Fruits and our deliverance (2nd teaching) - Don’t Seek “Deliverance”, Seek Christ-likeness

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Now. we have seen that real deliverance comes by becoming more like Christ, that is by being Christ’s image. We are delivered only to the extent that Christ rules in our lives. If Christ rules 90% in our lives, then we are 90% delivered . If He rules in 40%, we are 40% delivered. If that is the case, then we should stop going about seeking “deliverance”. We should rather ask Christ to rule in more areas of our lives. Anywhere He rules the devil cannot come there, the enemy cannot come there therefore things go fine in those areas therefore let us ask Him to rule in more areas of our lives so that we can be free and successful in those areas! That is all that is the best way to get real and eternal deliverance

Simply put “deliverance" means Christ is ruling there while bondage means the devil is ruling there. That is all deliverance means I am the image of Christ in that area of my life while bondage means I am the image of the devil in that area.

Then why do people go about seeking “deliverance” , as if deliverance is something one can just pick on the road! Why are people going from one “deliverance minister” to another, as if deliverance is a thing one man can give to another? Do you want true deliverance? Now listen!

Receiving true deliverance simply means that you are now giving God time in your house. spending time in His presence, alone with Him. By so doing, God is now working in your life to transform your life and change you from the image of the devil to the image of Christ. That is all Once you become Christ’s image, once Christ begins to rule in your life, you have been delivered! Real deliverance is possible for real deliverance simply means being transformed into the image and likeness of Christ This is what we are to seek instead of seeking just “deliverance".

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It Is God's Best for US

From what we have seen so far, we should then stop going from one man of God to another in the name of seeking deliverance: for we will not find it. We should now go directly to God and ask Him to conform us to the image of Christ. This is God‘s own deliverance package for using it is the best one (Romans 8:29). God knows that ‘after all said and done. to be conformed to His Son’s image, is the final deliverance we need. and that is what many believers are just beginning to discover. When we go to Him, and sit at His table, He begins to uproot the vices and replace them with the fruits. As He does that, we are becoming more like Christ and less like the devil because the fruits are increasing in us while the vices are reducing. As this continues, a day will come when our lives are full of fruits and little or no vices at all. At that time, Christ has been enthroned in our lives and He new rules as King over us.

We have then become the glorious image of Christ which we are called to be. From then on, all the peace. all the joy. all the success. all the progress. all the prosperity; all the good things that God has for us in this life would begin to come our way without any hindrance. Why? Because Christ now rules in our lives. The King is now on His throne in our heart and no enemy can come near us any more. From then on. we will never seek deliverance or liberation of any type any more, for we have entered the blessed realm of His kingdom-life where nothing again shall ever bind us. This is the realm of perfect liberty.

This is the position that God wants to bring us to. Do you want that? Then begin to desire more fruits and seek to become conformed to Christ's image. The more you keep covenant time (eating at His table) the more this becomes a reality in your own life too.