Yes, that IS what I am saying. I am right now, at this moment justified, sanctified and purified, I have been made righteous by the blood of Jesus Christ and I am IN HIM, not having my own righteousness but the righteousness of God IN Christ. If I were to die at any time I would be in Heaven the next moment with God.
This is the amazing grace of God and it is looked at as "heresy" by some "religious" people who rely upon their OWN righteousness to earn them heaven. The cross is "foolishness" to them because they have not understood that through Christ and him alone are we ever made righteous enough to be in the presence of God. So, to answer your question about my current purity, YES, I am cleansed as white as snow and that is the ONLY way anyone will be saved - IN CHRIST. I find it hard to understand why some of you just don't GET that.
Now, in the nasty here and now of this natural life I lead, I deal with sin and failure just like everyone else does. I am human and my old nature is still in conflict with the new nature - just as Paul said it would - but I have the remedy of being able to talk to my Heavenly Father about it and he forgives me, sets things right, gives me strength and growth to do better every day. I am not - nor is anyone else - saved based on how "pure" I can be or make myself be. That is why Jesus was made flesh for us and he gives to us HIS righteousness - HIS purity. That, and ONLY that, is why I can say I know I have eternal life.
Well looks like we found the one who could have thrown the first stone.
Yes, that IS what I am saying. I am right now, at this moment justified, sanctified and purified, I have been made righteous by the blood of Jesus Christ and I am IN HIM, not having my own righteousness but the righteousness of God IN Christ. If I were to die at any time I would be in Heaven the next moment with God.
The Gnostics knew of their own salvation. Are you professing Gnosticism now? Christianity as a whole condemned Gnosticism as heresy of the first rank.
What they don't get because it's spiritually discerned is the spiritual circumcision made without hands...They are completely ignorant about it...
Col 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Col 2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Col 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
But why don't these people know this??? Because they have put their religious teachings above God's word...They don't even know what God has to say to them...
Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
It's all in the scriptures...The word of God...The only authority...
Reading and believing the word of God will cut thru the trash of anyone's tradition, rituals, superstitions, false worship...The word of God...
Believing God's word will show one how this operation of God works...The words in that book teach us that our soul and spirit are separated from our joint and marrow...
Our soul and spirit are no longer connected to our flesh...The Jews had the outward circumcision...We Christians have the inward circumcision...They are both an operation...One physical, one spiritual...The body and soul are separated...
It is our soul that has become purified...That soul is what will be accepted into the arms of Jesus at the moment of our death...
They don't get that...
Our bodies will become purified at the resurrection, the Rapture, and reunited with our souls...
It's all in there...