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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STATEMENT IS THAT WE SERVE A ALL POWERFUL GOD,SO THE KEEPING POWER OF GOD WILL ALWAYS SUSTAIN US NO MATTER WHAT. WELL A WORST ENEMY IS THE DEVIL. THEN OURSELF. IF GOD WENT THROUGH SO MUCH, THE OMNIPOTENT GOD OF THE UNIVERSE GOES TO THIS EXTREAM TO PROCURE OUR SALVATION HE IS NOT ABOUT TO LOSE US NOW. THEREFORE I HAVE HOPE IN CHRIST AND IN HIS SHED BLOOD,HIS PROMISES ARE SURE AND TRUE, HE PROMISE NEVER TO LEAVE ME NOR FORSAKE ME, AND I BELIEVE THAT WITH ALL MY HEART.

TO BE CONFORMED TO THE LIKENESS OF HIS SON MEANS THAT WE BE LIKE JESUS, DEMONSTRATE CHRISTLIKE ATTITUDE.THIS IS NOT BY MERE IMAGE BUT TO DO AND ACT THE WAY JESUS WOULD. GOD WANTS TO SAVE US AND THEN TO SHAPE US INTO CHRIST IMAGE AND CHARACTER.BECAUSE STRUGGLES AND CONFLICTS ARE ALWAYS WITH US THEY ARE WAYS OF PRODUCING CHANGE IN US.IT IS GOD"S PLAN THAT WE ARE CHANGED IN CHARACTER SO THAT WE TAKE ON THE FAMILY RESEMBLANCE. THAT PEOPLE CAN SEE THAT WE ARE BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF JESUS HIMSELF.

THE ACTUAL PROMISE CONTAINED IN VERSE 28 " AND WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THEM THAT LOVE GOD, TO THEM WHO ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE. THIS PROMISE MEANS THE FOCUS OF GOD WORKING TOGETHER ALL THINGS FOR GOOD IS NOT UNIVERSAL, THE PROMISE IS VERY SPECIFIC AND HAS TWO QUALIFICATIONS. THOSE WHO LOVE GOD AND THOSE WHO ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE. THOSE WHO LOVE GOD THE PROMISE IS NOT FOR THE UNCOMMITTED OR UNHEEDING IT IS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A WARM REGARDS FOR GOD WHO CHERISH HAVE AFFECTION FOR HIM. THE SECOND ONE IS THOSE WHO ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE THIS IS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN CALLED BEING INVITED THEY HAVE HEARD THE CALL AND HAVE RESPONDED. VERSE 28 GIVES ME HOPE TO KNOW THAT I AM PRIVELEDGE TO BE CALLED BY GOD AND THAT FOR THAT REASON I HAVE THE HOPE THAT I WILL SPEND ETERNAL LIFE WITH HIM.

WE DO NOT KNOW EXACATLY BUT WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THAT IT TRANSCEND THIS EARTHLY SPHERE. IT IS HARD TO PUT INTO WORDS,BUT I DO THINK ROMANS 8: 18 SAID IT ALL WHERE WE DO NOT LOSE HEART EVEN THOU WE ARE WASTING AWAY, BUT INSIDE WE ARE BEING RENEWED EVERY DAY, OUR LIGHT AND MOMENTARY TROUBLES ARE ACHIEVING FOR US AN ETERNAL GLORY THAT FAR OUTWEIGHTS THEM ALL. THE SUFFERING CREATION WILL EXPERIENCE GOD"S GLORY IN A WONDERFUL WAY, AS WE GO BACK TO GENESIS WE READ HOW GOD HAD CREATED THIS EARTH PERFECT, THERE WAS NO DEATH AND DESTRUTION, THIS WAS PARADISE, UNTIL SIN CAME INTO PLAY. SO CREATION WILL EXPERIENCE A REBIRTH WHEN THE LORD RETURN, ISAIAH 11:6-9 PUTS IT WEE THE RESTORED CREATION WHERE THERE WILL BE NO VIOLENCE SUFFERING OR DEATH. OUR SPIRIT WILL EXPERIENCE GOD"S GLORY WHEN OUR RESRRECTION WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE AT CHRIST COMING,WILL SIGNAL A RENEWAL AND REMAKING OF ALL CREATION. OUR REVELATION AS SONS AND DAUGHTRS ON THAT DAY IS TIED WITH THE RENEWAL OF THE ENTIRE EARTH.

