McCollum

Is I am reminded that James was inspired by God to write and I qoute "Brothern Count it all joy when we fall into divers temptation, knowing that the trying of your faith worketh parience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing (James 1:2-4). To me this is perfect faith that produce perfect peace. We can not help but rejoice knowing that God is in charge of everything most of all in charge of my life, He is giving me self-controll to rejoice no matter what, Praise The Lord !!!

We can not be a witness to a personal problem, struggle or stress of, if we have not already experienced it. To share my faith about loosing my only son to a drunk driver at the age of sixteen how i feel, how i struggled with it and the stress of is personal to me . To know that my faith in God was the way that i made it through that trying time. Same as Paul tell about his conversion , his personal struggles , stress and problems while in the Romans jail. Paul knew that his strength to endure came from God through His Son Christ Jesus.

Live by the Spirit , The Holy Spirit in our lives and these Fruit Of The Holy Spirit Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness and Self-Control. This is how we do this when we live by the Spirit of Christ Jesus. You can reconize when the things you are setting your mind on relate to your sinful nature when we say yes to evil and on to righteousness. How much of this is deliberated? I would say all is deliberate because we no longer has the desire to please God and place focus on pleasing the "flesh". I would also want to say that all would be a habit until one have trusting faith, listening faith and follow The Holy Spirit of Christ Jesus. Right living by free will, Holy Ghost Filled Praise The Lord!!!

As Good , Holy, and Righteous as the law was it was powerless to save us (Romans 8:3) states "For what the law was powerless to do in that was weakened by the sinful nature . God did by sending His Son Jesus Christ". We are the weak link , the problem with the " Flesh" sinful nature when the unregenerated and sinful nature is in opposition to the Spirit Of God. The rebellious human nature , human value systerms that stand in opposition to God's value systerm. Only Salvation through Christ Jesus (Romans 8:2) "For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death". Jesus fully bore our sins on the cross.

Paul is asking God discernment for the Christians Philippians because he loved them he could feel their love for him it was a constancy love so Paul wanted God to give them more knowledge about the requirements of God to the Philippians Christians, Paul wanted them to have the knowledge about what was best, pure and blameless and filled with the fruit of The Spirit , Christ righteousness until the second coming of Christ Jesus.

"Total depravity The heart is deceitful and above all things beyound cure and who can understand it?(Jeremiah 17:9)"All is some what corrupt and therefore even the "good" in us can not be trusted. The things we say come from the heart and these things make us "unclean" when we let such throughs as murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony and slander. These are what robs us from being "clean" and with out flaws. Some time the good that we do ends up with us having wondered it was something worth doing (mixed motives and emotitions). No it does not mean that God's original goodness beleives that we are basically good with a little corruption because mankind beleive that obedience to the law can save us, but this is insulting, obedience to God Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ Grace and Mercy can only save us.

I look at the "I" to mean all that struggle with the nature desires of sin not just Paul, not just me ,not just you but all Once we experience the conversion from living a life of the sinful nature to the Spirital life in Christ Jesus. The battle of wrong and whats right get more intents and only the Spirit of Christ Jesus can have the victory. In other words only the Spirital man (The Holy Spirit) in us has the power for us to experience the promised victory.

To continue a good work in them until Christ second coming. Paul knew that God is faithful and His faithfulness will cause a completion in our lives if we stay focus on Him, His will and His way. Praise The Lord!!!

The law educates us and the law is holy, the commandments is holy and righteous and good but the law seems to be held under a gun , tired up and highjacked by sin, when we know that something is wrong and we go a head and do it because when it is wrong it makes us to want to do it the more. Paul concludes that the problem is not in the law but in us so we are at fault we did not educate ourselves unto God way out of sinning through His Holy Spirit.

We are participating with them in preaching the gospel we are sharing a two way street with a mutual understanding that is all about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and it also show ones personal love for God Son Jesus Christ our Saviorand Redeemer as well so as our fellowship with God The Father as one help in the up building of God kingdom to come.

