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lilitalienboi16:

--- Quote from: ez2u on March 21, 2008, 04:06:32 AM ---So when we sin we hit a brick wall and come back to serving God and Gods will is done?  maybe we keep hitting it until we stop and do righting in Christ?  the sin is taken out by the Holy Spirit the brick wall is God.  peggy

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LAWL! Beautiful =]

Truth101:

--- Quote from: Martinez on March 17, 2008, 03:23:37 PM ---Hey Sorin.

So what if you fail all the time, it's a necessary part of the process!

God has to get you to the place where you know with all certainty that you absolutely can do nothing without Him.
He gets us to struggle and struggle against sin and fail again and again so He can humble us.
If you were to just go straight out and conquer your sin, I guarantee that you would not be in the first Resurrection, because you would be so self righteous and so proud that you would be of no use to God.
God has to get you to that place where He utterly destroys the beast that is you.
Ironically it is the pride of the beast that comes before his fall, because it's just when He thinks that his grip on you is so unbreakable that that is when God comes in and destroys him!

Does that mean that We stop struggling against sin until that time comes then?
No because then it wouldn't work. we have to struggle against it.

I think of it this way.

The spiritual man is like the chicken and the flesh is like the egg. if you help a chicken out of it's egg so it doesn't struggle it actually weakens the chicken and so it is with us.

That's just the way I look at it I guess.



Martinez.

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Very clearly posted brother.

It is our continuous failure to overcome sin that utterly destroys our pride and self righteousness (the very beast in us that causes us to sin) when we acknowledge our inability to do anything of ourselves to overcome it. We are slaves to sin until God brings us to this point. We continue to sin yet through the spirit we overcome little by little (not by our own power). We will never completely overcome until this corruption is made incorruption and this mortal puts on immortality through the death of the flesh and our eventual resurrection in Christ.

Our only requirment is to not give in to it but continue to fight it until this happens (shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid!). We can never overcome sin. God alone brings us to that place where we acknowledge that we cannot and only then will we have no pride or self rightiousness to claim victory for ourselves. It is all God. Geesh this flesh really stinks  :'(.

Praise God and His ways for they are not our ways.

God Bless, Dave

Martinez:

Yep!

There's only one kind of flesh, Dead flesh.....peewhew!! ;D

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