Linda Stanley

Legalism and the resulting pride prevents us from trusting Christ because we are relying on ourself our own judgement, not asking God what we should do. we do our own thing.thinking everything I do is right. This will keep you from drawing close to Jesus because you think you don't need him if you can do everything yourself.I myself would fall flat to the bottom without Gods help.

it was his belief in the Lord ,not his actions that made him right with God .we must trust God to have a right relationship with Him.Our works will not make us right with God,we must have inner confidence .Knowing when we pray or talk to God we believe God will give us the right answer.

I think he sent Ananias too minister to Paul in healing him so Ananias could see the change in Paul ,from the man Paul was. He argued with God because he new Paul was a corrupt man, and did horrible things to Christians. Ananias was obedient to God. Yes I have ministered to people. I cant say one way or another if God lead me to certain ones.

if you persecute believers we persecute Christ Jesus ,because believers are the body of Christ. Yes I have pains, .and my pains do lead me closer to God. If I don't turn toward God I then suffer more .Id rather have God with me ,as God could be warning me about something. Like ,trying to lead me the right way.

Esau did think he could please his dad,go get the game and prepare a meal to then receive his birthright .I really don't know what he was thinking.The birthright was really already his.He was not very strong minded to think the stew he was to prepare would in turn give him his birth right from his father.Then Jacob his brother insisted on having his fathers blessing for himself and took advantage of his brother's hunger,buying his birthright for a plate of stew.Jacob had a demanding spirit,which is a sin deep within ones heart.Some people will do anything to get what they want.

I would say that Paul is refering to himself,when he says "I". But, "I" look at it this way,that Paul is teaching us,and when he refers to himself ,I can put those shoes on my feet ,because I being a Christian,if I struggle with sin, in my own strength I would be heading the wrong direction.I am sure I would find myself sinning in ways that would not be attractive to my ownself. There is know way I would succeed in life without the teachings of Gods word.The word is Gods truth and the power of His spirit will never lead you in the wrong direction.

Trying to get back on track again;catching up on my lessons and hope to finish. To this question of "total depravity",means to be corupt and very hard to take on good qualities,because of sin.Any goodness that shows through our sunfulness is by the grace of God.Modern man does tend to believe most people are basically good,but being good and obeying the law or doing good things is not going to save Gods people.Gods people must repent of their sins ,believing Jesus Christ.Christians need to ask forgiveness,every day of our life.We can do nothing by ourselves or for others,not enless we walk with Jesus everyday and let Him lead us.

Romans 7:2``The law was holy,expressing God's nature and will for people.When we are tempted to sin(rebel,we need to look at the law from a wider perspective-in the light of Gods grace and mercy.(NIV) Sin deceives people by misusing the law.I believe a lot of us misunderstand Gods law and why it was given to us.(NIV) romans 8:3~~Right or wrong the law can not save us; only Jesus Christ is the only way to God(salvation).Jesus gave himself as a sacrifice("sin offering"),for our sins.(In the Old Testiment times animals were continually offered at the temple.(NIV).

I could be better off not knowing what to covet,but I believe my desires causes covetness.Then I also have desires to please God.If I did know what not to covet,the list would be so long, fear would take over to a point I would be very unhappy with life.So I would say knowing what not to covet leads you into another choise for life.We do have a choise We are told not to covet ,but we covet more.In this material man made world there are a lot of things we see,hear about,and can even touch.My thoughts are ,its a part of my sinful nature to wrongfully desire what belongs to another,in which by the help of my heavenly Father I will overcome these desires,seek his help and forgiveness.Amen.

Romans 7:5,Our body is a miracle in itself.God made us.We can see,feel,touch.We have desires.We all have diffrent appetites,Because we are flesh I believe we have to take control of the things we do.Hopefully I choose to do good.That my sinful nature is defeated because of my walk with Christ Jesus.My oldself dies (sinful nature)and my new self takes over.This does not mean I will be perfect,but I will improve,and grow into a better christian as I journey in this life time.

