Death, Depravity, Deity of Christ and more: Romans 8:5-10
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- Learning to think biblically about death, overcoming sin, how we are saved, a wonderful verse on the deity of Christ, the issue of total depravity and much more!
That is a thought I had never pondered before. "If God takes sin as a personal offense, how do you think he takes [obedience]?" You're exactly right. Obedience is exactly how we let our actions speak louder and tell God that we love Him.
that sounds like the expression....salvation, by faith....evidenced, by works.....ala Book of James...…...or fruit of the Spirit...Galatians...
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This study has changed my life. I truly thank God for your ministry Pastor Mike, may He continue to bless you! 🙏🏻
I LOVED the part about how chosing righteousness / obedience is like saying "I love you" to God. Wow that is SO good.
Inspiring AND convicting, since it goes both ways!!
Underrated sermon. This was exactly what I needed to listen to today.
Mike, I first watched this video about 3 years ago and it helped change my walk with the Lord. Your content has really helped me to think more Biblically over the years. I thoroughly enjoy all your new stuff. However, this particular video will always hold a special place in my heart. Thank you for sharing. May God bless you and all your future studies.
I need help. Struggling with sin. I'm 70 and am addicted to cig and am questioning my salvation
@Myeyesareopen8 I'm 40 and a smoker too but I know I'm saved. I changed when I REALLY came to Jesus bc I had many more issues and called myself a Christian. Mike puts it very well, come to Jesus with a true heart (He already knows everything anyways). Repent of your sins and God will change your heart from the inside out.
Very inspiring message, Mike. Been struggling with sin myself recently, so it's providential that I got to hear this. Perfect timing.
It's so discouraging trying to fight sin. For years I've been feeling like it's a long drawn-out pointless battle. These sweet reminders from Scripture are our lifeline as believers.
Thanks for the great exposition! Hope many more have been blessed by your sermon.
Enlighten me, por favor.
I never liked listening to preachings while reading my Bible but with this Vers by Vers study I am learning soo much! Thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏼 I hope you keep on with doing these ones especially revelation or job would be so great 😍🙈 your work is such a blessing for me thank u so much!!!
Watching this in March 2023.
Mike I'm a "covid Christian", I've been watching your content for 4 years since college freshman, you've sharpened my understanding of the Gospel of grace and you're always challenge me to live for the Kingdom. Your recent E95 of the 20 Question Series helped me understand that coveting is idolatry, and I want to be rich in good works for the Lord.
You'll always be Heb 13:7 in my eyes, God bless you brother. Love from Sydney
Mike thank you so much for your study sermon on Romans. You explain plain yet in depth. Blessings in Christ. Please give a study on Hebrew aswell
Amen the Bride of Christ is spotless, glory to King Jesus.
Romans 5:1-2💝👑
Listening now in 2024. Loving this channel! 🙌🏼♥️
Putting this in words has me shocked and in awe because it's so true that there are things I no longer yield to, that I could've never imagined. And I never thought, okay I don't have to yield to temptation anymore because I'm no longer a slave to sin even though I'd read that passage so many times and knew it logically.
Brilliant teaching. I really enjoy your teaching style Mike. Thank you beloved bro.
Thank you, struggling at the moment, this is helpful God bless you and yours
I feel sometimes, I just want to be alone. This way I do not sin against anyone. If I have no one around, then my sin would minimize. Too bad that can not separate me from my sin, but it may help me refocus on God, but God has sent me into the world to be an example. So I must learn discipline.
Sometimes feels like lugging around a dead body that complains about everything
Love the camera quality. Awesome teaching as always. May God keep raising you up as a Shepherd.
+Inspiring Theology thank you! We are trying to upgrade things a bit.
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I LOVE your Scooby Doo song illustration! It would be really cool to have the clip from 13:30-17:30 to share with people who typically don't like to listen to long teachings. Maybe it would be a good teaser for them, as well as just a very powerful mini-sermon.
Thank you Mike for the way you teach. I am learning so much from this Romans series!
