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That's what you've been conditioned to believe...the middle class American Jesus. ;) Jesus died for the sins of the whole world. But He was raised for they who enter into His resurrection life IN Him. We enter into Christ by forsaking this world and all we love here...and our very lives.

God is righteous. As such He can't be seen to prefer one person over the other. So then He allows US to determine who desires to be close to Him. He allows us to compete for that closeness to Him. It's a perfect race. It is perfectly fair and righteous. They who desire God will seek for Him in...

Jesus didn't come here to be accepted by God but rather to help US to be accepted and even to please God. He came to perfect the walk in His humanity...so that they who believe into Him take on His perfected humanity to walk as He did without any spot or wrinkle of sin. But the way INTO Christ...

And we also who abide in Him. We do exactly as He did...overcoming as He overcame...when we abide in Him. So then God is well pleased with us who enter into His rest.

Which brings us to Romans 8. How many of us ever get there. This is where we take on a new law....the law of the Spirit of life IN Christ Jesus. When we enter into an airplane we can fly above the law of gravity. Likewise when we enter into Christ we can fly like an eagle over the law of sin...

So you refuse to run in the great race? And this is not about self -edification. it's the exact opposite. It about being pleasing to God. 12 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset...

But they who are living do! :) Run so as to win the prize of the high calling in Christ! Hebrews 12:1-2 The Race of Faith 12 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with...

I think God compares us with others...in love and devotion, in faith and courage, in perseverance and faithfulness....etc. So yes...I am inspired by this idea. People are competitive in nature...but usually in the wrong pursuits. But WHAT A competition this is! We are to run as athletes for...

From your self-avowed sinful and weak perspective...it looks that way...yes.

So is it really that victory in Christ is a lie? Or just they who claim that victory in Christ are liars? Or that you really don't understand the gospel yet? or yourself? Which sounds more reasonable to a person who understands his own sinfulness and weakness? So then the eternal carnal...

If you ever get to know yourself you will realize that you...and most people ...read into the bible as they already are. So then when you read something like...be holy as God is holy...you think that is some kind of impossible ideal...so you don't take it to heart. Can we be perfect as our...

If life was easy...then anyone could do it! :) I think when God winks at you...you wink back!

Welcome to the Boards! I hope you find some fellowship here! :) And what a friend we have in Jesus! And hopefully a friend inside people who are themselves in Jesus.

I think we forget how much God loves faith! Faith is precious to Him. So when He tells us to do something impossible sounding...He watches to see how we will react. :eek: Do we respond with faith...as in...no problem for you my Lord! Or do we buck and complain and only see the impossibility of...

So why does God make the games so difficult? Remember that this is God that we are talking about...Someone whose ways ARE so much higher than our own. There is no limit to what God can do. And the race is one of faith. So of course there is going to be a standard that seems impossible for men to...

Jesus said that rivers of living water would flow out of people. The gas tank idea works however for they who are not abiding. You only need a gas tank when you are leaving the station. Jesus Christ IS the filling station. There is a keeping power of God whereby one is always filled...and even...

Romans 6 is about the first step in the journey of faith. From righteousness unto holiness. It is actually...eternal life IN Jesus Christ. (not just through) The eternal kind of life is found by entering into Jesus Christ....to abide in holiness with God in Zion. To walk as Jesus walked...as...

That is not the same as being led by the Spirit but abiding still in the flesh. Only when someone is FILLED with the Spirit (and overflowing with grace) is there no more room for sin. Otherwise the dark corners of the un-crucified soul will manifest themselves at the wrong times.

The words of God actually. We are the righteousness of God IN HIM. If you look up the verses that contain the attributes of God that we are to show the world...you will find that they are found IN HIM.

Perfection is to enter into Him...He who knew no sin. We take on His perfected humanity IN HIM. But people can't see the "in Him"...so they keep looking to themselves and say it's impossible. With God ALL things are possible. Again...who believes that? All the promises of God in the NT have...