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PROVERBS

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Prov 26:11

11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

NIV

Clearly we are still with this fool. It seems a little crude to think of a dog returning to its vomit. But it does give us the picture of just how crude a fool repeats the same mistakes over and over again. We would think we learn from our mistakes and not make the same one twice, yet even as believers it seems we do. How is that possible that we could be anything like a fool? The fool is the silly or stupid one who refuses to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. We, on the other hand, have accepted Jesus and as thus we are the righteousness of God in Christ.

2 Cor 5:21

21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

NIV

 Therefor we are truly righteous. We have been made holy.

Col 3:12

12 Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience

NIV

So we are really already holy. He also made us complete or have complete fullness.

Col 2:9-11

9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, 10 and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.

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And to make it completely clear he has made us holy and blameless in his sight.

Col 1:22-23

22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— 23 if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel.

NIV

But here also is the key to everything we are, we need to continue in our faith. The fool does not continue in his faith. This could imply there are people who call themselves believers but in all reality are a fool. This might look like a believer who returns to trusting in his flesh, trusting in his works, both to provide for himself and do be considered a good Christian. When we became a believer we turned our life over to Christ, we invited him to live and reign in our hearts. He sent the Holy Spirit to be our guarantee, to seal us as one of his. But if we do not let him reign completely, if we return to even part of our old ways, or never truly abandon them, we are simply feasting on our own vomit. We have been told over and over again that we cannot serve two masters, we cannot serve God and self at the same time. So then are we continuing in our faith our not? Turning our life over to Christ is likened to vomiting up the old self, and becoming a new creature in Christ. Then we cannot, we must not return to our old vomit.