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The Two-Thousand Year Struggle Between Grace and Works

Ephesians 6:12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

One would think that after two-thousands years of a war between Grace and Works of Law it would be settled by now? But it can't be settled as long as we are in our flesh. For the flesh lust against the Spirit of God, they are opposed to each other, as light is to darkness.

James 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.

1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

Gal. 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.

The summation of the whole can be put to rest in one profound and everlasting truth, and what is this truth?

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We must travel back in time to where Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden doing the works of God. Now note please, not their own works, but the works of God, in a paradise created for them out of God's own “works of love”. Yes! God is love, and if we do not know that simple fundamental truth we will never understand this discussion our being attached to our flesh is like a pit bull fixated on killing us that will not and cannot let go once his jaws lock!

1 John 4:8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

Matt.7:6 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

And for that reason outside our the dogs when it comes to God greatest love of all, his Grace, i.e., undeserved kindness, and/or unmerited kindness. Let us relive the truth, the foundation of why its not by works, but grace, and why Christian's must abound in God's grace to be saved?

Romans 5:20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

The Paradise Garden Truth

Adam was created in God's image, from the very glory of God. Yes, all of us fall far short of that glory once our father Adam sinned. None of us now have God's glory, in that we are all sinner, and that is why the bible tells us, we fall short of God's glory because God is without sin.

Romans 3:23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

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With that divine truth established when Adam was sinless God placed him into his work so that all of mankind to come from Adam would have eternal life and live in God's glory in paradise with their father, without sin.

Adam was in a sinless paradise where God could express His glory to the human race, God's fruit of glory was the Holy Spirit that would come through Adam doing God's works for all his children. Adam had no “works” of his own will, for remember he was “created” to do God's works. And how do we know this? Because God said it so, and proved it was so to all his children in heaven and earth to come.

Genesis 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

1 John 1:5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

How did God do that? When Adam fell short of God's glory when he sinned against God's own love which is God's glory, for God is love, thus, a sin against God is a sin against love. Adam's lack of love caused what? Sin that equals darkness which equals death! Could Adam do God's work any longer in death? Well, that is the point is it not?

John.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.

Isaiah 9:2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.

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Once driven out of God's works Adam could only do his own works, but not God's works because he was now found in sin, which is death to God whom is life.

Can a person in death do the works of the living?

Adam was immediately disassociated with God's glory, that is, God's sinless incorruptible life (Spirit). He was put out of the Garden of Eden into what? A place he could do his own works where he could build for himself a place of habitation for his temporary life left on earth.

But he could not go back into paradise with God where everlasting life existed. It that simple! So what can we extrapolate from these thoughts?

The living do the works of the living, so what are dead works?

Works of Law

Adam was now under works of law. That is, God's pronounced judgment upon him, (for the power of the law is sin). That is, in that day he would die from disobedience to God (all sin is lawlessness, all sin is disobedience to God). Sinning caused immediate termination from God's Spirit! Adam had nothing in and of himself to compensate God for his sin. The works Adam did, no matter how great or noble were not enough worth (merit), not enough to make him righteous before God (if we say we don't have sin we are a liar). Adam had no power in his own life to walk back into God's works (Paradise of Eden). He could not approach God and commune with him so that the soul God gave him could once again live eternally.

1 Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
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1 John 3:4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

He was a broken vessel with many flaws that fell short of the glory of God. Thus, for him to do the works of God again he had nothing from his the broken vessel, that is, the power within himself to fix the imperfection of sin into perfection into God's glory God's standard to have his life in Adam which was no sin. God was the only arbiter of what is good and evil for his creation not us! Man thinking did not matter God says what was good and evil, which means nothing more then what is life and what is death!

“God was the only judge of good and evil, that is, what is life and what is death man was created in God's love without death, he was not created to chose life and death.”

Outside Are Works of Law

Sin was outside the paradise under death, which meant Adams works were dead works, always resulting in death, nothing in death produce life, one must have the power of life to produce eternal life! This is a simple fundamental truth found throughout every bible from its front cover to its back cover.

The laws Adam could produce from his own judgment of good and evil were dead wrong from death Adam could not produce eternal life by his thoughts. His thoughts did not control God and his Spirit it controlled the sin in Adam and in his offspring (laws created for darkness in sin, not the light without sin).

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No! Adam's thoughts were not in God who is life without darkness of sin death, i.e. evil. No, not the God of eternal life having no sin! (who is always light and never evil) Adam sin could not change or touch God, nor corrupt God eternal life that was impossible.(for God cannot lie and death started from a lie.)