Slaves were committed to doing what their masters told them to do , theirfore they were going to do the will of their master no matter what the cost may have been, it could have resulted to their death but they completed their orders. When we became committed to Jesus Christ by the way of our committment to God, We became God slaves it carried us to and unwavering desire to do the will of God no matter what the cost may end up being. To be a saint means some what the same as a slave to be an saint is a statement shown in our every day walk we live it rather than just talking it we live each day to do the will of God. Understand that I am God's lock, stock and barrel is put before me to understand that Jesus paid the price for me to be able to have the right kind of relationship with God that I can be a saint for Him with a daily desire to complete His Will.

We know that coveting is a sin, it causes us to want or have a desire to have something that God has lent to some one else doing their stay here on this side, this earth journey. But if it had not been for the law we would not have known this, because the law reveals sin, provokes sin, and condems sin we have a clear understanding of what coveting is. God would not have His prize creation ignorant unto the cures of sins we make . So once again we find our understanding of "Study To Show Ourselves approved" the way to understanding God's requirements from us His prize creation. As we do wrong the Bible points out the sin that we do by name and we begain to see and notice them and be able to understand them as just what they are sins against God.

The sinful state that we find ourselves in when we do that , that we don't want to do because it is wrong, even tho we do it any way, because the flesh is of darkness verses the Spirit of God light and we understands that we find that we are rebelling against God by opposing God value system.

NO! We are a slave to sin which is death unto God, Or we are a slave to righteousness which leads to holiness and a life eternal with Christ Jesus. Their is on third party to obey we have to choose one of the two we can not be doubled minded. We have no middle ground where we are independent, it is either slave to sin of slave to God by obeying Him and His righteousness. When we stand up for Christ it makes it very clear to whom we are a slave unto because we are obedient to the will of God. But when we are disobedent it also show unto who we are under the salvery of sin.

When you say good doctrine, I understand you to mean doctrine totaly baised upon the Biblical teaching of the Bible, The truth and nothing but the truth. When all truth is founded and teached according to the will of God. We should always avoid false teaching and teaching that is miss leading, In fact when we listen to false teaching we are giving satan the victory rather than God the Glory.

In Romans 1:1 Paul present his self as a slave unto Christ Jesus. This tells me that we are a slave unto sin or unto righteousness, and the free will choice has been given to us by Father God, because He does not force us to do His will He lets us make the choice and this day I can say as Jeremiah sayed "As for me and my house we are going to serve the Lord and for us to make a choice this day." Eather way you look at it we are obebient to one of the two, We obey the sin of our desires which keeps us unto death or we obey the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus which leads us unto life eternaly. Through obedient we make a decission to obey the will, the ways of God through Christ Jesus, by not letting our self centered desires controll us in all of our actions. If we are true to God's righteousness we will obey what the Holy Spirit directs us to do. We are slaves to sin when we do and act out of the will of God, God is not the author or confusion but about peace and righteousness, If It is not pleasing to God it is not His way and we fall unto the slavery of sin. Obedience brakes the boundage of sin when we conforms to the rules and requirements that has been set by God through Christ Jesus, these rules and requirements are found in God's Devine and Inspiring Words found in the Holy Bible, You can't take part of neither can you learn of unless you study to show thyself approve an workman rightly dividing the word of truth, God's word of truth. God speaks to me about being consist in my desire to learn more and more about my purpose here and about doing that which is pleasing in His eye sight . He tells me when I am in a storm of life situtions to be still and look at His salvation take place rather than letting my desire take matters in my hands, He consistly tell me to do it under His will and His way and to let His Holy Spirit teach me in all my actions and as His Holy Spirit reveals the reighteousness of God unto me victory is mines through Christ Jesus.

Through ones own desires is the way we offer our boby to sin or to God , Our passions causes us to not deliberately do unto wickedness but rather offer ourself unto a life in Christ Jesus and all of His righteousness where we are under submission to the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus. We can sin and not be aware that we have committed an offense against God. We must do as James was inspired to write "We must resist the devil and he will flee from us taken from (James 4:7). And also we have to repent of our sins that we have committed un-a- ware (unconsicously) sins by omissionas well as by comission. The change in our daily lives, we must decrease day by day, as we offer the parts of our body to God through Jesus Christ as an instruntment unto His righteousness, This is our reasonable service in order that we can use our hands, our words, our heart, our smiles as instrunments in the building up God's Kingdom.

