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Hi and appreciate your reply! It's true that this is not the direct quote but is a briefed quote of the passage, and I believe the writer was assuming the reader knew the passage and merely wrote it in short-thought. Though for the sake of avoiding a misunderstanding, I think it may have been...

If you take the law as your rule of life—and holy, and just, and good it is—remember that as many as are of its works, upon that principle, are under the curse, as the Apostle Paul said (“of its works” i.e. trusting its works or any works for forgiveness - Gal 3:10; “under the curse,” because...

Not certain I understand all you're trying to share, but I think we agree as to believers always being guiltless. It's my my understanding that a believer will evidence a life of continual lessening of sinning, but I believe the guilt was not from sinning but from possessing the old man--the sin...

True, we're to own up to the old man but not it's guilt! I can see though why so many legalistic believers get caught up here, because they are still not putting all on God (1Pe 5:7), and at times are yet putting dependence on self instead. Blessings!

As the Lord Jesus walked on earth, He was a circumcised man, debtor to do the whole law (who only could do so because it was required to be kept perfectly, which required One without a sin nature—NC). He was made, as we read, “under the law” (Gal 4:4), and to the utmost tittle of it was obedient...

I like your replies here! My primary encouragement is knowing that those who are reborn are permanently kept abiding in Christ by the Father who has established us in salvation (Phl 1:6). The permanent removal of guilt is always the best blessing because it allows us to fellowship with God and...

Also well said, and thanks for your encouraging replies!

Amen, our new nature is permanent and the old will pass. God doesn't ever consider us after the old nature, because though it is in us we are not in it (Rom 8:9).

Still looks mixed up, you may be reading my comment wrong. I didn't ever say our new nature is affected by our old body, but that our old nature affects our old body. Our new nature doesn't affect our old or new body!

It's okay, but it appears we are not understanding one another enough. Concerning being strong, it depends in who we are trying to be strong--self or the Lord. Sorry that are understandings are so different from one another, and God's blessings to us both!

I agree, our new body will not be affected by our new nature, like our present body is affected by our old nature. Presently we're not completely free from all sin because of the yet indwelling of the old nature. Latter we'll be completely free from sin. Through faith and the Word, and the...

Thanks for the clarification, and I like all you've shared, though for me much of it is in a different understanding than most. To me there is a difference between true freedom from sin and complete freedom from sin, as the latter condition will without fail come with the resurrection (no more...

Hi and thanks for your reply! I'm sorry but I'm not sure of what you mean by the first question and comment. Concerning being "free from sin" (Rom 6:18, 22), it can mean something different to varying individuals, but to me the meaning is freedom from damnation and dominion (Ro 8:1; 6:14). Some...

How can one be “dead to sin” (Rom 6:2) and yet continue to possess its source, which is the “old man” (Eph 4:22; Col 3:9)? It’s scripturally certain that “dead” does not intend the eradication of the sin nature, nor the effects of it, or the Spirit would not need to oppose it (Gal 5:17), and the...

I also see it as part of the command to "exhort one another" when we like to share with one another what we believe the Word is saying to us ( Heb 10:24; Heb 3:13; Rom 12:8; 1Co 14:3; 1Th 4:18; 1Th 5:11). But some prefer not to share their opinion about what they think concerning the Word, and...

Hi and appreciate your reply and comments! Myself though, I feel the author is merely sharing his opinions and belief's rather than just presenting explanations.

Are those reborn still associated with the old man or, sin nature? Though it is yet indwelling, in what way could they ever again be related? One might think that sinning confirms a continuous relation to the old man, but what would that say of being under the Blood of Christ? Can it ever become...

Hi! Thanks for the reply and God bless! He was a Plymouth Brethren: Henry Forbes Witherby | Plymouth Brethren Archive

The Secret of Strength The more we consciously know what the eternal life is, and the more assured we are that the only liberty of this life is in the Lord Jesus Christ in glory, the more we shall feel that the enablement for our daily walk and service must be outside ourselves. Our flesh (sin...