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"your body is dead because of sin"....and your "old man of the flesh is crucified with Christ".
This is why Paul tells you and me to "reckon it dead".
Already acknowledge that....KNOWLEDGE
That means.....understand that its dealt with by Christ.......just like all your sin has been dealt with 2000 yrs ago by the "one time eternal sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross"...
Already acknowledge that....Christ Jesus “WORKS”.
See, Jesus born all our sin, for "God hath made Jesus to be sin"...... and our "old man of the flesh" He took to the Grave with Him.
He rose again, without them, and we are free....
= "being now made free from Sin", but "alive to RIGHTEOUSNESS" that we have been given by God as "the Gift of Righteousness."
Yes, HE ROSE UP, was SEEN, IN the body that was crucified.
Yes, WE are crucified with Him, and are SEEN in the same body that was crucified with Jesus.
See, when you took Jesus as your Savior, God put your sin on Him, and took "the righteousness of God in Christ' and that became you as a "new Creation in Christ".
So, THERE is your "perfection", as how can that Righteousness, not be perfect. ?
And that is the born again Spirit., having become "in Christ"...."one with God".
THEN, there was the EVENT of Jesus’ “GLORIFIED” BODY RISING UP into the Clouds.
THE “beginning works”....body crucified, soul restored, spirit quickened...
THE “finished works”.......body Risen up to the Clouds; Perfected, Holy, Sinless.....ie. Glorified.
Those “perfect-ED” by BEING IN Christ, and His Spirit of Truth IN a man...
Is one thing.
Those “PERFECT”...in their own Glorified Body, has not YET come to pass, for a man to SEE.
The KNOWLEDGE, TRUST, IS MANIFESTED.
The RISEN PERFECT BODY, is NOT YET manifested.
Now your thinking, and your mind, is not born again.
Correct.
So, you have to "renew" your mind,
A man....Renew-ING of the mind is Continual.
Rom 12:
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2] And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Just as Gods...Renew-ING of the spirit in man via the Holy Spirit is Continueal.
Titus 3:
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5] Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and
renewing of the Holy Ghost;
It is a revelation of “continual INCREASE” of knowledge and understanding....called becoming WISER and WISER in Righteousness.
Nothing NEW; From a mans natural birth, to born again....
Knowledge comes BIT by BIT....LITTLE by LITTLE....and continues through out a mans natural life.....and I suspect continues throughout eternity WITH the Lord God.
Paul teaches us.... so that we understand and believe and then walk by faith IN what i just showed you that you have become if you are born again.
And when you see all this that im showing you, and it becomes your faith, then you have "worked out your Salvation".
I am converted, and have plainly said so.
Walking by faith is not news.
HAVE worked out my Salvation?
My salvation is Secure.....BY the Lords WORKS.
A man “working out his salvation”....is LEARNING HOW TO use the TOOLS...(the Spirit of God, the mans new spirit....to overcome his CARNAL minds thoughts, that his minds thoughts
acquiesce to his spirits thoughts in his heart.)
AS LONG AS THE man IS Mortally ALIVE....mortal mans Carnal thoughts are good, wicked, pleasant, stupid, devious, upstanding, underhanded....VACILLATE....and you can YEILD to your Carnal minds thoughts and ACT on it’s thoughts........OR........YEILD to your new spirits thoughts, and ACT on it’s thoughts.
I happen to STILL be mortally alive. My Carnal Mind still operates with good thoughts, bad thoughts.......And I have the POWER TOOLS to get RID of the bad thoughts, and supersede the bad with good thoughts....
THAT is me “working out my salvation”....(not assuring my salvation).
THAT is me “establishing MY position IN Gods Kingdom”.
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THERE IS a “Godly hierarchy” of Gods Servants ON Earth.
* THERE IS a “Godly hierarchy” of Gods Servants IN Heaven, and ON Gods new Earth.
I am “perfect-ED” IN Christ, as long as I remain “mortally ALIVE”...He “IN” me...me “IN” Him.
I BECOME “PERFECT” IN myself, IN His LIKENESS, once MY BODY is risen up glorified.
I am no LONGER “IN” Him, nor HE “IN” me. The process is Completed...
There Forward....our LIKENESS is the SAME....our “WITH” one another, eternal.
Phil 2:
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12] Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
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13] For
it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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14] Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
Phil 3:
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9] And be found
in him,
not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
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10] That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
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11] If by any means
I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
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Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
If you think, believe, are here revealing your purpose it to preach a man is ALREADY PERFECT, while still in his mortal body...
I disagree with you.