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Born Anew/Born Again

Why would a person need to be born again or anew? This seems like a simple question, and certainly there are many legal reasons that have been espoused from God's word the bible. But being born anew is something that is an act of God for a very good reason, do you know what that reason is?

First, what we are born anew from, let God's word the bible tells us:

1 Peter 1:23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Titus 3:3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. 3:4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, 3:5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, 3:6 whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;

We have been born from corruption by an incorruptible seed into a new life without corruption, but corruption from what? Many Christian's take offense that their flesh is corruption to God, they feel put down that their good motives and intention are not enough to save them from sin, or to be born again new, which we will discuss here those mistaken views.

Rom. 9:8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.
9:9 For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."{Genesis 18:10,14} 9:10 Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac. 9:11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls, 9:12 it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."{Genesis 25:23}

The idea of evil in God's word the bible is vastly different than mankind definition of evil through thier court system of law set up to punishes wicked acts against other humans, let us illustrate:

If you had a health family without disease, a close-nit family full of love, and unity, but one night a person unbeknownst yourselves and your family broke into your home while the family was sleeping and injected each member with a vile substance that caused all of them to get sick, affecting their mental, and emotional health causing a lack of unity and love, would you call such and injection evil, and the person performing the evil act wicked?

Well, of course we would, but let us take this story further, lets say your whole family dies from this injection over the years, than this disease spread to all mankind, would this injection be innocent mistake?

Here is the problem for most Christian's anytime the bible speaks of sin as evil to God, for evil is what sin brought to God's earthly family, and what its is still doing to all mankind since Adam. Sin is an enemy of God and the person introducing sin into the world is wicked. However, the problem is this, billions of lives have been born into this sickness and disease and because they have nothing to compare it against, and find a measure of life on earth for good and bad, and/or good and evil, they have become accustom to thinking sin is not so bad! Certainly not all sin is evil, but all sin is evil to God a condition causing death and disease too all humans born from Adam's sin: Many even some Christian's think: “My good motives are not sin, God loves me and my good motives, and if anyone says not, they are evil believing they are teaching against God who see good in us!” But yet why must we born again if our flesh is so pure of thoughts, and motive? Moreover, if all we need is a readjusting of our thoughts pattern why be born new?

1 Peter 3:21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

1 John 3:9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

Dwelling Upon Death

The question remains the family injected in our illustration, were they evil or was the substance put into their veins evil? Well, any reasonable person would say it was the substance and the person injecting it into their veins, which they had no control over. But the problems becomes profoundly complicated because the substance makes the person act wickedly at times, some less so, and some more so, that is, saying things and do things that a health person without mental disease would not do.

Romans 7:17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

Here is the problem for some, whom quickly get offend over sin, but when a physician is needed to fix a problem. The physician does not look at the patience conduct to treat the condition of disease inside them, what he/she does is attack the problem at the core and not the person good or bad conduct. The good physician will eradicated the diseases not the person good or bad conduct.

Matthew 9:12 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

The real physician dwells upon the condition that causes the disease, but does that make the physician evil, negative, or good, because he or she dwell on the negative the disease to get to the good?

Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

The Great Physician

The great physician is God, he is removing the disease from mankind called sin, because with sin comes death, sickness physically and mentally and a host of other evils perpetrated upon human race. The Great Physician does not deal with human emotions in eradicating our sins, He does as any good physician must do, help the patience despite their degree of good or evil in them.

Heb. 2:14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 2:15 and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 2:16 For most certainly, he doesn't give help to angels, but he gives help to the seed of Abraham. 2:17 Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people. 2:18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

God YHWH does not condone sin, he does not make excuses for it because its an evil enemy that He will destroy completely out of the human race in his good pleasure. God never blurs the lines against His war against sin in us. Once a patient is healed often against their emotions/will they will understand why sin is so evil too God, but until than the war between our thinking and God's efforts will be a mismatch light against darkness.

Gal. 5:15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another. 5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh. 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.

Rom.7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. 7:15 For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do. 7:16 But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good. 7:17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. 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.

