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Hello. I hope you all had a wonder SABBATH! My
children and I certainly did! We had a wonderful study with two other families
and we studied from Colossians 2, Numbers 10:29-11:29, Ezekiel 36, James 1,
Ephesians 2... etc. I think it lasted a few hours! We had some singing before
hand and I noticed my six-year-old behor (Hebrew: firstborn son... who also
happens to be my only son at this moment) was singing some the songs as well!
(He really likes the Insyderz, a Christian SKA group.)
You do not believe that we are
expected to live sinless lives? You do not I believe that we can?
I would like you two (Glenn and Perry) to
consider some verses:
- 1 John 5:18 -- We know that no
one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps him, and the
evil one does not touch him.
- 1 John 3:9 -- No one who is born of God practices sin, because
His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of
God.
- 1 Tim 5:22 -- Do not lay hands upon anyone too hastily and thereby share
responsibility for the sins of others; keep yourself free from
sin.
- Col 3:9 -- Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self
with its evil practices,
- Eph 4:26 -- Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go
down on your anger,
- Gal 2:15 -- "We are Judeans by nature and not sinners from
among the Gentiles;
- Rom 6:13 -- and do not go on presenting the members of your body to
sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as
those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to
God.
- Rom 6:12 -- Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body
so that you obey its lusts,
- John 9:31 -- "We know that God does not hear sinners; but if
anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him. [read between
the lies]
- John 8:11 -- She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "I do not condemn
you, either. Go. From now on sin no more."
- John 5:14 -- Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him,
"Behold, you have become well; do not sin anymore, so that nothing worse
happens to you."
- Luke 1:6 -- They [the parents of John he Baptist] were both righteous in
the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and requirements
of the Lord.
- Ezek 3:21 -- "However, if you have warned the righteous man that the
righteous should not sin and he does not sin, he shall surely live because
he took warning; and you have delivered yourself."
- Ps 119:11 -- Your word I have treasured in my heart, That I may not
sin against You.
- Ps 4:4 -- Tremble, and do not sin; Meditate in your heart upon
your bed, and be still. Selah.
- Deut 30:11-14 -- For this commandment which I command you today is not
too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach. It is not in heaven,
that you should say, 'Who will go up to heaven for us to get it for us and
make us hear it, that we may observe it? Nor is it beyond the sea, that you
should say, 'Who will cross the sea for us to get it for us and make us hear
it, that we may observe it? But the word is very near you, in your mouth
and in your heart, that you may observe it.
- Deut 30:6 � "Moreover the Lord your God will circumcise
your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with
all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live. [i.e., if you
love me, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS]
- Deut 10:16 "So circumcise your heart, and stiffen your
neck no longer.
Gen 26:4-5 -- "I will multiply your [Isaac's]
descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these
lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;
because Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes
and My laws (Torah)."
By the way, let me temper all those verses with the following verse:
- 1 John 1:8 -- If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving
ourselves and the truth is not in us.
-- slade
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, 23 March, 2003 08:29
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] The Sabbath
Breaker of Numbers
Perry,
you've had it now. You've hit David's sacred cow. The only problem
is I have seen on TT, that he is not perfect. He is a great person, but
far far far from perfect.
Perry wrote:
> I do believe that we are expected to keep
the
> commandments, which are outlined by Jesus in
> the
verses below, and in other places in the
> scriptures. However, I do
not believe that we
> are expected to live sinless lives...in fact,
> I believe that we cannot. The verse "be ye
> therefore
perfect because your father in heaven
> is perfect" is the passage
commonly used as a
> prooftext for this belief, but if one considers
> what "perfect" meant in 1611, it does not mean
> the same as
it does today.
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