This romans series is soo good. Wish I heard it earlier.
Yes, yes and yes, Amen brother! Love the plain truth of scripture how you're teaching it! 📖☝️✝️🙏 My life dominating sin of smoking has been completely blasted by God's Holy Spirit (thank you, praise you Jesus 🙌) but it didn't happen overnight! I think I strive really bad though as never satisfied with overcoming one sin, never want to sin at all but it does sometimes take some painful lessons to truly come to a place where you realise you can't put any confidence in this flesh but full confidence in the finished work of Christ 🛐 I just want to please my amazing redeemer & saviour & king of my life Jesus and want to pass it on to all my brothers and sisters in Christ ❤️ I pray the Lord keeps using you to present such a balanced and true presentation of His word in love and humility... we ALL need this... especially in today's church of such sad, unnecessary, puffed up divisions! 🤦 Prayers for this continually as it lays heavy on my heart too ❤️
There really is something about this video that we all need to hear. I will be saving it so I can go back to it... I was 1 of those people who called myself a Christian, but I sinned daily without remorse. Like you said I had a big question mark over my head. Once I truly became saved those same sins tore me apart. I wanted to be baptized, And I actually wanted to read my bible for the first time in my life. (Start with the New Testament is my advise). My dad always talked about this change in you.. but I never felt it until Thank the Lord God it happened! In January of 2022 and my Dad became saved around 2000. (Not that i dont still struggle with sin, I definitely do. I believe while on this earth we all will, but we will be aware of it much more). I am so thankful, God gave me time. Jesus's sacrifice is everything to all of us. Mike's last video about the "wretch".. is exactly what we all are and He still saved us! Thank you Jesus!
Please pray for me I need your intercession thank you
Thanks Pastor Mike
Love your bible studys!!!
I thank God for giving me Mike Winger.
FAITH AND THE FRUIT AND THE CONFIRMATION I LOVE IT
Thank you so very much🙏😊!!
Thank you.
Mike looks like he always has the scooby doo theme in his head
If it makes you feel any better, I get the Muppet Show theme song popping in my head now and then.
Excellent teaching!
Best understanding I have heard of man's depraved state(his fallen state or depravity), is that 'all a man's doings and not doings(whether outwardly good or bad appearing) revolve around the 'fallen self'. That is, they are motivated by and selfishly revolve around the person's own personal feelings, mental states, sense of guilt, and felt needs, instead of being--as they should--motivated by and revolving around the love of God and fellow man which comes only through faith in Christ(the Gospel and the new birth).
There is holiness in that struggle
Very insightful
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27:35 The blamethrower... lol
Hi Mike,
Good talk.
Righteousness is the hallmark of the christian. It is the purpose of the christian life. A new christian should have a measure of love given by God to us according to our ability at the moment of conversion. Yes we have to not conform to the world but be transform by the renewing of your mind by God’s Spirit. Total depravity? How about Abraham, he was not regenerated by the Holy Spirit however he was able to believe God promises, so we can also accept the invitation even when we are still sinners. Yes, the invitation is unconditional but the love of God is conditional. Jesus said “ if you abide in me you will remain in my love”, there is a condition to stay in God’s love. The spirit being life because of righteousness, it has become life because of the Holy Spirit being in union with our spirit, the body is dead because our flesh responds not in agreement with God’s law but with sin’s law. However, our body will begin to respond to God’s law by the power of the Holy Spirit that is in us. We are victorious and have the capacity given by God from the Holy Spirit to be more than conquerors.
I struggle with guilt from my past and I take medication from my Dr and I wrestle in my mind if they are sin..
Nick, taking med is not a sin. Medicine is a gift from God and an answer to our prayers for help.
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¿Is there a way to contact with you for a personal question?
Could you do a video about the date of Christ's death? Jesus must be in the grave for "three nights" which requires him to die on a Thursday. Thanks.
