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Why callest ME Good...none Good but God??
the truth:
Enjoyed the post lauriellen!
Foxx:
I think the answer goes back to the verse where Jesus states in John 5 "I can do nothing of myself". Everything he does is because of his father enabling him to do it. We are spiritually too weak to not sin but Jesus never sinned because God enabled him to be spiritually strong enough to resist sin.
Correct me if I'm off base here
Kat:
Hi Foxx,
Not off base at all, I would even go further. The Son was so filled with the Father, He did exactly as the Father willed in everything.
John 3:34 For He whom God has sent utters the words of God, for He gives the Spirit without measure.
It was like the Father was doing it Himself, that is because they are One.
John 14:9 Jesus said to him, Have I been with you such a long time and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father. And how do you say, Show us the Father?
v. 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in Me? The Words that I speak to you I do not speak of Myself, but the Father who dwells in Me, He does the works.
v. 11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the very works themselves.
John 10:30 I and the Father are one!
mercy, peace and love
Kat
Gina:
Yep. Even Ray said, Jesus didn't sin because His Father wouldn't let Him.
No free moral agency here:
Gen. 20
1 And Abraham journeyed from there toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, you are but a dead man, for the woman which you have taken; for she is a man's wife.
4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, will you slay also a righteous nation?
5 Said he not to me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands have I done this.
6 And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; for I also withheld you from sinning against me: therefore suffered I you not to touch her.
Jesus was tempted in every way that we are, yet without sinning. That's not to say that He ever took a woman in order to ... well, you know, or that He even wanted to do that (obviously, He didn't want to do that because His Father wouldn't let Him want to). But I pulled that out to show how obvious it is that God has no problem holding anyone back from sinning that He so chooses.
Haha - this always cracks me up. Ambimelech's all "In the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands have I done this." And God's like, "Mmm, yes, you're just the sweetest thing, oh surrre. You have no integrity! That was ME who held you back from sinning, THAT'S why you didn't touch her, you knucklehead!" It has nothing to do with the integrity in our hearts.
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
indianabob:
Hi Gina,
Liked the story and the lesson it provides, but isn't it so that Abraham and Sarah did deceive Abimelech into believing that he had the right to claim her as a bride or concubine according to the King's culture?
Because, if I understand the lesson, otherwise Abimilech would have had to kill Abraham first to make Sarah a widow and available to be claimed by Abimilech.
Great lesson, thanks for sharing, Bob
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