Mark Valesano's 1 Corinthians Chapter 5 comment about verse 11 on 5/30/2022, 3:21pm...
ELB, thanks for your message. I stand by the phrase "doing our (my) best to follow Him every day". Following Jesus is not easy and won't be in this realm. Adam took care of that and you and I and all of mankind have been paying the price of sin ever since. That's why He asked in Luke 6, why call ye me Lord, Lord and do not the things I say? He then goes on to say those who hear my sayings and does them are like the man who built his house on the rock. Then there's Ananias in Acts 9 who was told to go pray for Saul/Paul that He might show him those things Paul must suffer for His name.
Finally, in Romans 7:14-25, Paul relates the 'battle' that happens every day in all of us. The spirit versus the flesh. Thank God I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. But I have to persevere and not wander off or go back to the former self prior to conversion as Demas did to Paul in 2 Tim. 4:10. You're right when you say it's not my strength or ability, but Jesus. I have to choose Him daily. Not to be born again, mind you, but determined to follow Him, no matter what. I don't want to be like those who left following Him as recorded in John 6:66. Thanks for your time...
ELB's 1 Corinthians Chapter 5 comment about verse 11 on 5/30/2022, 10:26am...
Brother Mark:
I have a question?
Is the best you can do, good enough?
Maybe it's not our doing, but Christ's doing.
Colossians 1:27 ....this mystery .... Christ in you .....
Philippians 2:13 For it is GOD (Christ in you) working in you (his body) both TO WILL and TO DO his good pleasure.
Hebrews 4:10 For he that is entered into HIS (Christ's) REST, he has ceased from his WORKS .....
We are the BODY, Christ is the LIFE.
Revelation 2:26 And he that overcometh, and keeps MY WORKS unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations ....
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Mark Valesano's 1 Corinthians Chapter 5 comment about verse 11 on 5/30/2022, 3:21pm...
ELB, thanks for your message. I stand by the phrase "doing our (my) best to follow Him every day". Following Jesus is not easy and won't be in this realm. Adam took care of that and you and I and all of mankind have been paying the price of sin ever since. That's why He asked in Luke 6, why call ye me Lord, Lord and do not the things I say? He then goes on to say those who hear my sayings and does them are like the man who built his house on the rock. Then there's Ananias in Acts 9 who was told to go pray for Saul/Paul that He might show him those things Paul must suffer for His name.
Finally, in Romans 7:14-25, Paul relates the 'battle' that happens every day in all of us. The spirit versus the flesh. Thank God I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. But I have to persevere and not wander off or go back to the former self prior to conversion as Demas did to Paul in 2 Tim. 4:10. You're right when you say it's not my strength or ability, but Jesus. I have to choose Him daily. Not to be born again, mind you, but determined to follow Him, no matter what. I don't want to be like those who left following Him as recorded in John 6:66. Thanks for your time...
ELB's 1 Corinthians Chapter 5 comment about verse 11 on 5/30/2022, 10:26am...
Brother Mark:
I have a question?
Is the best you can do, good enough?
Maybe it's not our doing, but Christ's doing.
Colossians 1:27 ....this mystery .... Christ in you .....
Philippians 2:13 For it is GOD (Christ in you) working in you (his body) both TO WILL and TO DO his good pleasure.
Hebrews 4:10 For he that is entered into HIS (Christ's) REST, he has ceased from his WORKS .....
We are the BODY, Christ is the LIFE.
Revelation 2:26 And he that overcometh, and keeps MY WORKS unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations ....
God Bless You!
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