You're assuming a Sunday Sabbath, and He was Jewish. The Sabbath is Saturday. Most Christians honor Sunday as established by the Catholic church, but Israel does not. Further, they used sunset as a days end as it begins to dawn toward the next day after sunset. They didn't use clocks. He had to have been interred in the earth 72 hours, as the sign of Jonah was the prophesy sign that had to be fulfilled - before the stone was removed on Sat morn (that Sabbath) and was risen. The Lamb of God was sacrificed for our sins on Passover - that Tuesday. There followed the 3 hours of darkness and Red Blood Moon of Joel. He was interred that night, which on a clock would be early AM of Wed, which was a High Sabbath. 72 hours later, He rose during the early AM of the weekly Sabbath (Sat), and had risen when the tomb was checked that morning. If you're uncomfortable with history I'm truly sorry, but the catholics changed it all around long ago. Bless you and good luck
'....we were by nature the children of wrath...' an interpretation... 'what we became in our 'natural birth....' or '...what, in our purely 'natural development', we all become before God's 'supernatural intervention' with the Gospel. What we all became or become is 'the sinful angry children of our own sinful choices', and deserve, in turn, God's holy anger and judgment.
I've agreed with a lot of this series' and am really enjoying the Bible study and will continue, but I do disagree with Mike's take on regeneration AFTER someone believes and comes to faith. There are SO, SO, SO many stories, including mine, where I was living in sin, didn't give God a second thought (for 52 years) and God simply reached into my life and pulled me out of the life of sin. I then was lead down a number of rabbit holes and sermons by the Holy Spirit and grew my faith into belief beyond any doubt whatsoever. God basically grabbed me, shook me and said "Enough of this life". I truly believe I would never have come to faith otherwise. I ignored anything to do with religion before this point.
Do I consider myself a Calvinist? Don't know. Don't really care either. But I do believe that most have no TRUE, LASTING interest at all in Christ or belief unless they are regenerated. God did this for me, out of the blue and with no warning or prompting from any influences in my life at all. I'm still surrounded by influences who laugh at Christians and ignore and hate anything to do with God. Yet here I am doing this Bible study. I pray throughout the day, attend church and my life is so, so different.
You didn't bother to say how '....God simply reached into my life and pulled me out of the life of sin'...???
So Mike references that Christian psychologists should be thinking of whether something is of the 'old or the new', 'flesh or the spirit' etc.
In psychoanalytics these Biblical concepts are echoed by things such as Freud's view of the ID, Ego and Superego.
In regards to the renewing of the mind the method by which one does this is mirrored by the practice found in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
So psychology has affirmed what Paul was teaching here many centuries later. 😅
please, bring clarity to Romans 8:11
haa haa says at the start 'I'm not gonna impress by trying to speak Greek.'
Then talks real complicated and has to explain, anyways.
Good as this series is Mike, gotta say too, you've come a long way since it.
+ Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved."
Revelation 3:1
To the angel of the congregation in Sardis write: These are the things that he says who has the seven spirits of God .
matthew 16:
13 When he had come into the region of Caes·a·reʹa Phi·lipʹpi, Jesus asked his disciples: “Who are men saying the Son of man is?” 14 They said: “Some say John the Baptist,k others E·liʹjah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15 He said to them: “You, though, who do you say I am?” 16 Simon Peter answered: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 In response Jesus said to him: “Happy you are, Simon son of Joʹnah, because flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but my Father in the heavens did.
11:40
I find it interesting that you stop before v13 which says, If you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit yo put to death the misdeeds of the body you will live...
this would seem to say that 'walking in the Spirit' is not automatic and Gal 5 says that the flesh wars against the Holy Spirit in us.
The only way I can bring law and grace toghether is as follows. Faith (and the word for believe) according to Vines is Pisteou, and a big part of its meaning is to trust. Therefore we are saved by trusting in Jesus, trusting that he paid the price for our sin on the cross (we are born again of the Holy Spirit) but also showing that we trust Him (that he knows what is best for us) by doing what he says.
Faith without works is dead because you show by your actions that you dont actually trust Jesus because you are not doing what He says.
