Robert,
As long as we can be honest and truthful,
As a Christian, in my five years worth of being a short lived and learned Christian, is that Gods grace by the forgiveness of the Sins due to the death of Christ Jesus on the cross, knowing what that what he has done for you, will I believe change a persons heart.
Following God and if one walks in the spirit of Christ, and the Holy Ghost of God that raised Jesus from the dead, they won’t have the natural proclivity to sin if they are walking in the heavenly.
Our natural proclivities due pop up from time to time, whatever that may be for an individual only they know. Sin is missing the mark as mentioned before, Jesus Christ is the end of the law for righteousness for all that believe on him and his name.
Our natural proclivities are to hate, be greedy, lie to cover up hidden truths, people get envious and jealous, mean and talk down to others, I’m guilty of sinning. It’s not good to use the flesh to act on sin. (You’ll just receive problems going and chasing after whatever that sin or desire of lust may be.)
Praise God for him giving the gift of a new heart and a new spirit and a new creature a new born again son or daughter of God by the spirit.
Paul in fact just like Jesus talked about; talked about how one is to become dead to sin, dead from missing the mark, and allowing (if you walk by the spirit) God in and through you by the spirit of Christ to come through and bestow heavenly gifts to the others around you.
Praise be to God for his grace and the grace of the Lord Jesus.
In kindness, love, peace, grace, mercy, of Christ,
Matthew Gallagher
knowing what that what he has done for you, will I believe change a persons heart.
It can change a person's opinion, but not a heart.
Agreeing with the gospel is not obeying the gospel. When we obey the gospel to purify our hearts by His faith, then we have a new and clean heart to love God wholly.
Following God and if one walks in the spirit of Christ, and the Holy Ghost of God that raised Jesus from the dead, they won’t have the natural proclivity to sin if they are walking in the heavenly.
I.e. them that walk after the Spirit and not after the flesh, no longer obey sin to do the lust thereof.
Our natural proclivities are to...I’m guilty of sinning.
Since you acknowledge the truth of not doing the sins of the flesh by walking after the Spirit, then your own words condemn you in also acknowledging you are still one of the sinners of the world walking after the flesh, and not after the Spirit, therefore:
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
With a newly cleansed and pure heart partaking of the divine nature, we cease to be drawn of the lust of the world into doing the old man's 'natural proclivities', which is the agreeable sinners' way of downgrading sins of the flesh from unrighteousness and ungodliness of the devil, to 'proclivities' of the flesh.
Praise God for him giving the gift of a new heart and a new spirit and a new creature a new born again son or daughter of God by the spirit.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God,
even to them that believe on his name.
To them that believe Him, He gives power to obey Him and purify our hearts to become His sons.
Until we do so with the power He gives, we are not yet become His sons, but remain agreeable sinners of the world only. Hearing and agreeing with God is not hearing and obeying God.
When we use His power to purify our hearts from lust of the world and our hands from sins and trespasses of the world, then we can praise Him with a pure heart:
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Until we do so, we are agreers only, and to praise Him for Being who He is, does nothing to change the heart.
Opinions change by agreeing with the faith, but hearts only change by obeying the faith.
