Skinski, see Galatians 5:16-26 the war between the flesh and Spirit of God then see Roamns 8 where we are freed from the flesh carnal mind being in the Spirit and this done through believing God. One can only receive the Spirit through belief in God It is clear that the flesh can never please God by and through these passages I am asking you to read and come to truth soyou will willing die to your own fleshly desires that are keeping you from receiving the Spirit of truth that sets you free from all sin's. whether in a process or not, it will never happen until youdecide to die in the Spiritof your flesh carnal mind of trying to obey the entire law.
Skinski fill your bathtub up with water put in ten apples and put all those apples under the water at the same time using only your hands. Can you or anyone do this? this is my point just as you can't hold ten apples under the water at the same time you will never be able to obey the ten commandments in and of self ever let alone 314 jewish laws.
Ask for God ask for the Spirit to live in you and teach you truth and thus God will begin the good work in you and even insantly you will have transferred from death the flesh to life the spirit of God you beiing vorn again as in the day of Pentecost
Love you Skinski
You are set free from the carnal mind by DYING WITH CHRIST not be mere "belief" in the sense of "mental assent." Biblical belief is an all encompassing state of mind by which we are a DOERs of the word. This is why James writes this...
Jas 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Jas 2:18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
Jas 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Jas 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
Jas 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
Jas 2:22
Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
Jas 2:23
And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
Jas 2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Jas 2:25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
Jas 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
See how the "believing" is connected with "doing." You cannot separate belief from doing. Believing = Obedience.
Believed - G4100 - pisteuō
From G4102;
to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), that is, credit; by implication to entrust (especially one’s spiritual well being to Christ): - believe (-r), commit (to trust), put in trust with.
Faith = Doing : Read Hebrews 11 and James 2 and you will see faith is connected to ACTION. In other words true faith is ACTIVE. A person with true faith is a DOER OF THE WORD. Faith is not "waiting around for God to make you do it."
1Th 1:3 Remembering without ceasing your
work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
Unbelief = Unfaithfulness = Not Doing = Disobedience
Rom 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
Rom 11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Rom 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Unbelief - G570 - apistia
From G571; faithlessness, that is, (negatively) disbelief (want of Christian faith), or (positively) unfaithfulness (disobedience): - unbelief.
pisteuō and apistia are opposites. Look at the definitions. Theologians have it wrong when they disconnect "obedience" from "faith" and "believing." They are dead wrong!
Which is EXACTLY what you are doing Homewardbound.
Your example about "apples" and the "ten commandments" is fallacious. I am not talking about the Ten Commandments.
I am speaking about FORSAKING ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS and LEARNING TO DO GOOD.
Those who are Christ's have DIED WITH CHRIST in the baptism of repentance and they have been RAISED UP BY GOD to NEWNESS OF LIFE. All things become new.
A Christian is not someone who "believes in Jesus" and still walks in the flesh submitting themselves to carnal desires in disobedience to God waiting for God to change them. That is a lie.
We are set free from sin by being crucified with Christ whereby the old man is crucified and the body of sin is destroyed. That is what the Bible teaches.
Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Rom 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
That old man which yielded to sin is put to death once and for all. Thus we can not live unto God.
Rom 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Rom 6:9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
Rom 6:10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
We don't let sin reign in our mortal body. Our body is an instrument which we yield to God as a living sacrifice (Rom 12:1-2).
Rom 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Rom 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
The grace of God is the power to live above the dominion of sin. We are no longer sins slave.
Rom 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Rom 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Anyone who yields to sin is still a slave.
Rom 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Christian's don't yield to sin because they have obeyed from the heart the doctrine of Jesus Christ.
Rom 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
They have thus been set free from sin and have become a slave of righteousness.
Rom 6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
In the past a Christian yielded their body to sin but not anymore. Now they ought to yield themselves to righteousness.
Rom 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
In other words sin begat more sin but righteousness begats holiness.
One cannot serve sin and be righteous.
Rom 6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
Beign freed from sin we yield to righteousness and the end of this is eternal life. The end of those who continue to yield to sin is death.
Rom 6:21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
Rom 6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
I really don't know how much clearer it could be.
So many people want to believe in doctrines which have them "declared forensically righteous" while they remain a "servant of sin." It's a lie.
Yes Galatians 5:16-26 is true. Paul is teaching how one ought to walk and he gives a strong warning that those who walk in the flesh WILL PERISH.
Gal 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Gal 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Gal 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Gal 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Gal 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Gal 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Gal 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Gal 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Again I am not talking about the Law of Moses. I am talking about DOING THE RIGHT THING BY FAITH.
Faith works by love.
Love fulfills the law.
If anyone is still sinning (yielding to temptation and doing wrong) then they ARE NOT walking by a faith that works by love and thus they NEED TO REPENT.