According to the prophet Jeremiah Jesus is "The Lord our Righteousness" He indwells so since He abides in me so does life .
Only if you are being
infilled Michael Collum. The indwelling Holy Spirit comes upon you the moment you believe, but the inFILLing of the Holy Spirit comes only by believing what you've received, and walking in the Light of Him [Whom you've recieved].
Even as you quoted from John 15:5 earlier.
And what does the very next Verse say?
John 15:6
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
Now, unlike NatalieJan's theology, I do not believe this refers to Eternal Salvation, but rather, the Crowns of our Rejoycing, which we cast at our
Saviours feet. for indeed, it is
He Who does the Work of God in and through us, as
we abide. And, in the latter case, our shame;
1 John 2:28
And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
1 Corinthians 3:15
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss:
but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire.
The Blood of Christ is sufficient to cleanse us of all unrighteousness.
But if a man abide not, he also
will not reckon that which is said to be true about him, by the Spirit, Who reveals and shares all that's is Christ's.
1 Corinthainn 5:7-8
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Hmm riddle me this riddle me that .
I no longer sin but the sin within me sins
Romans 7
20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law;
23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.
24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
Paul preached a pure gospel, one which can "save to the uttermost." This sinning religion so prevalent today is such as Paul warned of in 2 Cor. 11:4. It is indeed the preaching of "another gospel" and "another Jesus," whom Paul did not preach. Dear ones, if you have been a victim of another gospel, "having a form of godliness, but denying the power therof: from such turn away." That is Paul's warning to you. Flee from error and run to the Deliverer, that One who died to set us free from sin. You too, can obtain a real experience of salvation, and say as Paul did, that you are living holily, justly, and unblameably in this present world." -S. Mutch
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"Paul is specifically addressing those who know the law [Verse 1 of the 7nth of Romans]. What he is writing pertains to the life of the man under the law, and how that God, through the sacrifice of his Son, Jesus Christ, has given to man a greater power to live without sin. Like much of the rest of the Bible, Romans 7 is written to show man how to "go, and sin no more", not to tell him he can't." -Al Danks
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"Read now chapter 8:1-17, and then ask, Is the man described in 7:14-25, who yields in every instance to the assault of his passions and suffers them continually to triumph over law, conscience, and every other consideration, such a man, or the same man, as is described in 8:1-17? In this latter passage the man is described, 'who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.' Can this, then, be the same man who does walk after the flesh, and always does this, even when the voice of God and conscience is thundering in his ears, and his own internal moral nature is warning him against the course he pursues? Impossible. Light and darkness are not more diverse than these two cases." -Moses Stuart
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We can be certain that Paul was not describing his own Christian experience in Rom. 7:14-25, for we find that he said he was carnal, that he was sold under sin, that he had a carnal mind (which, he says later in chapter eight) was enmity against God, not subject to the law of God, and that neither indeed could be. He said that he was definitely in the flesh, and that he still had a sinful body, a body of death, or a sinful body condemned to death, which he cried out to be delivered from.
On the other hand, he told the Christians in chapters six and eight that they were not carnal, but spiritual; that they were no longer walking after the flesh; that they were not sold under sin, but gloriously delivered from the bondage of sin; that they did not have a carnal mind, but a spiritual mind; that they were not in the flesh, but in the Spirit; and that they did not have a sinful body, but that their body was dead. Now, if Paul was describing his own bondage to sin in Rom. 7:14-25, then he was describing his own bondage and slavery to sin at the same time that he declared all the Christians to whom he wrote to be gloriously liberated from the bondage of sin. Such an inconsistent conclusion can only be reached as a result of ignoring context, language, common sense, and reality in interpreting the Scriptures. - A.T. Overstreet
And I can do all things Through Christ who Strengthens me
Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Can you sin through Him, Michael Collum?
And without Jesus i can do nothing
John 15:5
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Can you cease from sin?
Is that nothing enough?
And all good things come from God .
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
What about the bad things, where do they come from?
And in Jesus i am a New Creation and the old is gone and the new has come .
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
Emphasis added
then there are two .
All i know is i am experiencing what Paul is describing in His letters . but you appear to not be from your darkened understanding on the matter .
Or enlightened, depending on your perspective;
Titus 1:15
To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
So Riddle me this Riddle Me that ..
If i Do not sin . and the law of sin . sins within me .
You take away your responsability and you take away the possibility of being purged from your old sins Michael Collum.
Have you forgetten that you
were purged by the Body of Christ through death?!?
And I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me
and can do nothing without Jesus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkt8Dwzl6Sg
Matthew 7:20
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
if the old self is dead . but still clings on like rigor mortis
Did you forget to hold your funeral?
The old man is dead, time to bury him!!!
and i am a new creation
Then who am i?
and why are you addressing someone who is dead?
Why does God?
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