Hebrews 6:18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

James.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.

Creation of Sins Laws

Now we have “sin laws” (new laws from sin never known in God's creation until Adam sinned), laws that were created in death of sin, (evil) for controlling the evils in the hearts of men (from sin) which cannot do the works of God in paradise where God's own glory existed for Adam apart from sin. Thus, the foundation of truth is set by God, it stands on grace, unmerited kindness. Adamic sin could never be removed by the power of mankind in sin, which is the story founded in the Garden of Eden after Adam sinned then forward into the rest of God's inerrant word.

Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

What work could Adam do that would gain him enough merit to get him back into the paradise where God glory existed for eternal life?

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The works of God exist in eternal life not death? If Adam made one-million laws condemning sin in the flesh; would those laws remove Adam sin of his flesh? Would they undo the sin of lacking love for the God of love? In other words, could Adam build enough merit within his works to appease his sin against God allowing him into paradise on earth again?

Romans 9:32 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

Galatians 3:2 I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Can we be that honest with ourselves? Can we literally separated our feeling of our flesh, that is, the need to do works to prove we loved by God, and/or to get God's love by our own merit? That my friend really is the key to the two-thousand year old struggle in all of us that we all have in our flesh, which flesh lust against the Spirit of God ( a flesh that cannot obey God or be a part of him); a war with the truth of God in his undeserved kindness towards sinners living in sin creation that needs works of law to live and survive found in every person born of Adam?

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 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Romans 8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

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.

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Can we accept the undeserved kindness of God by faith or do we feel impelled to work for it?

No Adam could not gain a relationship with God by his own “righteousness” a righteousness that fell far short of God's glory. Subsequently God's righteousness that Adam must have and be filled with to sustained his eternal life could not be found in his sinful flesh, in his broken vessel! Adam was now a person like God knowing good and evil, he knew eternal life at one point and also death, which is the greatest evil to a God, the God of incorruptible life!

Romans 4:13 For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Romans 5:17 For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

Outside Are the Workers of Lawlessness

Thus, Adam was no longer under the law of the Spirit (life and/or the life of God), but under his own laws from his own life in the flesh, death. Where those laws of Adam's fleshly mind God's thoughts, and/or God's mind? No!

They were not! They were not laws applicable to a sinless God no matter how good and noble there purposes were, even if there being created was for protecting the safety and security of Adam's children and his wife's life. The Spirit cannot be under works of law created by the evil of sin.

Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
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1 Corinthians 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.

1 Corinthians 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.

Galatians 3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed 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.

The creation of those laws could not realize the glory Adam once had in the present of God where he was privileged to do the works of God. Adam must face the hard facts, he was now a “worker of lawlessness”, his laws would not save him and/or give him the glory of God before his sinning. How could Adam become law abiding in sin? If that truth escaped our notice then why was he put out of God's love (glory) by his lack of love called sin, i.e., evil? Adam was a permanent law breaker, and everything in his works and life proved he was in death to God glory he once had?

Exodus 33:22 It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;

1 Peter 5:10 But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

2 Corinthians 3:9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
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2 Corinthians 3:10 For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.

2 Corinthians 3:11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

You see, or that we should see (by faith) God's law of love is life, because God is life, so one cannot separate love from life into laws; into a legal contract having no life. The law of life must dwell in us, which life laws are Spirit not the same laws for punishing sins in us from our dead flesh that are to God dead works, those laws are not God's glory or God's eternal life without laws of sin.

Romans 5:20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

Romans 6:14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

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 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."{Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21}

This truth of Christ life must dwell in us to have eternal life.

Adam once in sin could not separate one law from another by his compartmentalizing his fleshly mind legal by methodology. Adam failed in love for God for wife's flesh, which was a lesser type love than the love he should had for God's.
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He was now in his newly formed fleshly mind, a merit mind, he knew he fell short of God's glory so he hid from God's glory knowing he did not have enough goodness and/or rightness within himself to stand before his creator, i.e., that is, enough merit. So Adam for the first time felt fear, as did his wife, fear of what? God's Love or God's judgment? (a new feeling never felt by either one of them until they sinned into darkness, a lacking of love).

Adam felt, and so did his wife fear and dread because the life of God was no long in them, which life has no judgment and never feels dread and fear of death and unworthiness, i.e., judgment! God did not create man to have that fear, or did he want them to experience it because let us remember he is the the God of love.

