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To: zadok; RnMomof7; Cvengr
Is your righteousness a product of your own heart? Were you righteous before you were regenerated by the Holy Spirit? Do you believe in regeneration? Do you believe man is sufficient in and of himself to please God?

Righteousness is not a product. Question is meaningless.

I do not know why I bother answering your questions. You evidently to not bother reading my answers.

You evidently missed this:

Phil. 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.

But let me add this:

1 Pet. 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

Eph 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise.

1 Thess. 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

Phil. 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

All that I do is with the power and ability God has given me. If God enables me to obey, and moves me to obey, and I obey, what do you call that?

If you are not actively seeking to obey God with all your heart, you are sinning. You are not to sit back and wait for God to do something in you, you are to obey whatever He has revealed to you. "But what if I try to do it in my own strength?" I often hear.

What strength would that be, that is "your own." 1 Cor. 4:7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

Man's problem is not that he does not have the ability to do what God requires. God will always provide whatever is required, and if men to not repent it is not because they are unable to, but because they stubbornly refuse to.

Hank

85 posted on 09/16/2002 6:37:22 AM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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To: Hank Kerchief
1 Pet. 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

Now wait a minute you do not think the seed was corrupted. You were born as perfect as jesus

90 posted on 09/16/2002 7:43:40 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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