Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Can you say these words, as Paul said them?

1Co 15:8  And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. 

Psa 104:2  Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain

1Ti 1:12  And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; 
1Ti 1:13  Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. 
1Ti 1:14  And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 

Paul- born out of due time. Paul wasn’t a Christ follower when Christ was alive walking the earth teaching as all the other Apostles were. WE were not alive when Christ was alive and walking the earth teaching. PAUL, we look to Paul as one who is LIKE we are! Paul walked by faith- we must walk by faith. Yes, Paul had his encounter on the road to Damascus and we may not have such an encounter, but Paul did NOT spend countless hours in Jesus' physical presence. Paul relied upon the Holy Spirit, just as WE must rely upon the Holy Spirit. Paul was against Jesus, until He was shown beyond doubt that Jesus was who He said He was- God's Son. Jesus was alive! The very Jesus they murdered on the cross was ALIVE and had the power of Heaven!

Today there are MANY who do not believe in Jesus as a reality, they don't believe in God at all. Then there are MANY who say they believe but in truth they don't believe at all. 

Act 5:38  And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: 
Act 5:39  But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God. 

Rom 10:3  For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 

We need to submit ourselves to God's righteousness. We need to believe. We need to know that just as Paul lived for our Savior, we must live for our Savior.  We will suffer- he suffered. We will comprehend our own worthlessness, just as Paul comprehended His own worthlessness.  Paul FOUGHT the spiritual battle and WE FIGHT the same spiritual battle!

We war, as he warred!

Can you say these words?
 
Rom 7:14  For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 
Rom 7:15  For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. 
Rom 7:16  If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. 
Rom 7:17  Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 
Rom 7:18  For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. 
Rom 7:19  For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 
Rom 7:20  Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 
Rom 7:21  I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 
Rom 7:22  For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 
Rom 7:23  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 
Rom 7:24  O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 
Rom 7:25  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. 

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