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"I Will Have Mercy on Whom I Have Mercy"

****Rom.9:15 For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."{Exodus 33:19} 9:16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy. 9:17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."{Exodus 9:16} 9:18 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

God speaks creation into being, man would like that power, and often thinks if he or she is positive enough they like God can speaking things into existence. However, God's power does not lie, nor does it do unrighteous acts and than justify those bad fruits as being OK because of good intentions.

James 4:1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members? 4:2 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask. 4:3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 4:5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"? 4:6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."{Proverbs 3:34}

Here the apostle Paul speak to a new creation which their heavenly Father spoke into being, but some of them had missed a fundamental truth, and what was that truth? That it was by God's will they were birthed into a new creation,(Not flesh by the Law) and God their Father was dealing with them as he chose (by Spirit) no matter what man thought or taught about this subject!

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

1 Peter 4:11 If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Many can roam about, many can seek for secret knowledge in the scriptures, and unearth ancient relics to unlock mystery of the universe, but the greatest mystery of all is Jehovah God himself and his word (Spirit) when he speaks it exist. Unfortunately, some of the new creation here thought the process stopped in their creation once they were birthed by Spirit, but Paul states under Holy Spirit that growth continues at God's will, and than uses an unrighteous person (Flesh)to prove the point, the Pharaoh of Egypt!

1Pet.1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 1:4 to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't fade away, reserved in Heaven for you, 1:5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 1:6 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials, 1:7 that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ--

The new creation is God's purpose and his will; each part of that new creation, which is Christ, and his members, as one seed, must have complete success, no matter the problems encounter on this earth. Nothing will separate them (Spirit) from the love of God which is the highest purpose of God in setting the creation free from the futility (flesh) of mankind's lack of love for each others and themselves.

Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

1 John 4:16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

1 John 4:12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

Pharaoh a king slave owner was allowed to train God's people in a very harsh and unloving country, Egypt (flesh) in their unrighteous flesh of no value at all. God allowed for that unrighteous demigod to rule his people until God will that he release them to prove, and form his people into a kingdom of kings, priest, and worshipers of Him (Spirit). Nothing Pharaoh or man could have done would have prevented that from happening at God precise time. Now we must turn our attention to the context of Roman's Chapter Eight and Nine; so whom is the new creation Pharaoh, their task master which God uses to train and perfect us in faith upon earth?

Isaiah 40:6 The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

Isaiah 40:7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass. 40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever."

Flesh! All flesh ours included, flesh is but green grass, a mere flower of the field when compared to YHWH the Spirit. Our being enslaved to it in any form becomes the new creation disciplinary and task master God uses to make us into vessel of mercy. Here than is the context those anointed as God new creation whom where acting like the world, as though they ran and willed the out come of their own lives upon earth. Sadly, making themselves into a demigod by walking in the flesh thinking God was punishing them when they were plaguing themselves by human wisdom! Now think? What is the context of the letter of Roman's, Law Vs.Spirit, the unrighteous in their flesh under laws to condemn the sins of the flesh vs. freedom for corruption of sin by Spirit. But they had faulty flesh thinking that they were killimg their flesh by God's good and righteous law given to Israel instead of the life of Christ which freed them from the flesh (meaning sins)!

Hebrews 12:9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

Colossians 2:13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.

Philippians 3:3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Romans 8:3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

Romans 7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

Romans 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.

Freedom of sin could not come from the Law! No! God must set one free by his power from bondage and slavery to declare his glory to the nations (flesh) he is the creator, not the law for the flesh which only proved that we are enslaved to sin and corruption by our fallen flesh. The glory of God in his new creation through God's power, and his will alone. Nothing on this earth could free the flesh from God's judgment, nothing on this earth could raise these brothers and sister into being seated with Christ (Spirit). Nothing within the nation of Israel by connection to the flesh had freed them from their flesh (sin), but God's power into a new birth by Spirit and truth. Now they must live in Christ by faith (meaning without sin), not by sight of flesh, not by man's will at all; the training comes at what God allows, and that take great faith for those of the new creation in the flesh not to blame God, for the unrighteous acts of flesh which still plague them until God purpose are completed on this earth for them.

1Cor.10:1 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 10:2 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 10:3 and all ate the same spiritual food; 10:4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. 10:5 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 10:7 Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."{Exodus 32:6} 10:8 Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell. 10:9 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents. 10:10 Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer. 10:11 Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come. 10:12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall. 10:13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

James 1:12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him. 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. 1:14 But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 1:15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death. 1:16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.
1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow. 1:18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. 1:19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; 1:20 for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.

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