Poster | Thread | Jhonny97or Member
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| Re: | | You say that we are forgiven of our sins, but that we are also set free from the power of sin. Free from the power of sin. How free? just a little free? So free as to never sin again? Or just a little free to not sin as much as before? When you say that we are free from the power of sin, what can we aspire to with that expression? |
| 2023/1/29 12:30 | Profile | Lysa Member
Joined: 2008/10/25 Posts: 3699 East TN for now!
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by Jhonny97or If it is not possible to live without sin, then what good is the gospel of Christ?
Brother,
It doesn't sound like you understand the gospel of the Kingdom of God! He is the ONLY ONE who lived as a man without sin.
Not to sound mean, but the gospel is not about you, it's about HIM! Take your focus off of you and put it on HIM and His all sufficiency!! You will see a difference!
God bless you, Lisa _________________ Lisa
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| 2023/1/29 12:59 | Profile | Jhonny97or Member
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| Re: | | To those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people. 1 CORINTHIANS 1:2 Saints! In Christ! In these two sentences we have, perhaps, the most wonderful words in the entire Bible. andres murray It's all about Him. This verse tells me that there are some beings that He sanctifies, even though it's all about Him, here Paul talks about others that aren't Him and that's the question I'm dealing with. How would you sound if you said to the Apostle Paul, no, no, don't talk about the sanctified because it's all about him, don't mention the sanctified because it's all about him, it would be ridiculous. I'm asking a specific question, which you don't seem to have the courage to answer honestly. How holy can a sinner be who has been saved by Jesus? Oh Lord make me as Holy as a sinner saved can be. |
| 2023/1/29 13:29 | Profile | Jhonny97or Member
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| Re: | | When the Lord saw that Moses was coming to look, he called to him from the bush: - Moses, Moses! – Here I am, he answered - Don't come near – God told him -, take off your sandals because you are stepping on holy ground. EXODUS 3:4-5 And why was it holy ground? Because God had come there and occupied it. Where God is, there is holiness; it is the presence of God that sanctifies. We saw this reality in paradise when the human being was created. And in this passage, where Scripture uses the word holy for the second time, this fact is repeated and emphasized. Andrew Murray This is the topic I'm talking about. How can we say that God dwells in us and at the same time sin? |
| 2023/1/29 13:47 | Profile | InTheLight Member
Joined: 2003/7/31 Posts: 2850 Phoenix, Arizona USA
| Re: | | What good is the gospel? Christ's absolute sinless perfection is put to my account by God, that is grace - the wonder of the gospel!
It would be a terrible business to begin to analyze ourselves and take stock of ourselves, it would be endless with all that we know of ourselves and all God knows about us. The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. Though all that is fact we can yet stand before God in sinless perfection in Christ.
What a wonder is this gospel! We can now go on and serve God with all our hearts without constantly worrying about whether we are doing it adequately or not. _________________ Ron Halverson
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| 2023/1/29 14:10 | Profile | Jhonny97or Member
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| Re: | | Such brokenness and humiliation are painful, but it is the humble who finds the saint. Just when the awareness of sin and weakness, and the discovery of the dominance of the ego make us fear that we can never become holy, the holy God gives himself. When we have reached the point of losing all hope of seeing in ourselves something better than sin, we lift our eyes to the holy God and realize that his promise is our only hope. Through faith the holy God reveals himself to the contrite soul, approaches it, takes possession and gives new life to the heart. Happy is the soul that is willing to learn the lesson that experiences of weakness and power, of emptiness and fullness, of profound humiliation and the enjoyment of the presence of the holy God dwelling in our being are simultaneous.
ANDREW MURRAY |
| 2023/1/29 14:24 | Profile | Jhonny97or Member
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| Re: | | Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? Job 42:3 |
| 2023/1/29 14:26 | Profile | murrcolr Member
Joined: 2007/4/25 Posts: 1839 Scotland, UK
| Re: | | “If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8)
John is countering the Gnostic teaching, Gnostics do not believe man is spiritually dead in sin but are in a state of stupefaction and need an some sort of “awakening” from this stupid state.
“No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.” (1 John 3.9)
Being right with God is followed by doing right. Meaning that the righteous shall live by faith and live a righteous life.
Consider how, in the word, the servants of God are praised as righteous; (Gen. 6:9; 7:1; Matt. 1:19; Luke 1:6; 2:25; 2 Pet. 2:7) how the favour and blessing of God are pronounced upon the righteous; (Ps. 1:6; 5:13, 14:5; 34:16,20; 37:17,39; 92:13; 97:11; 144:8)
How the righteous are called to confidence, to joy. (Ps. 32:11; 33:1; 58:11; 64:11; 68:4; 97:12) See this especially in the Book of Psalms.
See how in Proverbs, although you should take but one chapter only, all blessing is pronounced upon the righteous. (Prov. 10:3,6,7,11,16,20,21,24,25,28,30,31,32
See how everywhere men are divided into two classes, the righteous and the godless. (Eccles 3:17; Isa. 3:10; Ezek. 3:18,20; 18:21,23; 33:12; Mal. 3:18; Matt. 5:45; 12:49; 25:46)
See how, in the New Testament, the Lord Jesus demands this righteousness; (Matt. 5:6,20; 6:33) how Paul, who announces most the doctrine of justification by faith alone, insists that this is the aim of justification, to form righteous men, who do right. Rom. 3:31; 6:13,22; 7:4,6; 8:4; 2 Cor. 9:9,10; Phil 1:11; 1 Tim. 6:11)
See how John names righteousness along with love as the two indispensable marks of the children of God. (1 John 2:4,11,29; 3:10; 5:2)
When you put all these facts together, it must be very evident to you that a true Christian is a man who does righteousness in all things, even as God is righteous.
And what this righteousness is, Scripture will also teach you.
It is a life in accordance with the commands of God, in all their breadth and height. The righteous man does what is right in the eyes of the Lord. (Ps. 119:166,168; Luke 1:6,75; 1 Thess. 2:10) He takes not the rules of human action; he asks not what man considers lawful. As a man who stands right with God, who walks uprightly with God, he dreads above all things even the least unrighteousness.
He is afraid, above all, of being partial to himself, of doing any wrong to his neighbour for the sake of his own advantage. In great and little things alike, he takes the Scriptures as his measure and line. As the ally of God, he knows that the way of righteousness is the way of blessing, and life, and joy.
Consider, further, the promises of blessing and joy which God has for the righteous, and then live as one who, in friendship with God, and clothed with the righteousness of His Son through faith, has no alternative but to do righteousness.
Andrew Murray the New Life
_________________ Colin Murray
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| 2023/1/29 19:16 | Profile | TMK Member
Joined: 2012/2/8 Posts: 6650 NC, USA
| Re: | | "You can always test the worth of your sanctification. If there is the slightest trace of self-conscious superiority about it, it has never touched the fringe of the garment of Christ." --Oswald Chambers, in Disciples Indeed from the Quotable Oswald Chambers. _________________ Todd
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