How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

[ChristisGod]

If someone pointing to the cross all day is a problem for you that is revealing. Matthew 12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad

Amen since Paul said all he wanted to know is Christ and Him crucified

 

[Eternally Grateful]

Go to an atheist site...and point to the cross ALL day. Whatever way you think you are accomplishing something.

What do you point to if you do not point to the cross? What did Christ die for?

 

[Eternally Grateful]

Christ is in us by His Spirit. His Spirit, IS Christ, His nature. We received His spirit/Him when we believed. Otherwise we would not belong to Him, because the scripture says who has not the spirit is none of His. You need to acknowledge the "yes" part of the "yes, but not yet."

Amen

but as many as have recieved him, to them he gave the right to become children…

 

[Eternally Grateful]

Poeple will look to the bible to justify themselves by reading it. You are applying the bible to yourself..which is dishonest. It's not readers of the bible that are justifed but doers of the word.

I hope this helps!

Much love

You cant know how Tom do unless you read

it amazes me how the cross and bible are so meaningless to you

 

[Eternally Grateful]

You forget that you are the name it, claim it, ideologue, not me. I don't claim to be presently in the higher walk otherwise I wouldn't be trying to talk turkey to the flightless birds here.

Thats the problem.

You claim to be Christs. And claim you have his power. But you do not walk.

this should be your first clue

 

[Eternally Grateful]

Sure. That's not the issue. But it is the false claiming that condemns you. Jesus said the the Pharisees...because you say you SEE...your sin remains.

Do you claim to understand or SEE the depth of the gospel?

Do you claim to have need of nothing like the Laodiceans? Jesus says...repent.

You deny the cross.. so how are your sins removed?

 

[amigo de christo]

Amen since Paul said all he wanted to know is Christ and Him crucified

Thats right my friend . We shall point to Christ till the last breath . Be encouraged my friend .

 

[amigo de christo]

You deny the cross.. so how are your sins removed?

Yes indeed . We shall point to Christ . Our savoir and our salvation . Praise be to His Holy Name .

 

[ChristisGod]

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Do you claim to understand or SEE the depth of the gospel?

Whats the gospel ?

 

[amigo de christo]

Whats the gospel ?

What a beautiful question indeed . and the answer is real clear in the bible . Yep . Point to Christ till the final breath .

 

[Michiah-Imla]

It's not readers of the bible that are justifed but doers of the word.

You must read it to do it…

 

[amigo de christo]

Whats the gospel ?

Beware for some do preach the social gospel . NOT the one true gospel that does save. But me thinks you already know that my friend .

 

[ChristisGod]

Beware for some do preach the social gospel . NOT the one true gospel that does save. But me thinks you already know that my friend .

I want to hear it from the horses mouth to see how he defines it.

 

[Episkopos]

If someone pointing to the cross all day is a problem for you that is revealing. Matthew 12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad

That's the problem...there is only scattering going on.....an endless disruption of holier than thou self-promotion using Jesus as a smokescreen for bad form. Anything done with the right attitude is acceptable. Flooding a thread with the same slogans over and over...off topic...is a disruption and a virtue signaling. It dishonours God and is meant to puff up the ego of the one who is constantly drawing attention to himself and how righteous he is...totally off topic. And it creates a mob mentality based on a religious agenda to silence whatever challenges the status quo.

OK So then I point to the cross....and I'm still pointing. I am still pointing to the cross....etc. Are people not edified??? Do I repeat that again in every thread...in every post? Do I subject people to my insecurities about my salvation...by repeating dogmatic statements?

I don't see any glory going to God by being glib and using His name and the sacrifice of Christ in vain. Why isn't it advisable to use wisdom and constraint? Using the sacrifice of the Lord in a proper way with a proper humility and in the fear of the Lord..

 

[amigo de christo]

IF one believes not the gospel they cannot pick up their cross .
The CROSS is not picked up by those who do not believe .
ONLY in CHRIST can we overcome .
Those who believe the gospel will be given power .
But many through self righteous acts will believe they are crucified with Christ . But if one believes not in him its all in vain .
CHRIST did take on our sins in his flesh . So that we being dead to sin should live unto righteousness .
But the problem is we have some trying to act as though those who believe not through acts of self are doing what JESUS has already
done for us . See someone is preaching the defintion of what JESUS did on the cross , but forgetting the fact
one must believe to be saved in the first place .
Its a tricky way to end up believing in a works based salvation . WHEN In truth we can see their error .
Cause they know the lingo . they know how to quoate what JESUS did on the cross .
But then refuse to say other religions have to repent and believe on him .
Instead they give the idea that It just can automatically happen for unbelievers . NO , YE MUST BELIEVE .
PICK up the CROSS and FOLLOW HIM . BELIEVE IN HIM .

 

[Michiah-Imla]

I don't see any glory going to God by being glib

“Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.” (1 Corinthians 3:18)

 

[ChristisGod]

That's the problem...there is only scattering going on.....an endless disruption of holier than thou self-promotion using Jesus as a smokescreen for bad form. Anything done with the right attitude is acceptable. Flooding a thread with the same slogans over and over...off topic...is a disruption and a virtue signaling. It dishonours God and is meant to puff up the ego of the one who is constantly drawing attention to himself and how righteous he is...totally off topic. And it creates a mob mentality based on a religious agenda to silence whatever challenges the status quo.

OK So then I point to the cross....and I'm still pointing. I am still pointing to the cross....etc. Are people not edified??? Do I repeat that again in every thread...in every post? Do I subject people to my insecurities about my salvation...by repeating dogmatic statements?

I don't see any glory going to God by being glib and using His name and the sacrifice of Christ in vain. Why isn't it advisable to use wisdom and constraint? Using the sacrifice of the Lord in a proper way with a proper humility and in the fear of the Lord..

I notice nothing but opinions and presuppositions and no scripture. It seems to be the norm with your posts. I guess the bible takes a back seat to your opinions and experience.

 

[ChristisGod]

IF one believes not the gospel they cannot pick up their cross .
The CROSS is not picked up by those who do not believe .
ONLY in CHRIST can we overcome .
Those who believe the gospel will be given power .
But many through self righteous acts will believe they are crucified with Christ . But if one believes not in him its all in vain .
CHRIST did take on our sins in his flesh . So that we being dead to sin should live unto righteousness .
But the problem is we have some trying to act as though those who believe not through acts of self are doing what JESUS has already
done for us . See someone is preaching the defintion of what JESUS did on the cross , but forgetting the fact
one must believe to be saved in the first place .
Its a tricky way to end up believing in a works based salvation . WHEN In truth we can see their error .
Cause they know the lingo . they know how to quoate what JESUS did on the cross .
But then refuse to say other religions have to repent and believe on him .
Instead they give the idea that It just can automatically happen for unbelievers . NO , YE MUST BELIEVE .
PICK up the CROSS and FOLLOW HIM . BELIEVE IN HIM .

I'm still waiting for him to tell us what the gospel is but like the questions yesterday they are not being answered.

 

[Nancy]

Amen since Paul said all he wanted to know is Christ and Him crucified

Oh, the simplicity! And, that's probably why they had the unity in the Spirit, and real power back then, double thumbs up!

 

[ChristisGod]

Oh, the simplicity! And, that's probably why they had the unity in the Spirit, and real power back then, double thumbs up!

1 Corinthians 2:2
For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

Galatians 6:14
But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world

Philippians 3:8-10
Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— 10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,