Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

2Cor.3:4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;
3:5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God.

How does a Christian's make themselves sufficient enough for God as a teacher or any other part of the body of Christ Jesus? Is it through the teachings of some ministry school, some institutions of higher learning. Is this the sufficiency Paul was speaking too here?

Sufficient for what is the next question? The new covenant, where is this new covenant written, can it be found on paper, stone, in a elite position found at the top of some religious mountain? Well, as simple as Paul's words are here to the Corinthian congregation they have been locked down and twisted into all sorts of false teachings by false religion boasting as holding the position of Christ Jesus upon earth, so those attending such institution can walk by sight instead of faith.

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

Paul makes the point as he does everywhere within his writing the body of Christ are made sufficient by the body to which they are grafted into Christ Jesus, God's great spiritual temple that will not, nor cannot be polluted by human hands. Yes, to be made part of Christ Jesus one must be made new by the blood of the new covenant, what does this mean? It means we must become a new person born again into a spiritual body of Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Yes, born new by Holy Spirit of God giving us a righteous birth through the body of Christ Jesus, we no longer have a fleshly life condemned by the sins of the flesh, that is, by laws of sin that judge us as sinner - dead to God. No! But rather, made alive by God's Holy Spirit by the righteous life of Christ Jesus imputed too us by a gift of undeserved kindness. Here than is the truth Paul speaks here, nothing within our old flesh makes us sufficient, it is rather the life of Christ Jesus flowing into the body of Christ as members that makes us sufficient. We are created new to fit into Christ Jesus, not the other way around. We live to the Lord and die to the Lord, we belong to him for God good pleasures.

Ephesians 4:24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

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