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Before Paul was born again he said that he was blameless in the law.

He had kept it, and later found that Christianity is not based on that,..... and discovered that in his inner man there is a tremendous conflict that occurs if he tried to strive to be holy in his flesh, (self effort)...., as this warred against who he had become in Christ.
This "war" was happening in his HEAD, and He had to get his MIND right to find deliverance.

So do you.

He teaches this place of correct faith, as the "renewing your MIND".

Paul realized that in his body, his flesh, his natural mind = is no good thing, and to try to live the life of a Christian was actually void of any power from God, if you try to do it by self effort and striving to be good. Or as Jesus told us..."apart from me you can do NOTHING".
He learned that he was eternally made righteous by the blood of Jesus and learned to live holiness according to "i can do all through Christ".
That understanding freed him from himself, his natural mind, and enlisted the renewed mind of real faith that he discovered accesses the Power of Christ, so that he then remained here..."Christ always gives me the Victory"... over flesh, the world, and the devil.
All believers are to come to this unity of the Faith, this renewed mind., which allows the believer deliverance from self righteousness that drives carnality and leads to works of the flesh and condemnation, and that confessing issue.

After Paul was born again he wrote most of the Epistles in the New Testament, and never did he state that he confessed sin.
He had no sin, as Christ was made sin for Him, so, what was left to deal with was a mind that wants to try to misunderstand God's righteousness.
Didnt take him long, and from that point he was this..."Christ always gives me the Victory", and when you have Victory you are not found talking about Sin, you are found talking about GRACE....God Amazing Grace....= and that is Paul's "Gospel of the GRACE of God".

He wrote Romans 4:8.... that teaches that because Christ has bore all our sin, and we are made righteous, God does not charge sin against the born again.
He wrote 2 Corinthians 5:19 that explains the Amazing Grace of God.
And what is that?
= God has already judged Jesus for the sin of us all, and applied this redemption that is gained by Christ's Sacrifice to all who have believed and are born again.
The born again are "made free from sin", and are become "the righteousness of God in Christ".

Confessing sin that Christ has paid for 2000 yrs ago, happens because the person does not understand Salvation, or the New Birth, or what happened on the Cross of Christ that Jesus said from the Cross..."it is finished".

When you get the revelation : "made righteous" = God made Christ to be sin, even though he was without sin, so that believers would “become the righteousness of God.” ....
When you get that revelation, then your "confession" is over. The Condemnation is GONE.... and your VICTORY has begun.... and that is the first day you have "worked out your Salvation" because your mind is renewed.

God help you to see it and be it in your renewed mind, right now.... in Jesus's name......amen.
 
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Reader,

That Light, is the light of Revelation.

That Light is "HIS" Light........"Light" is truth, revealed.
God is "A Spirit" who exists "in Light".
The born again are to walk in HIS Light....that means to have the revelation or the right mind regarding who we have become ""IN CHRIST"
That is The LIGHT of revelation . Thats the knowledge you have to SEE and then BELIEVE, as in that place is "Christ always Gives me the Victory", as the "renewed mind".

Remember Saint.....all things with God are Spiritual before they become Literal.
WE are born again, in the Spirit to become "i can do all things through Christ"....Literally down here.

Why?

Because....."As CHRIST IS......so are the BORN AGAIN.....In.....THIS WORLD".

That is not a myth. That is every born again person who has become that as the "new creation IN CHRIST".

To live that is not by works, but by REVELATION Knowledge that you believe that frees you into "i can do all things through Christ".


Jesus is The LIGHT of the World.
The born again are Children of The Light.

Revelation is Light Received.
"walking in the Spirit" is to walk in "the Light"....of revelation., as that is the "renewed mind".

Paul said we have the "mind of Christ" when we SEE THE LIGHT and live there as our renewed mind.

What i just showed you, and i do a lot, is how you "work out your salvation"..

You have Salvation, if you are born again, and to work it out is to learn how to exit in it, as the "renewed mind".

That is how you become...."as many as be perfect'..."the fullness of the Stature of Christ".....down here on THIS Earth,

That is REAL Christianity. That is REAL Faith.

Accept NO Substitute.
 
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Before Paul was born again he said that he was blameless in the law.

He had kept it, and later found that Christianity is not based on that,..... and discovered that in his inner man there is a tremendous conflict that occurs if he tried to strive to be holy in his flesh, (self effort)...., as this warred against who he had become in Christ.
This "war" was happening in his HEAD, and He had to get his MIND right to find deliverance.

So do you.

He teaches this place of correct faith, as the "renewing your MIND".

