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From my experience Jesus did it all. I didn't learn to put on Christ's nature. It was all of a sudden I was free from sin and given Christ's nature. It was an about face in a moment. I imagine everyone's experience is a little different from one another. Acts 2:38 REPENT...and you shall be...

Interesting. I was born again on February 9, 1977 at around 8:00 pm when I was at Church On The Way (Jack Hayford) in Van Nuys, California.

I painted three paintings. One of them is with brown eyes, and this one I painted blue eye. Josephus and others like Pilate gave a description of Him in their writings. One said he had golden hair and blue eyes. Another said he had gray eyes. Another said grayish blue. No one said he had brown...

'Putting off' is repentance. It is a desire to be like Christ, but realizing our flesh is too weak to be that perfect. True repentance is telling yourself and God the truth about our sin nature and our inability to be as righteous as Christ, and asking God to create in you Christ's character.

Amen! Many actually feel a heaviness leave their body and then feel light as a feather. I remember looking down to see if I was still touching the floor!

Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. James 1:14-15 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. 15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth...

Don't forget, Jesus never sinned.

Good. 1 John 2:6 6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. Good night.

Stay in the Spirit. Have you been filled with the Holy Spirit? The evidence is freedom from sin. The apostles call lawlessness sin, because that is sins unto death. Those are the major sins that Catholics called mortal sins. We still commit sins not unto death, but when mature we can be free of...

Sinless perfection as its called doesn't exist, and that is NOT what I teach. I marvel that God calls us righteous and clean when we are unloving and lose control. But He does. He makes us sinless. Then when He is finished pruning and maturing all the fruit of the Spirit, then we are perfect...

Matthew I was a Christian all my life. I was a Seventh-day Adventist and as a child I memorized the Ten Commandments so that helped keep me a "good kid." However, I wasn't saved. I just used my own righteousness that were dirty rags compared to the strength and power of the Spirit. That is why...

We MUST be born again of the Spirit. It didn't matter that I was a good kid, I broke the whole law. Breaking a commandment of the Father was and still is a sin unto death. Christians do not commit sins unto death, only sins NOT unto death. 1 John 5:16-17

1 John 1:7 is about us. We walk in the light and abide in Him. But there is something that Jesus is still cleansing in us. It is immature fruit. But because we abide in Him we keep His commandments, making us CLEAN. John 15:1-4 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every...

Matthew I can honestly say that I took care of my mother in her dying days. I can honestly say I have never stolen anything from any store, not even a bubble gum when I was a child. Just thinking about that one makes me love my parents memory. They sure were great teachers. That goes for lying...

God's grace given to us is God's divine power. It is not unmerited favor as most people think. That phrase came about when grace became a license to sin. Look at Romans 1:16-17 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for...

This is to you. How can you think that 1 John 1:8 is saying Christians sin when John says the opposite. Jesus died to be the Advocate for the whole world. It doesn't mean that Christians will sin.

Of course. For God so LOVED the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes on Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

How we could deceive ourselves is if we say we are not doing something that we are doing. So are you breaking any of the old commandments. Paul says Christians keep them with the words establish them Romans 3:31

We're not talking about when the laws of God were engraved on stone, but when they are written on your heart. Matthew you are required to obey your conscience where they are written. So do you obey your conscience and go to bed with a clear conscience?

The word sinless is not in the Bible, so are you free from the desire to break any of the last 6 commandments? Those are what Jesus frees us from committing. Not immature fruit. So you may see yourself losing self-control or being unloving. Those take the rest of your life to mature in. That...