I have watched your later video 'Why I think Calvanism is Unbiblical' and i think this definition of faith makes sense of Eph 2:8.
Is this works through the back door, do you think?
Eph 2:8 (For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.)
How can you say there should be no division with Calvinist? The doctrine of limited atonement is vicious. It denies Christ.
Yes Jesus is a God.
i just know these texts:
5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
1 cor8
so Jesus is not the father and is not the God . he is the son of God and God said so himself on more than one occasion; are you calling God a liar?
16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
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matthew 16
13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
have you ever heard Mike use these texts?
.+ 5 For even though there are those who are called “gods,”+ whether in heaven+ or on earth,+ just as there are many “gods” and many “lords,”+ 6 there is actually to us one God*+ the Father,+ out of whom all things are, and we for him;+ and there is one Lord,+ Jesus Christ,+ through whom all things are,+ and we through him.
does this text say that Jesus is God?
or that Jesus created on Himself the universe?
5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
KJV
the greek does not know the a or an or the so out of the greek you should be able to understand :
how can anybody be WITH somebody IF he IS that same somebody?
it would say:
Go
John 1:1-51
1 In the beginning was Word, and Word was with God, and Word was God.
how can anybody be WITH somebody IF he IS that same somebody?
at least two persons are here God and the Word and not ONE.
so God was with the Word and a God was the Word .
I know you dont want to understand.
For everything was created by him, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities- all things have been created through him and for him.
this means that the father (of whom you read) was with Jesus when he said to Jesus : let US make men.
and through Jesus the father created everything : but the son was no co creator : all honor goes to the father. Jesus being his assistent.(as a son)
COLOSSIANS 1:16
KJ21 For by Him were all things created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers: all things were created by Him and for Him.
ASV for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him;
AMP For by Him all things were created in heaven and on earth, [things] visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him [that is, by His activity] and for Him.
AMPC For it was in Him that all things were created, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him [by His service, intervention] and in and for Him.
BRG For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
CSB For everything was created by him, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities- all things have been created through him and for him.
CEB Because all things were created by him: both in the heavens and on the earth, the things that are visible and the things that are invisible. Whether they are thrones or powers, or rulers or authorities, all things were created through him and for him.
CJB because in connection with him were created all things - in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, lordships, rulers or authorities - they have all been created through him and for him.
CEV Everything was created by him, everything in heaven and on earth, everything seen and unseen, including all forces and powers, and all rulers and authorities. All things were created by God’s Son, and everything was made for him.
DARBY because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him.
DLNT because all things were created by Him in the heavens and on the earth, the visible things and the invisible things- whether thrones or lordships or rulers or authorities. All things have been created through Him and for Him.
DRA For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him and in him.
ERV Through his power all things were made: things in heaven and on earth, seen and not seen- all spiritual rulers, lords, powers, and authorities. Everything was made through him and for him.
ESV For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities-all things were created through him and for him.
ESVUK For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities-all things were created through him and for him.
EXB ·Through his power [L In him; or By him] all things were created [John 1:3; Heb. 1:2]-things in heaven and on earth, things seen and unseen, all ·powers [or heavenly authorities; L thrones], ·authorities [dominions; kingdoms], ·lords [rulers], and ·rulers [authorities; C these four may refer to angelic hierarchies, or to earthly and heavenly rulers]. All things were created through Christ and for Christ.
GNV For by him were all things created which are in heaven, and which are in earth, things visible and invisible: whether they be Thrones, or Dominions, or Principalities, or Powers, all things were created by him, and for him.
GW He created all things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. Whether they are kings or lords, rulers or powers- everything has been created through him and for him.
GNT For through him God created everything in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen things, including spiritual powers, lords, rulers, and authorities. God created the whole universe through him and for him.
HCSB For everything was created by Him, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities- all things have been created through Him and for Him.
ICB Through his power all things were made-things in heaven and on earth, things seen and unseen, all powers, authorities, lords, and rulers. All things were made through Christ and for Christ.
