General Christ - our example

[LeeB]

That is an interesting approach. As I have grown over the years, I can look back and see periods when I went with my free will - and did wrong. However, my ability to do that diminished in me as I grew. I don't think any of us get "full of the spirit of God" in an instant. I could be wrong, but I know only how it happened to me.

The stronger I felt the Spirit in me, the more my free will matches what I see in the scriptures. I can say - now - that I do follow my free will, but it matches what I see in the Bible. But, it is now mine.

It will be in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye. 1 Corinthians 15:52

 

[LeeB]

Petunia, consider that Abraham is called by Paul the father of the faithful and that Christians are of the same faith as Abraham. Now Abraham lived 400 years before Moses, 400 years before the law was given. Abraham was never under the law and it was told to him by GOD that from him a seed would come in which all the nations of the earth would be blessed. Abrahams faith was counted as righteousness when as yet the law did not exist which proves righteousness is not of the law. Now GOD in Isaiah 53:11 , Romans 5:18,19 , 2 Corinthians 5:21 , 1 John 2:1 and many more scriptures call Jesus righteous, this could not be so if he had been under the law, Galatians 2:21 . How long was Jesus righteous? Would he not be righteous as long as GOD was his GOD ? The prophet says this, Psalm 22:10 When GOD brought Jesus into the world HE said, let all GODS angels worship him. Hebrews 1:6. The law is not made for a righteous man. 1 Timothy 1:9 Why was the law even given ? Galatians 3:19 Jesus was the promised seed of Abraham. Then Hebrews says, Hebrews 13:8 while in his mothers womb, as a child then as a man and finally as a glorified life giving spirit at GODS right hand Jesus Christ, the righteous, has never changed. John 1:17 Moses was the mediator of the old covenant but Jesus is the mediator of the new covenant. Jesus was the new covenant in the flesh, Isaiah 42:6 Isaiah 49:6 Simeon testified as well as Anna the prophetess about Jesus when he was just a baby. Luke 2:25-38 . When the scriptures were written there was no such thing as punctuation, no commas. Whoever placed those commas in Galatians 4:4 was probably not a Christian. Look, Colossians 1:19 Hebrews 1:3 describes how GOD created HIS son. The law is the very thing that condemns all to death and Jesus came to save us from this, did he need to save himself first before he could save others or was he never under that law that condemns us in the first place. Jesus even provided the hope of salvation to his mother, who was born under the law.