Word for 12/10/2016 For I do not understand what I do, because I do not do what I want, but what I hate - that is what I do.

"For I do not understand what I do, because I do not do what I want, but what I hate - that is what I do." Romans 7

 

 

Before I get into the substance, I would like to show some attitudes of the general readership. We are all different and the motivations for entering this blog are different. Some enter for the conspiracies, feeding off the sensationalism, others for the politics. However, there is a group that I would like to divide into two subgroups. One such group is people who consider themselves believers. These believers are divided into the following subgroups according to the parable of the sower:

1.   Ground with thorns - people who hear the word but are preoccupied with worldly things.
2. Fertile ground - those who not only hear the word, but also receive it, and thus bear fruit. These are the true Christians.

 

 

Sometimes people say: well, you know, I don't have to agree with you on everything. Of course you don't have to and you shouldn't even. You have to agree with Scripture 🙂 .

Why am I writing about it? Because I observe the comments and likes on Facebook of the popularity of particular texts of mine. When it comes to obeying the Law and following Biblical principles, the likes are small. Of course, in order not to feed the trolls, I will say right away that it is not for popularity that I look at the likes. To me, they are statistics, telling me about reader preferences.

If I were to set up a site about the shape of the earth and UFOs or similar topics, there would be several thousand more hits. But I'm not concerned about the hits.

 

“13 Enter through the narrow gate! For wide is the gate and spacious is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter through it. 14 How narrow is the gate and how narrow The way that leads to life, and few are those who find it!" Mt 7

 

The law is uncomfortable, submission to husbands is uncomfortable:

 

""Wives, be submissive to your husbands his own as to the Lord, for the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior."

 

How hard it is for today's women to accept this line. Immediately there are thunders from the husband tyrant lord and master. Dear friends, I am not a theist.

I see couples at reunions where both parties are converts. These relationships are based on respect and love. What's more, the example of Marcin and Gosia shows how beautiful the process can be when the husband converts first, showing the fruits. Gosia, seeing her husband's fruits, noticed that it works, that it is beautiful. So is she a slave? Is Marcin a tyrant? No. This is God's marriage. Just like in Chelmża I saw Darek and Kasie and in Ustroń Mariusz and Kasie. The heart rejoices to see God's marriage.

It works 🙂

 

James says:

 

"For He that said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not kill; if therefore thou shalt not commit adultery, but shalt kill, thou art a transgressor of the law."

 

Does the law not apply to us then?

Sabbath example. It appears that the 9 commandments are valid, but one, the one concerning the Sabbath the Lord Jesus removed. Please show me where he removed it. Where did he say he was Lord of the Sabbath? Does this statement say we are not to celebrate it? No, it implies that Jesus is the ruler of the Sabbath. I recently illustrated this to someone on the phone. If the President of the Republic of Poland orders a curfew starting at 10pm, won't he himself be allowed to walk the streets after 10pm? Non sense.

I am still studying the Sabbath because I want to be sure of my view of the obligatory nature of its observance. There remains a stirring verse from Colossians yet, but it is a matter of examining the context.

I've been searching a lot about Shabbat lately and you know what I come across? On Catholic sites that say it's a Jewish holiday :-). The understanding is simple: you celebrate the Sabbath? you are a Jew.

An example of the pro-Catholic side's interpretation:

"Christians are no longer obligated to celebrate the Sabbath Col 2:16-17:Therefore let no one make any judgment about you concerning food or drink, or about a festival or a new moon or sabbath! These are only shadows of things to come, and the reality belongs to Christ. Christians are obligated to celebrate Sunday. The observance of the Sabbath was associated with the liturgy of Israel Leviticus 23:1-44:'

 

Haha.

Haha it is even more interesting that the Catholic outlook is in Protestant churches. Protestants celebrate on Sunday 🙂 .

Meanwhile, the 2nd century celebrated:

 

"Third, it is clear from historians' research that as late as the second century some Christian communities were still observing the Sabbath (certainly in Antioch)."

http://mateusz.pl/pow/021006.htm

 

Some honest priest wrote this.

