I will lay out some for you.... (keeping it simple)
I said...
Likewise... By means of the Holy Spirit's power (God's grace) God places the dead unbeliever on life
support while drawing him. In doing do, forces life to manifest where it would not normally be seen.
Ephesians 2:1-3
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked
according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the
spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted
ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were
by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
God takes up the slack for the lack of regeneration and allows a human soul to bypass the flesh.
In that state (all mentality level) a soul will be shown thoughts to consider in the privacy of his own mind.
It private and the person simply thinks he is having a thought of his own, which gives him total freedom to
quietly consider what he thinks of a matter God is presenting.
Ephesians 2:1-3
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked
according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the
spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted
ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and
were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
God even demonstrates that ability with even the born again Christian!
We are as a dead man in regards to the life power we must live in to serve Christ!
The Spirit keeps us alive in our mind and heart... spiritually,
as the Spirit CONTROLS our flesh, as to not allow the flesh to rule over our soul as it had done before regeneration!
In other words? Our old self is dead. The new life in Christ has taken over if we walk in Spirit and truth.
Romans 8:9
You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you.
And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
For we have been crucified with Christ! Dead!
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.
The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me
and gave himself for me.
Our body is dead in our walk as far as God is concerned.
And, the life we now live? Its to be in in Christ (the Word of God!).. Faith!
That Faith? He is the Word (John 1:1) being understood, in the growing believer.
The Holy Spirit is the power for our life to live that Word =- faith.
The more accurate, sound doctrine we gain, and understand?
The more our inner man in our thinking will reflect the Image of Christ!!!
2 Corinthians 3:18
And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory,
are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory,
which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
I have no qualms about it. All the hot shots who come here who think their clever thinking is going to throw a wrench
in our gears are the real losers. For in spite of themselves having such arrogance? God is still supplying the needed thinking
they lack by the positive believer. Which response God could have used to bring them to further into maturity.
And, ahh?
What the loser refuses to heed others reading later can benefit from and grow by.
So even losers help the winners to be growing in knowledge by grace!
I believe God will smile and wink when someone arrogant thinks he can hoodwink a believer.
For, God will use the loser's attack on the positive believer and its counter response, to make
someone who is positive to be made stronger when reading the responses to the attack.
Thus, learning a way to overcome that evil.
Romans 8:37
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Romans 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him,
who have been called according to his purpose."
There we have it.
New motto should be?
"Stay Humble."
Remain teachable..
And God will stay with you."
grace and peace ................