What's God looking at in you?

Believers, Titus 2:14 says of our Saviour Jesus Christ:

"He gave His life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us His very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds."

Beloved of God, God is not looking at your sins that you struggle with and which false doctrine preachers say will make Him stay away from you or judge you. Your sins are not the issue. He knows about them and how they destroy you whom He loves. That's why He sent His beloved Son to save you from them all:

"He gave His life to free us from every kind of sin..."

Beloved of God, in Christ, your unclean situation that others say will make Him stay away from you is not the issue. He gave His life to "...cleanse us..."

With Christ, God isn't looking at what you do by your own power to ensure that you are godly and remain a member of the flock of Christ. Christ gave His life for this purpose:

"to make us His very own people..."

Beloved of God, God isn't looking at your hands for your (self) righteous works. His word says the best you can do by your own self-effort is nothing more than "a menstrual rag" in His sight: "We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in Your sight." Isaiah 64:6. So He sent His beloved Son to make us:

"...totally committed to doing good deeds..." His kind of works.

You know what God is looking at?

He is looking at your EYES to see WHO you are looking to; WHO you are beholding regarding your expectation for salvation, because He loves you so. Are you looking to yourself (arm of flesh) for what you can do to be free from sin and death or are you looking to Christ? See the word of our Saviour Jesus Christ Himself in one of the most famous Bible passages: John 3-

14 “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved."

Beloved of God, the bronze serpent that Moses lifted up in the wilderness is a picture of Christ lifted up to save the world from sin and death. Christ draws a parallel between how the Israelites that were bitten by snakes and LOOKED to the bronze serpent for salvation got to escape death and how we who LOOK to Christ alone for salvation from sin and death get to “not perish but have eternal life.”

The Israelites that had been bitten by snakes only had to LOOK expectantly at the bronze serpent on the pole - for us, Christ lifted up to free us from the power, pleasure and penalty of sin, make us whole (godly,) grant us everlasting righteousness apart from our puny attempts at keeping the Law and give us eternal life - every blessing in John 3:16. All of these blessings have nothing to do with our puny attempts at keeping the law, curbing sins or sowing seeds, just as the Israelites only had to look at the bronze serpent in order to live. Believing this way is seeing Christ lifted up.

Just imagine the Israelites trying to rid themselves the snake sting/venom, rushing off to do burnt offerings, give gifts to God or doing their best to keep the Ten Commandments and the rest of the laws in order to be free from the snake sting and escape certain death instead of looking at the bronze snake on the pole. They would have been distracted from looking at the bronze snake on the pole with all of their futile efforts at doing what the Law commands in order to be made whole. The effects of the snake sting/venom within isn't stalled by these futile and useless activities aka law-keeping in order to be godly. Rather, it gets worse. Death is the result. The letter kills.

But this is exactly what many in the church today are doing with that false doctrine that says- “Yes we are saved by GRACE but we still have to obey the LAW in order to be godly, made whole, escape God's wrath and make it to heaven.”

Antichrist pastors present the Truth of Grace as "hypergrace" and try to get you depending on your own human effort (arm of flesh) that God's word says will fail in your bid to live a godly life. But recall that Satan never tempted Eve to lie or fornicate with him. Satan deceived Eve into doing the seemingly good thing of trying to be godly aka be like God by her own useless human effort (arm of flesh,) but she and Adam were made by God in His likeness. They were already "like God"- Genesis 1:27-

"So God created human beings in His own likeness.

He created them to be like Himself.

He created them as male and female."

Like Satan, antichrist pastors tell you to try to be godly by your own useless will-power when Christ suffered and died to make us godly (like God.) Isaiah prophesied of Christ's suffering for us in Isaiah 53. See the result of His decease which He accomplished at Jerusalem in Isaiah 53:11-

"After He has suffered, He will see the light of life. And He will be satisfied. My godly servant will make many people godly because of what He will accomplish. He will be punished for their sins."

The spirit of the antichrist is not anti-God. In fact, it preaches strongly on morality and keeping the Ten Commandments in order to be godly/be like God. See the forbidden fruit as a picture of the Law that many churchgoers are trying to keep in order to be godly in Romans 7:8-12 (MSG.) Believer, by Grace, may we never fall for the same deceit. This deceit (Satan tricking Eve who was already "like God" into trying to be godly by her own power) is the root of all false doctrines that are being preached to churchgoers. Its main thrust is dependence on human effort at attaining godliness.

Believer, God regards the product of man's futile attempts (keeping the law) at attaining righteousness/godliness as a menstrual rag. These arm of flesh-driven efforts cannot save anybody, just as the Israelites would have died if they looked to themselves to treat their snakebite and be made whole.

1 Corinthians 15:56 says: “The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.”

Romans 6:14 says: "For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace."

The more one tries to do things by human effort (aka obey the Law) in order to be godly and saved, the more sins will multiply — same way the Israelites would have died if they had opted to run around looking for how to be free from the snake venom (sin nature) and its symptoms (acts of sin and their consequences) that lead to death, giving the venom time to spread and wreak havoc. Anyone who is keeping the law (looking to himself and not to Christ) in order to get right with God rejects God's gift of righteousness and everlasting life that Christ died that we might have.

Whatever "menstrual rag" righteousnesses that one produces by his own useless will-power (arm of flesh) in a bid to "not perish but have everlasting life" amounts to the same result that the Israelites that were bitten by snakes in the wilderness would have achieved had they depended on their own good deeds or their own obedience to save them from death by snakebite.

Beloved of God, by God's Grace, look to Christ alone and the snake sting (sin nature) as well as its symptoms that it manifests (acts of sin, lack, sickness, disease, all earthly ills and the death that follows) will all disappear. Look to Him alone and look expectantly, putting absolutely zero confidence in what you think you can do to curb sins or save yourself. He will save you, even from your sins. This is why He gave His life for you:

"He gave His life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us His very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds."

This is why our heavenly Father is interested in WHO we're looking at, not what we think we can do to save ourselves- because He loves us so and wants none to perish. See His word in Isaiah 30:15-

"God, the Master, The Holy of Israel,

has this solemn counsel:

“Your salvation requires you to turn back to Me

and stop your silly efforts to save yourselves.

Your strength will come from settling down

in complete dependence on Me—"

As it was with the Israelites that were bitten by snakes in the wilderness, Salvation from sin and death is in Christ alone. None of self. All of Christ.

Right believing always produces right living.