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A PERSON WHO HAS LOST HOPE IS THAT THEY ARE DESPAIR, SUACIDAL, ALWAYS FUSTRATED, ANGRY, AND MOST OF ALL FEARFUL. THIS PERSON LIFE IS CONDUCTED AS IF THEY LIVE IN A FISH BOWL. THEY BELIEVE THAT NOTHING EVER HAPPENS TO THEM , THEY ARE ALWAYS NEGATIVE. BUT A PERSON WHO HOLDS AN EAGER EXPECTATION OF A BETTER FUTURE, IS ALWAYS LOOKING FORWARD TO SOMETHING WITH SOME REASON, E.G CONFIDENCE . FULLFILLMENT HOPE. IT INVOVES A BIG VISION OF THE FUTURE AND GREAT EXPECTATION.TH E CHRISTIAN HOPE IS THAT OUR HOPE IS IN GOD. WE MAY BE GOING THROUGH TERIBLE SITUATION, THE STRUGGLES IS ACTUALLY AS IF IT IS KILLING US BUT WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD WITH FAITH AND GOD PROMISE. THIS MOTIVATE US BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT WE LOOK FORWARD IN HOPE TO SOMETHING BIGGER, JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF COMING.

HOW DOES THE HO;Y SPIRIT ACT AS A HELPER OR MEDIATOR OR INCESSOR INVERSE 26-27. THE HOLY SPIRIT HELPS US IN OUR TIMES OF WEAKNESS,WHERE THE HOLY SPIRIT INTERCEDES FOR US WHEN WE ARE UNABLE TO PRAY,THE HOLY SPIRIT GROANS FOR US ON OUR BEHALF MEANING HE PRAYS FOR US. WHAT SIMILARITIES DO YOU SEE BETWEEN THE HOLY SPIRIT MINISTRY HERE AND JESUS TEACHING OF THE SPIRIT MINISTRY AS COUNSELOR/COMFORTER. JESUS WAS THE ORIGINAL HELPER FOR THE DISCIPLES, WE SEE THIS IN JOHN 14;16,TOWARDS THE END OF JESUS MINISTRY HE BEGAN TO TELL THEM ABOUT ANOTHER COUNSLOR WHICH IS THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, WHO WOULD COME. THAT IF WE SIN WE WOULD HAVE AN ADVOCATE WITH THE FATHER. WHY DO YOU THINK WE TEND TO TAKE THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR GRANTED OR FAIL TO UNDERSTAND HIS MINISTRY TO AND THROUGH US. I THINK WE TAKE THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR GRANTED, BECAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT FORCE US TO DO ANYTHING, WE HAVE A CHOICE TO EITHER ACCEPT WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS SAYING TO US OR NOT. MOST TIME WHAT SOME CHRISTIANS WANTS TO HERE IS NOT WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS SAYING TO THEM, SO WE BEGIN NOT TO WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS SAYING.

JESUS CHRIST CAME TO THIS EARTH AS A SACRIFICIAL LAMB FOR THIS WORLD TO GIVES US SALVATION FULL AND FREE. HE CAME AND WAS REJECTED BY HIS OWN PEOPLE. HE WAS BEATEN BY THE ROMANS, THE VERY OWN RELIGIOUS PEOPLE HANDED HIM OVER TO THE ROMANS. HE WAS CRUCIFIED ON A CROSS. I COULD GO ON. WE SUFFER BECAUSE WE ARE PART OF GOD GREAT PLAN, JUST AS CHRIST SUFFERED WE OUGHT TO SUFFER TOO, HE SAID THAT WE WILL BE PERSECUTED FOR HIS NAME SAKE, ONCE WE DECIDE TO FOLLOW JESUS THEN WE HAVE TO SUFFER AS WELL, BUT HE PROMISE NEVER TO LEAVE US OR FORSAKE US. THE LIFE OF JESUS MUST BE REVEALED IN OUR BODY. ALL CREATION SEEMS TO BE SUFFERING BECAUSE ITS NATURAL,THE PERFECT WORLD HAT GOD HAD CREATED FELL AND CHANGED WHEN ADAM AND EVE SINNED. NOT ONLY DID ADAM BECAME SUBJECT TO DEATH BUT THE EARTH WAS CURSE, BECAUSE OF HIM. IT WILL TAKE THE COMING OF THE LORD GOD TO BREAK THE EARTH BONDAGE TO DECAY, GRADUAL RUIN AND GENERAL DECLINE. WE ARE WAITING TO BE DELIVER BY THE BIRTH OF A NEW ERA. THE RETURN OF GOD ALMIGHTY AND HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.