Paul realized that in his body, his flesh, his natural mind = is no good thing, and to try to live the life of a Christian was actually void of any power from God, if you try to do it by self effort and striving to be good. Or as Jesus told us..."apart from me you can do NOTHING".
He learned that he was eternally made righteous by the blood of Jesus and learned to live holiness according to "i can do all through Christ".
That understanding freed him from himself, his natural mind, and enlisted the renewed mind of real faith that he discovered accesses the Power of Christ, so that he then remained here..."Christ always gives me the Victory"... over flesh, the world, and the devil.
All believers are to come to this unity of the Faith, this renewed mind., which allows the believer deliverance from self righteousness that drives carnality and leads to works of the flesh and condemnation, and that confessing issue.

After Paul was born again he wrote most of the Epistles in the New Testament, and never did he state that he confessed sin.
He had no sin, as Christ was made sin for Him, so, what was left to deal with was a mind that wants to try to misunderstand God's righteousness.
Didnt take him long, and from that point he was this..."Christ always gives me the Victory", and when you have Victory you are not found talking about Sin, you are found talking about GRACE....God Amazing Grace....= and that is Paul's "Gospel of the GRACE of God".

He wrote Romans 4:8.... that teaches that because Christ has bore all our sin, and we are made righteous, God does not charge sin against the born again.
He wrote 2 Corinthians 5:19 that explains the Amazing Grace of God.
And what is that?
= God has already judged Jesus for the sin of us all, and applied this redemption that is gained by Christ's Sacrifice to all who have believed and are born again.
The born again are "made free from sin", and are become "the righteousness of God in Christ".

Confessing sin that Christ has paid for 2000 yrs ago, happens because the person does not understand Salvation, or the New Birth, or what happened on the Cross of Christ that Jesus said from the Cross..."it is finished".

When you get the revelation : "made righteous" = God made Christ to be sin, even though he was without sin, so that believers would “become the righteousness of God.” ....
When you get that revelation, then your "confession" is over. The Condemnation is GONE.... and your VICTORY has begun.... and that is the first day you have "worked out your Salvation" because your mind is renewed.

God help you to see it and be it in your renewed mind, right now.... in Jesus's name......amen.
Indeed, His amazing grace is the greatest thing!

There is however another level of "the renewing of your mind" also to be considered, and that is that we live our entire lives up until salvation and being born again of the spirit of God--thinking as men think, and thinking the way the world thinks. Even if our eyes have been opened to God, we are likely to still see many things--even scripture, through the lens of this world.

In other words, the renewing of our mind means doing a 180 from looking from the world's perspective, to looking at all things from God's perspective. Another way to think of it, is if we continue to view everything from the perspective we have always had--how have we made Jesus Lord? We have not, and not come under Him, but have limited Him like a Bible on a shelf that we only dust off when our way isn't working. Such is a self-perspective, meaning no actual renewing of the mind at all, but simply adding a new "tool" to our own chest.

It doesn't work that way.

Instead, we should not so much "apply" the scriptures to our worldly life--which is good to do--but more importantly, read the scriptures from the standpoint of "why" God has given the words. Is it to make the world a better place for you? Yes, and no. But you can be certain that the greater reason behind every word from God, is more importantly not about the world, but about the kingdom.

It's an eye-opener!
 

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“And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel…” (Colossians 1:21-23)

“For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.” (Hebrews 6:4-6)
 

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we are likely to still see many things--even scripture, through the lens of this world.

What you are describing is the exact mind of an unbeliever, that does not change, simply because we are born again.

An unbeliever, THINKS>.......>"if i do more good then bad, then when i die, i go to heaven"

That is the same carnal mind that a believer has who is not actually trusting in Christ to get them to heaven, and will post on this forum about losing salvation and trying to do enough works and good deeds to go to heaven. = SELF Righteousness
That is the same MIND as the unbeliever has as the same lack of FAITH in Christ.
 
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“And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel…” (Colossians 1:21-23)

“For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.” (Hebrews 6:4-6)

If you understood the Cross of Christ, you might have mentioned it in the last 200 posts, Michiah-Imla.
For you that is impossible., as you keep proving , post by post.
The reason you cant't is why you only use the Bible to try to prove that you can go to hell.
However, You'll never prove that a TRUE believer can go to hell.
There are no born again in hell, and there are no unbelievers, having never been born again, in Heaven.

That's your "ministry", Michiah-Imla..... to try to prove you can lose your salvation.
And that vain ministry is Cross denying vomit to God.
Thats a fact.