No Compromise Between Light and Darkness

The mind under sin which is disease no matter how brilliant it is, it cannot know the mind of God, why? Now listen carefully, light does not dwell with darkness, incorruptibility does not intermingle with corruption because it cannot. But to be healed from the affects of sin one must have a new mind, not the mind they were born into under sin past on too them from Adam. In other words, how can a sick person heal themselves if the information from their brain is faulty and does not know anything more than the very condition it is in sickness? Can a person be born out of their sickness into a new life, a new brain? Now stop here, because this is going to offend some, if your born out of your old brain into a new life, how could anything in your old brain give you a new birth when that old brain cannot understand God in the first place?

1Cor.2:10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
2:11 For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit. 2:12 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God. 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
2:14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 2:15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

A person cannot born again themselves its not in their power, nor can they put away their own disease flesh without being born again into a new life not having sin. So essentially those wanting merit for the old-self want to take a little corruption and parlay into a new birth, without corruption because they feel there is some good in their sinful flesh that makes them more acceptable to God than others. In other words, they heal themselves from sin and corruption, by self-judgment of their own worth before God.

Luke 5:37 No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

1 Corinthians 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

God Not Partial

The fleshly mind person has a very skewed estimation of God impartiality they boast in it bragging in it, but they do not clearly understand it. If motive from a disease mind was the issue to remove sin from the human race, than according to God application our treatment would depend upon each person personal goodness and not God impartiality.

1Cor.4:3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.
4:4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Rom.9:16 so, then -- not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:

Moreover, some confuse faith with a moral goodness, thinking the more moral they are the better faith they have, but is this true, and is it upheld by God's word the bible? No its not! Faith is about trusting God that He will do what he says despite our fleshly desires, it is not about our personal goodness, rather w it is about God is love. Meaning He will not act impartially because we don't have enough goodness or because we are weak in some sins, if we have faith he will act guarantee towards us. One can be the worst sinner in the world locked up in the vilest prison without any good motives and God will help such a one when turning to him in faith, not even having a great faith, a word just barely spoken out of fear is enough for God to help such a one.

Matthew 21:21 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don't doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it would be done.

Luke.7:37 Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.
7:38 Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. 7:39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner." 7:40 Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to tell you." He said, "Teacher, say on." 7:41 "A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. 7:42 When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?" 7:43 Simon answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." He said to him, "You have judged correctly."

God is not partial, any calling upon Him will be save despite their motive good or bad at the time. This is why we cannot be saved by works of law, why? Because works of law are about motives we judged by what? By what the law tells us to act like if we are good or bad. But God goes beyond the law judgment of motives, human don't, but God does. God helps us because of His own love for the human race, he knows the working of sin in us, and like a Great physician he take steps from his moral love to save us, as even a man or woman soes as a physician without emotions of good and evil motives for their patients.

1 John 3:20 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

2 Peter 1:4 by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Now once again, this is offensive to some whom see themselves above others sinners, God treats the patient knowing that once the condition is removed the motives will always be good and righteous.

Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

Eccl.9:2 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath. 9:3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Eccl.7:16 Don't be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself? 7:17 Don't be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time? 7:18 It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also from that don't withdraw your hand; for he who fears God will come forth from them all.

The Great Physician and our Flesh

God hates sin, it is evil a disease corrupting all mankind, but where does God place the sin at, in our spirit or flesh? If our spirit is so corrupted by our flesh nothing good may dwell in both, only God can separate the two as the Great Physician and repair our spirit. Once again this is shocking to some and offensive. Our sinful flesh is dead to God, it does not live to him nor does he deal with it as do so many Christians spending a life time decorating a tree that's dead, putting paint on a desert so to speak. The condition of sin, pictured in our flesh is dead in Christ Jesus. God separates the two to treat the disease for eternal life in the spirit.

1 Corinthians 5:5 are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

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.

When ever the flesh is involved for Christian's they are dead to it in Christ Jesus, what does this mean? God does not consort with sins of our flesh, He cannot, he does not take a little leaven and make it into a new lump a new man, a new mind, a new creations. God does not revamp a dead person into a new one, and if you think so, you cannot understand being born anew.

