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Originally Posted by Chargriller
There is only agreement from everybody on the forum regarding those verses Bo. And I thank God for having you point them out. My succinct point I am trying to pull out is…. on a personal level how do you as a Christian (possessor vs. professor) carry out those scriptures in a way now and every day that you didn’t do when you were an unsaved sinner.
Physical evidence of Holy Spiritual rebirth? Manifested in a way now that was far from you before? This isn’t directed at any person directly…I’m trying to get my fellow brothers and sisters to put into words (as witnesses) how they manifest their Spiritual rebirth into worldly evidence so that those the Holy Spirit may be calling may see Christ manifested in the actions of others. What an encouragement!!
Though these forums are wonderful were all in a sense…preaching to the choir. For the few (out of billions) lost that find this Christian forum out of probably millions…. what would make this one different than all the others if we all just re-quote the Holy Bible scriptures but fail to show what crucifying the old man and being born again in Spirit (resurrected) means in a day to day to hour to hour to week to week to year to year?
To me it screams out….. Here is the instruction book with all the directions ….but I need someone willing to show me how to put it together. Please Lord give me a Daily tool that doesn’t just talk about it…but says here is an earthly sinful example…this probably sounds like rambling. I’m not an educated man. I know there are people on this forum with college degrees, (BA, PhD’s and all other letters) that could embarrass me in a heart beat trying to struggle putting into words the concept that’s in my heart.
We have all heard the term “Professors of faith vs. Possessors of faith. I am searching for a methodology that will let the unbeliever have the scales fall from their eyes and the veil lifted from his face. I want my self and others to have the privilege of perhaps being that “Tool”!
We should be able to show how “The rubber meets the road”. Not just quote the Driver Manuel and then your on your own. Instead look here sit down and fasten your seat belt. place your hands on the wheel at the ten and two position and so on and so on.
Just for the record I know that the above isn’t the only purpose of a Christian Forum. I vision this place as a manifold like on an exhaust on a car with many branches all coming off the main body of the manifold. Each branch peculiar to it’s self but yet rooted in the original Grace as it’s source. O’ my God I love You so!
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One must remember that this is a process. When one is born again one receives a new spirit from God. When one is ressurected one recieves a new body. It is our souls- mind, intellect, will and emotions Jesus came to save. This is accomplished as we belive God at His Word, we are renewed in our minds one area at a time as we come into agreement with the Word of God. This is why we see so many levels of maturity in the body of Christ (as aptly described by Paul the Apostle). So with this in mind one is likely to see many levels of the expression of Christ in different Christians.
What is different in the way I act now- more mercy, more love, quick to forgive, putting others first, caring for the hurting these are just some symptoms of a life fill with the Holy Spirit. When I really found Jesus I did not try to give up drinking and drugging but instead I simply did not want to do those thins anymore. I found Jesus so much better that I can no longer even think of the old lifestyle. So now I love to give, I love to pray, I love His Word, I love to worship. But if there is one thing that really charecterizes a difference in my life it is that I walk in communion with God. I interact with Him thruout the day, I am led by Him in most ( it should be all) choices I make and His presence directs and flavors all I do.