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Roy Martin:
Oh! I see now. To see them beyond.
 Thats great Marques. Thanks for looking out.

Roy

arion:
What also helps me is to realize that I am no better than they are!!  I was once as darkened in heart and deceived as any of them...


Excerpt from 'repentence'

James 2:7  “Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called?
v. 8  If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well;
v. 9  but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
v. 10  For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all (or it can read liable to the punishment, the penalty).”

Now let’s just think about this a little bit.  We always thought about this verse on a level about here. You know you break one, you’re guilty of them all. We thought like, 'well I guess if you committed adultery and God said you shouldn’t, so I guess you dishonor God and so you break the first commandment or something like that.'   But does this verse mean what it says, if you break one, you’re guilty of all?  Are you ahead of me yet?  Do you know where I’m going with this?  Some are figuring it out.

If you break one point of God’s royal Law, you are guilty of all. I said yesterday I want us to see why we really need to repent, and see just how serious it is in God’s sight. I know God will eventually take everybody to be where they need to go, but sometimes God accelerates things, by the foolishness of preaching.  That’s what I am doing.  Maybe you're going to see something here that you never conceived of before. That is if you break one point of His law... we’re not talking about the spiritual law here, you know how Christ made the law so much high that Moses law. One says don’t commit this sin, Christ said don’t even think it, okay.  Much higher law. If you break one point, your GUILIY of all.  Now back to Romans.

Rom. 2:1 “Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.”

How can Paul say that everybody in here is a child molester and a murderer.  How can he say that?  Because if you break one point of the law you’re guilty of all. Let me ask you, is it against the law of God to sexually molest and kill little children?  It’s against the law isn’t it.  If you offend and break this law, you are guilty of what?  ALL!  Which includes sexually molesting and killing little children or am I a heretic. Now I didn’t say that we did that, because I know I didn’t and I know you didn’t.  It doesn’t say, if you break one point you ‘commit,’ breaking of all the law.  It says you’re ‘guilty’ of all.  You're guilty of all and here’s what we have to understand.

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aqrinc:

The Scriptures below, are where we will have to be (In Spirit and Truth) (Not Isa 64:6) that is where we are when we think we can contribute any righteousness. Anyone that thinks they can do this with the carnal mind and heart, is still blind to the Truth of Scripture. Unless we enter into GOD'S SABBATH REST; and cease from our own works, we are yet still dead in our sins.

There is no place where Scripture Teaches that we (any human) can do any of this; not one little bit. When one can start to appreciate the depth of evil in ourselves (utter darkness) then we can start to be humbled; remember that is what this life we live is about

Isa 64:6 (GNB) Check this verse in (DRB, MKJV and LITV) to really get the meaning.
All of us have been sinful; even our best actions are filthy through and through. Because of our sins we are like leaves that wither and are blown away by the wind.


Mat 5:44-48 (MKJV)
44  But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who despitefully use you and persecute you,
45  so that you may become sons of your Father in Heaven. For He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

46  For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax-collectors do the same?
47  And if you greet your brothers only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax-collectors do so?
48  Therefore be perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect.

Joh 3: 16-17 (CLV)
16 For thus God loves the world, so that He gives His only-begotten Son, that everyone who is believing in Him should not be perishing, but may be having life eonian."

17 For God does not dispatch His Son into the world that He should be judging the world, but that the world may be saved through Him."

Joh 13:33-35 (CLV)
33 Little children, still a little time am I with you. You shall be seeking Me, and, according as I said to the Jews that 'Where I am going you can not be coming,' at present I am saying it to you also."

34 A new precept am I giving to you, that you be loving one another; according as I love you, that you also be loving one another."

35 By this all shall be knowing that you are My disciples, if you should be having love for one another."


1Th 3: 11-13 (CLV)
11 Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, be directing our way to you! "
12 Now may the Lord cause you to increase and superabound in love for one another and for all, even as we also for you,
13 to establish your hearts unblamable in holiness in front of our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus with all His saints."

george :).

Roy Martin:
Everyone's comments have been very good.
Marque your comment slammed me with something that just recently happened through me.
 I've posted it in testimony's. Another awesome scriptural application to life. Its easy to see Gods glory in all of this.

Roy

Roy Martin:
We are told to love our enemy. Well, I have a new saying for myself, or perhaps its a goal for my heart.
I have no enemies. I don't want to see anyone as an enemy.
If someone enters my house to do bodily harm to me and my family, I won't consider him to be anything but dead, because I will shoot him, but that's a different situation than what I'm talking about.
I am my own enemy, no one else, just me.
To love the enemy, I can't consider him an enemy. I have to see him just as God does. All is of God, so therefore I can't see an enemy in the things of God except the carnality in my flesh. God created all things and saw that it was very good.
There is a purpose for us to love the enemy, but I think there is a higher purpose that I not see anyone as an enemy. To see anyone as my enemy prevents me from seeing beyond their flesh.
I want to see them as they will be, just as God sees them.

Peace
Roy

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