I hope you all don't mind if I reply to all of you in this one discussion. I think that would be a little easier for me then answering each one one of you individually. I have decided to take 5 days and pray and study and do some fasting and open my heart to what God is saying about this issue because I NEED to know His truth. If I am wrong about full sanctification and the infilling of the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues I WANT to know. Especially if my sin nature (the old man, which is what God calls it.
Ephesians 4: 22-23) is still a part of me and that I shouldn't be accepting faults as just habits that I need the Lord to help me overcome but as actual sins I need to ask forgiveness for.
It's late in the day now, so I'll begin tomorrow, which is Monday, and I'll go through to Friday and then send a reply to you Saturday, March 2nd. No matter what the Lord tells me at the end of the week, I'd like to leave it at that, as far as any more discussion goes on my part. Of course, any of you can reply and I will read them. Then maybe we can find something else to discusses. Please believe me, Adam, I am not being divisive, I am totally sincere. God Bless you all. Have a blessed week. MOMSAGE :)
I just thought, can you give me an idea of what you believe about the sin nature of man? Could you give me scriptures, I could study? Right now I'm really giving Romans a slow, concentrated study. Thanks for the prayers. God Bless :)
I appreciate that you are asking me for this assistance. I suggest that you take this week away from this forum and seek
God's guidance as you look to His holy Word for instruction on this topic. When you come back next weekend and share what you have learned with us, then I would be happy to go further on this topic. I am not being evasive of your request here. I just want to honor what you said about taking a little Sabbatical break for this week. You may want to read the chapters that surround the Scripture verses already given to you by Adam, Chris, Richard , S. Spencer and myself concerning this topic in the broad sense, not just the view of sinless perfection vs. the inherent wicked and corrupt nature we possess in our mortality. Even though we do not wish to sin and disobey God in any way, we can agree with Paul in Romans 7 that it is the law of sin our being (fallen makeup) that that continually works to bring us into sinning, but our regenerated spiritual newness in Christ we don't sin, per se, in this new nature. But we have this war within us that was not there before we were born again because now we have a nature that is opposed to God and His ways AND a nature that is reconciled to God and seeks Him and His ways.
I will let it go at this for now. Romans 6-8 and Galatians 5-6 are good places to begin on this topic.
God bless you as you seek Him first this week. I have prayed for you and will continue to do so because you are my sister in Him and so, we love one another.
I hope you all don't mind if I reply to all of you in this one discussion. I think that would be a little easier for me then answering each one one of you individually. I have decided to take 5 days and pray and study and do some fasting and open my heart to what God is saying about this issue because I NEED to know His truth. If I am wrong about full sanctification and the infilling of the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues I WANT to know. Especially if my sin nature (the old man, which is what God calls it.
Ephesians 4: 22-23) is still a part of me and that I shouldn't be accepting faults as just habits that I need the Lord to help me overcome but as actual sins I need to ask forgiveness for.
It's late in the day now, so I'll begin tomorrow, which is Monday, and I'll go through to Friday and then send a reply to you Saturday, March 2nd. No matter what the Lord tells me at the end of the week, I'd like to leave it at that, as far as any more discussion goes on my part. Of course, any of you can reply and I will read them. Then maybe we can find something else to discusses. Please believe me, Adam, I am not being divisive, I am totally sincere. God Bless you all. Have a blessed week. MOMSAGE :)
Thanks for letting us know. I have been praying for you and will continue to do so this week, Will be happy to see you back herr next weekend.
I appreciate that you are asking me for this assistance. I suggest that you take this week away from this forum and seek
God's guidance as you look to His holy Word for instruction on this topic. When you come back next weekend and share what you have learned with us, then I would be happy to go further on this topic. I am not being evasive of your request here. I just want to honor what you said about taking a little Sabbatical break for this week. You may want to read the chapters that surround the Scripture verses already given to you by Adam, Chris, Richard , S. Spencer and myself concerning this topic in the broad sense, not just the view of sinless perfection vs. the inherent wicked and corrupt nature we possess in our mortality. Even though we do not wish to sin and disobey God in any way, we can agree with Paul in Romans 7 that it is the law of sin our being (fallen makeup) that that continually works to bring us into sinning, but our regenerated spiritual newness in Christ we don't sin, per se, in this new nature. But we have this war within us that was not there before we were born again because now we have a nature that is opposed to God and His ways AND a nature that is reconciled to God and seeks Him and His ways.
I will let it go at this for now. Romans 6-8 and Galatians 5-6 are good places to begin on this topic.
God bless you as you seek Him first this week. I have prayed for you and will continue to do so because you are my sister in Him and so, we love one another.
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