JESUS CHRIST CAME TO THIS EARTH AS A SACRIFICIAL LAMB FOR THIS WORLD TO GIVES US SALVATION FULL AND FREE. HE CAME AND WAS REJECTED BY HIS OWN PEOPLE. HE WAS BEATEN BY THE ROMANS, THE VERY OWN RELIGIOUS PEOPLE HANDED HIM OVER TO THE ROMANS. HE WAS CRUCIFIED ON A CROSS. I COULD GO ON. WE SUFFER BECAUSE WE ARE PART OF GOD GREAT PLAN, JUST AS CHRIST SUFFERED WE OUGHT TO SUFFER TOO, HE SAID THAT WE WILL BE PERSECUTED FOR HIS NAME SAKE, ONCE WE DECIDE TO FOLLOW JESUS THEN WE HAVE TO SUFFER AS WELL, BUT HE PROMISE NEVER TO LEAVE US OR FORSAKE US. THE LIFE OF JESUS MUST BE REVEALED IN OUR BODY. ALL CREATION SEEMS TO BE SUFFERING BECAUSE ITS NATURAL,THE PERFECT WORLD HAT GOD HAD CREATED FELL AND CHANGED WHEN ADAM AND EVE SINNED. NOT ONLY DID ADAM BECAME SUBJECT TO DEATH BUT THE EARTH WAS CURSE, BECAUSE OF HIM. IT WILL TAKE THE COMING OF THE LORD GOD TO BREAK THE EARTH BONDAGE TO DECAY, GRADUAL RUIN AND GENERAL DECLINE. WE ARE WAITING TO BE DELIVER BY THE BIRTH OF A NEW ERA. THE RETURN OF GOD ALMIGHTY AND HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.

JESUS CHRIST CAME TO THIS EARTH AS A SACRIFICIAL LAMB FOR THIS WORLD TO GIVES US SALVATION FULL AND FREE. HE CAME AND WAS REJECTED BY HIS OWN PEOPLE. HE WAS BEATEN BY THE ROMANS, THE VERY OWN RELIGIOUS PEOPLE HANDED HIM OVER TO THE ROMANS. HE WAS CRUCIFIED ON A CROSS. I COULD GO ON. WE SUFFER BECAUSE WE ARE PART OF GOD GREAT PLAN, JUST AS CHRIST SUFFERED WE OUGHT TO SUFFER TOO, HE SAID THAT WE WILL BE PERSECUTED FOR HIS NAME SAKE, ONCE WE DECIDE TO FOLLOW JESUS THEN WE HAVE TO SUFFER AS WELL, BUT HE PROMISE NEVER TO LEAVE US OR FORSAKE US. THE LIFE OF JESUS MUST BE REVEALED IN OUR BODY. ALL CREATION SEEMS TO BE SUFFERING BECAUSE ITS NATURAL,THE PERFECT WORLD HAT GOD HAD CREATED FELL AND CHANGED WHEN ADAM AND EVE SINNED. NOT ONLY DID ADAM BECAME SUBJECT TO DEATH BUT THE EARTH WAS CURSE, BECAUSE OF HIM. IT WILL TAKE THE COMING OF THE LORD GOD TO BREAK THE EARTH BONDAGE TO DECAY, GRADUAL RUIN AND GENERAL DECLINE. WE ARE WAITING TO BE DELIVER BY THE BIRTH OF A NEW ERA. THE RETURN OF GOD ALMIGHTY AND HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.

