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He trusted that what God said would come to pass, and was obedient even to sacrificing his son Isaac. “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” Romans 4

Abraham.

But nobody is going to look to someone like you for truth. If you don't act like Jesus, you lose all credibility that you even know Him. Just edit that post against my friend.

If you can edit out the above, your post wont sound like a pompous unbeliever, devoid of the Spirit wrote it. We are all here to grow, as I know my earliest posts are different, but now show, I have grown past the the mistakes I wrote. If you edit out your lack of love, I'll erase this post.

Ernest, you have good things to say.

Maybe you didn't understand how it works. If you were God I would obey and it would be done. But my relationship with God is for me to wait until He speaks FIRST, then I obey, for whatever He wants me to pray for. In California at Jack Hayford's church we had prayer circles where we shared our...

Enoch doesn't believe. I do, but I didn't want to rub it in that the gifts of the Spirit are alive and well on planet earth. How do you think 100% of my prayers are answered? Prophecy. I never pray for myself, unless He first tells me what to pray for, I repeat His words, and the prayer is...

I agree, the Spirit-filled have that in abundance. I like this promise, and know it is true and confirms that if I endure this way to the end, that I will be in heaven, and that is 1 John 3:21-23. All of my prayers are answered. But for the 1st 30 years of my life of church going, but without...

In reading this again I don't think you recognized that I was actually quoting scripture in Romans 8:2. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ has freed us from the law of sin and death. The law of sin and death is the "ministry of death" of 2 Corinthians 3:7-11. The baptism of the Holy Spirit...

One thing I'm still trying to figure out, the two things that most kids do, I never did and that was lie or steal (candy). But I wasn't filled with the Spirit until I was 30 years old. How come I was such a good kid?

Right. Paul gives a good list of "real" sins. Galatians 5:19-21 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy...

That is immature fruit of the Spirit, IF the Spirit is there in the first place. Fruit grows.

Just because you have no power over sin, doesn't mean that Spirit-filled Christians are not freed from sin. I guess you'll just have to speak for yourself. What the context of 1 John 3:9 is 1 John 3:4 - sins of lawlessness. If you still break commandments and commit adultery, fornication...

Are you kidding? Romans 7:6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

Sorry, I thought the highlighted part at the top of your post was you quoting someone else and it seemed like you agree, unless those were your words. I didn't actually see the other post as I have JBF on ignore.

Why are you fighting? You are saying the same thing. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. Not being under the OT Law does not make us lawless, Paul says we establish the law. What Jesus has done is freed us from the bondage of the...

Maybe we are confusing each other, but I don't know any better way to say it. Going for coffee. See you later!

Romans 7:13 13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. The person in Roman 7 still has sin in them. Does that describe you?

And what I said is absolutely true. Read my post above this one, the one to marks

No, this is the result of repentance, but is not repentance, itself. You cannot by yourself make yourself born again of the Spirit - that is what you described in exchanging of the mind of the flesh for the mind of Christ. That is what Jesus through His Spirit does after we truly repent. The...