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rocky:

--- Quote from: Marie on August 16, 2006, 09:13:14 AM ---

Rom7:16-18 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but how to perfect that which is good I find not.

I get it!  Sin is in me, and will be while I am in the flesh, but my faith in Jesus (which is a gift from God - Praise Him!) is what gives me no condemnation.

Thanks.
Marie



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Hi Marie, when I first understood the above verse, it gave me a glimpse of the freedom in Christ we are to experience.  Now I understand the apparent contradiction in I John. 

1Jo 3:9  Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God (Christ in us can not sin, it is our inner self, our hope of glory)
 
1Jo 1:8  If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us (in our flesh, dwelleth no good thing, and because of the light in our hearts, we see our sin in our flesh, hate it, and don't want to do it.  Our only hope is Christ in us).  We dont' overcome our flesh, we can't.  But the seed in us, by faith does. 

(Gal 5:5)  For we through the Spirit (Christ in us) wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

 

MG:
Mark 10
26And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved?
27And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.

Revelation 1
5And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
6And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Isaiah 64
4For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
7And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
8But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
9Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

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