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Gina:
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--- Quote from: Gina on January 07, 2012, 12:04:04 AM ---
And...easier said than done. That's takes a work of God. It baffles me to think that men have actually castrated themselves for the sake of the kingdom. Thankfully for the men out there castration isn't a requirement and circumcision is of the heart. I mean, if I were a man when I read that, I'd be so relieved. No joke.
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EXACTLY Gina! ;D
I believe what this throws light on, is the fact that the carnality of human thinking renders many things as sinful and earning of death, than what God Himself sees as fault error or deserving of punishment.
As Ray points out. The term punish is used only once throughout Scriptures and that lends itself to the difference in the mind of man, who will punish the same sin over and over again....Just look at guilt and how often the mind will revisit a sin of ours, to keep beating us up, over and over again....
Not knowing then that God is Merciful, man prefers punishment and making what is good evil and what is evil good.
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Shine light shine! ;D
I see what you're saying, Deb, and I agree... to a point. I definitely have a tendency to revisit my sin, and if I do beat myself up, perhaps that's what Paul meant when he said:
1 Corinthians 9:27
But [like a boxer] I buffet my body [handle it roughly, discipline it by hardships] and subdue it, for fear that after proclaiming to others the Gospel and things pertaining to it, I myself should become unfit [not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected as a counterfeit].
Did he literally handle his body roughly and subdue it? I'm going to say no. That was the messenger of Satan's job.
I don't know about anyone else, but I don't prefer punishment over mercy. I always beg God for mercy and this is why: because while there may not be punishment for sin -- there is cause and effect. I'm constantly revisiting my sin, true. But I am also becoming more cognizant of the fact that God has shown me great mercy. Not every smoker gets lung cancer, not every alcoholic kills someone in a car crash or dies from cirrhosis of the liver, not every promiscuous person gets a sexually transmitted disease or what have you, but who in their right mind wants to take "chances"? So I beat myself back (maybe not "up") but definitely back. Take my own backside out to the woodshed. haha
Gina:
p.s. Besides, what effect does our sin have on innocent bystanders. And that's another huge reason to beat myself back, even if I didn't suffer consequences to my own body or mind. There are others who can be hurt (offended, if you will) by my sin. Anyway, that's all for tonight. I've rambled. Forgive.
Muah!
Deborah-Leigh:
I see your point Gina, to what Paul refers....
--- Quote ---myself should become unfit [not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected as a counterfeit].
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Yes...that which is unfit, rejected and counted as counterfeit IS the MY self that is the ego or the beast within sitting on the Throne of Christ in Temple that we are.
Consider also Paul also wrote the following ~
Rom 7:5 For while we were living in the flesh, sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies to bear fruit for death.
Rom 12:1 I therefore urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercies, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices that are holy and pleasing to God, for this is the reasonable way for you to worship.
If you are not "in view of God's mercies" then living in the flesh as sinful passion aroused by the law, is the work of deliverance of God's Spirit that saves the lost, restores the broken and uplifts the downtrodden leaving no one unfit, unapproved or rejected.
All are saved in view of God's mercies. 8)
Deborah-Leigh:
--- Quote from: Gina on January 07, 2012, 12:53:03 AM ---p.s. Besides, what effect does our sin have on innocent bystanders. And that's another huge reason to beat myself back, even if I didn't suffer consequences to own body or mind. There are others who can be hurt (offended, if you will) by my sin. Anyway, that's all for tonight. I've rambled. Forgive.
Muah!
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....."another huge reason to beat yourself"....will come to an end. :) Thankfully! 8)
Rom 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Deborah-Leigh:
http://www.garretjohn.com/turn-on-tune-in-drop-out-2/
Christ is the sacred Light within the Temple of God that you are.
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