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Thursday, June 1, 2023

THE BOOK OF ROMANS (CHAPTER 9)

PAUL'S SORROW REGARDING ISRAEL'S FAILURE.

WE WILL GO BACK TO HOW ISRAEL WAS FORMED AND WHAT IT SIGNIFIES.

Romans 9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit.

HE IS TALKING ABOUT THE ELECTION.

PAUL IS SAYING HERE, 'GOD'S ELECT ARE CHOSEN AND I WILL DOCUMENT THIS'.

9:2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

I HAVE GREAT SORROW FOR YOU IF YOU ALLOW YOURSELF TO DRIFT AWAY FROM THIS.

9:3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

IF I COULD CONVERT THEM, I WOULD SEPARATE MYSELF FROM CHRIST.

9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

AFTER CHRIST PAYED THE PRICE THE PROMISE IS FOR EVERYONE NOW.

9:5 Whose are the fathers (THE 12 PATRIARCHS), and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, Who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

CHRIST CAME FROM THOSE 12 TRIBES.

9:6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are called of Israel.

ABRAHAM WAS NOT CALLED ISRAEL JACOB WAS.

9:7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but "In Isaac shall thy seed be called."

QUOTED GENESIS 21:7.

CHRIST CAME FROM THE SEED OF ISAAC.

9:8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

THAT PROMISED WAS MADE IN GENESIS 21:7.

9:9 For this is the word of promise, "At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son."

SARAH WAS 90 YEARS OLD AND ABRAHAM 100 WHEN ISAAC WAS BORN.

THEY BELIEVED GOD EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE ADVANCED IN AGE.

9:10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

JACOB AND ESAU IN THE WOMB.

9:11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him That calleth;)

HE IS IN CHARGE; HE DOES THE CALLING.

9:12 It was said unto her (REBECCA), "The elder shall serve the younger."

QUOTED GENESIS 25.

9:13 As it is written, "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."

GOD DOES NOT HATE BABIES. IT'S WHAT ESAU DID IN THE 1ST EARTH AGE BEFORE HE WAS BORN. HE DID NOT RESPECT HIS REDEEMER ALSO IN THIS ONE.

BUT ESAU COULD HAVE REPENTED WHEN CHRIST "FREED THE PRISONERS" AFTER CRUCIFIXION.

9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

9:15 For He saith to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."

HE HAS A PLAN AND IT'S GOING TO BE THE WAY HE PLANNED IT.

HE KNOWS US BETTER THAN WE KNOW OURSELVES.

9:16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth (WORKS), but of God That sheweth mercy.

DIVINE ELECTION JUSTIFIED BY SCRIPTURE.

9:17 For the Scripture saith unto Pharaoh (HE WAS A GENTILE), "Even for this same purpose I raised thee up, that I might shew My power in thee, and that My name might be declared throughout all the earth."

GOD USED PHARAOH TO CONVERT THE EGYPTIANS AND EDUCATE US OF WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN AT THE END.

HE LOVES EVERYONE.

9:18 Therefore hath He mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will He hardeneth.

GOD HARDENED PHARAOH'S HEART FOR A PURPOSE.

9:19 Thou wilt say then unto me, "Why doth He yet find fault? For who hath resisted His will?"

DIVINE ELECTION NOT TO BE CHALLENGED.

9:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest (TALK BACK) against God? "Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it 'Why hast thou made me thus? " "

DO NOT TALK BACK TO GOD.

YOU DON'T SAY TO THE POTTER YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT HE MADE.

9:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?

IN OTHER WORDS, YOUR SOUL MAKES THE DIFFERENCE, NOT THE FLESH.

9:22 What if God, willing to shew His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering (HE HAS A LOT OF PATIENCE) the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction (SATAN'S NAME, APOLLYON):

THEY'VE EARNED OF WHAT IS COMING TO THEM.

9:23 And that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had afore (BEFORE) prepared unto glory,

9:24 Even us, whom He hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles (PHARAOH WAS A GENTILE)?

DIVINE ELECTION BENEVOLENT SO FAR AS MAN CAN APPREHEND.

9:25 As He saith also in Osee (HOSEA), "I will call them My people, which were not My people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

HOSEA IN THE HEBREW MEANS SALVATION.

THE WOMAN IN HOSEA (HOSEA'S WIFE) REPRESENTS ISRAEL. GOD TOLD HOSEA TO MARRY A HARLOT.

