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To: Jim Noble; metmom

That’s why you better hope it’s the Lord turning you and not you doing it by yourself.

And if there is no turning from sin in your life, something’s very wrong.


106 posted on 06/14/2017 5:56:53 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: reasonisfaith; Jim Noble; ealgeone

Have you not read Romans 7?

We ALL have a sin nature which wars within us with the new regenerated sinless nature.

Paul himself had that struggle and ALL of us do.

And yes, I can speak without lying, etc, but the motive of my heart is what the Lord looks at, not just the mere actions.

I would propose that it is possible to keep God’s Law perfectly to the letter. Jesus even acknowledged it when addressing the pharisees, but then in the Beatitudes, He raised the bar higher.

MUCH MUCH higher.

He went on to show that ALL of us, even those most outwardly perfect, sin almost continually.

But there is a world of difference between sinning because we have a strong sin nature and actively pursuing a life of sin.

I am sure that we all sin more than we realize and those who claim that they don’t sin, or know how much they do, are deluding themselves.

Not all sin is intentional. It doesn’t have to be intentional to be sin.


107 posted on 06/14/2017 6:37:25 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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