Perfected in Christ -- Forget AA

We do need to make ourselves better.

We cannot improve ourselves by our efforts.

We need God, but not some conception of God which gives out the hollow falsehood that He helps us to be better people.

God who sent His Son makes us the best, by putting us in His Son Jesus:

"1Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure." (1 John 3: 1-3)

While the spirit of world tells us that we have to strive for blessings, that we have to make ourselves better, and that we can improve ourselves with the right efforts, the truth is that no matter how hard we try, we are never good enough.

From the fall of man to the present day, man has sin in his flesh. He is flawed and broken with sin, and the answer cannot be found in anything that we do.

There is no perfecting ourselves in our efforts. AA is an evil cult by directing people to look at themselves to improve themselves, which never happens.

We are perfected in Christ, our conscience purged from any sense of wrongdoing, because Jesus did not just die for our sins, but in Jesus' flesh God condemned our sin, too.

"1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." (Romans 8: 1-4)

So, our sin in the flesh will still be there, but it has been condemned, paid for, deprived of any power to condemn  us.

Like Pastor Prince, who shared this truth so powerfully, so boldy, so vividly, I wish that someone had told me this.

Instead, I was told to keep taking my inventory, to keep asking people for help, for forgiveness, for any kind of comfort.

That is not life, that is not worthwhile.

What the Gospel delivers to us is far greater than anything that the world can offer, including the wicked, bankrupted AA cult.