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Christianity is a life that is meant to be lived spontaneous. A lifestyle comes from spontaneous living. Christianity is not something that is to be worked up, it is not some decision you make in a situation to get out of. It is something you know and has become part of your consciousness and by it you live a spontaneous life. It is always there, it is you, it is your conversation the scriptures call it, your lifestyle.

There is a point in your life when you make quality decisions based on your knowledge. The power of a mistake is to bring about growth. Example; if we sit in a broken down chair and it collapses, we may want to check the next chair out before we sit down. Life is full of broken down chairs and for some it may take a few to get the idea not to sit there again.

But the point is we learn from our mistakes and in time the right way of living life becomes so spontaneous that you will not even have to think about it. Another simple example is in mathematics once you learned at a young age 2 and 2 is 4, you never had to think about it again you just knew.

So it is with spontaneous living once you learn Christ in you as your only life you will not even have to think about it most of the time. You go about life with a consciousness "if you live, it's Christ."
Phil. 1:21, For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
That's what it means to be a Christian, you may not always express it in every situation or express it perfectly always, but your mind knows it is a Christ person, a Christian, that is what a Christ person is, a Christian. You are a Christ-ian, that is a person with Christ in them. Don't be duped by religion who is always trying to get you to believe right and do all their religious bidding just right, this program and that program. You cannot program Christ, you cannot program spontaneous living.
 

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Christianity is a life that is meant to be lived spontaneous.

Depends what you mean by spontaneous?
If you mean to suddenly leave work, home and go and leave anywhere in the world.
Or to abandon ones family, church and friends in order to run off with another younger woman?
If yopu mean to abandon promises one has made and to go and make new promises that you may or may not keep?

Then the answer is NO

God is not a God of chaos, but of order and we being made in his image and being remade in the image of Jesus, reflect Gods character.
We are orderly beings.

Even the call to go and serve God elsewhere does not mean we can abandon or break promises wehave made.
 
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Christianity is a life that is meant to be lived spontaneous. A lifestyle comes from spontaneous living. Christianity is not something that is to be worked up, it is not some decision you make in a situation to get out of. It is something you know and has become part of your consciousness and by it you live a spontaneous life. It is always there, it is you, it is your conversation the scriptures call it, your lifestyle.

There is a point in your life when you make quality decisions based on your knowledge. The power of a mistake is to bring about growth. Example; if we sit in a broken down chair and it collapses, we may want to check the next chair out before we sit down. Life is full of broken down chairs and for some it may take a few to get the idea not to sit there again.

But the point is we learn from our mistakes and in time the right way of living life becomes so spontaneous that you will not even have to think about it. Another simple example is in mathematics once you learned at a young age 2 and 2 is 4, you never had to think about it again you just knew.

So it is with spontaneous living once you learn Christ in you as your only life you will not even have to think about it most of the time. You go about life with a consciousness "if you live, it's Christ."
Phil. 1:21, For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
That's what it means to be a Christian, you may not always express it in every situation or express it perfectly always, but your mind knows it is a Christ person, a Christian, that is what a Christ person is, a Christian. You are a Christ-ian, that is a person with Christ in them. Don't be duped by religion who is always trying to get you to believe right and do all their religious bidding just right, this program and that program. You cannot program Christ, you cannot program spontaneous living.


Amen. The cares of this world? Take no care for the morrow...

Mat. 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

The spiritual life is always moment by moment. Eternal life is always NOW.
 

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Depends what you mean by spontaneous?
If you mean to suddenly leave work, home and go and leave anywhere in the world.
Or to abandon ones family, church and friends in order to run off with another younger woman?
If yopu mean to abandon promises one has made and to go and make new promises that you may or may not keep?

Then the answer is NO

God is not a God of chaos, but of order and we being made in his image and being remade in the image of Jesus, reflect Gods character.
We are orderly beings.

Even the call to go and serve God elsewhere does not mean we can abandon or break promises wehave made.
Not for sure I understand what you're talking about?
 

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Depends what you mean by spontaneous?
If you mean to suddenly leave work, home and go and leave anywhere in the world.
Or to abandon ones family, church and friends in order to run off with another younger woman?
If yopu mean to abandon promises one has made and to go and make new promises that you may or may not keep?

Then the answer is NO

God is not a God of chaos, but of order and we being made in his image and being remade in the image of Jesus, reflect Gods character.
We are orderly beings.

Even the call to go and serve God elsewhere does not mean we can abandon or break promises wehave made.

Spontaneous Living is a life lived out of your understanding and knowledge of Christ in you. Christ lives in every born again believer, it is the HolySpirit's main ministry to teach every believer and show them Christ as life, John chapter's 14-16. I can't see where that has anything to with flesh, ask yourself, if I run off with another husband or wife "is that Christ." We are dealing with expression so it shouldn't be to hard to discern.
 

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Spontaneous Living is a life lived out of your understanding and knowledge of Christ in you. Christ lives in every born again believer, it is the HolySpirit's main ministry to teach every believer and show them Christ as life, John chapter's 14-16. I can't see where that has anything to with flesh, ask yourself, if I run off with another husband or wife "is that Christ." We are dealing with expression so it shouldn't be to hard to discern.
Paul tooked about the discipline of a Christian living using the illistration of a solder and of an athlete, neither of whom have freedom to abandon the training they are under going.

Further he talks about God being a God of order not chaos.

So how does your spontinaityfit in with the set discipline of the Christian life.
 

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Paul tooked about the discipline of a Christian living using the illistration of a solder and of an athlete, neither of whom have freedom to abandon the training they are under going.

