Lizbeth
Well-Known Member
We repent when we come to Christ, at least in a general sense. With more to come as we go along and the Lord shines His light so we can see and digs deeper in our hearts. A humble and contrite heart He does not despise. Of course the righteousness and love shed abroad in our hearts is His.......and to think that He has come to dwell in us by His Spirit is the wonderful truth. His Spirit, His love, His righteousness has come to dwell in the child of God by faith...and it is by His Spirit within us that we know the Lord as He is revealed to our hearts. It is then a matter of learning to walk in it. Submitting to the righteousness of Christ in us, not seeking to establish our own righteousness as the scripture says....in other words submitting to the spirit of Christ in us. Walking by faith not by sight, ie, walking in the spirit.The ways of God don't work that way. We can have righteousness imputed to us as we repent...like the Publican. But that is NOT the righteousness of Christ...which NEVER can be imputed to anyone. The righteousness is His, the holiness is His, the love is His..
Romans 6 speaks beautifully THIS-wise:
Rom 6:1-18
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ WERE baptized into his death?
Therefore we ARE buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Knowing this, that our old man IS crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
(Which is not the same-wise and in the same vein in which you speak/teach. So something has to give way here, and it isn't the Lord God who needs to. Romans 6 is in spirit........but the way you teach things is not in that vein. Which is why you compartmentalize things and don't understand but deny truths that can only be understood in spirit, not with the carnal mind. You are cutting away the foundation and I dont' know how to convince you of that, but unfortunately you just are.)
Does this mean we are to sit on our laurels and take our salvation for granted? No it does not....and there are plenty of scriptures that exhort, admonish, instruct, reprove and warn the child of God not to. Fear of the Lord doesn't have to be "logical" in that sense, because it is in spirit, it sometimes is 'beyond understanding', like His peace.
As a father disciplines His children and takes his love away so to speak for a time......the Lord will sometimes take His peace away if we are wandering or doing wrong or if He is digging deeper in our heart and dealing with something in our heart as we grow, etc, and thus we are left with His fear at such times to motivate and help us get sorted out. Working out our salvation with fear and trembling.
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