Don't you have to free yourself though, since before you were in bondage to sin, but obeying and believing are not acts of sin. Thus in order to break the bondage of sin, having faith requires being set free of that bondage, which this you believe is done by your act of believing... so why can't we just be honest with ourselves?If we're the ones that must break the bondage, we're the ones providing the faith, and we're the ones beginning salvation, the power of salvation lies with us.
Sorry, this is not how I see it. your post above. The only work one needs to do is work hard to enter God's rest, any other is of self.
Believe, Receive, and see. Stand fast in the finished work of Christ.
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to
destroy the
law, or the prophets: I am not come to
destroy, but to fulfill.
John 19:30
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said,
It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost
He came to fulfill the Old Covenant of the Law, not destroy it. There are many out here in this world that are also trying to fulfill the Law, and today have grace to get forgiven over and over, eventually getting tired of trying and upset more and more, not wanting to sin. Doing better at it sometimes and then not. When all one needs is to surrender to God complete
No flesh can be perfect, none except Christ who came born of the virgin Mary. So no other flesh can do as he did. They couldn't at all through the First Testament, as in working at it. By Faith though whomever had it received what was coming in and through Christ.
And Christ even while here in the flesh secured that inability even further and said if you even lust after another woman, you have already committed Adultery in your heart. Gouge out thine eye, better for part of you to go to heaven than all of you to enter hell.
So what did take place, after Christ by works of God trough him, in miracles prove? Was he sent and from God the Father?
What did John the Baptist say about him, when He did not even know him, when he saw him coming?
John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the
Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the world.
After Christ's Testament of fulfilling the Law and Prophets, and when he did this what took place at his death?
Hebrews 9:15 And for this cause he is
the mediator of the new testament,
that by means of death, f
or the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament,
they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance
Hebrews 9:16
For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
Hebrews 9:17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
So his death brought in a new Covenant, and his resurrection is proof from God the Father, what God did through Son is:
Colossians 1:22 in
the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
So now those that believe God in this are free, been made Holy in Father's sight through Son Christ.
The below verses are the new Priesthood and new Laws, laws of God's love reigning in our new Hearts God gave us through the son Christ.
Hebrews 7:11 If
therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it
the people received
the law,) what further need
was there that another priest should rise after
the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after
the order of Aaron
Hebrews 7:12 For
the priesthood being changed,
there is made of necessity a change also of
the law.
So do you now see God's sovereignty, either one believes God in God's finished work at the cross or they do not.
1 Corinthians 1:23 but we preach
Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock,
and unto the Greeks foolishness;
1 Corinthians 2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus
Christ,
and him
crucified.
Galatians 2:20 I am
crucified with
Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but
Christ liveth in me:
and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me,
and gave himself for me.
[h=3]1 Corinthians 2[/h]Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
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And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. [SUP]
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For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. [SUP]
3 [/SUP]And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. [SUP]
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And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: [SUP]
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that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
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6 [/SUP]Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: [SUP]
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but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: [SUP]
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which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. [SUP]
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But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. [SUP]
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But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. [SUP]
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For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. [SUP]
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Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. [SUP]
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Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. [SUP]
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But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:
for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. [SUP]
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But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. [SUP]16 [/SUP]For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.