Further he talks about God being a God of order not chaos.

So how does your spontinaityfit in with the set discipline of the Christian life.

Can I ask a sincere question first; are you doubting youself, in other words is there a certain fear to be yourself?
 

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Can I ask a sincere question first; are you doubting youself, in other words is there a certain fear to be yourself?

Fear of what?
Doubts, there is nothing wrong/sinful about doubts, so long as one looks for answers.
Do I doubt, constantly. No one has the absolute answer to every question.

Do I have assurance of Salvation? most definetly as I know it is Jesus who holds onto my faith, not me holding onto him.
 
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Fear of what?
Doubts, there is nothing wrong/sinful about doubts, so long as one looks for answers.
Do I doubt, constantly. No one has the absolute answer to every question.

Do I have assurance of Salvation? most definetly as I know it is Jesus who holds onto my faith, not me holding onto him.

Thanks, yes that is true. That is probably more of a general question that could be asked to all. The reason I asked was I meet people that seem to be afraid to be themselves and the harder they try to be something else the worse it gets. That's why law keeping is so hard on people they just can't do it and all struggle to be something their not. Fear is always a factor, everything comes out of fear. Fear was the root of the original nature, and is a hangover in Christianity.
 

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Paul tooked about the discipline of a Christian living using the illistration of a solder and of an athlete, neither of whom have freedom to abandon the training they are under going.



Further he talks about God being a God of order not chaos.

So how does your spontinaityfit in with the set discipline of the Christian life.

My understanding of spontaneous living in a nut shell; comes from seeing Christ as life, understanding that if you live it's Christ, and allow that mind to operate as your life and expression. It's an understanding, a knowledge that lives spontaneous.
 

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Christianity is a life that is meant to be lived spontaneous. A lifestyle comes from spontaneous living. Christianity is not something that is to be worked up, it is not some decision you make in a situation to get out of. It is something you know and has become part of your consciousness and by it you live a spontaneous life. It is always there, it is you, it is your conversation the scriptures call it, your lifestyle.

There is a point in your life when you make quality decisions based on your knowledge. The power of a mistake is to bring about growth. Example; if we sit in a broken down chair and it collapses, we may want to check the next chair out before we sit down. Life is full of broken down chairs and for some it may take a few to get the idea not to sit there again.

But the point is we learn from our mistakes and in time the right way of living life becomes so spontaneous that you will not even have to think about it. Another simple example is in mathematics once you learned at a young age 2 and 2 is 4, you never had to think about it again you just knew.

So it is with spontaneous living once you learn Christ in you as your only life you will not even have to think about it most of the time. You go about life with a consciousness "if you live, it's Christ."
Phil. 1:21, For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
That's what it means to be a Christian, you may not always express it in every situation or express it perfectly always, but your mind knows it is a Christ person, a Christian, that is what a Christ person is, a Christian. You are a Christ-ian, that is a person with Christ in them. Don't be duped by religion who is always trying to get you to believe right and do all their religious bidding just right, this program and that program. You cannot program Christ, you cannot program spontaneous living.

Forgive me if I’m speaking out of line or to boldly, do not mean to offend.

I agree with a lot you have wrote here but I question the “don’t have to think about it” part.

This exchanged life truth you are speaking of is a most real and correct one, that opens the door to walk in this “newness of life” that we read about in scripture. But this truth is accessed by the faith of the heart of the believer.

It is a constant reckoning oneself dead in to sin and alive unto God. This is a constant moment by moment reckoning by which the self life is set aside, the eyes of the heart stay fixed on Christ. Righteousness and only righteousness is sought after in every situation, for the believer sees that righteousness, and what is righteousness in that situation, is God’s will in that situation, and at that particular moment of time, and they walk in that. Whereby whether the situation is either good or bad to their humanity it matters not. Their joy and peace remains for they are pleasing to God in that set of circumstances.

God has blessed you greatly, keep pressing into Him with all your heart. For He has said He will be found by those that search for Him with their whole heart, as you obviously have been doing.

Blessings,

Much love in Christ, Not me
 
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I question the “don’t have to think about it” part.

There comes a time in Christian growth the understanding of who you are is in the renewed conscience and your living out of your knowledge is spontaneous. Example, most worldly folk do not have to give much thought to the way they live it is a natural spontaneous act that has been derived from years of living their life. With the new nature now a Christian learns to live from the new nature and life will become spontaneous. That is the renewed mind, we live in a time where many Christians have struggled to reach a renewed mind, some do not even believe it is possible and mentally go back into the world, they do not know what to do. So they don't look any different than the world at times.
 
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There comes a time in Christian growth the understanding of who you are is in the renewed conscience and your living out of your knowledge is spontaneous. Example, most worldly folk do not have to give much thought to the way they live it is a natural spontaneous act that has been derived from years of living their life. With the new nature now a Christian learns to live from the new nature and life will become spontaneous. That is the renewed mind, we live in a time where many Christians have struggled to reach a renewed mind, some do not even believe it is possible and mentally go back into the world, they do not know what to do. So they don't look any different than the world at times.

Ok, with that seeing and at explanation, I can see how the statement can be made.

Blessings, love your writings, love your insight, love the Christ I see in you.

Much love in Christ, Not me
 
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My understanding of spontaneous living in a nut shell; comes from seeing Christ as life, understanding that if you live it's Christ, and allow that mind to operate as your life and expression. It's an understanding, a knowledge that lives spontaneous.

May I suggest you check the dictionary meaning of 'spontaneous'.
My understanding is it sudden, unplanned and without regard for other commitments.