Genesis 3:8 They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:10 The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."

1 John 4:8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

1 John 4:17 In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

Adam now in his sinful flesh was overwhelmed with the need to earn God's love, and he could not, so he had not the love of God in him,

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but the fear of judgment, which he would spend the rest of his life denying, and that is why all men are liars. That lack of glory is passed on to all sinners, in that, the lust of our flesh is a merit mind based upon earning love by works we do, rather that be works of law and/or just works we do for others. We cannot go through this life without that merit mind for it is in us, it is part of the human experience under sins found in all no matter if its law to prevent us from doing harm to others, and/or showing love for each other.

Humans are constantly under judgment while in their flesh, on this earth, acknowledged or hidden by religion and/or self-righteousness

How Do We Get Into God's Favor?

The point should be clear if we are a honest hearted person. If Adam could not get back into paradise being closer to perfection than any of us are, why should we think we can by some work we do in the name of God?

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.

Here we have defined the cruxes of the war between the Spirit of God's grace too us and the war of our sinful flesh? The deception in born into our spirit of the flesh, Thus, wrongly tested by rules and laws for the flesh what is of God's and what is of man's flesh? That testing is flawed leading us into deception, deception of what? Deception starting with the first lie by a spirit person using the words of God testing the truth of God commandment to Adam and Eve.

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Eve should of tested against the living life of God (love) that was in her through her husbands headship (could something that good created from God for her be bad?). Adam did, and he knew it was a lie, but went along with his love for his own flesh, his wife, more than God's love! Adam did not think words of Satan the Devil as having more power than the life of God indwelling him. Adam had the teacher in him God's own glory his love. He was not deceived how can the creation be greater than he creator of the love he felt from his wife?

1Cor.13:1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
13:2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing. 13:3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.

1 John 4:1 Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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 14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

John 14:26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

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Words are the most powerful of all things to the fleshly mind, for the mind of the flesh is a legal mind (evil founded in sin), not a love mind believing all things in goodness and faith for a perfect God having only good gifts for his children.

Yes, that is true statement! The fleshly mind created for us by Adam's sin started all of us judging (evil in returning evil to others instead God's love), which means we went for a loving mind in Holy Spirit into a legalist mind to judge, for us to determine what is good and what is evil in all things created by man and God. It is the basic skill set all of us must have or we are considered a minor mentally in our personality not an adult that require common skills to judge what is good and evil for our life.

John 8:23 He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

John 3:17 For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

John 7:24 Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

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

But that mind did not exist until sin entered into our world by Adam's passing his life onto the human race through procreation. The sin was in Adam and Eve for choosing to know good and evil for themselves like God; such thinking came from a corrupted mind of Satan so his new creation was created from a lie, a lie that ended in death.

We must test the Spirit of life against the spirits of darkness to stay in the life of Christ, those are not just words they are felt in fears and evils!
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So why is this such a profound deception that most of us miss the power of God's grace and choose in one form or another works of law instead merit based love?

Well, It is in the nutshell that we think by using God's written word we can think our way into God's glory, or his present, and/or mind. Thus, we thinking by doing works recorded for us in his word please God giving us merit so he loves us, like we must do for all humans on earth. Subsequently, reading our bibles would be one of those works to please God and gain his love. Not just please God, but please him enough to gain what Adam lost, paradise.

Romans 4:4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as debt.

Romans 4:6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from work.

Romans 4:15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

Romans 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.

Why is this such a profound deception? It is because the seed of false religion which is called Babylon the Great in the book of Revelations, is a great mystery that has mislead everyone on earth. She is a harlot making those on earth drunk with the mixture in her cup!

She claims to be in God's glory, in God's sinless works, but just how is she in God's works, by what? The power of her own prostitution, her own flesh, by persuasive lips.

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She provides mankind a false relationship with Christ those that are set for marriage of Christ in truth and Spirit. She provides a fleshly relationship for them; for all those in want of heart those not giving up this world, the flesh is the world and is attached to this world and to its glory, They are actually crucified in Christ, dead in their flesh, not part of this world because of Christ in them where there is not merit but only God's grace!

Proverbs 2:16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

Proverbs.7:10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent. 7:11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house. 7:12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner. 7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:
7:14 "Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows. 7:15 Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you. 7:16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. 7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 7:18 Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.

James. 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.

To be a friend or this world one has to be in the flesh!

