—the ways of life (Acts 2:28). Conform to God, Not the World God is in the life business! The more we give ourselves to Him and do what He says, the more life, health, prosperity and BLESSING we enjoy. If we just go all out and give ourselves to Him, we can live in days of heaven on earth! We can’t enjoy that kind of heavenly lifestyle though, if we keep messing around with worldliness and sin. We can’t conform to the world and to God at the same time. For as the New Testament says: "What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God" (2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1). “But Gloria, in our day and age, I’m not sure it’s realistic to aim for that kind of holiness,” someone might say. “It seems like it would be unattainable.” It would be unattainable if we had to do it in the natural. But as believers, we’re not limited to the natural. We have the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit within us. We have God Himself living and working in us “both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13). When it comes to holiness, God has already done the impossible part! Through the new birth, He re-created our spirit and made us as holy on the inside as He is. He made it possible for our old, sinful inner man to die and for us to become a new creation made righteous with the very righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:21). We don’t have to do anything further to be holy and separated from the world on the inside. God has already finished that work. As 1 Corinthians 1:30 says, He has put us “in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification [or holiness], and redemption.” What we have to do now is have faith in that inward work of holiness and cooperate with God by giving outward expression to it. 28 : BVOV

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