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The law could not then have "killed" Paul while he was yet an unregenerate man. He thought he was justified by the law. He would never have seen the law as something that condemned him...before encountering the Lord, that is. He was raised in Judaism. Go ask any Jew if he feels that God gave...

It must go back to the holy purpose of the law. Can we ignore the law of God? We will all be judged by the law. Our works must be found to be lawful. This is the problem with understanding grace...unless we understand that through grace we must fulfill the requirements of the law. Grace does not...

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We are born again by the Spirit apart from the law as Paul is describing. But then he was overcome by the law. What is better is to go to God for the full power of grace. The whole purpose of God is that we should seek Him and know Him...not just to give us gifts that make us able to live...

Paul is speaking of his early Christian walk....when he discovers that grace is not just life apart from the law...but a life that must also obey the law. At first these seem opposed to each other. The function of the law is that it exposes us to the standard of holiness that God expects of...

I think the error that many take away from the statement of Jesus concerning binding and loosing is a rendering of the text which would have it to say..."whatever you (decide to) bind will be bound in heaven and whatever you (decide to) loose will be loosed in heaven". The Greek states that...

Men understand authority as a hierarchy of luminaries. But Jesus submitted to the baptism of John...even thought the authority of John was far less than that of Jesus. Jesus respected the order given to John from God to baptize and preach. Jesus respected GOD'S authority...not John's. John...

Thank you and bless you Acolyte for your kind words and for your heart that is turned ever towards the Lord.

You would have people deciding things for God. Again, you want to lean on the understanding of men. But you have chosen a wrong argument...again. God puts people in authority who only look to Him. They are place markers for HIS authority. A man of God comes in the name of the Lord. Not in his...

God never delegates authority. All authority is His and remains His. He allows us to partake in His will by coming under HIS authority. In the church only men who are following Christ and doing as Jesus does...have any authority. It is God's authority THROUGH an obedient vessel that any real...

Authority from God comes with responsibility. But God never expects us to follow our own understanding. We are never to judge....we must only speak what God is saying....no more, no less. Have you not read where it is written...lean not on your own understanding. So then every scenario is meant...

In your opinion...that is. An opinion that proves just how unable the carnal man is to wield any kind of real authority in truth.

I believe we must all do as you have stated in your OP. At times we will all fail the grace of God. At such times we need not give up and only do what is easy... we need to exercise ourselves unto godliness as well. But the desire of Paul was for the grace that makes walking in faith as a...

All this is good...but it leaves out the most powerful faith of all. The faith OF Jesus Christ. With our faith, the battle is a constant one...like carrying our own cross. But there is a keeping power of Christ when we are fully surrendered to God...where He takes over. This is the full effect...

It's a lot more than that. It is spiritual warfare in an ongoing way. A constant setting of things in order...by the Spirit.

Holiness divides the world into they who are loosed into righteousness and those who are bound into condemnation. Jesus came to bring a sword and a challenge to mankind in the form of an invitation into the truth. Mat 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send...

A person who seeks to have authority over another is ALWAYS doing so by the power of the flesh. It is a denial of grace. It is an effort to dominate through the law and this is in stark contrast to grace. Being under grace means that we have ceased from our own efforts in favour of an...

Binding and Loosing “Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.” Mat 18:18 When Jesus spoke these words His listeners already knew something about binding and loosing. In the Jewish tradition...

There is a spiritual realm from which people are "moved" as by a physical wind. The present reality we see is but a facade. There is truth behind this reality. It takes spiritual faculties to see or perceive that other realm.

The law of faith is that which overcomes the law of sin. Faith is our access to grace which triumphs...always.