JESUS CHRIST CAME TO THIS EARTH AS A SACRIFICIAL LAMB FOR THIS WORLD TO GIVES US SALVATION FULL AND FREE. HE CAME AND WAS REJECTED BY HIS OWN PEOPLE. HE WAS BEATEN BY THE ROMANS, THE VERY OWN RELIGIOUS PEOPLE HANDED HIM OVER TO THE ROMANS. HE WAS CRUCIFIED ON A CROSS. I COULD GO ON. WE SUFFER BECAUSE WE ARE PART OF GOD GREAT PLAN, JUST AS CHRIST SUFFERED WE OUGHT TO SUFFER TOO, HE SAID THAT WE WILL BE PERSECUTED FOR HIS NAME SAKE, ONCE WE DECIDE TO FOLLOW JESUS THEN WE HAVE TO SUFFER AS WELL, BUT HE PROMISE NEVER TO LEAVE US OR FORSAKE US. THE LIFE OF JESUS MUST BE REVEALED IN OUR BODY. ALL CREATION SEEMS TO BE SUFFERING BECAUSE ITS NATURAL,THE PERFECT WORLD HAT GOD HAD CREATED FELL AND CHANGED WHEN ADAM AND EVE SINNED. NOT ONLY DID ADAM BECAME SUBJECT TO DEATH BUT THE EARTH WAS CURSE, BECAUSE OF HIM. IT WILL TAKE THE COMING OF THE LORD GOD TO BREAK THE EARTH BONDAGE TO DECAY, GRADUAL RUIN AND GENERAL DECLINE. WE ARE WAITING TO BE DELIVER BY THE BIRTH OF A NEW ERA. THE RETURN OF GOD ALMIGHTY AND HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.

EIGHT TIMES ( 1) BEING LED BY THE SPIRIT, THOSE WHO ARE LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD ARE CALL SON"S OF GOD. (2) CHILDREN AND HEIRS,WHO CRY BY THE SPIRIT ABBA FATHER. (3)ADOPTED CHILDREN. (4) CHILDREN OF GOD. (5) GOD"S SONS. (6) BY THE TESTIMONY OF THE SPIRIT,WITNESSES TO MY SPIRIT THAT I AM A CHILD OF GOD. (7) JOINT HEIRS. (8) GOD"s CHILDREN. THE PROMISES THAT ARE MADE TO US SON"s AND DAUGHTERS ARE THAT JESUS CHRIST HAD LOVED ME AND GIVE HIMSELF FOR ME. AND THAT MY SINS ARE FORGIVEN AND I AM RECONCILLED TO GOD. HE SAID THAT ALL HIS CHILDREN WILL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. THIS IS THE BLESSED ASSURANCE THAT WE HAVE IN OUR FATHER, THIS IS THE THE FUTURE HE HAS PROMISE FOR US EVERLASTING LIFE WITH HIM.

THE SPIRIT OF GOD IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY WITNESSES TO MY SPIRIT THAT I AM A CHILD OF GOD , WHICH GIVES ME THE PRIVELEDGE TO CRY ABBA FATHER. THAT SIGNIFICANCE OF REFERRING TO GOD AS OUR DAD, TELLS OF THE KIND OF RELATIONSHIP THAT I HAVE WITH HIM, IT GIVES ME ASSESS TO MY HEAVENLY FATHER. IF WE DO NOT HAVE THAT PERSONAL ASSURANCE OF SALAVATION IN OUR LIVES IT TELL US THAT WE NEED TO SEEK GOD AND FIND THIS PLACE OF REST IN GOD. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS OUR BIRTHRIGHT. WE RECEIVED THIS PERSONAL ASSURANCE, BY LIVING THE WAY GOD WANTS US TO LIVE BY THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT.

TO BE MORTIFY OR PUT TO DEATH THE DEEDS OF THE SPIRIT MEANS A LOT OF SELF-DENIAL AND WHOLE LOT OF SELF-DISCIPLINE, PUTTING TO DEATH THE FLESH. AND THIS CANNOT BE DONE WITHOUT THE HELP OF THE HOLY-SPIRIT,FOCUSING INSTEAD ON THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT WHICH WILL HELP YOU TO PUT TO DEATH THE DEEDS OF THE BODY. TO SEE APERSON DO THIS ONE MUST UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS NOT EASY WITHOUT, THE SPIRIT,SELF-DENIAL FORCE OF WILL AND HARSH PHYSICAL DISCIPLINE CANNOT BE DONE WITHOUT THE SPIRIT, IT IS NOT EASY TO KILL THE FLESH, YOU NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT HELP. BEING LED BY THE SPIRIT IS WHEN WHATEVER AS CHILDREN OF GOD WE DECIDE TO DO ANYTHING WE MUST REALIZE THAT WE CANNOT DO THIS WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT GUIDANCE AND DIRECTION.WHEN ONE IS BEING KED BY THE SPIRIT YOU KNOW, THEY DISPLAY THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT AND PEOPLE BEGIN TO WONDER, WHY DOE NOTHING AFFECTS THE PERSON BUT IS THE WORKING OF THE SPIRIT AND BEING OBEDIENT TO THE WORD OF GOD.

