It is not he who credits the Lord for his
entire salvation who is "glorying" (i.e., boasting) but
rather she who wants to take some of the credit herself, as in, "Jesus did His part ... but we have our
part in this also, He can't take care of our part ..."
Well Bill - explain to me how
Jesus who is in heaven at the right hand of the Father and walk after the
Spirit for you every day?
Via the Holy Spirit, you
know, "Christ in us, the hope of glory."
and explain to me how Jesus
who is at the right hand of the Father can cast down imaginations and every
high thing that exalts itself
in your mind bringing every
thought into obedience without your cooperation.
How is it that you move
from our statement, "We participate in ..." to yours that these things take
place "without [our]
cooperation"? Did you draw a blank here or are you deliberately
misrepresenting our position?
True he went to the
cross to do what you couldn't do for yourself. Now how is he going to accomplish this
other part (that you can do for yourself) from heaven?
Firstly, I do not
agree with you that I can do anything to add to what Christ has already
accomplished on my (our) behalf: "But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who
became for us wisdom from God -- and righteousness and sanctification and
redemption." Secondly, have you ever heard of the mediation of
Christ? That is how.
BT: Ours is
not a "do nothing stance", Judy; nor have we presented it as
such. Rather it is as Lance stated: "We participate
in that which He, the second Adam lived out from conception to
ascension on our behalf." Bill
jt: Sure sounds that way from
here. He lived his life fulfilling God's law - he went to the cross -
he ascended. So what is your part in all of it? How does this make you
an overcomer in your own life? jt
"I am crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which
I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me,
and gave himself for me." -- Galatians 2:20
Bill
"But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us
wisdom from God -- and righteousness and sanctification and redemption"
--1Corinthians 1.30