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SonJudgment said:
Good, do those too but now add some push-ups to the routine, and remember to keep reading the Bible and meditating upon the sound doctrines of the Holy Creeds. Add the push-ups though, you can start small you don't have to go crazy with it, the most important thing is to just start. Every week until the end of the Winter just add more to the number of push-ups. Though Eli laughs at me I am serious, there is a deeper dynamic to this. The spiritual and the physical work together like a wheel and the pavement, when they meet the vehicle goes forward out of the stationary position. On top of this the aim is to accelerate, not maintain a speed, but accelerating. Do this and besides breaking the stationary dynamic both physically and spiritually you will be able to receive much greater blessings from the hand of Lord Jesus than this when the Winter ends, remember to praise his holy name.
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Do so willingly, not having to, there is a difference at least for me I now see over the have to's under Law, that I got to see "I" can't do, only God for me in risen Son to me
Motive, to know God's love that is unfathomable to my first born person under Law that I grew up under of in this world we are in. and no longer of
Thanks, Sonjudgment great post to seek out this truth for us in God to us by Son for us all to get freed from under Law
 
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Eli1 said:
This is where the term "Christian chad" comes from i guess. :D
Hey, nothing wrong with it. Makes me smile but there is truth in physical motivation from the Bible and from God.

1 Corinthians 6:19–20
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you belong to God. Therefore honor God with your bodies
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So let, trust God to do it in us through Son as risen for us to be new in and. not of self anymore, at least for me this I see after a very long walk off a short pier daily, thanks
 
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Eli1 said:
This is where the term "Christian chad" comes from i guess. :D
Hey, nothing wrong with it. Makes me smile but there is truth in physical motivation from the Bible and from God.

1 Corinthians 6:19–20
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you belong to God. Therefore honor God with your bodies
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Lol are you rizzing me up no cap?
 
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SonJudgment said:
Lol are you rizzing me up no cap?
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FR, i ain't. I'm keeping it real.
There is truth in that but yes it does make me smile, i can't deny it.
I know that there is truth in keeping our bodies "clean" and in good shape by limiting what we eat, exercising etc.
Our forefathers did all of this Biblically and knew what meats were "clean" and "unclean" which today are proven by science.
So, yes there is truth in what you say, but HOW you say it, makes me smile. :D
 
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Blain, since 1CR 15:58, "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord" is such an excellent basis for reference to a stationary Christian, maybe the better name for this thread would be "stagnant Christian"?

(Or in keeping with my "both-and" preference: Stationary & Stagnant Christians :^)
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Has MT 25:26-30 been cited or nominated yet as possibly applying to stagnant Christians? "...I was afraid and I went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you..."
 
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FR, i ain't. I'm keeping it real.
There is truth in that but yes it does make me smile, i can't deny it.
I know that there is truth in keeping our bodies "clean" and in good shape by limiting what we eat, exercising etc.
Our forefathers did all of this Biblically and knew what meats were "clean" and "unclean" which today are proven by science.
So, yes there is truth in what you say, but HOW you say it, makes me smile. :D
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Hmmm, you are close but I can tell from the verse you cite that you do not understand me fully. 1 Timothy 4 is closer to what I have in mind. The physical is good and profits a little, but indeed the spiritual is greater. The physical will hopefully just motivate and prepare the stationary Christians to receive the greater things which will come from the study of the holy doctrines and the preparations taken now.
 
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SonJudgment said:
Hmmm, you are close but I can tell from the verse you cite that you do not understand me fully. 1 Timothy 4 is closer to what I have in mind. The physical is good and profits a little, but indeed the spiritual is greater. The physical will hopefully just motivate and prepare the stationary Christians to receive the greater things which will come from the study of the holy doctrines and the preparations taken now.
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Acts 17:28
For in him we live and move and are! As one of your own poets says it, ‘We are the sons of God.’

thanks to God, not of any of my self works ever, since no other flesh but Son's flesh can or has pleased God, that is done by the Son John 19:30
I see to be dead daily to any self works ever again and see God's done works work through me in love and mercy to all
Not that "I" can do it "I" can't reading Romans 7 proves this to me. therefore I stand in trust to God to do it through me anyone else?
 
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SonJudgment said:
Hmmm, you are close but I can tell from the verse you cite that you do not understand me fully. 1 Timothy 4 is closer to what I have in mind. The physical is good and profits a little, but indeed the spiritual is greater. The physical will hopefully just motivate and prepare the stationary Christians to receive the greater things which will come from the study of the holy doctrines and the preparations taken now.
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Okay, with that i understand you better now.
One way of understanding that is also "We live for the Lord we die for the Lord" that Paul said.
I know that you are saying this in relation to the OP from Blain, but i have a lot of trouble understanding brother Blain but to circle back to the OP.

What is seen as "stagnant" or "stationary" from one point of view of a Christian, it's also considered, peace, calm, gratitude and appreciation from another Christian.
So, i don't see anything wrong with either approach which makes us appreciate and love God in our own way.

However the physical approach is also valid which not only includes my verse and yours, but others as well.
Many years ago when i was young and used to go to the gym ( :giggle: ) i used to play chant songs while working out.
But that was when i was going through a mid-life crisis phase when i was preparing for a Spartan race where i met other mid-life crisis men my age. :)
 
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Just checking in on this again to make sure we're not being stationary Christians now. It's another week passed so if you're still sticking with it it's time to add more push-ups to the regimine. For interest sake I have also been doing the push-up ladder and I shall be increasing my number as well. Let's not neglect the reading of the Bible either. Last week we investigated 1 Timothy 4 as the basis of this exercise in both body and spirit. Since Paul recommends getting grounded in sound doctrine we have recommended the holy Athanasian Creed. Let us keep the holy Creed in mind and this week meditate upon 1 John 5. The first two weeks are usually the hardest as you get used to things, after this week if you have been keeping up you should start feeling the benefits in both body and spirit, remember to praise Jesus.
 
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Blain said:
What does a stationary Christian look like? and how does one know if they have become one?
If we look inside ourselves truthfully can we honestly say we are not stationary? what would be the definition or fruits of someone who has grown stationary how would we tell if one is and what can we do to change it?

This came up in a conversation with a friend and I just felt like it would be a good topic to discuss as well as self reflect
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11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
 
Blain

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SonJudgment said:
Just checking in on this again to make sure we're not being stationary Christians now. It's another week passed so if you're still sticking with it it's time to add more push-ups to the regimine. For interest sake I have also been doing the push-up ladder and I shall be increasing my number as well. Let's not neglect the reading of the Bible either. Last week we investigated 1 Timothy 4 as the basis of this exercise in both body and spirit. Since Paul recommends getting grounded in sound doctrine we have recommended the holy Athanasian Creed. Let us keep the holy Creed in mind and this week meditate upon 1 John 5. The first two weeks are usually the hardest as you get used to things, after this week if you have been keeping up you should start feeling the benefits in both body and spirit, remember to praise Jesus.
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It has done wonders I am glad you showed me this exercise I highly recommend it to anyone it really does bring you closer to God
 
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Blain said:
It has done wonders I am glad you showed me this exercise I highly recommend it to anyone it really does bring you closer to God
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Well keep with it and you'll be mighty physically by the end of the Winter, but don't neglect the study of the Bible and the holy doctrine of the Athanasian Creed for the real spiritual power is within them. We must be strong to to wage the next campaign of the war.
 
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