NO WE DO NOT HAVE TO SIN, AND WE ARE NOT COMPELLED TO SIN EITHER, BECAUSE THE BIBLE TEACHES WE ARE NOT ADDICT TP SIN,BECAUSE THE DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST HAS SET US FREE FROM SIN"S POWER OVER US. YES IT IS POSSIBLE TO LIVE FOR TWO HOURS OF WAKEFULNESS WITHOUT SINNING, FOUR HOURS , ONE DAY. TWO DAYS, OF COURSE WE CAN GO ON FOR DAYS AND MONTHS WITHOUT SINNING, BECAUSE THE FLESH DOES NOT RULES US ANYMORE,BECAUSE A STRONG SPIRIT WITHIN US LEAD UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS. I THINK WE AS CHRISTIAN GET THIS DEFEATIST ATTITUDE TOWARDS SIN .BECAUSE OF THE KIND OF TEACHING SOME OF US HAVE RECEIVE. THERE ARE TIMES WHEN WE DEPEND ON MAN INSTEAD OF THE HOLY SPIRIT,TO TEACH AND GUIDE US, THIS DEFEATIST ATTITUDE DID NOT COME FROM SCRIPTURE AT ALL.

TO SET YOUR MIND ON THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT, IS TO SET YOUR MIND ON GODLY THINGS. SO THAT WE ARE ABLE TO PLEASE GOD.WE NEED TO DEVELOPE THE KIND OF MIND SET WHERE WE EXPOSE OUR MIND WITH GODLY VALUES.WE NEED TO START SETTING OUR MINDS ON THINGS ABOVE AS IS SAID IN COLLOSSIANS 3; 2-3. YOU CAN RECOGNIZE WHEN THE THINGS YOU ARE SETTING YOUR MINDS RELATE TO YOUR SINFUL NATURE, BECAUSE THE FLESH START TO TAKE OVER, THINGS YOU WOULD NOT DO YOU FIND YOURSELF DOING, THERE IS NO WAY ONE CAN FOLLOW THE FLESH AND THERE IS NO HOSTILTY TOWARDS GOD, IT DOES NOT SUBMIT TO GOD THEY REFUSED TO SUBMIT AT ALL. I WOULD SAY THAT 99.5 PERCENTAGE OF CHRISTIAN KNOWS FULLY WELL THAT IT IS DELIBERATE.WELL TO PUT A FIGURE TO THIS IS HEART BREAKING I HONESTLY THINK THAT 99 PERCENTAGE, IS A HABIT. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THERE TO GUIDE US AND TO TEACH US , SO THE HOLY SPIRIT IS ALWAYS THERE, WE JUST HAVE TO LISTEN CAREFULLY. IT IS NOT PRIMARILY LIVING BY FORCED WILL. BECAUSE GOD IS A GENTLEMAN. HE GAVES US A CHOICE OF OUR OWN,THERFORE WE ARE NOT FORCE.

OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW CANNOT SAVE US, BECAUSE EVEN THOU THE LAW IS GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS IT IS POWERLEESS TO SAVE US THE WEAK LINK IS THE FLESH, SINFUL NATURE, IT IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE SOUL. PAUL SAID THAT JESUS CAME IN THE LIKE OF SINFUL MAN,RATHER THAN AS SINFUL MAN HIMSELF BUT JESUE HAD RHE BODY LIKE US AND WAS ACTUALLY CAPABLE OF SIN, BUT HE DID NOT. ONE CAN ONLY BE SAVE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD, THAT WAS WHY THE CROSS WAS NECESSARY, THE GAP BETWEEN HUMAN KIND AND GOD WAS NOW BRIDGE. WE CAN BE SAVE WHEN WE CONFESS JESUS CHRIST AS LORD OF OUR LIVES AND BEGIN TO WALK IN THE SPIRIT.

