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Confession and penance for sin?
Is that like a Catholic priest confession and 100 jail Mary's?
If so then I can see your objection.
However if you hurt someone and God convicts you of it. You should make amends by apologising and confessing to them your wrong. If you stole you should restore what you stole, etc.
The sin is still there and can only be washed in the blood of Christ but it can help with the healing.
Is that like a Catholic priest confession and 100 jail Mary's?
If so then I can see your objection.
However if you hurt someone and God convicts you of it. You should make amends by apologising and confessing to them your wrong. If you stole you should restore what you stole, etc.
The sin is still there and can only be washed in the blood of Christ but it can help with the healing.
Most definitely, there is a verse that speaks of confessing our sins to one another, but this isn't talking about announcing our sin to the congregation. It is about mending offenses, righting your wrongs for the healing of your relationships. If you wrong someone, confess it and be reconciled to the hurt party.
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Possibly, but if you see a man in sincerity proclaim Jesus as Lord and Savior, one ought to lean towards saved as opposed to not. 
I know God can make them alive again.
1JOHN 2:3-4-5-6.
And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His Commandments.
He that says, I know Him, and keeps not His Commandments, is a liar, and the Truth is not in him.
But whoso keeps His Word, in Him verily is The Love of God perfected:
hereby know we that we are in Him.
He that says he abides I Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.
15.
Love not the world, neither the things in the world. If any man love the world, the LOVE of The Father
is not in him.
1JOHN 2:29.
If you know that He is Righteous, you know that every one that does righteousness
is born of Him.
And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His Commandments.
He that says, I know Him, and keeps not His Commandments, is a liar, and the Truth is not in him.
But whoso keeps His Word, in Him verily is The Love of God perfected:
hereby know we that we are in Him.
He that says he abides I Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.
15.
Love not the world, neither the things in the world. If any man love the world, the LOVE of The Father
is not in him.
1JOHN 2:29.
If you know that He is Righteous, you know that every one that does righteousness
is born of Him.
This is without a doubt so deceptively done. He used the term "mother" in relation to talking about the 2 covenants in Galatians 4:21-31 allegorically speaking of Hagar and Sarah - mothers that had sons.
"Cast out the bondwoman as the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman." ( verse 30 )
He is talking about the Law being the mother that brought Mt. Sinai and grace being the mother ( allegorically speaking ) Jerusalem ( verse 26 ) that brought Christ.
Notice how deceptively "mother" was capitalized to make it "Mother Grace" to make it "appear" to be something that it isn't. As if "Mother Grace" is now the 4th member of the Trinity.
I apologize to the OP..Ariel for this.
When I see such falsehood being deceptively done to make it "appear" to be something it was not mean to be...I step in. I find this type of behavior and malice especially grievous, ungodly and divisive to the body of Christ.
"Cast out the bondwoman as the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman." ( verse 30 )
He is talking about the Law being the mother that brought Mt. Sinai and grace being the mother ( allegorically speaking ) Jerusalem ( verse 26 ) that brought Christ.
Notice how deceptively "mother" was capitalized to make it "Mother Grace" to make it "appear" to be something that it isn't. As if "Mother Grace" is now the 4th member of the Trinity.
I apologize to the OP..Ariel for this.
When I see such falsehood being deceptively done to make it "appear" to be something it was not mean to be...I step in. I find this type of behavior and malice especially grievous, ungodly and divisive to the body of Christ.
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Actually the bond-womans children represents the ones who are still in bondage to sin being yet in the flesh.
The free woman's children are those who are born again from above by the Spirit of promise, being also set free from the bondage of sin and death.
The main jist of the allegory is about the flesh vs. the Spirit, not law vs Grace.
The free woman's children are those who are born again from above by the Spirit of promise, being also set free from the bondage of sin and death.
The main jist of the allegory is about the flesh vs. the Spirit, not law vs Grace.
Actually the bond-womans children represents the ones who are still in bondage to sin being yet in the flesh.
The free woman's children are those who are born again from above by the Spirit of promise, being also set free from the bondage of sin and death.
The main jist of the allegory is about the flesh vs. the Spirit, not law vs Grace.
The free woman's children are those who are born again from above by the Spirit of promise, being also set free from the bondage of sin and death.
The main jist of the allegory is about the flesh vs. the Spirit, not law vs Grace.
Galatians 4:21-24 (NASB)
[SUP]21 [/SUP] Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law?
[SUP]22 [/SUP] For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondwoman and one by the free woman. [SUP]23 [/SUP] But the son by the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise.
[SUP]24 [/SUP] This is allegorically speaking, for these women are two covenants: one proceeding from Mount Sinai bearing children who are to be slaves; she is Hagar.
The context points to what Grace777x70 has explained above. That Joseph Prince clarified saying that "our mother is not law" is revealing; the context of the statement is having to do with the comparison of the law versus grace (covenant). Old testament versus new testament. He isn't making a god out of grace, he is simply using the biblical allegorical comparison. The bondwoman (law) and the free woman (grace).
Thank you Grace777x70 for highlighting the allegory.
Thank you Grace777x70 for highlighting the allegory.
You are welcome. Isn't it of excellent integrity to see what is really being said - instead of mis-representing things?
And in the other video as you go on to listen - he is telling the believers that the grace of Christ will bring us provisions for our life. For what the Lord has for us to do in our generation and he believes this could be the last generation just like many others in the body of Christ.
If anyone lifts us the Lordship of Jesus and salvation as per the OP - and living by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ - it's this man.
The deception to "Capitalize - Mother" to call it "Mother Grace" as if it's a 4th member of the Trinity is appalling and ungodly and is divisive in the body of Christ.
And in the other video as you go on to listen - he is telling the believers that the grace of Christ will bring us provisions for our life. For what the Lord has for us to do in our generation and he believes this could be the last generation just like many others in the body of Christ.
If anyone lifts us the Lordship of Jesus and salvation as per the OP - and living by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ - it's this man.
The deception to "Capitalize - Mother" to call it "Mother Grace" as if it's a 4th member of the Trinity is appalling and ungodly and is divisive in the body of Christ.
Paul was asking them why they could not hear what the Spirit was saying in the law? Notice the connection between the words bondwoman to the children of the flesh, and slaves.
What are they slaves to? What are they in bondage to? They are in bondage and slaves to sin because they are still in the flesh, not born again of the Spirit of promise.
Again, you guys are trying to pit the Law of God against the promise of grace. But that just shows how you do not understand. The law of God is not flesh, but spiritual. It is the carnal mind of man that does not hear what the Spirit is saying in the law of Moses because he is yet in the flesh.
Galatians 3:21
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid:
Romans 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Again, the law of Moses cannot set you free from the bondage of sin and death, only the Son can by us being born again and passing from the flesh, sin and death......over to Spirit, righteousness and Eternal Life through Jesus Christ.
What are they slaves to? What are they in bondage to? They are in bondage and slaves to sin because they are still in the flesh, not born again of the Spirit of promise.
Again, you guys are trying to pit the Law of God against the promise of grace. But that just shows how you do not understand. The law of God is not flesh, but spiritual. It is the carnal mind of man that does not hear what the Spirit is saying in the law of Moses because he is yet in the flesh.
Galatians 3:21
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid:
Romans 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Again, the law of Moses cannot set you free from the bondage of sin and death, only the Son can by us being born again and passing from the flesh, sin and death......over to Spirit, righteousness and Eternal Life through Jesus Christ.