And the Lord is the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:17)
Is the Lord the Spirit?
Yes or No ?
NO! Jesus was not born a spirit. He was born Flesh and Blood and remained that way until His Father raised Him from the dead. There is a spirit who, like you, refuses to confess that Christ Jesus came in the Flesh. (2 John 1:7). I reject the teaching of this spirit outright. When Jesus walked the earth, HE walked in the "LAW" of the
Spirit of Life that was in Him. Paul is teaching that he too, as a man, served the same Law of God which was in Christ Jesus. This choice by Paul caused him to walk, "Even as Jesus walked", which is also confirmed by John's words that I posted, and you also ignored. Walking in this manner, after this same LAW of the Spirit of Life that was in Christ Jesus, caused Paul to walk, not after the Flesh that Paul and Jesus were made of, but after the Spirit of Life, which they both chose to "Yield themselves" servants to obey.
I posted His Own Words which teach this, but you are only interested in self-justification, so you won't even acknowledge they exist. This is the curse God places on men who live in transgression of God's Laws, by their own religious traditions. By their fruits, their teaching, Jesus said I can know who they are.
You either are ignorant of this spirit that refuses to confess that Jesus came in the Flesh, or you are purposely teaching it doesn't exist. Either way, Paul and Jesus told me to stay away from these religions. And now, 30 years later, I understand exactly why.
The Lord is the Spirit - Yes or No?
Your Bible says - The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you. (2 Tim. 4:22)
When Jesus walked the earth as a flesh and blood man, HE didn't walk in His own Law, or Speak His Own Words, or "DO" His own Works. HE said, that is, the Jesus "of the bible" says, these things that HE did, came from His Father that dwelled within Him. The Same Father that HE was with "before the World was". He was a Spirit before becoming a man, and HE was Raised a Living Spirit after HE was murdered. But as a man He humbled Himself and became obedient to His Father, unto death. Your unbelief in His Words, don't make His Words false.
So Jesus answered your question here, and I posted HIS Answer, which is also my answer. It is no surprise to me that you will not accept the Words of the Jesus "of the Bible". Jesus said "Many" would call Him Lord, and teach in His Name, but He doesn't know them.
If you are a Christians where is the Lord who is the Spirit?
With your spirit - Yes or No?
If I am a true Christian, like Paul was, I am serving the LAW of the same Spirit of Life that was in Christ Jesus, when HE was a man. My Lord, who is become a Spirit, is God's Priest and is an advocate between me and His Father, "The Spirit of Life".
1 John 2:
1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate "with the Father", Jesus Christ the righteous:
This is the Jesus I follow.
Is the New Testament teaching that the Lord is with the spirit of the Christian? Yes or No?
The Jesus "of the Bible", who is my Lord, teaches in the Testimony;
John 17:
3 And "this is life eternal", that they might "know thee" the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Clearly, according to the Jesus "of the Bible's" own Words, HIS Father is the Spirit of Life that dwelled within HIM. And Jesus taught, as both Paul and I understand, that if we humble ourselves, and, as Paul teaches in Rom. 6, "Yield ourselves" servants to obey the Same "LAW" of the Spirit of Life that was in Christ Jesus, there is no condemnation for us.
I see this world has created another Jesus, with perfect profile and long flowing hair, who wasn't flesh and blood, but was God a Spirit, while walking the earth. Paul warns about this as well.
Rom. 1:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Is the New Testament teaching that the grace of the Lord is with our spirit?
Check your New Testament.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. (Phil. 4:23)
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen. (Gal. 6:18)
You should go to God in serious prayer and ask Him to make clearer to you the knowing of
the Lord Jesus within you as the Spirit.
Can't hurt and it will help because God is so willing.
Good passage.
Another couple of tremendous passages.
All those who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
Remember?
There is no reason for me to dignify your following the mocking of an Ishmael like attitude.
But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. (Gal. 4:29)
And I think I would like to hear from some others on this thread for awhile.
The mainstream preachers of Jesus time, and in the Prophets, didn't like it either when the Word of God exposed the spirit of error within them. They even killed Jesus for showing them their error. So I would expect nothing different from you than anger and self-defense. And that is OK. What I hope for, is that in your private moments, when you don't have to save face or justify yourself in public, you might consider the Holy Words Jesus and His Father gave you that I posted, and maybe accept who Jesus said, the Spirit of Life that was in HIM was, when HE walked in the earth as a flesh and blood man.
I only continued in this reply because of the questions you asked. I hate it when men blow off and ignore my questions in these kinds of discussion. It wouldn't be right to do the same to others.