I THINK PAUL IS NOT JUST REFERRING TO HIMSELF, I THINK HE IS REFERRING TO HUMANITY IN GENERAL. AS CHILDREN OF GOD WE TEND TO STRUGGLE WITH THE SINFUL NATURE, WITHIN US. THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE KNOW WE SHOULD NOT DO BUT THE FLESH SEEMS TO LOVE TO BATTLE WITH THE SPIRIT EVERYTIME WE CHOOSE TO DO GOOD, WE FIND OURSELF DOING THE LATTER. WE ARE JUST NOT MATURE CHRISTIAN ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW TO WALK IN THE SPIRIT IN A POWERFUL WAY. PAUL ULTIMATELY SPOKE OF EVERY SINGLE CHRISTIAN, HE SPOKE TO OUR SINFUL NATURE.

WHAT IS THE DOCTRINE OF "TOTAL DEPRAVITY" THE DOCTRINE OF TOTAL DEPRAVITY IS THAT EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING IS CORRUPT. EVEN IF THERE IS GOOD IN US THERE IS NO WAY IT CAN BE TRUSTED, THIS COMES BACK TO MAN SINFUL NATURE. ONCE ADAM SIN WE ALSO INHERITED, THESE SINFUL GENES. IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT NONE OF GOD"S ORIGINAL GOODNESS SHOWS THROUGH,BECAUSE THE SECOND ADAM JESUS CHRIST CAME AND REDEEMED THE WORLD ,WE HAVE A CHANCE TO SHOW GOD"S ORIGINAL GOODNESS. SO WHAT IT DOES MEAN IS THAT EVEN THOU WE ARE NO GOOD, THE CROSS HAPPEN, REDEMPTION CAME SALVATION IS FREE; MODERN MAN BELIEVE THAT MAN TEND TO BE BASICALLY GOOD. WITH LITTLE CORRUPTION THROWN IN BUT CAN BE FIXED WITH SOME EFFORT. THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT IN MATTHEW 15:18-20 THAT THE THINGS THAT COMES OUT OF THE MOUTH COMES FROM THE HEART AND THAT THESE MAKE A MAN UNCLEAN FOR OUT OF THE HEART COMES EVIL THOUGHTS.

THE LAW IS HOLY AND THE COMMANDMENT IS HOLY AND RIGHTEOUS. EVEN THOU THE LAW DES NOT SAVES US, IT HELPS US, TO DIFFERENTIATE RIGHT FROM WRONG AND TO KEEP IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ALMIGHTY GOD. WHAT THE LAW DOES POORLY IS THAT THE LAW SEEMS TO BE HIJACKED BY SIN ACCORDING TO REV RALPH, WHICH IS SO TRUE.KNOWING THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG, HUMANS STILL DESIRE TO WANT TO DO IT ANYWAY. WE WANT WHAT WE CANNOT HAVE. THE LAW KNOWING RIGHT AND WRONG IS POWERLESS TO SAVE US, BECAUSE THE LAW IS NOT THE PROBLEM IT IS US AND OUR SINFUL DESIRE. IN ESSENCE WE ARE THE PROBLEM.

WE WOULD NOT BE BETTER OFF NOT KNOWING BECAUSE THIS WORLD WOULD JUST BE IN A VERY CHACTIC STATE, BECAUSE EVERY ONE WOULD WANT TO BE DOING WHAT THEY WANT TO DO, I AM SURE MURDER ALONE WOULD TAKE PRECEDENT OVER MOST SINFUL ACTS.THANK GOD FOR THE LAW WHICH IN BLACK AND WHITE SHOWS THAT COVETOUSNESS IS A SIN, THE DESIRE FOR SOMETHING THAT CRAVING FOR SOMETHING THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU WOULD CERTAINLY BECOME THE RECEIP FOR MURDER, UNKINDNESS TO OTHERS I MEAN JUST THINK ABOUT ALL THE BAD THINGS THE DESIRE OF WANTING SOMETHING IN A NEGATIVE WAY. BUT THANK GOD FOR THE COMMANDMENTS, IT SURELY KEPT SOME OF US IN LINE.

WHAT DOES PAUL MEAN BY "FLESH" IN THESE VERSES? I THINK WHAT PAUL MEAN BY FLESH IS THAT AS WE KNOW THAT THIS IS CONSIDER AS SINFUL NATURE,ITS THE PART OF HUMAN BEING THAT STANDS IN OPPOSITION TO GOD"S VALUE SYSTEM. FLESH IS THE BODY WHICH IS DOMINATED BY SIN. THE FLESH MOTIVATE THE SELFISHNESS WE SOMETHIMES FEEL WANTING THINGS THAT WE CANNOT GET WHICH LEADS US TO DO JUST ABOUT ANYTHING TO GET IT. THE BOOK OF GALATIANS 5. 19-21, GIVES A BROAD DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE ACTS OF SINFUL NATURE ARE.

