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Totally agree! :)

Walking according to the flesh: Walking in the power of one born in Adam in the limitation and futility of one's own opinions and understanding. One who sins and believes sin is a part of life. Walking according to the Spirit: Being filled with the Spirit and walking in the very presence of...

Great post! :)

You have wisdom far beyond your years!!!! :) Just a few comments...you said... This is true of all religions...as men seek to walk closer to God they realize the power of sin stops them from realizing their desire to be holy. But in Christ we can die to this limitation by being crucified in...

Glad you are all here!!!! They are clearly death to the one that walks according to the flesh. It is an unfortunate situation where so many who walk as sinful men have been somehow led to believe that Jesus covers the sins of the old nature so that they can be so confident in the rewards for...

Perfection is attained through what God does in His continuing working. It is not God's fault that He is perfect. He then becomes OUR perfection as we learn to walk in Him. If the body is dead because of sin does that mean it would have to be resurrected to sin again??? God created our...

Very good! :) You are blessed!

Amen! God's mercy is best understood as His patience for us to get with the holiness program so to speak...it is not yet too late to turn one's life over to be lived through Christ. His patience is not in His willingness to have US overlook our sins.

Wise words

I Agree! I never say>>I'm saved!!! But I have been saved (past tense) through the regeneration of my heart through the Spirit. I am BEING saved in my soul. And I will be saved through the redemption of my body by it's renewing according to the stature of Christ I have attained to. The race is...

You see it well! God begins the race for us through what Jesus did for us...then He seeks to run the race THROUGH us in order to win and overcome. Salvation is both an event and a process leading to the full stature of Christ. We are in a race for the perfecting of our faithfulness which...

2Ch 26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense. 2Ch 26:21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a...

We are not building the temple through sin and forgiveness...sin and forgiveness. Rebuilding what we destroyed is precisely like a dog returning to it's vomit. It is continuing in the power of the flesh when we have been offered grace to walk in the Spirit. No amount of twisting the scriptures...

Or...we are saved by grace through a continuing faithfulness...without faithfulness it is impossible to please God...etc..

May the Lord accomplish His full purpose in you! Be strong in the power of HIS might! Welcome John! :)

We who have died in Christ have given up all rights. Only the flesh wants rights. The Lord's will be done. Not our will... We are to be bond-slaves of Christ. Having given up any rights to our own well being...even poured out as a living sacrifice for the use of God that He might further His...

Gal_6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. We are made dead to sin through the power of the cross. It is presisely this preaching on the cross that is being resisted so strongly. This...

Rom_16:26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith: The word faith in Greek is pistis. This is normally translated as "faith" but could also be translated as...

The church has one function...making disciples. Mar_8:34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations...

The bible is an amazing tool if we would but use it properly. Many here will have an eternity to reflect on the cause of their failing to take the word of God more seriously.