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Subject: Re: Truth Author: tim [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 22:58:17 09/08/08 Mon In reply to: tim 's message, "Truth" on 07:47:05 03/25/06 Sat dear tom, I have tried to explain here how this relationship with the Truth has changed my life. I will not debate the Truth, I can only proclaim it to the best of my ability to any and all who will hear it. My outward life may never fully convey or express the change I have experienced in a way that causes others to flock to it, but I know that if I don't give up on God, He will never ever give up on me and who else can you say this about? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Truth Author: tim [Edit] Date Posted: 22:10:16 09/09/08 Tue the war is between the flesh and the spirit. In John 6:63, Jesus said, It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. and Paul writing to the Galations 2:20, "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave His life for me." And in Romans 8 starting in verse 2: "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace... " "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His... For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God." And finally from Paul's First letter to the Corinthians, chapter 2:14: "But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ." [ Post a Reply to This Message ]