Called To Be A Witness

Pro 26:2 ASV - As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying, So the curse that is causeless alighteth not.  Gods Law that Moses gave to the children of God was still in effect
when Christ came ,  Jesus said he came not to do away with that Law but to fullfill it .  Now if we read Deut 28 we can see the out come , or the blessings and the curses for those that obey the Law and those that disobey the Law .   Now if Jesus fulfilled the Law than the curse is causeless to effect those that are under the blood of Christ . God has made a New Covenant with us through Christ a new law a law of liberty.    Heb 10:26 ASV - For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,    Wilfully   Greek: hekousios           Wilfully, Willfully:
denotes "voluntarily, willingly,"      Hbr 10:26, (of sinning) "willfully;" in 1Pe 5:2, "willingly" (of exercising oversight over the flock of God).     Repentance is the key here having a change of mind when we are corrected.     1Jo 1:8 ASV - If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1Jo 1:9 ASV - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1Jo 1:10 ASV - If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.                    

 Heb 5:12 ASV - For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.
Heb 5:13 ASV - For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.
Heb 5:14 ASV - But solid food is for fullgrown men, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.   Babies in Christ are forgiven sin because of ignorance to the word .   Some where in our walk we have to grow up unto full grown men
For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.   In the beginning of our walk with God we start off as children, babies and your father loves you and realizes your infancy .  As we walk in this word and submit to the word your father will hold you accountable for what you know.  So you go from a baby pulling up to the coffee table and taking small steps to walking with confidence .  So when we are small and young in the Lord he has favor and tenderness for his babies , there comes a time when he requires you to take bigger steps in his word , exercise your faith  . Without faith it is impossible to please God. 
Babies are covered by the blood of Christ but a time comes when you father is going to pull the covering back and expose the root of sin in our life's with the light of his word .  And require you to grow up and become a full grown man .    If we do not take this word and walk in it we condem ourselfs to judgement ,  Jesus said he was the way the truth and the life .

Rom 8:2 ASV - For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
1Co 15:56 ASV - The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:



1Co 15:47 ASV - The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven.
1Co 15:48 ASV - As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
1Co 15:49 ASV - And as we have borne the IMAGE of the earthy, we shall also bear the IMAGE of the heavenly.
1Co 15:50 ASV - Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.   This body of our flesh is commanded by the word of God to die ,  keep in mind its the flesh not your soul.    Heb 9:24 ASV - For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:
Heb 9:25 ASV - nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place year by year with blood not his own;
Heb 9:26 ASV - else must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at the end of the ages hath he been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Heb 9:27 ASV - And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment;
Heb 9:28 ASV - so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to them that wait for him, unto salvation.

The last enemy is our flesh our carnal nature ,      Gal 5:16 ASV - But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.      Lust   Greek: epithumia

Covet, Covetous, Covetousness:
denotes "coveting," Rom 7:7, 8, RV; AV, "lust" and "concupiscence;" the commandment here referred to convicted him of sinfulness in his desires for unlawful objects besides that of gain.
See DESIRE, LUST.
1Jo 2:16 ASV - For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God and its righteousness , for the kingdom of God is NOT! meat nor drink ( catering to our flesh )    but Righteousness , Peace and Joy .   

Jas 1:12 ASV - Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him.
 Jas 1:15 ASV - Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.
1Jo 2:16 ASV - For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1Jo 2:17 ASV - And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Luk 14:28 ASV - For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doth not first sit down and count the cost, whether he have wherewith to complete it?
Luk 14:33 ASV - So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
God sent his son to save you Spirit ,soul and Body     1Th 5:23 ASV - And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Entire   Greek: holokleros

Entire:
"complete, sound in every part" (holos, "whole," kleros, "a lot," i.e., with all that has fallen by lot), is used ethically in 1Th 5:23, indicating that every grace present in Christ should be manifested in the believer; so Jam 1:4. In the Sept. the word is used, e.g., of a "full" week, Lev 23:15; of altar stones unhewn, Deu 27:6; Jos 8:31; of a "full-grown" vine tree, useless for work, Eze 15:5; of the "sound" condition of a sheep, Zec 11:16.

