"I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules."
- Ezekiel 36:26-27
"I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts."
- Jeremiah 31:33
Indeed the work of God in the born again experience and in sanctification but 1 Cor 9 is still showing the work of the person -- even so.
Hence Rom 11 "
You stand only by our faith, do not be arrogant - but FEAR for if He did not spare them - He will not spare you either"
There is no cooperation with God in sanctification,
"
I buffet my body and make it my slave lest after preaching the Gospel to others I myself should be disqualified from it" 1 Cor 9. That is pure synergism. Your solution to that so far is in not looking at it??
Or are you saying that in the miracles God is doing - no one helps Him do miracles?. I agree with that part.
for it is God who works and wills in us to participate in it.
"This sanctification is throughout the whole man, yet imperfect in this life; there abides still some remnants of corruption in every part, wherefrom arises a continual and irreconcilable war; the flesh lusting against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. In which war, although the remaining corruption for a time may much prevail, yet, through the continual supply of strength from the sanctifying Spirit of Christ, the regenerate part does overcome; and so the saints grow in grace, perfecting holiness in the fear of God, pressing after an heavenly life
Who does the "pressing"? is that a choice? a work? effort "I
Buffet my body and make it my slave" 1 Cor 9.
Phil 3:
8 More than that,
I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things,
and count them mere rubbish, so that I may gain Christ, 9 and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from
the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which
comes from God on the basis of faith, 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; 11
if somehow I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
12 Not that I have already grasped
it all or have already become perfect,
but I press on if I may also take hold of that for which I was even taken hold of by Christ Jesus. 13 Brothers
and sisters, I do not regard myself as having taken hold of
it yet; but
one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Therefore, all who are mature, let’s have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that to you as well; 16 however,
let’s keep living by that same standard to which we have attained.
That is not a case where Paul is instructing the Holy Spirit - rather he is talking about his own choice and determination as a model for his readers.