9:26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, 'Ye are not My people;' there shall they be called the children of the living God."

ISRAEL (NOT THE COUNTRY OF ISRAEL BUT THE TRIBES) WILL BE RESTORED IN THE FUTURE.

9:27 Esaias (ISAIAH) also crieth concerning Israel, "Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

ISRAEL (THE TRIBES) WILL BE SAVED.

9:28 For He will finish (CLOSE) the work, and cut it short (HE SHORTENED THE TIME FOR 7 YEARS TO 5 MONTHS= MARK 13:20, REV. 9:4, 9:10-11) in righteousness: because a short work will the LORD make upon the earth."

9:29 And as Esaias said before, "Except the LORD of Sabaoth (THE LORD OF REST OR HOSTS) had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha."

PERVERSION IS HAPPENING TODAY.

9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.

9:31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

MANY GENTILES WERE CONVERTED BUT ISRAEL WAS VERY STUBBORN.

9:32 Wherefore (WHAT CAN WE SAY)? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law.

PAUL IS TRYING TO SAY HERE ' I THOUGHT I WAS FOLLOWING THE LAW BY PERSECUTING CHRISTIANS'.

9:33 As it is written, "Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed."

QUOTED ISAIAH 28:16.

THERE IS NO STUMBLING STONE WITH THE BELIEVER.

GOD BLESS

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

THE BOOK OF ROMANS (CHAPTER 8)

THE BOOK OF ROMANS IS WRITTEN TO THE ELECT.

NO CONDEMNATION FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST; YOU ARE NO LONGER IN CHRIST IF YOU WALK AFTER THE FLESH UNLESS YOU REPENT.

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh (SAVED IS NOT ALWAYS SAVED UNLESS YOU REPENT. THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION IF YOU DO NOT WALK AFTER THE FLESH), but after the Spirit.

8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus (IS ETERNAL LIFE) hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

THE LAW OF THE "SPIRIT" (OR NEW NATURE) SETS US FREE FROM THE CLAIMS OF THE LAW (NOT THE LAW).

8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin the flesh:

THE LAW IS NOT WEAK, FLESH IS.

CHRIST WAS SENT IN THE LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH TO SHOW US THE WAY.

HE DID NOT SIN HIMSELF BUT HE SHOWED US HOW TO WALK IN THE SPIRIT.

8:4 That the righteousness (TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT) of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT FULFILLS THE RIGHTEOUS REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW.

IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN YOU ALLOW YOUR SPIRITUAL SELF TO TAKE OVER YOU DON'T WANT TO BREAK GOD'S LAW. WE FALL SHORT WHEN WE LET THE FLESH TO TAKE OVER.

8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

WHEN YOU ALLOW THE SPIRIT TO LEAD YOU WILL NOT SIN.

8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

YOU WILL FIND THAT PEACE IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD'S WORD.

DISCIPLINE YOURSELF IN THAT AND HE WILL GIVE YOU PEACE OF MIND.

8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

ATHEISTS ARE AN ENMITY AGAINST GOD AND THEY WILL HAVE NO BLESSINGS.

THEY GO AGAINST THEIR OWN NATURE OR THEIR CARNAL ATTITUDE.

8:8 So they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

WITHOUT CHRIST YOU CANNOT PLEASE GOD.

8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.

YOU ARE NOT CARNALLY MINDED IF YOU HAVE THE SPIRIT.

8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

AGAIN, CHRIST DEPARTS EVERY TIME YOU SIN. YOU MUST REPENT FOR HIM TO ENTER AGAIN.

8:11 But if the Spirit of Him That raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He That raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken (MAKE ALIVE) your mortal bodies (MORTAL=LIABLE TO DIE. MORTAL ALWAYS APPLIES TO THE SOUL) by His Spirit That dwelleth in you.

8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU LOVE CHRIST AND DISCIPLINE YOURSELF YOU SHALL LIVE.

8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God (IT MEANS GOD OWNS YOU).

8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, "Abba, Father."

AN ADOPTED CHILD (THE CHURCH IS ISRAEL BY ADOPTION) MAY PARTAKE ALL THE PRIVILEGES OF THE FAMILY, ALTHOUGH IT WAS NOT BORN IN THE FAMILY. BUT THE SUBJECT OF THIS VERSE ARE BEGOTTEN OF THE SPIRIT (JOHN 3:6) AND ARE, THEREFORE, CHILDREN OR SONS OF GOD BY SPIRITUAL GENERATION. IT IS THUS A REAL SONSHIP SPIRIT THAT ENABLES THEM TO CRY, "ABBA, FATHER."

