Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

Rom.8:15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba{Abba is an Aramaic word for father or daddy, often used affectionately and respectfully in prayer to our Father in heaven.}! Father!"

What is common to all humans? Fear! Paul was not saying we don't experience fear, he is not saying if your really a good Christian's you won't have fear not at all! We must understand in context when the bible speaks of a condition we internalize it and make it personal thinking how terrible of a person we are? But actually that not God's purposes in telling us humans our real condition.

James 5:16 Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective. 5:17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.

Paul was trying to help the brothers and sister not to act upon their fears common in all of us that is the truth of his statements here. In other words, fear is from the flesh so don't be fooled, don't be terrified when certain individuals preaching the law which righteously condemns us in the flesh causing us fear if we are honest, but instead recall, remember the Spirit of no condemnation you recieved in your anointing as children of God.

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

Remember the freedom and loving kindness we have been called to, don't live in fear of being good enough the very thing the law said we could not be. God has not changed his mind, and went back to condemnation of our flesh that was completed in Christ. Fear and judgment is the condition of our flesh, but listen Christ has conquered it for us, so if Christ is for us whom can be against us? Paul is expressing the power of God's love which ascends all the nature of our flesh which flesh bring us back into bondage and fear, We received power of freedom at our anointing a power the world has no hold on!

1 John 5:4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

1 John 5:5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Paul is not saying push ahead be a real man here at all. He is telling us when we are overwhelmed with fear, which comes from the judgment of our flesh this is common to all human, but recall its not the truth of God's love. This is a very hard point for those Christian's trained by organization religion in works of law. It almost impossible for them to believe in God's love that he is expressing undeserved kindness to us knowing something so powerful it will renew the whole creation setting if free, by his own act of releasing us from the debt of our sins.

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

Ephesians 3:7 of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

Matthew 6:15 But if you don't forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Romans 3:20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

We cannot be conqueror by anything on earth or in heaven if God has declared us righteous, that is, without sin, now we cannot let our hearts condemn us unworthy or we will be enslaved to our flesh, because our nature is to punish it and not forgive it. We must put faith in God's promises too us, undeserving as we are, we must believe in God's love and walk in it towards each other.

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

Titus 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.

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