Bill W. and the rest of the AA cultists who pushed this vile perversion onto the world pushed all kinds of old-timey works-based salvation.
But that is a lie.
I have written it before, and I will write it again: AA teaches its captured adherents that they have to stay ahead of resentment and anger, because those feelings can cut you off from "the sunlight of the spirit."
I cannot stress enough how damaging this lie is to people. If you are placed on this chronic treadmill to make yourself OK with God every day based on fixing your feelings or your thoughts, you will exhaust yourself with failure, or kill yourself.
Jesus accomplished a perfect work at the Cross. It's not contingent on how we feel or what we think, but everything that He did!
Pastor Joseph Prince encapsulates this revelation perfectly in today's Devotional reading.
Check it out!
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You Can Never Forfeit the Presence of God
For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor
forsake you.”
Hebrews 13:5
There was a time under the law in the Old Testament where
God would be with you only when you were in complete obedience. But when you
failed, He would leave you.
Today, however, you and I are under a completely different
covenant and God will never leave us. Why? Because of what Jesus did on the
cross.
At the cross, He became our burnt offering. He bore our sins
and carried our punishment. God’s judgment against our sins fell upon Jesus,
who was forsaken at the cross by His Father so that today, we can have God’s
constant, unceasing presence in our lives.
Jesus cried out, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
so that you and I will know exactly what happened on the cross (Matt. 27:46).
That is where the divine exchange took place. At the cross, Jesus took our sins
and gave up the presence of God, while we took Jesus’ righteousness and
received the presence of God that Jesus had. God’s presence is now ours for
eternity. What a divine exchange!
Take a look with me at what the Bible says about our
inheritance in Christ: “For He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor
forsake you.’ So we may boldly say: ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not fear.
What can man do to me?’” (Heb. 13:5–6). What confidence we can have today!
Do you know what “never” here means? It means that when you
are up, He is with you. When you are down, He is with you. When you are glad,
He is with you. When you are sad, He is with you. When you are doing right, He
is with you. Even when you have failed, He is still with you! That is what it
means when Jesus said that He would never leave you nor
forsake you!
Because Jesus, your prosperity, peace, provision, and
wisdom, is always with you, you cannot help but prosper!