To: ALL WHO HAVE EARS TO HEAR
From: GOD
THE FATHER, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST HIS SON and Ministered through the HOLY
SPIRIT OF GOD, The Helper, that He may be with you forever. [John 14:16]
Subject: MY WORD; John 1:1 (NKJV) 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God. John 1:14 (NKJV) 14 And the Word
became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the
only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
Romans 7:15–25 (The Living Bible) 15 I don’t understand myself at all, for I
really want to do what is right, but I can’t. I do what I don’t want to—what I
hate. 16 I know perfectly well that what I am doing is wrong,
and my bad conscience proves that I agree with these laws I am breaking. 17
But I can’t help myself because I’m no longer doing it. It is sin inside me
that is stronger than I am that makes me do these evil things. 18 I know I am rotten through
and through so far as my old sinful nature is concerned. No matter which way I
turn I can’t make myself do right. I want to but I can’t. 19 When
I want to do good, I don’t; and when I try not to do wrong, I do it anyway. 20
Now if I am doing what I don’t want to, it is plain where the trouble is: sin
still has me in its evil grasp. 21 It seems to be a fact of life
that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. 22
I love to do God’s will so far as my new nature is concerned; 23 but
there is something else deep within me, in my lower nature, that is at war with
my mind and wins the fight and makes me a slave to the sin that is still within
me. In my mind I want to be God’s willing servant, but instead I find myself
still enslaved to sin. So you see how it is: my new life tells me to do right,
but the old nature that is still inside me loves to sin. Oh, what a terrible
predicament I’m in! Who will free me from my slavery to this deadly lower
nature? Thank God! It has been done by Jesus Christ our Lord. He has set me free.
Romans 6:5–18 (The Living Bible) 5 For you have become a part
of him, and so you died with him, so to speak, when he died; and now you
share his new life and shall rise as he did. 6 Your old evil desires
were nailed to the cross with him; that part of you that loves to sin was
crushed and fatally wounded, so that your sin-loving body is no longer under
sin’s control, no longer needs to be a slave to sin; 7 for when you
are deadened to sin you are freed from all its allure and its power over you. 8
And since your old sin-loving nature “died” with Christ, we know that you will
share his new life. 9 Christ rose from the dead and will never die
again. Death no longer has any power over him. 10 He died once for
all to end sin’s power, but now he lives forever in unbroken fellowship with
God. 11 So look upon your old sin nature as dead and unresponsive to
sin, and instead be alive to God, alert to him, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 12
Do not let sin control your puny body
any longer; do not give in to its sinful desires. 13 Do not let any
part of your bodies become tools of wickedness, to be used for sinning; but
give yourselves completely to God—every part of you—for you are back from death
and you want to be tools in the hands of God, to be used for his good purposes.
14 Sin need never again be your master, for now you are no longer
tied to the law where sin enslaves you, but you are free under God’s favor and
mercy. 15 Does this mean that now we can go ahead and sin and not
worry about it? (For our salvation does not depend on keeping the law but on
receiving God’s grace!) Of course not! 16
Don’t you realize that you can choose your own master? You can choose sin (with
death) or else obedience (with acquittal). The one to whom you offer
yourself—he will take you and be your master, and you will be his slave. 17
Thank God that though you once chose to be slaves of sin, now you have obeyed
with all your heart the teaching to which God has committed you. 18 And
now you are free from your old master, sin; and you have become slaves to your
new master, righteousness.
Romans 8:1–11 (The Living Bible) 1 So there is now no condemnation
awaiting those who belong to Christ Jesus. 2 For the power of the
life-giving Spirit—and this power is mine through Christ Jesus—has freed me
from the vicious circle of sin and death. 3 We aren’t saved from
sin’s grasp by knowing the commandments of God because we can’t and don’t keep
them, but God put into effect a different plan to save us. He sent his own Son
in a human body like ours—except that ours are sinful—and destroyed sin’s
control over us by giving himself as a sacrifice for our sins. 4 So
now we can obey God’s laws if we follow after the Holy Spirit and no longer
obey the old evil nature within us. 5 Those who let themselves be
controlled by their lower natures live only to please themselves, but those who
follow after the Holy Spirit find themselves doing those things that please
God. 6 Following after the Holy Spirit leads to life and peace, but
following after the old nature leads to death 7 because the old
sinful nature within us is against God. It never did obey God’s laws and it
never will. 8 That’s why
those who are still under the control of their old sinful selves, bent on
following their old evil desires, can never please God. 9 But you
are not like that. You are controlled by your new nature if you have the Spirit
of God living in you. (And remember that if anyone doesn’t have the Spirit of
Christ living in him, he is not a Christian at all.) 10 Yet, even
though Christ lives within you, your body will die because of sin; but your
spirit will live, for Christ has pardoned it. 11 And if the Spirit
of God, who raised up Jesus from the dead, lives in you, he will make your
dying bodies live again after you die, by means of this same Holy Spirit living
within you.
[Please Note: Always Read the
Word of God in Context, reading the entire chapter or book, asking the Holy
Spirit of the Living God to give you the interpretation. 2 Peter 1:16–21 (Williams) 16 For it was not mere stories of fancy
that we followed when we told you of the power and coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of His majesty. 17 For when He
received such honor and glory from God the Father, when from the majestic glory
there was borne to Him a voice like this, “This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom
I take delight.” 18 we heard this voice ourselves borne from heaven
while we were with Him on that sacred mountain. 19 So we have the
message of the prophets more certainly guaranteed. Please pay attention to this message as to a
lamp that is shining in a dismal place, until the day dawns and the morning
star rises in your hearts; 20 because you recognize this truth above
all else, that no prophecy in Scripture
is to be interpreted by one’s own mind, 21 for no prophecy has
ever yet originated in man’s will, but men who were led by the Holy Spirit
spoke from God.]
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