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To: WVKayaker; roamer_1; redleghunter; daniel1212; Elsie; metmom; All

>> “Romans 8: 1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” <<

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But of course, one needs to turn to 1John to find the definitive understanding on just who is “in” Yeshua.

John explains that those that have rejected his perfect law are not in him.
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7 posted on 09/02/2014 6:04:12 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
John explains that those that have rejected his perfect law are not in him.

You are welcome to try and live under the Law. I prefer to rely on Christ! Again, context is necessary and the thought must be complete in presentation.

Romans 7 :... 13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

10 posted on 09/02/2014 6:12:16 PM PDT by WVKayaker (Impeachment is the Constitution's answer for a derelict, incompetent president! -Sarah Palin 7/26/14)
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