When we were under the sin of disobendience we felt unto our own desires of the flesh therefore we were slaves unto the bondage of sin and the devil the master of sin, But when we became unto obedience to Christ Jesus we are dead unto sin because Jesus Christ paid for all our sins on the cross , Now we are a live to God through Christ Jesus and we are no longer under the master of sin , But under the victory of God through Christ Jesus whom has all power in His hand and reign over sin.

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To reckon means to calculate, estimate, look upon as to consider, To determine by mathematical process. This mean that we are to evalute if it is true or false but we who put all our faith in Jesus Christ knows that all striptures has been written out of the inspiration of God and they are to inspire all believers of Christ as well as un-believers. We will be believers and act on the truth of God . We are consider to be dead in the same way that Christ is now dead to sin.

The old nature has been made powerless because of our crucifixion with Christ, So that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin, any one who has died with Christ has been freed from sin. For we know that our old self was crucified with Christ so that the body of sin might be done away with. It makes our struggles against temptation a day by day struggle because we know that with out Christ if fall back into the old man ways slaves to sin, but then we fail in spite of our best efforts we have no power to do otherwise, but because we are united with Christ (born again) christians we do not fall to our whim's and passions because we have been freed from the bondage of sin through being truly baptized beleivers.

Death to sin or to a kind of historical actual death? Dying to sin ,"We die to sin , the question asked is how can we live in sin any longer? When all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death . That to me means that when I sin wheather I no or don't no sin by omission or comission Iam not content with the peace of God until I ask for forgiveness of my sin's and until I repent , I am not at peace. Jesus Christ died on the cross and now all of us who beleive and put all our trust in Him we were therefore buried with Him through baptism into His death. Jesus Christ death on the Hill of Golgotha upon that rugged cross gave us access to the power of His Sweet Sweet Holy Spirit and overwhelming power, Praise The Lord Thank You Jesus for Your Holy Spirit , He is real, real, very real to me, Oh yes He give me the victory, Some people may dought Him but I can't live with out Him, that is how I see the reality of the dying and rising in Christ Jesus.

"Buried" with Him we were through baptism . Not Buried like Him but buried with Him . Christ as our representative through His death. When we excepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and personal Saver we also died from our flesh ways and took upon us the ways of Christ as He walked upon this earth, We are in this world but not of this world we have to die day by day to the will of our flesh and be strong in the will of Christ Jesus. We have to walk in the light of Jesus Christ so that we are strong in Him so that Satan will flee from us and when we sin we ask for forgiveness. Christ was raised from the dead correspond to in baptism , coming up from the water symbolizes living a new life, it been stated by Paul's indication that rising up out of the water is symbolic of us rising from the water grave to a new life. Behold old things are passed away and wall things are a new in us as we are in Christ Jesus.

We have been united with Jesus Christ through His baptism and His resurrection. We have also been united with Him when we were baptism and truly Born Again Christ Like with the spirit of Christ in us. We will not be resurrected like Him until we have finisher our earthly course therefore until the trumpet(s) sound we have to keep the faith that we now have been resurrected in Him, Through Christ spirit with in us, teaching, leading and guiding us each and every day of our earthly walk until we are in Glory with Him. When we were buried with Him through baptism, under the water in our water graves we were united with Christ and the water is the symbolize of our united with Him simply because when we came up out of the water grave we have taken upon use both Jesus Christ death and resurrection, we are new Creatures in Him and have taken upon us His nature and we are no longer the old person (man) that we were that person (old man) has been surpressed by the new person in us and the new man in us is the Holy Spirit the Spirit of Jesus Christ that He has given to all that is in unity with Him.

By what right does Adam represent all humankind? Through the disobedience of the one man meny were made sinners, because of Adams disobedinence all mankind has been introduced to sin and sin is being disobedience to God . The consequence of this first sin which we are born on account of our orgin descent from Adam. Adam's fall resulted in the corruption of the nature of all us we are broken, flawed. By what right does Christ become head of all who become His disciples. If we have been united with Him through baptism and were true disciples of Christ then when we were emerged under the water and came up out of the water that water grave then we have been united into a relationship with God through Jesus Christ as members of the body of Christ. Baptized into the body of Christ ,buried with Christ in baptism, died or crucified with Christ.