ISV For by him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether they are kings, lords, rulers, or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.
PHILLIPS Now Christ is the visible expression of the invisible God. He existed before creation began, for it was through him that every thing was made, whether spiritual or material, seen or unseen. Through him, and for him, also, were created power and dominion, ownership and authority. In fact, every single thing was created through, and for him. He is both the first principle and the upholding principle of the whole scheme of creation. And now he is the head of the body which is composed of all Christian people. Life from nothing began through him, and life from the dead began through him, and he is, therefore, justly called the Lord of all. It was in him that the full nature of God chose to live, and through him God planned to reconcile in his own person, as it were, everything on earth and everything in Heaven by virtue of the sacrifice of the cross.
JUB for by him were all things created, that are in the heavens and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they are thrones or dominions or principalities or powers: all things were created by him and in him;
KJV For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
AKJV for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
LEB because all things in the heavens and on the earth were created by him, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers, all things were created through him and for him,
TLB Christ himself is the Creator who made everything in heaven and earth, the things we can see and the things we can’t; the spirit world with its kings and kingdoms, its rulers and authorities; all were made by Christ for his own use and glory.
MSG We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels-everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body.
MEV For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they are thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers. All things were created by Him and for Him.
MOUNCE for in him all things were created, in · heaven and on · earth, things visible and · invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether principalities or powers-all things have been created through him and for him.
NOG He created all things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. Whether they are kings or lords, rulers or powers- everything has been created through him and for him.
NABRE For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things were created through him and for him.
NASB For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities-all things have been created through Him and for Him.
NCV Through his power all things were made-things in heaven and on earth, things seen and unseen, all powers, authorities, lords, and rulers. All things were made through Christ and for Christ.
NET for all things in heaven and on earth were created in him-all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether principalities or powers-all things were created through him and for him.
NIRV All things were created in him. He created everything in heaven and on earth. He created everything that can be seen and everything that can’t be seen. He created kings, powers, rulers and authorities. All things have been created by him and for him.
NIV For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.
NIVUK For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.
NKJV For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.
NLV Christ made everything in the heavens and on the earth. He made everything that is seen and things that are not seen. He made all the powers of heaven. Everything was made by Him and for Him.
NLT for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see- such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him.
NRSV for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers-all things have been created through him and for him.
NRSVA for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers-all things have been created through him and for him.
NRSVACE for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers-all things have been created through him and for him.
NRSVCE for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers-all things have been created through him and for him.
NTE For in him all things were created, in the heavens and here on the earth. Things we can see and things we cannot, - thrones and lordships and rulers and powers - all things were created both through him and for him.
OJB Because in Him were created all things in Shomayim and on Ha’Aretz, the visible and the nistar (hidden), whether thrones or dominions, whether rulers or authorities, all things through Him and for Him have been created. [TEHILLIM 33:6]
RSV for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities-all things were created through him and for him.
RSVCE for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities-all things were created through him and for him.
TLV For by Him all things were created- in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, whether thrones or angelic powers or rulers or authorities. All was created through Him and for Him.
VOICE It was by Him that everything was created: the heavens, the earth, all things within and upon them, all things seen and unseen, thrones and dominions, spiritual powers and authorities. Every detail was crafted through His design, by His own hands, and for His purposes.
WEB For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.
WE He made everything in the sky and on the earth. He made the things which can be seen and the things which cannot be seen. That means angels, kings, great powers, and rulers. They were all made by him and for him.