IT IS SAID THAT SLAVES WERE NOT ALLOWED TO USE THE WORD "ABBA". STRICTLY, THEREFORE, IT CAN BE EMPLOYED ONLY BY THOSE WHO HAVE RECEIVED THE GIFT OF THE DIVINE NATURE.

8:16 The Spirit Itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

8:17 And if children, then heirs (HEIR IS THE ONE WHO INHERITS SOMETHING); heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him (YOU WILL HAVE A LITTLE TROUBLE WHEN YOU SERVE HIM BECAUSE YOU ARE THE ENEMY OF THE WORLD), that we may be also glorified together.

IF YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD, YOU DESERVE AN INHERITANCE

8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us (ETERNAL LIFE IS COMING).

8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature (CREATION) waiteth for the manifestation (1ST DAY OF THE MILLENNIUM) of the sons of God.

CREATION WAITING TO SHARE THE COMING GLORY OF THIS MANIFESTATION OF THE LIBERTY OF THE GLORY.

8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him Who hath subjected the same in hope,

THE PLAN OF GOD.

8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

THE EARTH WILL BE MADE LIKE IT WAS MADE IN THE 1ST EARTH AGE BEFORE SATAN'S FALL.

8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

CREATION UNITING ITS GROANING WITH OURS WAITING FOR THE MANIFESTATION OF OUR RESURRECTION GLORY.

8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits (THE ELECT) of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD FOR THE CHANGING OF OUR BODY, FROM FLESH TO SPIRITUAL.

HE SPEAKS NOT TO THE ONE WHO KNOWS THE LAW BUT HIS ELECT.

8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

IT PLEASES GOD THAT WE BELIEVE IN HIM EVEN THOUGH WE HAVEN'T SEEN HIM.

8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities (WEAKNESSES): for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit Itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

WE DON'T KNOW GOD'S PLAN IN DETAIL. HE PROVIDES AN INTERCESSION FOR US.

8:27 And He That searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because He maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

HE INTERFERES WITH HIS ELECT'S LIVES.

IN OTHER WORDS, GOD WILL PUT YOU WHERE HE CAN USE YOU TO DO HIS WORK.

8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose (HIS ELECT).

8:29 For who he did foreknow (HE KNEW FROM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THIS WORLD), He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

HE PREARRANGED THE DESTINY OF HIS ELECT.

DO NOT CONFUSE "ELECT" WITH OTHER BELIEVERS.

HE CHOSE HIS ELECT TO DO HIS WORK ACCORDING TO HIS PLAN. THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SOMEONE JUST BEING SAVED.

8:30 Moreover who He did predestinate, them He also called: and who He called, them He also justified (JUDGED): and whom He justified, them He also glorified.

THERE IS PREDESTINATION FOR THE ELECT.

8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

WE HAVE POWER OVER EVIL.

MAKE A NOTE OF LUKE 10:18-19.

8:32 H that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

8:33 Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God That justifieth;

YOU HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT IF YOU ARE ONE OF GOD'S ELECT. YOU WERE PREDESTINED AND YOU MAKE A STAND FOR HIM.

IT IS GOD THAT JUDGES.

8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ That died, yea rather, That is risen again, Who is even at the right hand of God, Who also maketh intercession for us (HE MAKES INTERCESSION BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR ENEMIES, NOT BETWEEN YOU AND GOD BECAUSE HE IS GOD).

8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness or peril (DANGER), or sword?

WHEN YOU KNOW THE TRUTH NO MAN CAN DECEIVE YOU CONCERNING MEN'S DOCTRINES.

8:36 As it is written, "For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

QUOTED PSALMS 44:22.

THE SHEPHERD SAYS, 'I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU; I WILL PROTECT YOU'.

WHO PROTECTS THE SHEEP? THE SHEPHERD (CHRIST).

8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him That loved us.

YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR DESTINY IS.

8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities (FALLEN ANGELS), nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

NO ONE IS GOING TO TAKE YOU FROM THE TRUTH IF YOU ARE ONE OF GOD'S ELECT.

