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Originally Posted by good samaritan
I need to dig a little more into that passage. My point was that we are not going to be perfect in the flesh and no matter how much we love God our human will is going to exist.
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Amen.
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I don't know if I agree with divine impowerment at least in the way some may suggest. Just because we have the Holy Ghost doesn't mean we will never fail again.
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Exactly, which is why many with the Holy Ghost still sin.
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Romans 6, Paul said that unless we know we died with Jesus so we could be dead to sin, and rise in newness of life, and come to God in faith with that mindset, we will sin. We will think we have to sin. And whatever we think we have to do, we will find ourselves doing it. So, Paul changes our expectations, and shows us we can expect victory if we understand the purpose of Christ's death and our baptism into it. We need confidence and God sees this faith for the purpose of His Spirit, and will empower us.
So, it is MUCH MORE than having the Holy Ghost.
It reminds me of Israel having the Ark. God's Presence. And they spied out Canaan and doubted they could enter. Joshua and Caleb said GOD IS WITH US! We can do this. But the other people looked at their own natural abilities, and looked at the giants and walls, and said they could not.
This showed God's power was abandoned and they relied on themselves. And God COULD NOT HELP THEM. Same with us. We can have the Holy Ghost like they had the Ark. But if we still rely on ourselves and not His power, we will fail.
Notice 39 years later they held the ark aloft and opened up the Jordan and brought down the same kind of walls their parents feared!
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