a 'Worthy Walk'

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JaumeJ

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My reply is to th etitle, the hook. Please forgive my not having said this in my post.

crossnote said:
Actually I was asking, "How is it that we are called to 'walk worthy'?"...not 'how' to walk worthy.
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jasonj

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PeterJens said:
This is the question that is bothering me. Paul encouraged Timothy to be pure, holy etc.
These are words we do not use often in church. We do not think ourselves like this but maybe we should.
If we did people might start facing the issues they know that are impure, unresolved, and need sorting out.

Often if you do not have a goal you do not do the required preparation to achieve it.
Some have called this works, rather than following and obeying Jesus. If you do it in the Spirit, commiting and letting the Lord lead you through, then we will succeed. I am sure though some will say this is the flesh unless they get a "word" saying it is alright. Funny that, a word from a person carries more weight than the word from God which is written down.
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very well said. We as a church need to believe ourselves righteous, believe that we do possess a new nature. if it is taught and believed that we are just sinners, then our faith will bring that forth, just as it does righteousness. "the righteousness that comes by faith" will never manifest while we cling to the idea that it isn't possible or the idea that Gods okay with living in accordance with the old when we had no hope being bound by law. To love others as Jesus commanded "by laying down ourselves for others" purifies. to act on all the things we talk about makes us grow in grace, not only the grace that forgives all our sins, but also the grace that takes them away.
 
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thepsalmist said:
I was watching a video yesterday, and there was a lovely tidbit that may help to answer this question, if I understood you well...

Why are we called to walk worthily? (if Jesus does all the walking for us)

An analogy was drawn up ...When God spoke to Moses in the bush ... what was interesting about that was that the bush was not consumed by God's fire.

Like the bush, neither are we consumed by Him. We are with Him, He is with us, we are a new creation in Him ... but our identity is not consumed.

God created each of us a little differently from one another ... we have different interests, different talents etc ... and God enjoys these things about us. He asked Adam to name the animals because He was curious what Adam would name them.

Even when we are reborn, we are not robots ... God wants us to exercise being righteous in HIM, while maintaining our "selves" that He created.

The free will He gave us was never revoked, not even after we were reborn ...

I asked Him once to please exercise His own will through me (that way I would not have to worry about being obedient - He would do it for me) - but I'm pretty sure he responded that that was not an option - that I was moreover urged to do His will with my own will. [\B]

Wonder if this all makes sense to anyone ...
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Interesting post. I bolded the parts I liked.

How would you treat this verse?

Philippians 2:13 KJVS
[13] For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
 
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jasonj

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crossnote said:
We are told to walk worthily ...

yet...

So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.'" Luke 17:10
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complete humility, because we understand that it is only Gods will received that makes us able to take each step. truly we are unworthy of what Christ has done on our behalf. is how ive always taken that verse. there is no room or place for pride in Christ
 
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thepsalmist

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crossnote said:
Interesting post. I bolded the parts I liked.

How would you treat this verse?

Philippians 2:13 KJVS
[13] For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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God has given us a new spirit and a new heart and his Holy Spirit and these are greater than the exterior forces that try to persuade us or tempt us to act contrary to the new creation that we have become.
 
p_rehbein

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Sometimez I does pertty good

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Sometimez not so much

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'n' sometimez I wonders why He ever loves me

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pottersclay

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Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

This is the first thing that came to mind when I read the op. It kind of goes hand in hand with .......for the joy that was set before him he endured the cross ......just a thought.
 
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Being worthy in God's eyes and being pure being holy being robed in light is about the heart. Our walk is faulty we are imperfect we sin and mess up I know I do a lot more than I want to admit, and this walk of faith no matter how long one has been in it is a walk that is always worked on but never perfected.

But in his eyes a pure heart is what makes us worthy is what wraps us in his light and is why he sees us as royalty as righteous and clean even in our weakness. But what makes a pure heart? It isn't never sinning it isn't having all the right doctrines it isn't even about our performance at all. A pure heart is one that is madly in love with God one that adores and loves and craves him with every fiber of their being it is one that seeks him out exhaustively with an always and ever increasing love and hunger for him for just a little more of him to know him more even if it's just a tiny bit to develop a deeper love and bond with him.

Just that tiny bit more of him is more valuable to such heart than any treasures you could ever receive in heaven a heart such this will go to hell and back to the ends of world to have him to know him to love him there is no limits they will not go to know and to love and to have him. a pure heart is one that is full of God's love, the more a hungry heart seeks him the more his love envelopes that heart and thus the deeper the love and bond between them and him and what's more is they begin to truly see and love others as he does slowly yet surely their eyes are being replaced with his their thoughts their ways their feelings become his own.

Everyday father is searching the hearts of man searching the entire planet seeking not a perfect heart but a heart that is truly his own that loves adores and desires him with every part of their soul with every cell within their body. This is the kind heart he seeks this is what a worthy walk is
 
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1John 2:6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk even as He walked.
 
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crossnote said:
Actually I was asking, "How is it that we are called to 'walk worthy'?"...not 'how' to walk worthy.
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well cross, my take is that if we are 'called' to walk worthy, then we have to figure out
''how" to walk worthy,...and this leads us to believe that our Father has given us the
'tools' to do this'? and so....how hard-headed are we and how far are we going
to go with it>???
 
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