GOD BLESS

Sunday, May 28, 2023

THE BOOK OF ROMANS (CHAPTER 7)

SIN HAS NO LONGER DOMINION IF YOU ALLOW CHRIST TO BE IN CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE. GOD DIVORCED ISRAEL (JER. 3:8) BUT WITH CHRIST YOU ARE FREE TO REMARRY. THIS IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS CHAPTER.

Romans 7:1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law (ISRAEL), how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

PAUL WAS TEACHING ABOUT THE LAW.

THE LAW WILL BE WITH YOU FOREVER. IT'S NOT BAD, MEN FALL SHORT.

7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

ISRAEL ALLOWED TO REMARRY IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS CHAPTER.

7:3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from the law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

REMARRIAGE IS LAWFUL IF THE HUSBAND IS DEAD.

7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

YOU ARE FREE TO REMARRY SPIRITUALLY.

BRINGING FORTH FRUIT IS TO PASS THE GOOD NEWS.

7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions (CRAVINGS) of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

THE FLESH BRINGS DESIRES AND CRAVINGS THAT IS AGAINST GOD, BUT THANK GOD FOR REPENTANCE.

7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

WHEN YOU ACCEPT CHRIST, YOU ARE RECONCILED WITH GOD. CRAVINGS WILL BE THERE BUT YOU CAN FIGHT THEM WITH YOUR SPIRITUAL SELF.

IF YOU FALL SHORT, REPENT.

7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, "Thou shalt not covet."

THE LAW IS OUR SCHOOLMASTER; IT POINTS OUT OUR SINS.

A SIN IS A TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW (I JOHN 3:4).

7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence (DESIRE TO COVET). For without the law sin was dead.

7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

WHEN YOU LEARN THE LAW, YOU SET YOURSELF UP FOR CONVICTION AND SPIRITUAL DEATH IF YOU BREAK IT AND WON'T REPENT.

7:10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

PAUL WAS AN EXCELLENT HEBREW SCHOLAR BUT HE MISSED ISAIAH 7:14 THAT TALKS ABOUT CHRIST.

WHY? BECAUSE HIS EYES WERE NOT OPENED YET TO SEE THE TRUTH.

7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

THE LAW WILL NEVER DO YOU HARM BECAUSE GOD MADE IT.

7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

MANIFESTATION OF THE EVIL OF SIN TO THE CONSCIENCE.

BEFORE PAUL KNEW THE TRUTH, HE PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS.

7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal (FLESH), sold under sin.

THE FLESH MAN IS SINFUL BY NATURE.

WHEN YOU SIN TALK TO HIM. REPENT AND ASK HIM TO HELP YOU OVERCOME YOUR WEAKNESSES.

7:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I do not; but what I hate, that do I.

I DON'T KNOW WHY I DO THE THINGS I DO WHEN I FALL SHORT.

7:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

WHEN I BREAK THE LAW IT'S ME MESSING UP. THE LAW IS GOOD.

THE INWARD MAN KNOWS RIGHT FROM WRONG.

7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good, I find not.

IN OTHER WORDS, SOMETIMES I WANT TO DO THINGS RIGHT BUT I FALL SHORT.

WHEN YOU HAVE GOOD INTENTIONS, THE FLESH BETRAYS YOU.

7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

SOMETIMES WE LISTEN TO THE FLESH INSTEAD OF THE SPIRITUAL MAN.

THE BEAUTY OF CHRISTIANITY IS THAT GOD FORGIVES AFTER REPENTANCE.

7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

SOMETIMES WE ALLOW OUR SINFUL FLESH TO TAKE OVER THE SPIRITUAL SELF.

7:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me (WHEN I WANT TO DO GOOD FLESH TAKES OVER).

7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

I LOVE GOD'S LAW FOR THE INWARD SPIRITUAL MAN.

7:23 But I see another law in my members (THE MANYMEMBERED BODY OF CHRIST), warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

PAUL'S CONFLICT BETWEEN THE FLESH AND SPIRITUAL MAN.

DISCIPLE YOURSELF IN THE WORD OF GOD.

DON'T ALLOW YOUR SINFUL NATURE TO CONSUME YOU.

WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE UP AGAINST IT IS A LOT EASIER TO HANDLE IT.

7:24 O wretched man (FLESH MAN) that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death (THE FLESH).

