Fill The Lamp

For we know that all creation groans in unison with birthing pains up until now .  The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs.

For if your life is just about satisfying the impulses of your sinful nature, then prepare to die . But, if you have invited the Spirit to destroy these selfish desires, you will experience life. 

Rom 8:11 " But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you"

Therefore, since the mindset of the Spirit is the fruit and shape of the Spirit's life, the way God designed for us to walk and live is to have a spiritual mindset , not a fleshly one. From hostility to life to a spiritual mindset . And because we have this spiritual mindset, we walk that way – we live that way. We " do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit ."

The "law of sin and death" in verse 2 is the power and authority of sin which CONTROLS and rules in a life where God does not have the upper hand but where flesh is dominant . 

my new life tells me to do right, but the old nature that is still inside me loves to sin . Oh, what a terrible predicament I’m in! Who will free me from my slavery to this deadly lower nature? Thank God! It has been done by Jesus Christ our Lord. He has set me free.  

Sin is making promises to you that it cannot keep, and you are trusting in these promises. So, what is the remedy ? Die to the Law and live to God through the crucified and risen Christ. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the remedy

If you are in Christ, justified , and married to your Savior, Jesus, you bear fruit for God . That means that new desires and attitudes and choices and actions grow like fruit from this all-satisfying relationship between you and your living "husband," Jesus Christ.

“Wages of Sin is Death …. It’s like the unbelieving sinner gets paid for his or her disbelief in Christ. It’s called eternal Death.  Like one man put it, “As a sense of equivalence is involved here. Sinners get what they have earned . Death is no random sentence, but the inevitable consequence of their sin.

Beloved, we have been born into this Enslavement of Sin, because of Adam’s disobedience, and We MUST Change to flee from its Bondage! !  Your creator has made a way and it’s the only WAY of escape. But there is the requirement of falling in LOVE with the One who payed the bail price to set you FREE.

1Corinth 6:19-20 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you , whom you have from God, and you are not your own ? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.  

  For he who has died has been freed from sin .  Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him ,   knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more . Death no longer has dominion over Him.   For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all ; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 

Although the Mosaic law is not flawed its presence caused mankind’s sin to increase.  Thus, it made men more aware of their own sinfulness an inability to keep God’s perfect standard and it served as a tutor, you might say, to drive them to Christ.    

By Adam’s sin many are made sinners : judgment is coming to condemnation upon all those that by Adam’s disobedience were made sinners.    There is judgment given and recorded against us in the court of heaven ; and, if the judgment be not reversed, we are likely to sink under it to eternity. 

God the Father himself has worked in the past decisively and will work in the future unfailingly to rescue us from his wrath.

So, you were guilty sinners, you were weak and helpless, and you were ungodly and deserving of the just and holy wrath of God. And in spite of all that, he loved you and gave his Son to die that you might live.

"Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong."  2 Corinth 12:9

God wants you to take this very personally. He wants you to read and hear and know that you are being addressed  very personally. 

Why is faith so essential? He answers, it's because, it harmonizes with grace . And why is that important? Because God's grace is what gives the guarantee .

We Gentiles who believe on Jesus the Messiah are fellow heirs with Abraham and with him will inherit the world. Jews and Gentiles together , who believe in Christ, are heirs of the world. 

 It's because the gospel is the good news that our sins are laid on Christ and his righteousness is laid on us. The Great Exchange . The great imputation of our sin to Christ and God's righteousness to us – called justification

Faith will begin to overcome our ungodliness. But in the beginning of the Christian life - where justification happens - we are all ungodly . 

Gal 5:4   “You, and anyone else who seeks to be on the right side of God through the law, have effectively been cut off from the Anointed, circumcised from grace, and cast off from the favor of God.  

Mankind has the understanding that he knows what is best and his progress of science and abilities to provide good things for advancement are because he (man) is determined to be the way-maker. 

18 “They have no fear of God at all.” 19 Obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was given , for its purpose is to keep people from having excuses, and to show that the entire world is guilty before God. 20 For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are.