Not me Posted February 13 Group: Royal Member Followers: 14 Topic Count: 512 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 3,189 Content Per Day: 1.44 Reputation: 3,351 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/06/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted February 13 Romans 10:3 (NASB20) For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What is this ‘subjecting oneself to the righteousness of God’…? God has stated that ‘He has shut up all in disobedience that He might have mercy to all’ …. So this subjecting oneself would have to be separate from all that had been shut up in the disobedience, it would have to be something totally new and separate unto itself… This new thing is the righteousness of faith, which is a simple taking God at His word and believing that He will form a new life in one if one so desires…. For this is a real new life growing in one which purpose is to overcome and overrule all that had been shut up in the disobedience….. This new thing which is birthed from the desire towards it, this desire, is to grab unto something other than itself, something outside of itself, something that only faith can grab unto…. Something that is in God’s ability alone, something that He has promised to work in one if one is but willing…. But God asks one thing, because it is absolutely necessary, that one would keep one’s hands out of the cookie jar so to speak that He might work His work in the growing of this new life…. Because the workings of self, is one looking to one’s own natural life, one’s own natural abilities, it is this working that nullifies, stops, prevents the promised new life from growing in one and overcoming all that needs to be overcome…. For this desire of faith is submitting to God’s righteousness, because by the giving up of oneself to this desire, self is shut up in Christ’s death on the cross…. So as this faith continues its work, and by the longing desire towards it, one grabs unto the promised new life that only God Himself can bring to life in one… For this new life is totally new and separate from the life that has been known up to the point of giving oneself over to the faith that brings the righteous life that comes down from above to become the new life that has been promised to the believing one…. The faith that says; ‘I have been crucified with Christ it is no longer I that live but Christ that lives in me’ is subjecting oneself to the righteousness of God…. For this faith that brings this righteous new life that comes from God by faith, is that faith that is accounted for righteousness…. For God has shut up all in the prison of self, that those that would, would be made free by their simply looking to Him in faith… Many blessings as the freedom that the righteous life produces in one is known, felt and grown…. Because of His great love for the world He has brought forth something totally new, brought to life by the faith of the believer believing…… A believing believer, Not me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farouk Posted February 13 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 26 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 6,398 Content Per Day: 12.16 Reputation: 3,269 Days Won: 31 Joined: 11/18/2022 Status: Offline Share Posted February 13 32 minutes ago, Not me said: Romans 10:3 (NASB20) For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What is this ‘subjecting oneself to the righteousness of God’…? God has stated that ‘He has shut up all in disobedience that He might have mercy to all’ …. So this subjecting oneself would have to be separate from all that had been shut up in the disobedience, it would have to be something totally new and separate unto itself… This new thing is the righteousness of faith, which is a simple taking God at His word and believing that He will form a new life in one if one so desires…. For this is a real new life growing in one which purpose is to overcome and overrule all that had been shut up in the disobedience….. This new thing which is birthed from the desire towards it, this desire, is to grab unto something other than itself, something outside of itself, something that only faith can grab unto…. Something that is in God’s ability alone, something that He has promised to work in one if one is but willing…. But God asks one thing, because it is absolutely necessary, that one would keep one’s hands out of the cookie jar so to speak that He might work His work in the growing of this new life…. Because the workings of self, is one looking to one’s own natural life, one’s own natural abilities, it is this working that nullifies, stops, prevents the promised new life from growing in one and overcoming all that needs to be overcome…. For this desire of faith is submitting to God’s righteousness, because by the giving up of oneself to this desire, self is shut up in Christ’s death on the cross…. So as this faith continues its work, and by the longing desire towards it, one grabs unto the promised new life that only God Himself can bring to life in one… For this new life is totally new and separate from the life that has been known up to the point of giving oneself over to the faith that brings the righteous life that comes down from above to become the new life that has been promised to the believing one…. The faith that says; ‘I have been crucified with Christ it is no longer I that live but Christ that lives in me’ is subjecting oneself to the righteousness of God…. For this faith that brings this righteous new life that comes from God by faith, is that faith that is accounted for righteousness…. For God has shut up all in the prison of self, that those that would, would be made free by their simply looking to Him in faith… Many blessings as the freedom that the righteous life produces in one is known, felt and grown…. Because of His great love for the world He has brought forth something totally new, brought to life by the faith of the believer believing…… A believing believer, Not me Legalism is so rife....... Romans 14 and the Epistle to the Galatians are a great antidote to legalism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not me Posted February 13 Group: Royal Member Followers: 14 Topic Count: 512 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 3,189 Content Per Day: 1.44 Reputation: 3,351 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/06/2018 Status: Offline Author Share Posted February 13 8 minutes ago, farouk said: Legalism is so rife....... Romans 14 and the Epistle to the Galatians are a great antidote to legalism. ‘The just shall live by faith,’ oh that we all might see into the depths of this truth…. Many blessings Farouk, a fellow brother in Christ, Not me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Know Jah Posted February 13 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 289 Content Per Day: 0.17 Reputation: 126 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/28/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted February 13 Subjecting oneself, I think we have to be willing to disown ourselves and do what God requires 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not me Posted February 13 Group: Royal Member Followers: 14 Topic Count: 512 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 3,189 Content Per Day: 1.44 Reputation: 3,351 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/06/2018 Status: Offline Author Share Posted February 13 1 hour ago, Know Jah said: Subjecting oneself, I think we have to be willing to disown ourselves and do what God requires Hello, that is my understanding of scripture also, for Jesus said; ‘if one would be my disciple one must, (deny self) …. So may God bless richly all those that would be willing to do the must…. A fellow striver after the must, Not me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted February 14 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 952 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,573 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,054 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted February 14 Hi, a review of the fuller transition within the letter to the church at Rome that occurs when Paul shifts his focus within that letter to God's plan of redemption for Israel seems to me to be in order. But even if isolated to that one sentence it in of itself becomes a rule, "a legalism", when stated as one's doctrine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted February 14 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 952 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,573 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,054 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted February 14 Chapter 9 through 11 is Paul's inspired of God reveal of God's plan for Israel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not me Posted February 14 Group: Royal Member Followers: 14 Topic Count: 512 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 3,189 Content Per Day: 1.44 Reputation: 3,351 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/06/2018 Status: Offline Author Share Posted February 14 @Neighbor As the Spirit so leads…… Be blessed in Him, Not me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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