Romans 6:18-22, Yes there is a place of independent freedom apart from slavery"to sin or to Christ,It is impossible to be neutral.Every person has a master-either God or sin.We long for this kind of independent freedom,because we will no longer be a slave to sin.We belong to God.We are not perfect,but God loves us and has given us a new life with Him. I know I should be faithful to God.It is my duty to be loyal to God.I know there are times I let Him down and not stand up to what I know is right.Then there are times I open up and start speaking out my thoughts that has been given to me.I believe as I learn more of Gods word, Holy Spirit will help me speak out when the times are right and to not hesitate.To be bold without fear. Acts 4:29,Now, Lord,consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. NIV~~Boldness requires courage to press on through our fears and do what we know is right. I must look for opportunities to talk about Jesus,although there is rejection,social discomfort,and enbarracement ,not necessarily persecution.As I learn to start being bolder in small ways,the rest will come.

Romans 6:17 A good doctrine affects the way we live as long as it is the truth of the gospel,and we are being taught correctly in how to live a holy and rightious life to God.We should honor good doctrine because it is the written truth of God; containing instructions on how we should live..We should avoid any teaching that is not true to the gospel of Jesus Christ. (Scripture) 1st Timothy 6:3-If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teachings,4:he is conceited and understands nothing. There is a lot of false doctrine out there, that can mislead us, watered down,as Pastor Ralph says.

Romans 6:15-18,We are bound to Christ(slavery to obedience)or through obedience;Christ Jesus gives us the power to do good rather than evil.To obey God with your heart(heart obedience)Matthew 22:27.Doing bad things is slavery to sin,we can not serve two masters.You break that bondage to sin by giving your heart soul and mind to Jesus.Follow his teachings that is in the word of God(Holy Bible).I believe at this point of time in my life,God is speaking to me about love.I also find myself being negitive about many things(uncertain)Also God is speaking to me about fear.Love conquers all fear! Right?I believe when I am not obedient to God,this opens the door for the enemy to move in:I sometimes end up suffering a bit before I realize I should have done what God had asked of me.I have found out many times,its not my way ,its Gods way,Amen.

Romans 6:13 Why do I do the things I do not want to do?.I believe we just do things without ever realizing what we have done is sin.I open my mouth to soon,and say the wrong words.Words can hurt.I must think before I act.If we follow Jesus Christ (he is our Master),he give us power to do good ,rather than evil.We give our whole self to Jesus.Every part of our body is an instrument to be used for the good that we are to carry out for our Heavenly Father. The changes that will be made is we know longer want to carry out our old sinful motives and desires and goals of the world.We have turned ourself over to God and He can use us as His instrument,(our hands,feet,our mouth,our whole body.Our spirit will grow strong,and our bodies more willing.

QI.Romans6:12-When our mortal body comes into obedience to sin,it obeys the body's "evil desires.We are really being controlled by the devil.But we must be obedient to God and draw close to our Savior, Jesus Christ;even though we are tempted to sin,we resist the devil and he will have to flee.Jesus gives us that power as we serve Him,not the devil.Therefore sin does not reign over our mortal bodies.We serve a good God,Amen.

Romans 6:11-To reckon is to count,to put in order ,to consider.We are now to count ourselves dead to sin.Our old sinful nature is dead.We must believe this in order to be saved .So lets declare what God in fact has made us.The Holy Spirit will help us in our daily walk with Christ Jesus.

NIV: Romans 6:6-7 The power and penalty of sin died with Christ on the Cross,"The body of sin" is not the human body,but our rebellious sin-loving nature inherited from Adam. We must not think our body is evil,it is the sin in us that is evil,and it is this power of sin at work in our body that is defeated.Paul said,"Through faith in Christ we stand acquitted"not guilty"'The diffrence is,before we were saved,we were slaves to sin.Now that we are saved,we are free from slavery.Now we can choose to live for Christ. We still have struggles against temptation to sin,but the diffrence is we"were slaves" to our sinful nature,but now we are not slaves,we have been set free because of Jesus death on the cross,and he gave us life,power over our sins through him.