WYC For in him all things be made, in heavens and in earth, visible and invisible, either thrones, either dominations, either princehoods, either powers, all things be made of nought by him, and in him,
YLT because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,
As I have understood it: We are not and cannot be saved by just believing we are saved. We need evidence that we are saved before we can believe and truly be saved, but where is the evidence that we are saved? Simple, we have the record of God's Son(the Bible, the Gospel), which tell us that God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, has died for our sins, and rose from the dead proving it. We are supposed to believe the truth, the 'record of God's Son'. If we don't believe it, we are told we have made God a liar(1st John 5:10). When we do begin to believe it, we simultaneously begin to conciously know that what we have believed is the 'Truth', that we have complied with God's only requirement for salvation, and that we have entered into a new and happy relationship with Him...we really ARE saved by God's grace through our faith in Christ! The Holy Spirit has, of course, also mysteriously come along side us, testifying to the truth of all this in our inner man. Do we sometimes doubt? Yes, but we really shouldn't, should we? We simply need to grow-up and out of our doubts...and simply keep believing all the truth we can in the Word of God.
I think carnal Christians are real. But not what is portrayed in our society. More that think they are carnal are actually unsaved.
no mike there is no position that God will reward with a condition IF YOU DID NOT CHANGE FOR GOD FIRST
He that says: “I have come to know him,”+ and yet is not observing his commandments,+ is a liar, and the truth is not in this [person].+ 5 But whoever does observe his word,+ truthfully in this [person] the love of God has been made perfect.+ By this we have the knowledge that we are in union with him.+ 6 He that says he remains in union+ with him is under obligation himself also to go on walking just as that one walked.+
FOR EXAMPLE:
He that says he is in the light and yet hates+ his brother is in the darkness up to right now.+ 10 He that loves his brother remains in the light,+ and there is no cause for stumbling in his case.+ 11 But he that hates his brother is in the darkness and is walking in the darkness,+ and he does not know where he is going,+ because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
If we make the statement:* “We are having a sharing with him,” and yet we go on walking in the darkness,+ we are lying and are not practicing the truth.+ 7 However, if we are walking in the light as he himself is in the light,+ we do have a sharing with one another,+ and the blood+ of Jesus his Son cleanses+ us from all sin.+
Did you think being carnal is justifiable according to Christianity. So, we able to say two types of christians carnal and spiritual. So after salivation stay unconverted in practice is just according to your teaching. This is the heresy of Dispensationalism. They think to enjoy justification with out sanctification. This is antinomianism.
I am a new subscriber and enjoy your sermons. I do have a bit of a beef about your characterization of Adam as a blame-thrower, though.
I believe Adam was superior to any man alive today, not just physically perfect, but intelligent beyond our imaginations, as well.
He understood the consequence of Eve's disobedience, what it really meant that she had been deceived by the evil spirit in the serpent. Just as Adam was perfect, so was Eve - I doubt there has ever been a more beautiful woman than Eve.
Now think of the heavenly host who saw God's beautiful creation, the daughters of men, and lusted after them, desiring to have them as wives and for them to bear hybrid children. It is clear the serpent sought to steal Eve from Adam. He enticed her with the promise that she could become like the gods. He deceived her to take the forbidden fruit into herself. She became corrupted.
When Adam discovered what had happened, that she had been faithless to God and to him, he was faced with a choice. His emotions were in a turmoil. He had failed to protect his most precious gift after God had warned them about this evil in the Garden. Does he give her up to suffer her fate, leaving himself alone again? Does he join her to save her from the spirit who was stealing her away?
Adam had love and gratitude and a longing for Eve, as he saw her fade away before his eyes. He sacrificed himself for her. Then they both faded away from God and He had to call out for them.
"Lord, this woman you made for me (she is mine, flesh of my flesh) has done this thing, and I love her, I cannot let the evil serpent take her from me. I did what I could to keep her, as You meant for us to be together. We are so ashamed. But do not let the serpent have this woman you made for me."
Then God sacrificed an innocent animal to cover their nakedness (sin of a sexual nature)
The child's storybook version of Adam and Eve and what happened in the Garden of Eden is appropriate for children, but adults need to understand more deeply, as Adam surely did. For we see today in the world around us people being deceived by the influence of spirits enticing to us our death, by stirring up unholy lusts in defiance of God's will for His creation. That is why we need to accept the loving sacrifice made by Jesus, and see clearly in the Holy Spirit the trickery used now is the same lie and liar that lured Eve in the Garden.