Romans 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Romans 8:13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

John the Baptist was the greatest of God's prophets, did he have a sterling record of faith before God? Was his desires and motives to serve God from birth? Yes! Than if a new birth is about personal merit why was John the Baptist not the greatest in the Kingdom based upon merit?

Luke 7:28 "For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptizer, yet he who is least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he."

Here than is the problem for the sinful flesh and its desires to be great, how? By competition, yes by personal merit in what it performs upon earth before other men of the flesh. But in Christ there is no competition do you know why? Because all receive the same sinless life, by someone else life, and not their own. Yes, how can one boast in a birth they had no part in? Which is much like a foolish man that born into wealth and privilege thinking because of his good motives it had something to do with his being born into a family he had no control or choice over?

John 1:13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 3:3 Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew,{The word translated "anew" here and in John 3:7 (anothen) also means "again" and "from above".} he can't see the Kingdom of God."

Once a person is born anew in Christ than their works are made righteous by the life of Christ, and in those works they can boast, but still they are not boasting in themselves, but in Christ merit given them freely, and Christ works through them, does this offend you?

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

John 3:7 Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.'

Jobn15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
15:2 Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 15:3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 15:4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. 15:5 I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

New Birth Out of Corruption

No man can heal sin out of themselves or another person by any mean they can provide, no matter how emotional their deepest desires are to do so, they cannot heal sin. Many think by changing a word, a teaching, appealing to great emotion they are freeing others from sin in Christ, but that is lie of pride! Being born out of sin is not about our great love, it is factually about God's great love towards us the human race that cannot even know the full affects of sin in them, let alone God's love in freeing us from sin.

1 John 4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation--the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins.

One cannot beat sin out of person, nor legislate sin from a human or love it out of them. God tells us how sin is dealt with once it has corrupted our flesh, it is by killing our flesh, there is no other way, search the scriptures if you will for life, but you will not find any way out of sin unless it is through death of the sinner flesh, no matter how wonderful a person feels about themselves they must die to be saved from corruption of sin.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

When we think we can judge sin out of another person by some good motive, and/or good law we are the most fooled person upon earth blinded by works of law. When we think we can judge sin out of a person by God's word the bible we are truly lost into self-importance. We can be as good as we like, and be the smartest person upon earth, but sin will not leave us without God's love towards us in Christ Jesus.

Luke 18:9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
18:10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. 18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 18:12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.' 18:13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!' 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."

If each person got this, there would be no more wars over the bible, or self-good motives that have destroyed billions of lives by some person believing they have better feelings than others setting themselves up as a ruler.

The after birth for Christian's is their sinful flesh left behind, the apostle Paul spoke so strongly about this matter it incite anger in those whom thought they were somehow worthy by their own merit to be born again. He uses a most shocking term of where the Roman empire tied a corpus to the person whom they had murdered to the person body, making the murder drag the corpus until the stench killed the murder from rotting! Are you shocked? Hopefully, so when you fall into self-love of being good in your sinful flesh. Please when we get prideful think of Paul's illustration of a dead corpus when calling himself a good for nothing man, and that he found not one good thing dwelt in his sinful flesh worth redeeming.

Romans 11:14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

Romans 9:3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

New Mind

Is the new mind a fleshly mind under sin, or is it corrupt with the thinking of sin? This is a hard point for some, why? Because they are independent of God, they don't even understand what its means to have the mind of God found in Jesus Christ. What they know is what their fleshly mind has them taught about Christ Jesus, but they have not received the mind of Christ by being born anew, and taught by Holy Spirit.

Romans 12:2 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Romans 12:16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don't be wise in your own conceits.

1 Corinthians 2:16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?"{Isaiah 40:13} But we have Christ's mind.

Colossians 3:2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

You see, Adam was created perfect in his flesh, his flesh was perfect because of his spirit in association with God's mind. God mind was the food of eternal life for Adam, but when Adam sinned his spirit was separated from God's Spirit because light and darkness cannot dwell as one. Hence, a vast chasm occurred in Adam separating him from God, one he could not cross over if he lived a million years and done great works for God/YHWH.

Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Colossians 1:13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

Nothing in his dead fleshly mind could connect him to God again so he could live forever. Many Christian's miss this point taking themselves way too seriously thinking their good works connect them to God, but that is a great illusion. God Himself had to provide away for sinful human to connect to His great incorruptible spiritual mind, nothing man could provide from death would make them compatible with the sinless life in God. When a Christian's fail to understand this fundamental truth overstepping it for self-merit they miss the undeserved kindness of God, but why?

Romans 2:19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness.

Acts 26:18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

Why it is, it is because God is not renewing our sinful flesh, God is renewing our minds with his Spiritual mind found in Christ Jesus which allows us commune with God through Christ. Many believe and teach they are being changed into a better sinful flesh upon earth that God is slowly bring them into perfection of their flesh. We are not saying that in the Resurrection under the new heavens and earth this process may come about, but for Christian's that is still speculation as how those will comimg back under the new heavens will be? What we do know is presently God is dealing with a new mind being renewed by Christ mind, we are leaving our sinful flesh as an after-birth/tent behind. We our born anew from corruption, a corruption Adam could not changes by repentance, good works, or even love for God. God must act, unilaterally towards mankind to restore them to light, but what is light to God?

Ephesians 4:23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind.

The Light of God

Light is freedom from sin, don't let anyone deceive you, God's light and is sinless, we are not. Subsequently, we can be the most sincere person in this world toward God and His teaching found in our bibles, but if we have not been "made sinless", we cannot get the truth from God's word the bible from a fleshly sinful dark mind. This is why the apostles of Christ could not get the whole truth without fear until God anointed them with Holy Spirit, they had one misconception after the other, and Christ spoke about them as faithless at times, for him to make the simplest points.

Luke 11:35 Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness.

John 1:4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

John 3:19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

John 3:20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

But once the Holy Spirit was poured out, they became giants in spiritual truth and understanding changed into a new mind and a new birth. But to have that new birth to be born again by Holy Spirit what had to happen to their flesh? The apostles were all hand picked by God, they loved God, they were known before the founding of our world, but what happen to their flesh, Did it save them? Did they boast in it? Did they say look at my good works? Did the apostles have a negative view of God's love for them? Did they uphold the flesh, or condemn it? Did they do as Christ had done and taught about the flesh and its desires?

Acts.4:12 There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!" 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

You see, light does not come to one of God's anointed by self-merit, it factually and truthfully comes from one source Christ Jesus as being sinless light, the question is, if flesh is so good, why is it God's word calls darkness and not the light? Once again a brother or sister in Christ must separated their fallen flesh from the spirit in them understanding the law of God is not personally picking on them in condemning their sinful flesh. Those in Christ are not condemned, they are loved cherish and given freedom in God trusting them as he did his own Son Christ Jesus, love does not distrust, distrust is a work of our flesh, and its judgments.

1 John 5:17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

1 John 3:6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

Being Made Sinless

We are made sinless by a new birth into a new body, but let us not get side track in thinking of our fleshly body although we are so intimately attached too them. If we are born again, we belong to another, not ourselves, why and who? it is because there are not many minds of Christ floating around, there is but one, and all body members must share in that is, one mind of Christ. Just as Adam had a perfect beautiful body but once without the mind of God indwelling them they started corrupting into death. There beautiful bodies faded as a flower, and back to the dust they returned from which they had came.

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

Isaiah 64:6 For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

1 Peter 1:4 to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

1 Peter 5:4 When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn't fade away.

If God could have taken Adam fallen flesh and just reversed the process certain God would have done so, but more was needed, the whole corruption of his universe was involved, and from that comes the thoughts of every unrighteous act of sin good or bad causing death to us. Yes, good and bad, or good and evil, don't be fooled here the fleshly mind can do good works, have good motives, and have godly thoughts, but because it cannot be attached to the source of life the flesh mind cannot produce life, eternal life, without sin, this requires a new mind free from sin of Adam.

