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Yes, we participate in growth and sanctification, but we are preserved by the power of God though faith. So that is Grace too. That's why we have a High Priest. Because we always need grace.

But Acts 15:15-18:clearly says that tgecGentiles are also fork own by God. And where do you see Paul saying that Romans 8 is only about Jews?

So that answer is pretty much in agreement with what I originally said about election, right?

Keep reading past verse 10. The rest of tge chapter.

So did God give Jesus Judas as a sheep who Jesus said would never perish and that He would not lose one, or was Judas chosen for another purpose and perished according to scripture, meaning it was foreknown by God.

God foreknew the Jewish and Gentile believers and coding to Acts 15:15-18 and Paul clearly states that God did not cast away the Jews. More than once.

ACTS 15:15-18. No, God did not reject the remnant, therefore He did not reject the Jews

Once elect always elect. Jesus doesn't lose sheep, its just sometimes what look a lot like sheep end up being goats. Sadly. But God's foreknowdge is infallible.

PS. Romans 8:13 is absolutely a key verse among many.

Spot on!

Here's what I see, from my sometimes obstructed view. If we walk in the flesh, in our own strength, we will be sunk by the Law of sin described in Romans 7. Only through Christ's death, resurrection, and Priestly Ministry, and the Holy Spirit can we prevail against the law of sin in our...

He says in his flesh , there is no good thing, he is brought into captivity by a law that when he wants to do good , he does evil. He says what he wants to do he does not do and what he doesn't do he does. The meaning is clear.\nIn the flesh that is , in our own strength , we can do nothing...

In Romans 7 I see a man struggling with sin. I do not see a willful sinner. Romans 7 is not referring to willful sin. Read the entire chapter. It's talking about the fact that the flesh cannot do anything, and victory over sin is only through the work of Christ and the Holy Spirit. ἑκουσίως...

I was declared righteous and received the Holy Spirit before I did any good work at all.

Good works are essential to a Christian life, but only the death, resurrection, and present Priestly ministry of Jesus can take away sins, propitiate, and make a sinner clean. Good works follow and result from justification. The FRUIT, not the root. ( Not sure who said that. )