Anathema Topics

[BenAdam]

And you will give in, especially if you're not walking in the Spirit. And that is why God has given us His Spirit, so that we may become victorious over sin in our bodies and soul. This is the whole purpose of Him coming to live inside us. We shouldn't do a thing but obey what the Spirit tells us. What does the Spirit tell you? If what you're hearing is, in the flesh don't do this and don't do that, then that is not The Holy Spirit speaking to you but the enemy. The Holy Spirit will tell you to love and have mercy and do good, that is all. But I digress, the Holy Spirit is the great heart changer, we're not! When we listen to Him, follow Him, and obey Him, He changes us.

Our job is not to work at becoming perfect according to the law but becoming consistantly obedient to the Holy Spirit and to His perfect law of love, mercy, and kindness. So if you're trying to please Him in the flesh, STOP IT, Knock it off, you're wasting your time!!!


Just thought I'd add to your thought...

I agree, but it also pollyanna to believe that we will never stumble or that our ability to follow the Spirit is infallable. Every one stumbles, they day we stop is the day a fiery chariot comes down for us.

 

[Always in His Presence]

I agree, but it also pollyanna to believe that we will never stumble or that our ability to follow the Spirit is infallable. Every one stumbles, they day we stop is the day a fiery chariot comes down for us.

Really? So, was Peter speaking from the Holy Spirit or pollyanna when he said:


2 Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; 11 for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

 

[BenAdam]

No I don't think he was being pollyanna, I think he was trying to inspire. Now I don't know what Peter meant there by stumble either. I have never known a christian (that I have known personally or publically) to ever completely stop sinning.