John 16:8 When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment.
om.8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be. 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Rom.8:19 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 8:20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope 8:21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. 8:23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

As much as this offends the good and noble feelings of some, a person cannot bring something clean out of something unclean, God never mixes the two, men of fleshly minds do, and call it righteous and good, hence, taking it personally when God tells them no! Sinlessness does not come from our righteous anger or judgment by God's laws, but from what is truth, God's truth (Christ Jesus) not mans truth. God is not going to change truth in obtaining everlasting life for our good intentions. Nor is man going to nullify all God himself has suffered because of sin in our world, Nor God's extreme patient, and efforts He has maintain to remove sin because its offend one sense of goodness.

James 3:10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 3:11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water? 3:12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water. 3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

James 4:7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
4:9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you. 4:11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. 4:12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

We are made sinless, not progressively as some would like us to believe, but once for all time because of Christ righteous blood, we are freed from sins judgment not by our good works, or our supposed good feelings about ourselves or mankind, but by God payment for sin, found in Christ Jesus.

1 John 5:18 We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him.

We are progressively having our faith in this provision perfected, by suffering in our flesh, how are we suffering. We are free from God's judgment, not by our righteousness, but by Christ righteousness given to us as a free gift. Our wrestling with sin of our flesh, which are accounted dead to God, we learn many things about evil of sin, God's great love, and how sin has enslaves us on every minor detail, corrupting our very best intentions by sin.

Sin is conquered rather we live or died, Christ conquered it for us, we have gain salvation by faith, not salvation by thinking we can conquer sin again, we suffer for God's glory, as a living sacrifice. Many are fooled here thinking by works of law they are being perfected from less and less sins, but those sin were conquered in Christ, we have no sin in God's eyes, this is the reason John the Baptist was the least in the Kingdom of God and all the prophets prior to him were least because they had not been made sinless by Christ righteous life.

1 John 3:9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

1 John 3:5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

Hebrews 7:27 who doesn't need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

1 Peter 3:18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

Don't be fooled it is the seed, incorruptible seed God has sown in us that we are a force for righteousness fighting against the works of our flesh. Without that seed, we could not know the difference between light and darkness, we could only judge from death of our fleshly mind sown into the reward of sin, death! The Spirit in us is the truth for righteousness which keeps us in Christ and saved for God. Before Christ was the law that keep Israel in check reminding them of their sinful condition by blood poured upon the altar of God's mercy for their sins.

1 John 3:9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

Does God Love Us?

This is much like a blind man asking if he is blind! How could God not love us if he is love? What foolishness comes from a fleshly mind thinking they must says words to make God love us. Do we need to count the ways, did he love all his faithful prophets and kings, and Adam and Eve, does he so love the world he gave us his Son, does he number each hair of our head, does he know us before we are every born, yes! Yes! And Yes! But what does that have to do with fixing death in mankind? It much like a blind man asking to drive your car, and when you refuse because of his condition of blindness he becomes offend imputing evil motives into you because you don't understand his great love he has for you!

What does love have to do with an operation of removing sin from us, is it painless? Is it not fair we have to suffer, and someone got to be strong and do the job we can't do for ourselves?​ Does that offend you, will have you raised children, work at a job, or any other endeavor under the reach of the Sun, you will find a lot of dirty jobs human have to do for the good of mankind.

Hebrews 2:9 But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

Romans 5:3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

Certainly King David, John the Baptist, and Moses might just feel slighted being made last when they were foremost in doing God's will, they might feel really hurt because a murder like Paul got in ahead of the game so to speak, did God not love these ones, did he love them less that the least of these Christ brothers will rule over them? Here is the foundation of truth which is brought into a quagmire of unrighteousness when men and woman in asserting their moral goodness over God judgment of sin in us.

Isaiah 53:4 Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

This is why like Christ we must never confess ourselves good, knowing when its comes to God justice and position and love we fall far short of his glory. Let God bless us with his words of good which he gives generously to all without reproaching, let him honor you, let us remain a slave until we are rewarded for the good works started and finish in us, by Christ our head.

Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Completed on: December 29, 2013

By: Daniel a Slave of Christ Jesus