Q3,Romans 6:1-7 Paul is not talking about our physical death;I believe he is talking about our personal sin death.Dying to sin.We look upon our old self as dead.We are now alive to God,through the death of his Son Jesus Christ,who now lives in us;His death becomes our own.This is the change God makes in our life as we grow in faith.We know longer desire our old ways of sin,they are dead.We now consider ourselves to be what God has in fact made us.I do know that to a degree that this theology,or mumbo -jumbo does have some basis in reality.To put it all in my words, I do know, that I do have, a new life in reality with Jesus Christ.

Q2.Romans 6;3-4,Being buried,symbolises the death and burrial of the old way of life. After being baptised,out of the water symbolizes our resurrection to a new life with Jesus( 6:4,Sin-loving nature is buried.We can be certain that sins' power is broken through the death and resurrection of our Jesus Christ,in which we have acknowledged,(to own or confess) Jesus Christ into our lives. .

Q1. Romans 6;3-5 Coming up out of the water is a resurection to new life with Jesus.Baptism symbolize's our union with Jesus.We think of our sinful life as dead and buried.Although I was baptised as a baby,and then rebaptised as an adult,I believe either way unites us with Jesus Christ.Sprinkled or emersed,the main point is being united with Jesus.Some people are raised up to know God all their life and some are not.Lets go back to John 3;16.This scripture is very important.This is a decission we make in our life,at some point of time.We have to believe this scripture of truth or baptism symbolizes nothing in our life.Of course I am speaking for myself.Everyday I struggle with my flesh to defeat sin,many times looking through wordly eyes I am blinded and do not see the truth, as it is written in Gods Holy Word.I am not saying that I continue on in sin,somtimes I just miss the mark, and stumble.Through Gods grace ,mercy and love,he picks me back up again and I learn from my mistakes,(sins),seek forgiveness through Jesus Christ and move on with my life.This is what I believe or think is being united with Jesus Christ in his resurrection.We have a new life.Amen

Romans 6:2-5...When Jesus Christ died on the cross,this is where we moved to the headship of Christ. We must ask forgiveness of our sins,choosing Jesus as our Master.We can be certain that sins power is broken.We are united with him in his death and resurection.Jesus died,we died,Jesus gave us life,eternal life.This is beyond amazement(our understanding)We now can stand with God,in a relationship of such love,grace, mercy.

What right does Adam represent all human kind,is that we are all born into Adam's family line that leads to death(sin).When we choose to except Jesus Christ,we come out of that judgement of sin and become a follower of Jesus.Because of Jesus being obedient to His Father(God)we are able to trade judgement for forgiveness,which gives Jesus the right to become head of all who become his disciples.Jesus gave his life,so we could be born again into his spiritual family line that begins with forgiveness,and leads to eternal life.

Keeping the law does not bring salvation.Breaking the law is not what brings death.Death is the result of Adam's sin,and of the sins we all commit,even if they don't resemble Adam's. Yes ther can be sin without the law;the law only exposes the sin. Jesus lifts us above the law,because of his death on the cross.(Where sin increased,grace increased all the more.)As christians we are saved(salvation) by Jesus death on the cross.This is all through God's power,not our own.Through God's love for us He has given us new life through Jesus Christ His Son.

People that I think of who are christians,choose what denomination in church unity.Pastors,Elders,and Leaders.It just takes one bad decission,and the church splits. Presidents,Kings ,Queens all act for their countries,nations and so on.Whom ever pushes that red button acts for an entire group.You will either suffer or rejoice in whatever that one person acted upon. Parents have to make decissions for their children as they grow up to an age they account for their own decissions. Big companies have managers who make decissions in how the company should run.In our modern life the world turns on top decissions made by people.

Q4.(romans 5;9-10 Reconciliation means we are know longer divided by sin;we are not Gods enemy anymore.We were reconciled to God through the death of his Son Jesus Christ. Reconciliation is necessary with God ,because through Jesus Christ we are saved by his blood and death on the cross.Through Jesus Christ is the only way we can come to God and have a relationship with him. Jesus intercedes for us,now in the present.