She tells them to do good works found in the bible which she speaks for Christ in being one flesh with Christ as his wife in her rightful faithful position; stating ultimately by her words a person can earn their way into the paradise while being apart of this world,

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a friend of this world by giving it glory, that is, giving humans glory and seeking their glory while claiming to be no part of this word by repeating words from the bible against this world!. The same flesh that lust against the Spirit of God the very reason Adam could not get back into the paradise of God's own glory, which truth actually is the Spirit is against the flesh!

Gal. 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. 5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Gal.5:24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. 5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit. 5:26 Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

She puts all emphasis on the flesh, in sight, it power, it ability to uses God's word to control the desire of the flesh. She seat as a Queen of judgment of good and evil using the power of sins law to claim the righteousness of Christ. She an angel of light for those in the flesh, but not the Spirit and truth found in Christ that we must worship in. Note please! The usage of biblical terms worship “in Christ”, that is, the truth of God, Christ Jesus, and where God's Spirit is at in Christ the living temple of God makes Christ the paradise lost by Adam.

1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

1 Corinthians 15:45 So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul."{Genesis 2:7} The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

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John 4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

John 5:21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

John 5:24 "Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

John 5:26 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

The deception that she so conveniently leaves out of her persuasive lips is the truth, which is, those in Christ are dead to the flesh, its sins and its judgments, but how? Simply put, where there is no law there is no judgments of sin. If the flesh is dead once for all times in Christ there cannot be a judgment of it by any law now or in the future. But she enliven sins of the flesh again, she excites for that is her occupation a worker to make the flesh lust for her body.

Thus, she twist the truth about the power of the laws of God, which is sin, sin of the flesh which become more by the power of the law. She renews it by the power of a false righteousness that she mixes into her cup making a sweet drug for those loving the world, and who want to take it with them; their works on earth in making a great name in this world, into paradise; the works they do outside of God's own glory; outside God's glorious works that are not of this world or on this earth but in heaven in Christ.

Exodus 34:14 for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

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Our Treasure are in heaven stored in Christ indestructible life giving Spirit!

The Confounding of The Devils Works

Satan and every man and woman have been confounded in their own works (merit) for or against God if grace is the truth that we must be saved by God's in? If that is the truth from the beginning of sin into our world, then everything in this world is vanity and chasing after the wind unless it is God's grace.

Because all of our hard works and efforts can't please God enough to earn us merit enough to get eternal life! Nothing of man or in man can save them, no matter how much he boast in works in loving God and proving he loves God by his works. Nothing of human words under sin has life in them, not even if they repeat God's words from their bibles front to end.

Psalms 4:2 You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

Ecclesiastes 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Romans 8:20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope.

Romans 3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

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!"

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Satan has been defeated in God's grace, every thought of pride and lust within sinful humans have been brought low that a person cannot boast in any special goodness with out God unmerited love towards them. Death is gone in God's grace, power of all governments and religions have been defeated. There is nothing to offer to God under the Sun that will free us from sin, but God's grace; nothing of our own works, and what is our worth based upon by this world if it is not our works? There is nothing but unmerited kindness found in God's love by his very will that created us into son's of God. nothing created by man will his thoughts his best ideas can enter into paradise of God's glory where only God's works exist for us to share in by his will. That glory is no part of this world.

All glory must go to God, he does not share his glory with corruption and that is why corruption cannot inherit incorruptibility.

John.1:12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:
1:13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 1:14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

1 Corinthians 15:50 Now I say this, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} that flesh and blood can't inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

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.

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God never be blurs the lines between darkness to the light, it is the power of Satan and wicked spirit force living in darkness that lurk in between in the shadows of light and darkness where false religion gains its powers from, make the flesh and Spirit equal in finding everlasting life in Christ. That is the polluted mixture that the great harlot share with the nations making them drunk on the blood of God's holy ones; that is where the demons lurk that love to play evil and lying says against God that he loves is fleshly, and the world is and expression of God's own goodness; she boast all is good, if it is done in the name of God, which words take the sin away of knowing good and evil, of knowing life and death, as only God can.

2 Peter 2:19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

2 Corinthians 11:14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

Galatians 1:8 But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any "good news" other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"{Deuteronomy 21:23}

James 3:9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.

