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Originally Posted by Scott Pitta
You are not alone. Everyone has a sinful nature. As we mature in Christ, we realize how sinful we really are.
Someday, my friends and I will meet in heaven. You now, the place where we will no longer have a sinful nature. I'm not sure my friends will be able to recognize my apart from my sinful nature.
We all desperately need the grace of God in our lives.
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Scott, the whole point of
Romans 7 and
Romans 8 is a renewing of the mind. You were once a lion, but through the leading of Christ you now eat straw like an ox. The unclean beast, receives the nature of the clean beast. Nebuchadnezzar became a beast, but when seven years past, he realized who was the most high God. He had his sanity return. The wolf lays down with the lamb, contrary of his nature. The newborn infant plays on the hole of the asp. The most deadliest snake in the Middle East denying its nature to strike and kill. The Law keeping Judeans struggled with their beast nature, David struggled with his beast nature, and when he ended up in the "Saul Zone" he started looking at porn on the roof top. Ended up taking another man's wife, laying with her, and she getting pregnant. David couldn't stop the process because he allowed the beast nature to totally take over. Now he plotted to send the man home so the man would lay with his wife and Uriah would be thought to be the father. But Uriah didn't go because he love God and king. The transformation of David was complete he was an ignorant beast at this point. He plotted to have Uriah murdered. When the prophet comes and points out to David by bringing David back to David's beginning when he was small in his own eyes. When he was a shepherd. Told of the murder of a little sheep, he was enraged with righteous indignation. But his words came right back at him, and smacked him in the teeth. The preacher pointing to him and saying, you the man. At that point David repents.
Romans 7 and
Romans 8 speak of how our nature is transformed by Jesus Christ's mind, not ours. You may have a sinful nature, but it doesn't have to stay that way.
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