The worst verse in the Bible

[Hekuran]

I'm surprised that God gave you 1 John 3:9 but didn't show you 1 John 1:8

 

[jakes]

It gives me great pleasure to reply to your inputs. Spirit1st and Hekuran you are a very wise people, made so by the same Spirit that wised up all the people of all times! We are Truly blessed that our Lord send us Himself in Spiritual being to be our Leader to His righteousness.

The Word did say... Heb 2:11. If the three of us are meant to be made holy, sanctified, then all three of us are of the Same and Only Spirit that can make holy. The Holy Spirit! And if we are, I praise that Exact Same Holy Spirit that He has made us One with Him! May He and He alone be not ashamed to call us brethren, not ever!

Thank you for your time and love you share with me in the Word of our Lord, let us make Him King, and let us remember that we talk to each other to edify our friendship to the level where we would be not ashamed to stand in front of the Almighty, and have boldness to face Him, because we loved each other to the same level that He loved us! If we do not agree on a certain point, let us pray and fast about it, so that Jesus can be the Ruler of all our doctrine! LEt His doctrine be the only One in our hearts, then we are of one mind and one Spirit, exactly Like His, because it was His Gospel that was written in our hearts!

I love Jesus Christ to the level that I am capable of, and I am sure so are you. But our love should grow for each other and then that same love would grow to obedience to God, which would grow to perfection. Look how God puts it. 1 John 4 17Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
As God is, so are we in this world! What an Awesome God we serve. Remember we were corrupt and fouled up, but His Son did this for and with us!

Ok we are all already on agreement that we are cleansed by the blood of Jesus, but what about the sinful flesh, does God change the lusts of the flesh as well? Let us see if God can do something about the old lusts!

We know that every person that will ever undergo re-birth, was known by God even before the earth was made! The bible talks about "whom He did foreknow". Now what does God do with these people He forknow? Look! Romans 8 29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
To understand how He does this, we will look at 1 John 1 verses 8, 9 and 10.

Thank you for also refering to this text Hekuran. This is the whole of salvation in three little verses! What we need to see here is the tences in which these verses are written. Look at the process of sanctification, justification and the ultimate glorification, even while we are in the flesh!

Let us do them one by one.
8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
We are sinners, but God called us and we heard Him and now we want to be His children. So we hear Jesus and He said He came to call us sinners to repent. Now if we come together as called sinners, not a single one of us can say we have no sin. But!!! we are here to confess our sins and repent from them that is why we believe Jesus!
9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
So we confess our sins. And He is faithful and just, and He forgives us our sins. But he does more than that.... He cleanse us from ALL unrighteousness! How does He do that! By regenerating us to the image of His Son Jesus Christ! Our Spirit and flesh would be obedient to Him Only! Just like the flesh that Jesus dwelled in when He was here with us, so will this flesh of ours (this mortal bodies) also be "quicken" by the Spirit that now dwell in them! Romans 8:11. And when this happens this flesh cannot sin, because Jesus is reborn into this flesh, and He moves this flesh like he did with the flesh that died on the cross! This flesh, soul and spirit that once was me, is now complete, perfect, like the Son of God was when He was flesh! With one little difference. Jesus could say He never sinned, but if people now look at my Life in Christ they would see a perfect man, one that cannot sin because God's Seed remaineth in me! 1 John 3:9. And the people ask have you never sinned? Then... 10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Look at the tence SINNED. Past tence! Why because all sin is out, gone, done and removed as far as the east is from the west! Where we are now there is no sin! How can I do sin, if there is no sin to do? Where is this place where there is no sin.... In God. In God is no sin, if I am in Him, I cannot sin, because there is no sin in Him! And if He is in me, He cannot sin, because He is without sin. Can my flesh sin if His Spirit is in me, NO! Can I sin if my spirit is in Him, NO!

God says we that belong to Christ, we have... Gal 5
24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Jesus is the only One that did something after He was crucified, He carried on with the will of His Father only! That is why He still carries on with the will of His father in my crucified flesh!

Jesus will alway be Perfect, and that is why His Body on earth is the only Body God maintains Himself! And He does not do sloppy work! He does it PERFECTLY!

Thank you Jesus, that Your will shall be done, in all who seek thee! Amen!