God has redeemed your spirit by the blood of his son ,  now he is redeeming your soul every day by his fire he is purging us with the fire of the Holy Ghost  .   As gold is tried by fire and purified ,   Rev 3:18 ASV - I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white garments, that thou mayest clothe thyself, and that the shame of thy nakedness be not made manifest; and eyesalve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.   Eyesalve  Greek   of the true knowledge of one's condition and of the claims of Christ .  There is a cost to being saved Jesus said to count that cost ,  the cross he spoke of in the gospels is exactlly what it means suffering for the sake of his name and his righteous .    Mat 7:14 ASV - For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it. Straitened     Greek: thlibo

Afflict (-ed), Affliction:
"to suffer affliction, to be troubled," has reference to sufferings due to the pressure of circumstances, or the antagonism of persons, 1Th 3:4; 2Th 1:6, 7; "straitened," in Mat 7:14 (RV); "throng," Mar 3:9; "afflicted," 2Cr 1:6; 7:5 (RV); 1Ti 5:10; Hbr 11:37; "pressed," 2Cr 4:8. Both the verb and the noun (see B, No. 4), when used of the present experience of believers, refer almost invariably to that which comes upon them from without.   Witness is another name for martyr  ,  Greek: martus | martur        Witness (Noun and Verb):  "martyr," one who bears "witness" by his death) denotes "one who can or does aver what he has seen or heard or knows;" it is used .  
(a) of God, Rom 1:9; 2Cr 1:23; Phl 1:8; 1Th 2:5, 10 (2nd part);

(b) of Christ, Rev 1:5; 3:14;

(c) of those who "witness" for Christ by their death, Act 22:20; Rev 2:13; Rev 17:6;


1Co 15:22 ASV - For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
1Co 15:23 ASV - But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; then they that are Christ's, at his coming.
1Co 15:24 ASV - Then cometh the end, when he shall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power.
1Co 15:25 ASV - For he must reign, till he hath put all his enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26 ASV - The last enemy that shall be abolished is death.

Greek: eikon

Image:
denotes "an image;" the word involves the two ideas of representation and manifestation. "The idea of perfection does not lie in the word itself, but must be sought from the context" (Lightfoot); the following instances clearly show any distinction between the imperfect and the perfect likeness.

The word is used

(1) of an "image" or a coin (not a mere likeness), Mat 22:20; Mar 12:16; Luk 20:24; so of a statue or similar representation (more than a resemblance), Rom 1:23; Rev 13:14, 15 (thrice); 14:9, 11; 15:2; 16:2; 19:20; 20:4; of the descendants of Adam as bearing his image, 1Cr 15:49, each a representation derived from the prototype;

(2) of subjects relative to things spiritual, Hbr 10:1, negatively of the Law as having "a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things," i.e., not the essential and substantial form of them; the contrast has been likened to the difference between a statue and the shadow cast by it;

(3) of the relations between God the Father, Christ, and man,

(a) of man as he was created as being a visible representation of God, 1Cr 11:7, a being corresponding to the original; the condition of man as a fallen creature has not entirely effaced the "image;" he is still suitable to bear responsibility, he still has Godlike qualities, such as love of goodness and beauty, none of which are found in a mere animal; in the Fall man ceased to be a perfect vehicle for the representation of God; God's grace in Christ will yet accomplish more than what Adam lost;

(b) of regenerate persons, in being moral representations of what God is, Col 3:10; cp. Eph 4:24;

(c) of believers, in their glorified state, not merely as resembling Christ but representing Him, Rom 8:29; 1Cr 15:49; here the perfection is the work of Divine grace; believers are yet to represent, not something like Him, but what He is in Himself, both in His spiritual body and in His moral character;

(d) of Christ in relation to God, 2Cr 4:4, "the image of God," i.e., essentially and absolutely the perfect expression and representation of the Archetype, God the Father; in Col 1:15, "the image of the invisible God" gives the additional thought suggested by the word "invisible," that Christ is the visible representation and manifestation of God to created beings; the likeness expressed in this manifestation is involved in the essential relations in the Godhead, and is therefore unique and perfect; "he that hath seen Me hath seen the Father," Jhn 14:9. "The epithet "invisible."... must not be confined to the apprehension of the bodily senses, but will include the cognizance of the inward eye also" (Lightfoot).

As to synonymous words, homoioma, "likeness," stresses the resemblance to an archetype, though the resemblance may not be derived, whereas eikon is a "derived likeness" (see LIKENESS); eidos, "a shape, form," is an appearance, "not necessarily based on reality" (see FORM); skia, is "a shadowed resemblance" (see SHADOW); morphe is "the form, as indicative of the inner being"

1Jo 3:1 ASV - Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
1Jo 3:2 ASV - Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.
1Jo 3:3 ASV - And every one that hath this hope set on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
1Jo 3:4 ASV - Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

Dear Bro and Sisters you need the true experience of the Holy Spirit just as in the book of Acts for the disciples on the day of Pentecost.  Jesus told his disciples to wait in Jerusalem until they be endued or filled with power .   Are you filled with the spirit of God if you are not sure ? than ask the Lord to fill you with his spirit .