Romans 8 ~ Are You In the Flesh or In the Spirit? Take the test to find out.
I’d established that although the old man with its sin nature has died, he nevertheless left behind a body. Paul identified this unredeemed flesh as the source of his sin and inability to live righteously. Having located the source of the problem still didn’t supply the answer. Was this to be my sad state until the trumpet sounded and I got rid of this body of flesh?Continue reading
Doesn’t this animation say it all?
This is about as far as we get in trying to please God in the strength of the flesh.
I don’t think I ever worked so hard at something with fewer results.Continue reading
Romans 7 ~ Two Words That Narrow Down the Sin Problem
Having said that once born again we are made righteous and no longer have a sin nature, one could raise the question, “Then why do we still sin?” Continue reading
II Corinthians 5 ~ What “old things” have passed away?
After discovering so much, one would think my struggle to walk in holiness and bear good fruit would be over. I had seen I was righteous, but I had to admit that sin was still showing its ugly head in my life. Was this just ‘positional’ righteousness I’d received? Practically speaking, was I still the same? From all indications, it appeared so. Did I, in fact, still have a sin nature?
Let’s reflect on the previous day’s post with some visual inspiration.
Because of what Jesus accomplished we’re once again a reflection of His image. Like the fabled ugly duckling, when we see our true image we are set free to be who we really are.
Read Likeness Restored which corresponds with today’s image.
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II Corinthians 5 ~ Trying To Become What We Already Are
Just as surely as the disobedience of Adam made us sinners, the obedience of Jesus made us righteous. We need to be as familiar with the scripture in Romans 5:19 as we are with John 3:16.
Many of us don’t fully realize what took place when we were born again. Continue reading
Romans 5 ~ The Curse Reversed
The hopeless plight of fallen man, born with an unchangeable sin nature appeared to leave all of us in a perpetual state of doing our best and getting forgiveness for the rest. The endless failure, frustration, and guilt of this condition was what I had lived with and I’d heard echoed by the Apostle Paul in Romans 7.Continue reading
In Man’s Greatest Loss, we spoke of the seemingly irreversible situation Adam’s sin left us in. Mankind would now forever be born in the image and likeness of fallen man with an unchangeable nature of sin. Can a leopard change his spots? What can be done to change an inherent nature? After all, we were born this way.Continue reading
Tuesdays and Thursdays we take time to reflect on the previous day’s post with some visual inspiration.
Being born with a sin nature and knowing that inborn characteristics cannot change any more than a leopard can change his spots or a zebra his stripes, can there be any hope for victory in the war between good and evil raging within us? Continue reading
Genesis 1, 2, 5 ~ Man’s Nature Before & After the Fall ….continued from Monday
I hesitate to move too quickly past the truth we’ve discovered in realizing man’s design. It is essential that we know this, for it is more than relevant to the subject under consideration. It is vital. Let’s also not forget what that subject is lest we lose sight of the goal…to fulfill those first words spoken by God to his man. They are the words He is still speaking to us today. Be fruitful.Continue reading