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  1. Chris1975

    Awake to Righteousness and Don't Sin

    We don't disagree on this.
  2. Chris1975

    Jonah Died and went to Hell

    Its the silver cord. Ecclesiastes 12v6,7 Remember your Creator before the silver cord is loosed, Or the golden bowl is broken, Or the pitcher shattered at the fountain, Or the wheel broken at the well. 7 Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who...
  3. Chris1975

    Awake to Righteousness and Don't Sin

    There are two parts to the Cross message. The Death - old man with Him The Resurrection - New Life in the Spirit
  4. Chris1975

    Awake to Righteousness and Don't Sin

    Sure: Romans 6 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be...
  5. Chris1975

    Awake to Righteousness and Don't Sin

    Romans 8 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. -We still make the choices. God leads by the Spirit. You are...
  6. Chris1975

    Awake to Righteousness and Don't Sin

    ROMANS 6 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as [d]instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to...
  7. Chris1975

    Awake to Righteousness and Don't Sin

    No problems with what you have typed here. It goes further. We are to believe in the resurrection for the overcoming power. Romans 6 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should...
  8. Chris1975

    Awake to Righteousness and Don't Sin

    The Holy Spirit doesn't obey for us. The commandments are not for God. They are for us. The Holy Spirit gives us Grace and Power to walk in the light. Sin is no longer our master because of the Grace of God. When we live by Faith, we are led by the Spirit. However it is still our choice. We...
  9. Chris1975

    Awake to Righteousness and Don't Sin

    Of course it comes back to your point....Jesus hanging on a cross as the greatest expression of God's love for us. We love because He first loved us.
  10. Chris1975

    Awake to Righteousness and Don't Sin

    My Brother MOTC, I know you are a solid believer, for I follow your posts. I enjoy them immensely. But Love of God is the greatest commandment, from which all else flows. It is greater than faith. 1 Corinthians 13 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all...
  11. Chris1975

    Awake to Righteousness and Don't Sin

    Matthew 22 37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment.
  12. Chris1975

    Awake to Righteousness and Don't Sin

    Read my post again. Who is speaking against faith? How can you love God WITHOUT faith?
  13. Chris1975

    Jonah Died and went to Hell

    Nor is it key to salvation. Just an interesting topic nonetheless.
  14. Chris1975

    Jonah Died and went to Hell

    Then where was his soul?
  15. Chris1975

    Awake to Righteousness and Don't Sin

    The final verse of a very meaty book of the bible. 1 John 5 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
  16. Chris1975

    Jonah Died and went to Hell

    “Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, I went down to the [a]moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever; Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, Enough evidence there....migo.
  17. Chris1975

    Awake to Righteousness and Don't Sin

    Love God first and foremost. This is the key that unlocks all other behavioural outcomes. 1) Love God....leads to 2) Obedience.....leads to 3) Abiding in His love (in the vine)....leads to 4) Fruit of the Spirit God is looking for Fruit. We start with Worship.
  18. Chris1975

    Awake to Righteousness and Don't Sin

    By doing this: Romans 12 12 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you...
  19. Chris1975

    Jonah Died and went to Hell

    And verses 16 to 19 prove you are right.
  20. Chris1975

    Jonah Died and went to Hell

    Ok, we must be ready to give you an answer, because the scriptures are always in harmony and don't contradict. So lets analyse what Solomon is saying. We will put the surrounding verses: Ecclesiastes 9 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: that one thing happens to all. Truly the...