I will acquiesce, rather than have you think of me as being a liar, and playing games. I do know what I'm talking about. But will you take the time to read it and believe in the power of God?
The New Covenant brought grace over law. But that doesn't mean we are lawless, and can do whatever our carnal minds dream up. That is not what God wants for us. Paul said, we don't break the law, we establish the law. He even says we are dead to sin, Romans 6:2. How can we be dead to sin if we keep sinning? How will heaven only be filled with those who are righteous and holy? Revelation 22:11. How can we return to what Adam was when he was perfect, before he sinned and his nature took on Satan's and became carnal? Will heaven be filled with those of the nature of Satan? Or God? The answer is what Jesus accomplished - true grace: THE POWER OF GOD, HIS SPIRIT.
Jesus taught we must be born again of the Spirit. But how? How can what was prophesied of Him regarding righteousness not just be imputed, but actual? It starts with the prophecy of Daniel 9:24.
To finish the transgression,
To make an end of sins,
To make reconciliation for iniquity,
To bring in everlasting righteousness
When Jesus was about to return to heaven before the Day of Pentecost, He told His disciples to wait in Jerusalem for the POWER, the beginning of the New Covenant. I call it the reading of the will and testament, that could only happen after the death of the testator, Hebrews 9:6.
Acts 1:
4 And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; 5 for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” 6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. 8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Acts 2:38-39 To receive this power we must REPENT. Repent of what? The sins we did today, or our inability to be truly righteous? It is the latter, our carnal nature.
Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”
This is true repentance as David wrote in Psalms 51. As a side note of this psalm, I had gone to church for 30 years before I was actually saved and filled with His Spirit. This psalm that I had memorized as a child was part of my prayer. What a difference it made overnight as I literally experienced my nature become reborn and my desires change to that of the divine nature.
2 Peter 1:
2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
By the way, if you go down to verse 9, what has been taken away and cleansed are our OLD SINS, not present and future sins that we have been given POWER to not even commit.
There is so much more, like the explanation of Romans 7 and 1 John 1:8, but I'm afraid it would make this long, so I'll wait for your response.
