Oh, I understand grace, but we are talking about the law now. And under the law, I fail, we all fail. The ten commandments are not a primer on how to be good, they are a primer on how to be perfect. They are not suggestions for being good, they are commands that must be carried out exactly, without fail. To fail at even one point is to fail at it all.
Your flesh will never improve. It doesn’t get ‘better’. It doesn't improve, and it isn't redeemable. All that you are apart from Christ and that stands opposed to Him, will always be opposed to Him. It will be as dirty the day you die as it was the day you first met Jesus. That is what the law teaches.
What did Jesus say was the greatest commandment? And yet you still do not love the lord God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. You still covet, murder and commit adultery. We all do. If the law hasn’t taught you that, it hasn’t taught you anything.
By your answer you do not understand grace at all...grace is not only a forgiveness of sin but a deliverance...the old man is crucified in christ but their is a new man who is you made one with God...consider what John wrote....
I write unto you that you sin not...BUT if you sin...the law is a promise of what grace is changing you into..
What do you believe Paul meant when he said....do we continue in sin that grace may abound....or do we make christ the minister of sin....the gentiles who by nature do those things contained in the law
What does these verses mean
*[[Rom 2:11-16]] KJV*
%v 11% For there is no respect of persons with God.
%v 12% For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
%v 13% (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
%v 14% For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
%v 15% Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another
%v 16% In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
And since we have become the house of God and made one wirth the temple he raised up three days later....does this not also apply to us
*[[Jer 7:1-34]] KJV*
%v 1% The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
%v 2% Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
%v 3% Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
%v 4% Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
%v 5% For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
%v 6% If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
%v 7% Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
%v 8% Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
%v 9% Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
%v 10% And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, **We are delivered to do all these abominations? **
%v 11% Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
%v 12% But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
%v 13% And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
%v 14% Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
%v 15% And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
%v 16% Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
%v 17% Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
%v 18% The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
%v 19% Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
%v 20% Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
%v 21% Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
%v 22% For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
%v 23% But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
%v 24% But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
%v 25% Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
%v 26% Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
%v 27% Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
%v 28% But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
%v 29% Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
%v 30% For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
%v 31% And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
%v 32% Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
%v 33% And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
%v 34% Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
That first house.. the old man...our Adamic nature has been destroyed without mercy in the cross of Christ
We have been given the Spirit but if we use our freedom in Christ as an occasion to the flesh what does the scripture say our end will be.
*[[Heb 10:26-31]] KJV*
%v 26% For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
%v 27% But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
%v 28% He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
%v 29% Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
%v 30% For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
%v 31% It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Grace is given that we can be delivered from sin not to protect us in sin....it is a process his mercy and justification keep us....but we can never make peace with sin .
that is ..Sooo not the point being made.& the post referred to does not even remotely imply the Holy Spirit cant tell you that.. he wrote those absolutes after all.