7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind (SPIRITUAL MAN) I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

THIS IS THE EXPERIENCE OF EVERYONE WHO IS THE SUBJECT OF THE GRACE OF GOD, AND HAS RECEIVED THE GIFT OF THE NEW NATURE AS THE SIGN OF GOD'S JUSTIFICATION. NOT THE EXPERIENCE OF ONE MAN IN TWO SUCCESSIVE STAGES, BUT THE CO-EXISTENCE OF THE TWO EXPERIENCES IN THE ONE MAN AT THE SAME TIME.

GOD BLESS

Saturday, May 27, 2023

THE BOOK OF ROMANS (CHAPTER 6)

CONTINUING WITH THE SAME SUBJECT FROM THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER.

BY THE OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST, YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THE HOLY OF HOLLIES.

A SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. BUT...THROUGH CHRIST YOU CAN HAVE FORGIVENESS AFTER REPENTANCE WHEN YOU BREAK THE LAW.

Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?

WHEN YOU CONVERT AND ARE BAPTIZED YOU COME OUT AS A NEW PERSON. THE OLD YOU DIES BUT YOU WILL ALWAYS FALL SHORT WHILE IN THE FLESH.

6:4 Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

IN OTHER WORDS, SYMBOLICALLY WHEN YOU ARE BAPTIZED YOU ARE GOING TO THE TOMB LIKE CHRIST DID AND COME UP INTO RESURRECTION.

6:5 For if we have been planted together (GREW TOGETHER) in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection:

YOU WERE RESURRECTED WITH HIM.

6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

SINCE YOUR OLD SELF IS GONE YOU SHOULD NOT BE A SLAVE TO SIN ANYMORE.

HOW CAN THIS BE SINCE WE WILL FALL SHORT FROM TIME TO TIME?

THE HOLY SPIRIT IS IN YOU NOW. THE SPIRIT CONVICTS YOU EVERY TIME YOU FALL SHORT. HE WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU WENT ASTRAY AND YOU NEED TO HAVE A CHANGE OF HEART AND REPENT.

6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.

ONCE YOUR SIN IS RESOLVED YOU ARE IN PARADISE.

6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him:

YOUR SINS UP TO THAT TIME ARE ERASED.

IN OTHER WORDS, YOUR OLD YOU IS ERASED.

BUT...YOU STILL NEED TO REPENT EVERY TIME YOU FALL SHORT.

6:9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over Him.

HE DEFEATED DEATH.

BE OF SERVICE TO HIM.

MAKE A NOTE OF HEBREWS 2:12-14.

6:10 For in that He died, He died unto sin once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God.

HE IS GOD FOREVER BECAUSE HE IS IMMAUEL (GOD WITH US).

6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

CHRIST DIED TO RECONCILE AND DEFEAT DEATH.

SALVATION COMES ONLY THROUGH CHRIST.

6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

DON'T ALLOW THE LUSTS OF YOUR FLESH TO TAKE OVER YOUR SPIRITUAL SELF.

6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield (DEDICATE) yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

DON'T SERVE SIN.

THE TRUTH SETS YOU FREE (JOHN 8:32).

6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

DON'T LET SIN HAVE DOMINION OVER YOU: YOU RAISE ABOVE IT THROUGH GRACE.

6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

ACTS OF OBEDIENCE INDICATE THE MASTER SERVED.

6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey: whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

WHO IS DEATH? SATAN IS AND IF YOU SIN UNDER HIM YOU ARE ASKING FOR IT.

YOU ARE A SERVANT TO HIM WHOM YOU OBEY.

GOD DOES NOT EXPECT PERFECTION BUT MATURITY.

6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine (A WAY OR MOLD) which was delivered you.

THE MOLD IS THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST; THE MOLD WILL RULE AND MAKE YOUR FAITH STRONGER.

THIS IS THE PATH YOU SHOULD FOLLOW.

6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

WHEN YOU SERVE HIM, GOD CAN USE YOU TO DO HIS WORK.

6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

MUCH BETTER TO FOLLOW CHRIST THAN TO FOLLOW SATAN.

6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

6:21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

WHAT DID YOU GAIN FROM SIN? THE FRUIT OF SIN IS DEATH.

6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness.

WHEN YOU BECOME FREE OF SIN YOU GAIN HIS BLESSINGS.

EVERY TIME YOU REPENT YOU GET BACK INTO RECONCILING WITH GOD.

6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN FORGIVE SINS THROUGH REPENTANCE.