Righteousness of Flesh The light of a Mislead World

Who will save us undergoing this death of our flesh where demons boast in its power, its goodness, and its ability to save this world and ourselves.
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The light tells us that nothing good dwells in our flesh, the demons say it is beautiful flesh found in God's own image and glory if we just discipline it enough, educated it enough, train it enough, glorify it enough it sin don't matter they are covered in our good motives and feelings

John 5:44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?

John 7:18 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

John 8:50 But I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.

John 8:54 Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

Satan the angel of light ( angel of the power of the flesh) says it is such a good flesh and beautiful its works go right with it, it adds to God's works it adds too God's own glory as Satan himself once thought he did before being ousted from God's glory! But the light that never lies says: The flesh cannot please God, it hates God's glory and cannot be in subjection to any of God's laws including the law of love, who then will save us out of this bondage of sin in our flesh?

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.
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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.

If we have no righteousness before God, as Adam didn't after sinning, then how can we gain enough righteousness to be put back into God's paradise? You see, once we understand this very simple basic teaching (truth) of God's word, found from front to back of every bible we can no longer be mislead by a false righteousness (false righteousness is of the flesh not God's Spirit righteousness); that the whole world looks to in the power of humans to maintain, protect, worship, and be saved in! If man possess no righteousness accept towards each other in their flesh under going death by sin, where must they look to another righteousness to compare themselves with to see if they have enough merit? Sadly, how mislead are we?

Romans 10:3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

2 Corinthians 5:21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Galatians 2:21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

Galatians 3:21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

Philippians 1:11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
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Philippians 3:9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

Once again the works of law are confound in their own judgments of what is good and evil. This is why Jesus was to say that he judged no one. He also stated he did not judge the flesh, but we do. The good and evils of our flesh are outside of God's Spirit, which means the place Adam lived after being kicked out of paradise in the shadows of not the in the light. Adam was put out of God's love, where God is the one lawgiver, the one mind, one Spirit, one truth, and the one body. Now Adam sin made him the law giver and judge of his own life, not the life God created him in without sin!

James 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.

James 4:12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

James.2:12 So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

2Cor.3:16 But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

So how can what is evil to God become right (death)? It can't, there is no dwelling between light and darkness (life and death). Adam's own judgments didn't make his ways right (life) to God, they factually had nothing to do with God or his mind ever!.

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They were found in Adam, in his own choice from his own will, that is, his own life under going death, his evil (death judgments) against God's love. Man's anger over right and wrongs do not workout God's righteousness.

James. 1:20 for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.

James.1:23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
1:24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 1:25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

You see the word righteousness has to do with what is right to God, (what is life and death to God) good and/or evil to God. Then there is a right to ourselves from our own life under going death. So what is good to God (righteous), what save us from our own good and evil created in darkness of sin under going death, the fleshly mind?

What is God's righteousness that save us (eternal life that saves us) from our fallen flesh? What puts us back into God paradise where his works are found? It is of course Christ Jesus our eternal father that removes our sins, so we can be born a new into God's righteousness (life giving Spirit) where the his work God are for his kingdom in the body of Christ.

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,

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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; 3:7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

God tells us his mind, but our trying to live up to his ways does not put us into God's righteousness (eternal life of Christ) like Adam once had before sinning. What actually does is deceives us into thinking we can make ourselves right with God by application of God's word. The Jews thought the same by the application of God's scared law.

John. 5:38 You don't have his word living in you; because you don't believe him whom he sent. 5:39 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. 5:40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

Did God's words after Adam sinned, that is, could Adam applied them scrupulously enough to his life to put him back into paradise? No! But to we honestly see why? It was because it wasn't about words, but the living life of God that made Adam what he was and qualified him to do the works of God by the will of was no longer living in Adam.

1 Corinthians 4:20 For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

That is the disconnect for those loving works of law. They will never get the life of Christ indwelling them by a legal mind that judges whats of the flesh by what is good and what is evil in something that is already dead in Christ for those in Christ the flesh (flesh cannot judge the Spirit having no sin in the flesh.)

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If there were life in our flesh then we be living in Paradise without needing Christ life.

The flesh to God is always evil (evil in death), it is dead long before it dies off this earth. Death is at work in all of us. You see, until Adam sinned life was always at work in him (good meaning life). No words on paper can fixes the good and evil in us, no words in our bibles, no words from another human those words of life must come from God and his righteousness (that is only good that is, life), from his good and evil, not ours, not from our life. But from God's glory that spoke Adam alive eternally. So what must we learn in the evil of our bodies undergoing death from sin?