This is very imaginative. It would make for a very compelling book or movie, but there’s nothing in the Bible that really gives us this insight. It seems much more likely and appropriate to say that Adam was playing the blame game.
Before you read Paul, read what Paul's Lord said in Matthew chapter 7 v17 every good tree brings forth good fruit and every evil tree evil fruit, a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, nor can an evil tree bring forth good fruit,
Christendom seems to accept that an evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit, but reject the Eternal Words of the Eternal Word that a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit , as the Apostle John confirms in First John 3v9, whoever is born of God does not sin , because God's seed is in him, which is exactly what Paul teaches in Romans chapter 6
Christianity and sin are incompatible, your doctrine of the old nature and the new nature existing in the true Christian is a Luciferian lie, because it teaching that you can be a child of God and a child of the Devil at the same time
How is it that you judge JW's who teach as you do you have the appearance of humble and meekness so what is the problem with their message in Christ? Some are babes in Christ and some are powerful in the spirit but each is working towards the spiritual man or woman so why do you have a problem with them? Mathew 7 : 21
was Jesus called false teacher ?
Does he know where the kingdom is going to be set up? Where is the tent of God in this case? Who can enter and leave but who can not enter? Does Mike read those scriptures? Does he ask what is the word that the Almighty wishes preached?
are you asking me or mike? the truth is that the government of the millenium will be from heaven down to earth: revelation mentions that moment :
I saw also the holy city,+ New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven+ from God and prepared as a bride+ adorned for her husband.+ 3 With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent*+ of God is with mankind, and he will reside*+ with them, and they will be his peoples.+ And God himself will be with them.+ 4 And he will wipe out every tear+ from their eyes, and death will be no more,+ neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore.+ The former things have passed away.”+
rev21
somehow the government of Jesus with the 144000 kings over the great crowd of witnesses on earth will be the first step : later also Jesus will surrender to his father:
Next, the end,* when he hands over the kingdom to his God and Father, when he has brought to nothing all government and all authority and power.+ 25 For he must rule as king until [God]* has put all enemies under his feet.+ 26 As the last enemy, death is to be brought to nothing.*+ 27 For [God] “subjected all things under his feet.”+ But when he says that ‘all things have been subjected,’+ it is evident that it is with the exception of the one who subjected all things to him.+ 28 But when all things will have been subjected to him,+ then the Son himself will also subject himself* to the One+ who subjected all things to him, that God may be all things to everyone.*+
1cor15
Right so why do so many Christians think they are off to heaven?
www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-no4-2017-july/
But who says that the totally depraved cannot say yes to God? My answer is, the totally depraved CAN indeed say Yes to God. I am not a Calvinist, I am a "scripturalist". The scriptures show that there is N O T H I N G good in me, that is, in my innermost being, at the core of my being. Yet, God has regenerated me. I assented to the work of His Holy Spirit. As one who was totally dead in trespasses, completely thoroughly sin[ful], I said "Yes" to Jesus. I was Lazarus in the tomb, dead, and Christ Jesus called me out. Lazarus did not respond from an infinitesimal remaining spark of life. Lazarus , TOTALLY dead, responded to the life generating words of Jesus, "Come forth, Lazarus". I believe that the concept of Total Depravity is a theory which is used as an attempt to describe the ontological condition of which you speak, Mike. And when we try to define these conditions, we develop debatable theories. Perhaps "Total Depravity-ists", and whatever you call those on the opposite side of that particular debate are both believing the same thing, but have different ways of understanding the condition, and different ways of speaking about it. But the condition is simply the way that it is. The condition is not one way if you are a "Calvinist" and another way if you are an anti-Calvinist. The condition of natural man is simply the condition of natural man. Anyway, despite giving in to my temptation to argue minutia here, I truly value your teaching, Mike. You are a very smart guy who loves The Lord and has a great way of elucidating scripture, and I appreciate you, and am always provoked to thinking deeply about scripture when listening to you!