Rom.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.
Once again we must take Paul's words in context too all his writings or we miss the mark of truth and love. Paul is not speaking about the law here, we as human can use the Old Law, giving it power by our conscious, but God does not judge us by it. So our judgment(s) by the Old Law removed and are powerless as the children of God, our judgment become self-inflicted judgment(s). And this is why Jesus said; “stop judging and you will not be judged.”
Romans 14:4 Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
But we as Christian's still have sin, it is the minding of this sin in us that produce death. We must die to this sin to live in life of Christ Jesus. God's Word, Christ Jesus, is the living Word, that dwell in us as a children of God. When we kill the Words or life of Jesus Christ by the Spirit in us because of our dwelling upon sinful thoughts of our flesh, we can only stand again before God in Christ Jesus by his power over death, meaning, all laws of sin governing the flesh.
We cannot perfect ourselves from sin, but we are sinless in the spiritual body of Christ Jesus, in his body we cannot stay alive if we mind the thoughts of our sinful flesh. This process, which the Old Law did not allow for, is our salvation in perfecting and growing our faith through refinement and suffering in the Christ. Moreover, this is why Christian's must have faith and not law, we cannot be perfected by rule of law, we can only be perfected by our faith in God's love. Which means, we must believe God's love covers our sin of minding the flesh, and it is according to His own will that He allows this process of life and death to work in our mortal bodies to bring all sinful thoughts of the human race into subjection of the Christ by the Law of love.
2 Corinthians 4:11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh. 2 Corinthians 5:4 For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
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Rom.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.
Once again we must take Paul's words in context too all his writings or we miss the mark of truth and love. Paul is not speaking about the law here, we as human can use the Old Law, giving it power by our conscious, but God does not judge us by it. So our judgment(s) by the Old Law removed and are powerless as the children of God, our judgment become self-inflicted judgment(s). And this is why Jesus said; “stop judging and you will not be judged.”
Romans 14:4 Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
But we as Christian's still have sin, it is the minding of this sin in us that produce death. We must die to this sin to live in life of Christ Jesus. God's Word, Christ Jesus, is the living Word, that dwell in us as a children of God. When we kill the Words or life of Jesus Christ by the Spirit in us because of our dwelling upon sinful thoughts of our flesh, we can only stand again before God in Christ Jesus by his power over death, meaning, all laws of sin governing the flesh.
We cannot perfect ourselves from sin, but we are sinless in the spiritual body of Christ Jesus, in his body we cannot stay alive if we mind the thoughts of our sinful flesh. This process, which the Old Law did not allow for, is our salvation in perfecting and growing our faith through refinement and suffering in the Christ. Moreover, this is why Christian's must have faith and not law, we cannot be perfected by rule of law, we can only be perfected by our faith in God's love. Which means, we must believe God's love covers our sin of minding the flesh, and it is according to His own will that He allows this process of life and death to work in our mortal bodies to bring all sinful thoughts of the human race into subjection of the Christ by the Law of love.
2 Corinthians 4:11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
2 Corinthians 5:4 For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
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