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Rom.7.22 - For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, Rom.7.23 - but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Rom.7.24 - Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Rom.7.25 - Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. I have struggled with this chapter for some years now. However, I conclude that in believers there is truly a battle within between the part of them that knows what is good and the part of them that sin dwells. The part of them that sin dwells is so powerful that it many times will render them paralysed in doing good.  Paul is here clearly speaking about his walk. By now he has done a number of missions. Established a number of churches. Performed a number of "impossible" miracles. His depth in the word is beyond many of hi

Rom.4.17 - as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"--in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. Paul's speaks of God giving life to the dead and calls into existence things that do not exist.The later verses Paul continue to show how God still promises Abraham to be the father of many nations despite him not having a son of his own, his body "as good as dead" and his wife barren.  God promises Abraham to be a father of many nations as if to call into existence a thing that has no vestige of existence. Abraham's body was "as good as dead" and Sarah barren but still promises nations to Abraham as if to say He is able to give life to Abraham's "dead body" and Sarah's barrenness and whatever He calls into existence (nations), He will actualize. Paul has spent the first three chapters of Romans accusing humanity as s

Gal.2.16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, if we are ever to understand the gospel,  it is vital to understand the term - justification. My concordance defines this term this way - to render or show or regard as just or innocent . My Bible dictionary  defines it as - in a legal sense, the declaring just or righteous . Basically justification is being considered by God innocent, righteous or just. How can a guilty sinful human being be in such a state of justification? It is by faith in Christ Jesus. If Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa and all the famous "good people" were combined into one person, that person still cannot be considered innocent or righteous before God by his own works. Why? He would still be a child of Adam. He would still have inherited the sin of Adam and his nature hence he would still not be free from the responsibility of sinning against God. His corruption and rebellion would stil

1John.5.16 - If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life--to those who commit sins that do not lead to death.  In church when we see fellow believers commit a sinful act most often our natural reaction is to castigate or despise them. Here John notes that seeing a fellow believer sin should lead us to prayer on their behalf that God would give life (righteousness) over that area of their life. John has many times spoken of loving our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ within the epistle of 1 John. In this instance, Love portrays itself, not in castigating or despising them but in praying for them. Let's pray for each other brethren.

1John.1.4 And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete. (ESV) It amazes me that all that John seeks to write in this letter is so that *our joy may be complete.*  So if we doubt the physical existence of Jesus (2000 years ago) and his divine power we rob ourselves of joy (1 John 1:1-3) If we do not submit to the truth, we rob ourselves of joy. If we walk in darkness, we rob ourselves of joy. If we don't confess our sins, we rob ourselves of joy. If we don't admit our guilt of sin, we rob ourselves of joy... (1 John 1:5-8) Joy is sustained through continual belief in the true person of Jesus and His teachings as taught by his apostles. (1 John 1:1-3; acts 2:42) Joy is sustained through walking in the light and submitting to His truth. Joy is sustained through admitting our guilt of sins and confessing them. (1 John 1: 5-9) Come to think of it... When our joy isn't complete we probably have departed from some of the things John writes. Blessings

Acts 1:13-14 [13]And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James. [14]These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. Peter; a denier of Jesus Christ and an initiator of violence during Jesus' arrest. Thomas; a doubter  of Jesus' promise to rise from the dead. Matthew; a tax collector (they had reputation of been dishonest and collaborating with the enemy) and Simon the zealot (a violent type of people) though they stopped way before Jesus died  Sometimes as Christians we look down on those whom we know their past sins either recent or long ago. In this verses it says they were in one accord in prayer, one of the reasons to this unity seems to be that none of them reminded the others judgingly