What do you mean, the early Christians celebrated the Sabbath? Gosh, they fell under the law by giving up grace. Total massacre.

OK, I'll leave the subject of the Sabbath for later because on 100% I'm not convinced myself. I need to explore this just as the issues of Paul and the divinity of Jesus I have explored.

 

 

I have written about the popularity of certain topics because the following consideration will be pleasing to man's old nature, and this is because it partly gives a furor to sin.

The whole context of the title verse:

 

“14) We know that the Law is spiritual, whereas I am carnal and subject to sin. (15) For I cannot comprehend what I do. I do not do what I want, but what I hate. (16) And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit to the Law that it is good. (17) Therefore it is no longer I who do it, but sin that resides in me. (18) I know that goodness does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do good quickly comes to me, but not to do it. (19) For I do not do the good that I want, but I commit the evil that I do not want. (20) And if I do what I do not want to do, it is not I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. (21) So I clearly experience that in me, who wants to do good, evil resides. (22) For I agree with the Law of God, but it happens against all that is in me. (23) I perceive a different law within me - one that opposes the law of my mind and places me in bondage to the law dictated by the sin that resides within me. (24) I am a wretched man! Who will deliver me from a body subject to this death? (25) To God be thanks through Jesus Christ our Lord. So I myself, through the mind, am a servant of the Law of God, but through the flesh I am a slave to the law dictated by sin.'

 

I found a great picture bluntly showing what this verse is:

"The law is spiritual, whereas I am carnal".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think Cuapak will find this link interesting: http://chfpn.pl/index/?id=0353ab4cbed5beae847a7ff6e220b5cf

 

As in the Word and picture there is a conflict between the flesh and the Spirit. We are seemingly born again, but the old nature fights against the new spirit received from God.

Paul further wrote:

 

'For I do not know how to comprehend what I do. I do not do what I want, but I do what I hate.'

 

This is the measure of being born again. Recently I said something unkind to a certain person. A second later I regretted it and thought: why can't I get rid of this dirt?

Also Paul wrote: I die daily. If we are talking about being born again, we have to take these little corrections that it is a process. You don't instantly go from being an infant to being a grandfather....

This is also why I sometimes have to freeze on blog Freshmen not showing the fruit of the Spirit.

It is a struggle, but with Jesus it is a victorious struggle. Every problem, every weakness will be overcome in Jesus, but you must ask Him for it.

 

I can do all things in him who strengthens me.

 

Let's look at what kind of contamination it is:

 

'Therefore it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.'

 

Something terrible. Sin rules us. We do not rule ourselves. This is why Satan first attacks us through culture. The sexual revolution, computer games, cinema, theater, bad company. After that, sin just lives in us.

What does the process look like next?

 

"I know that goodness does not dwell in me - that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do good quickly comes upon me, but the execution does not."

 

So the spirit dwells in the good and the flesh wants something else. I see it in myself how tainted I am with sin, but the consolation is that it gets better every year.

 

"So I clearly experience that in me, who want to do good, evil resides".

Can you see the evil dwelling within you?

If you cannot see, it means you are an unbeliever. There is no person on earth without sin because:

 

"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." 1 John.

 

Are you working on it, struggling? Are you asking Jesus?

Now I realize why Paul is so fought against. He shows that there is sin in us, and the devil does not allow unborn Bible intellectuals to see this. He uses pride to do this.

 

"For I agree with the Law of God, but it happens against all that is in me."

 

Paul agrees with the Law of God. How is this possible?

He points out the rift that through the mind will be the servant of the Law of God in Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

I am a wretched man! Who will deliver me from a body subject to this death? (25) To God be thanks through Jesus Christ our Lord. So I myself, through the mind, am a servant of the Law of God, but through the flesh I am a slave to the law dictated by sin.'

 

To do battle with the flesh and our sinful nature

 

Amen.