THE LAW CANNOT SAVE YOU BUT IT REMINDS YOU OF YOUR SINS.

GOD BLESS

Thursday, May 25, 2023

THE BOOK OF ROMANS (CHAPTER 5)

ROMANS CHAPTER FIVE TALKS ABOUT THE BEAUTY OF CHRISTIANITY.

Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

5:2 By Whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

THE BEAUTY OF CHRISTIANITY IS FORGIVENESS.

TO MAKE PEACE WITH GOD YOU MUST HAVE FAITH AND BELIEVE IN HIS WORD.

5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

LITTLE TROUBLES DON'T BOTHER CHRISTIANS. HE ALWAYS SHOWS A WAY OUT TO ALL OUR TROUBLES.

5:4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

EXPERIENCE BUILDS CHARACTER.

5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed (NEVER DISAPPOINTS); because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts (FLOODS OUR HEARTS) by the Holy Spirit which is given unto us.

5:6 For when we were yet without strength (WHEN WE WERE IN OUR WEAKEST), in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

GOD DOES NOT PLAY FAVORITES.

5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

5:8 But God commendeth (PROVED) His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

GOD PROVED HIS LOVE FOR US BY COMING IN THE FLESH AND DYING FOR US.

WE WILL DEFEND A GOOD MAN (VERSE 7) BUT JESUS GAVE HIS LIFE FOR EVERYONE.

5:9 Much more then, being now justified (MADE INNOCENT) by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

WE ARE SAVED FROM WRATH BY HIS LIFE AFTER REPENTANCE.

HIS WRATH WILL BE POURED UPON THE WORLD (THE 7 VIALS OF REVELATION) BUT NOT UPON HIS JUSTIFIED ONES.

5:10 For if, when we were enemies (SINNERS), we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

WE ROSE FROM THE GRAVE.

5:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom we have now received the atonement (THAT FORGIVENESS).

5:12 Wherefore, as by one man (ADAM) sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

CONDEMNATION TO DEATH OF THE FIRST MAN; THROUGH THE SIN OF ONE MAN: BUT, A JUSTIFYING UNTO LIFE THROUGH THE RIGHTEOUS ACT OF ONE MAN, THE SECOND MAN (CHRIST).

5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

SIN IS NOT IMPUTED WHERE NO LAW.

THERE WAS NO LAW UNTIL MOSES.

5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of Him That was to come (THE COMING ONE. A WELL-KNOWN HEBRAISM FOR THE MESSIAH. ADAM WAS A TYPE AS THE FEDERAL HEAD OF A NEW-CREATED RACE).

IN OTHER WORDS, THEY DID NOT DO IT AS BAD AS HE DID.

5:15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

5:16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

ADAM BROUGHT SIN INTO THE WORLD, BUT YOU CAN BE JUSTIFIED BY CHRIST IF YOU FOLLOW HIM.

5:17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by One, Jesus Christ.)

WE OVERCOME BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST AFTER REPENTANCE.

THE BOOK OF LIFE IS IN HEAVEN. HE KEEPS THE RECORD YOU ARE JUDGED BY.

5:18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of One the free gift came upon all men unto justification (GUARANTEE) of life (ETERNAL).

SO THEN AS BY MEANS OF ONE (ACT OF) TRANSGRESSION (SENTENCE CAME) UPON ALL MEN UNTO CONDEMNATION, EVEN SO BY MEANS OF ONE RIGHTEOUS ACT ALSO (THE FREE GIFT CAME) UPON ALL MEN TO JUSTIFICATION OF LIFE.

5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of, One shall many be made righteous (INNOCENT).

BY THE OBEDIENCE OF CHRIST YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THE HOLY OF HOLLIES.

SIN IS WHEN YOU BREAK THE LAW (VERSE 20).

5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound (MULTIPLY):

5:21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness (IT'S A LEGAL TERM. YOU CLAIM IT) unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

A SIN IS A TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. GOD'S FREE GIFT IS TO BE ABLE TO HAVE FORGIVENESS THROUGH REPENTANCE IF YOU HAVE FAITH IN CHRIST.

YOU HAVE TO REPENT EVERY TIME YOU SIN TO BE ABLE TO BE IN GOOD STANDARDS WITH GOD.

EVERY TIME YOU FALL FROM GRACE THE SPIRIT DEPARTS UNLESS YOU REPENT.

GOD BLESS