Barbara A. Lee

A person who has lost hope is depressed, negative, fearful, angry and without purpose. He will either be continuously striving at whatever comes along, going from one thing to another, or he will have 'lost heart' and will not bother to try any more. He will feel that the world is against him and that he just has to get along the best he can. Someone who has hope and expectation of a better future, will press on to overcome all difficulties. He will have a specil inner joy and confidence that there is something better in store for him. 'Christ in us is the hope of glory' and this is Christian Hope. It should motivate us to become more and more like Christ, and let more and more of our flesh life die.

The Holy Spirit, as an intercessor, hears our stumbles through prayers and intercedes for us. He's the Counselor who is with us when we are going through troubling times, and the whisperer when we are going through the good times...He is always present with us just as God said He would be... The similarities between the Holy Spirit and Jesus is they are both an adversary between us and God the Father. Jesus, Himself, said that He was the advocate between the sinner (us) and the Father (God). Some people just want to skip the whole Holy Spirit thing and go directly to God, but that is not what God tells us to do...God says for us to pray to him through His Son and the Holy Spirit.

Even before Jesus went to the Cross He suffered.People ridiculed Him. We even do so today. He laid is life down so that man would be free; all He did was heal people. We suffer because we have no or very little faith. Again all of creation is suffering because of the lack of faith. Until we bring about a revival and even then there will be suffering. the whole earth will not be saved... The downward spiral to the suffering will be the 2nd coming of Christ. The one thing we have to look forward to si the second coming of Christ...The world will be made new...

The idea of being sons and daughters is mentioned 7 times. The promises made is that we, as Christians, will be joint heirs with Christ all things that are Gods. We learn, throughout this chapter that Gd will do all things in His own time and that we have been redeemed in Christ's Blood to be joint heirs in everything that is His. God will do things in His own time not when we want them.

The idea of being sons and daughters is mentioned 7 times. The promises made is that we, as Christians, will be joint heirs with Christ all things that are Gods. We learn, throughout this chapter that Gd will do all things in His own time and that we have been redeemed in Christ's Blood to be joint heirs in everything that is His. God will do things in His own time not when we want them.

I think some leaders are afraid to confront people for fear of what they might say or do. Some so called Christians can be vindictive

Fight and flight are the two ways to mortify the sins. We must fight the desire to sin and we must flight the desire by always going to the Word

No, we do NOT have to sin

The word Christian as an adjective means: of, pertaining to, believing in, or belonging to the religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ: As a noun it means: a person who believes in Jesus Christ; adherent of Christianity. In this case, yes, I am a christian because I follow and uphold the teachings of Jesus Christ / God the Father and the Holy Spirit. I personally do not like the word religion because it makes me sound like I am religious, which I am not because I do not belong to any type of religion. However, I daily build on a relationship with Jesus Christ as my foundation. The word Christian is only found three times in the King James Bible. Acts 11:26 Acts 26:28 1 Peter 4:16 I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, and I pray that my life as lived, glorifies God. Without His Holy Spirit inside of me, I could not make it one more day. I accepted Jesus as my Savior, I believe that He died for my sins and that He rose again on the third day and now sits at the right hand of the throne and is interceding on our behalf. I did not ask for a fish to live inside of me, I asked for Jesus and His spirit dwells inside of me. I believe that Jesus Christ is God

I think we are afraid because this is God we are doing this for

To set your mind on the things of the Spirit means to think, do, say only good Godly things. To do this we must imerse ourselves in the Words of God. We can recognize this sinful nature only by the Word. Te Holy Spirit is in us totally when we are living the righteous life.

I think Paul, in this referrence, is referring to both himslef and others. As a sinner we all fall short of the glory of God. But thank God we have a substitute for our sin. Jesus died on the cross not only for my sins but for everyone else's sins.

Q3. (Romans 7:12; 8:3) What does the law do well? Paul writes that the law is holy and each commandment is holy and just and good. It was given by God and is therefore perfect as an expression of His will for His people. It gives us the knowledge of sin. It allows us to discover the evil nature of sin, and its deceitful workings in us. What does it do poorly? It is because of our sinful nature that the law could not produce holy living. It is powerless to keep us from sinning. Why is the law (knowing right and wrong) powerless to save us? The law spoke to us when we were already sinners; without strength to obey. What we need is a Saviour to deliver us from the penalty and power of sin. What is the problem here? We always want our way. When we know something is wrong we don't care. We want it so it doesn't matter if it is wrong, as long as our mind is satisfied.

As a FLESHLY body we need the sinful nature to begin to know right from wrong. Then we shall begin to understand that we as a sinful body need the Goodness of the Lord as our savior.

The word "flesh" in these verses means the sinful nature to which we were born. The body that we will have until we die and meet our Heavenly Father...

I believe the Total Depravity Doctrin is the thought that nobody has any good in him as a man of God. But in reality we are a mixture of both good and evil...God seesin us and dwells on that, where we as humans see both the good and bad and we tend to dwell on the bad more than the good.

The word "flesh" in each of these occassions is the carnal body we have today. The sinful body, the old body before we allowed Jesus into our heart. We will have this flesh until we die, then we will be in our "Heavenly" body...