NO THERE IS NO PLACE FOR INDEPENDENT FREEDOM. YOU EITHER CHOOSE TO SERVE GOD OR TO SERVE THE DEVIL. WE LONG FOR THIS KIND OF INDEPENDENT FREEDOM BECAUSE WE ARE SO USED TO LIVING IN SIN , BECAUSE OF THE NATURE THAT IS WITHIN US.WE WANT TO DO AS WE PLEASE WHERE WE DO NOT ANSWER TO ANYONE. WE HESITATE TO FIRMILY TAKE SIDES AND MAKE OUR ALLEGIANCE CLEAR TO ALL.BECAUSE WHEN WE CHOOSE TO FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST WE TEND TO HIDE THAT WE ARE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS CHRIST,WE DO NOT LIVE THE LIFE THAT CHRIST REQUIRE FROM US. HENCE THEREFORE WE DO NOT REPRESENT THE ALMIGHTY GOD IN THE WAY HE DESERVE. SO THAT IS WHY WE CANNOT MAKE OUR ALLEGIANCE CLEAR TO ANY ONE .WE HAVE NOT MAKE THE COMMITTEMENT FULLY. WE ARE STILL NOT FOCUSED. AND THAT IS VERY SAD.

GOOD DOCTRINE IS WHEN WE WHOLD HEARTDLY OBEY THE FORM OF TEACHING TO WHICH YOU WERE TRUSTED. GOD WANTS TO FOLLW HIS TEACHING AND TO PRACTICE THEM IN OUR LIVES, ON A DAILY BASIS. THE WORD OF GOD SHOULD BE MEAT AND DRINK TO OUR BODY AND SOUL. WHATEVER WE READ OR HEAR ABOUT SCRIPTURES SHOULD BE BACK UP WITH BIBLICAL FACTS. WE SHOULD AVOID ANY TEACHING THAT DOES NOT FIT UP WITH THE WORD OF GOD, SO WHEN WE HEAR SOMETHING OR READ SOMETHING THAT SOMEONE ELES SAID WE SHOULD ASK THE HOLY-SPIRIT TO GUIDE US IN ALL TRUTH.

ONE IS A SLAVE TO THE ONE THEY OBEY,WHEN WE OFFER OURSELF TO SOMEONE TO OBEY THEM WE BECOME SLAVES TO WHOM WE OBEY.HENCE WE BECOME A SLAVE TO THAT INDIVIUAL. WHEN WE BECOME OBIEDIENT TO THE WORD OF GOD,DOING EVERYTHING THAT IS RIGHT AND GOOD INTHE SIGHT OF GOD,WE BEGIN TO DEMONSTRATE RIGHTEOUSNESS TO GOD THEN I BECOME A SLAVE TO GOD . WHEN WE START LIE, STEAL.BEING JUDEMENTAL OF OTHER,GIVING INTO ALL MANNER OF EVIL. THAT SIMPLE DEMONSTRATE SLAVERY TO SIN. SUCH A SLAVERY OR BONDAGE IS BROKEN WHEN WE START TO WALK IN GOD WAY,WHEN WE BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THAT, OUR DEBT WAS PAID FOR AT CALVERY,WE BEGIN TO DO WHAT THE LORD REQUIRES OF US, WE START TO WALK IN RIGHTEOUSNESS. WE NOW BECOME OBEDIENT TO GOD OUR FATHER THAT BREAKS THE BONDAGE,WE NOW BECOME AND WANT TO DEMONSTRATE CHRISTLIKE ATTITUDE. WELL FOR ME THERE IS SO MUCH AREAS THAT GOD IS WORKING ON, I DO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH UNFORGIVENESSS AT TIMES. AND OFTEN TIMES I HAVE TO REALISED THAT IF GOD FORGIVE ME THEN I SHOULD BE ABLE TO FORGIVE THOSE WHO HAVE OFFENDED ME. SO I AM WORKING ON THAT CRUCIAL PART IN MY LIFE.