John.6:32 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. 6:33 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world." 6:34 They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread."
6:35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. 6:36 But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don't believe. 6:37 All those who the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

Deuteronomy 8:3 He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.

Back to Paradise

Outside of paradise are the dogs always attacking each others flesh with law exposing the fleshes evils it weakness in some area.
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Yes, dogs look for weakness to exploit to be at the top of the pack. They will mutilate the flesh of their opponent to win at all cost because those weakness are evil and hated. The flesh demands conformity to make all in its look-a-like mirror like what it judges itself good and evil with, into its selfish feeling of likes, and hates, so the flesh does not lose its comfort zone when someone making it and/or its group look weak in the flesh. The flesh is all about power which means it does not want to look weak, and lose the glory of men by fleshly humiliation. Yet it lives in humiliation to God from the evil of sin.

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.

Romans 6:19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

2 Corinthians 5:16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

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.

Galatians 6:12 As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Philippians 3:2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.
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Revelation 22:15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Flesh seeks power and control to appear in control to others, it would rather have the glory of men than the glory of God. It hates weakness of the flesh in others. When flesh comes in contact with God's word it does not change its nature, it has a powerful tool in the name of God to complete its conquest in conquering someone else flesh bring it into conformity to its chosen group within it religious comfort zone, that is, making all the same that it judges what is from God and what is not, unlike Christ whom did not judge the flesh.

Galatians 2:4 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

Galatians 4:9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

Galatians 4:24 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

Galatians 4:25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.

Galatians 5:1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

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2 Peter 2:19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

Our flesh does not go back into paradise because it cannot, so it makes it own paradise on earth surrounding itself with a religion that gives it praise and glory, declaring faith or unfaithful by its own judgment of good and evil the flesh glory and works are declared worthy or unworthy long before God's says so!

However, those in God's righteousness, which is Christ Jesus have their flesh crucified in Christ, its not coming back, nor is the flesh teaching or doing its own will in Christ life who is now God's image; Christ is God's life sustaining power that Adam lost, and we can gain Christ blood redeeming us from Adamic sin by God's grace.

One cannot be in Christ, having his life in us, that is, his righteousness without unmerited kindness, grace, given us freely from God's love. It is a gift as was the life Adam and Eve were given because of God's rightness, his knowing life and death good and evil by His love. It is a free gift, not one Adam earned before being placed into paradise. We can say before Adam did anything good or evil God chose him to be in paradise with him to do God's works.

Romans 4:2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

Romans 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.

Once in that work God life sustain Adam and Eve to produce good fruit for God's glory. They Adam and Eve must stay in the vine, for outside the vine they would die ( outside of paradise).

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The works where not of Adam, it was from God for God's glory; something Satan and Eve lusted for causing them to be outside of paradise were death is and that is a fundamental truth.

Adam was placed into Paradise a fundamental truth, not by his works, not by his goodness, not by anything he had did good or bad!

Hence, the two thousand's year struggle of works and grace really does not exist for those in Christ, it is finished, it is the flesh that wrangles in its own rightness that cannot understand the mind of Christ. Flesh cannot know God's love, just like Adam and Eve couldn't after sinning. It does not matter how entitled one thinks they are, how much education one has, or what prided and power they have in them and their mind those things are death outside of paradise, they are not God's mind, and if it not God's mind they cannot be life. Not by any means under the Sun they are all vanity as God has expressed to us time and again there is not enough merit in all of mankind in all his works compositely in all history to gain the love of God lost by Adam sin ,without God unmerited kindness towards us!

If we are weak minded, that is, fleshly mind, and love, the adulation men teaching si so great aht we believe they add to God's works giving our students merit to be approved of God, we are fooling ourselves by some false righteousness we think we've gained by our own goodness of heart.

If the glory of Christ works found in his body are not enough for us, then we simply will seek more than Christ through an idol that will come to be nothing more then dung, a filth of our flesh mislead by the works of law founded in sin of Adam and Eve life. Let us love truth, coming all the way to the truth, Christ Jesus, it will be there we find refreshment and loving kindness of God towards us. Let us remain in the truth, Christ Jesus, and let us abound in grace, then we will know God's love!
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2 John 1:3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

Revelation 22:21 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen.

1 Peter 4:10 As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

1 Peter 1:13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action,{literally, "gird up the waist of your mind"} be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ--

James 4:6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."{Proverbs 3:34}

Completed: March 16, 2019

by: Daniel a Slave of Christ Jesus

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