Having little expression of Christ in our lives

[farouk]

Prayer and the Scriptures day by day are so important..............

[D. Adrien]

Absolutely! We are not playing on a level playing field. Our default stance without the Holy Spirit of God being replenished is one of delusion and wickedness. Tossing a juicy ripe apple into a bushel of rotten apples will not regenerate or rejuvenate the rotten apples. But! one rotten apple tossed into a bushel of edible ones will accelerate the rot in all of them. Evil comes more naturally to the human mind without the influence of the Almighty. 

[Neighbor]

4 hours ago, Sower said:

If a charismatic replies, I'll still listen...

 

Chuckle snort. Funny one!

[Neighbor]

1 hour ago, D. Adrien said:

But! one rotten apple tossed into a bushel of edible ones will accelerate the rot in all of them.

Fortunately the saints in Christ Jesus are not apples;  but instead are more likened to grapes, figs, figs, pomegranates, olives, and dates.

-Harvest of the Holy Land; called out to be delivered throughout the world with the message of Yeshua, His gospel, that many may be found mature at the soon (quick) return of our Lord and savior Yeshua.

[D. Adrien]

1 hour ago, Neighbor said:

Fortunately the saints in Christ Jesus are not apples;  but instead are more likened to grapes, figs, figs, pomegranates, olives, and dates.

-Harvest of the Holy Land; called out to be delivered throughout the world with the message of Yeshua, His gospel, that many may be found mature at the soon (quick) return of our Lord and savior Yeshua.

I was attempting to convey that the default setting for a natural man is to do evil. Any type of agricultural product planted as a crop or orchard, grows, ripens then rots if not harvested. Now if a rotten product is tossed into a batch of fresh ripe produce, the food stuff will rot much quicker because the contamination spreads easily from fruit to fruit. The opposite will never be true. At no time can a ripe and fresh unit of produce change the state of rotting in something already corrupted. Hence my belief that wickedness comes much easier in this life than righteousness. Jesus frequently used agricultural examples because He found himself in an agricultural society and knew people would clearly understand concepts being taught.

My desire is that I hope I was able to clarify my previous post. Only the indwelling of God's Holy Spirit can convict someone of their need for salvation.

[Mr. M]

5 hours ago, D. Adrien said:

Our default stance without the Holy Spirit of God being replenished is one of delusion and wickedness.

Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin

or the leopard its spots?

Then may you also do good

who are accustomed to do evil.

[Mr. M]

1 hour ago, D. Adrien said:

I was attempting to convey that the default setting for a natural man is to do evil. Any type of agricultural product planted as a crop or orchard, grows, ripens then rots if not harvested. Now if a rotten product is tossed into a batch of fresh ripe produce, the food stuff will rot much quicker because the contamination spreads easily from fruit to fruit. The opposite will never be true. At no time can a ripe and fresh unit of produce change the state of rotting in something already corrupted. Hence my belief that wickedness comes much easier in this life than righteousness. Jesus frequently used agricultural examples because He found himself in an agricultural society and knew people would clearly understand concepts being taught.

My desire is that I hope I was able to clarify my previous post. Only the indwelling of God's Holy Spirit can convict someone of their need for salvation.

1 Corinthians 15:33 Do not be deceived: 

“Evil company corrupts good habits.”

[Neighbor]

3 hours ago, D. Adrien said:

At no time can a ripe and fresh unit of produce change the state of rotting in something already corrupted. Hence my belief that wickedness comes much easier in this life than righteousness. Jesus frequently used agricultural examples because He found himself in an agricultural society and knew people would clearly understand concepts being taught.

Hi, And I was having some fun this being the week of new life of trees of Israel.

As for myself, I  have an understanding that  wickedness is not something to come about, but  instead exists from conception, even before birth in each  of us.

That which is wicked from before birth is turned about by the Holy Spirit  to realize the salvation, the redemption by Yeshua  in all that the Father have given him, of whom He loses not a one.  What is rotten  from  conception is washed white as snow to be seen as holy by Our Holy God.

[Neighbor]

Just now, Neighbor said:

Hi, And I was having some fun this being the week of new life of trees of Israel.

As for myself, I  have an understanding that  wickedness is not something to come about, but  instead exists from conception, even before birth in each  of us.

That which is wicked from before birth is turned about by the Holy Spirit  to realize the salvation, the redemption by Yeshua  in all that the Father have given him, of whom He loses not a one.  What is rotten  from  conception is washed white as snow to be seen as holy by Our Holy God.

May I add that as such, having been made so by God  His own may go about all the world as witnesses giving testimony of  the salvation gospel of Yeshua, doing so  without fearing corruption from any evil.