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The Lords' Witnesses The Lord said: " Keep on asking, and it will be given you; keep on seeking, and you will find; keep on knocking, and it will be opened to you." (Matthew 7:7)
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Romans 7 - The Law and the Spirit? CLV Ro 7:1 Or are you ignorant, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know law), that the law [spiritual understanding – accurate knowledge of sin] is lording it over a man [human - flesh] for as much time as he is living [with reference to sin – these “living” are not yet baptized into Christ and are still slaves to sin]? CLV Ro 7:2 For a woman [the spirit] in wedlock [joined to your flesh through sanctification] is bound to a living man by law [your spirit is bound to your flesh and is subject to whatever condition you are in]. Yet if the man should be dying [with reference to sin by finding the truth and being baptized into Christ (“dying” means the process is not instant, it is the beginning of your spiritual test)], she is exempt from the law of the man [once your flesh is cleaned through water, your spirit is also free from the bonds of slavery to sin]. CLV Ro 7:3 Consequently, then, while the man is living [with reference to sin], she [your spirit] will be styled an adulteress if she should be becoming another man's [your spirit cannot be joined to the Christ as long as your flesh is still unclean and a slave to sin], yet, if the man should be dying [gets spirit baptized and starts his test], she is free from the law, being no adulteress on becoming another man's [she can now be part of the body of Christ – a member of the holy spirit by covenant (JAC)]. CLV Ro 7:4 So that, my brethren [speaking to those who are so baptized into the JAC], you also were put to death [with reference to sin - in the flesh] to the law through the [human] body of Christ [by faith you were already part of the 1AC for you could not have attained spirit sanctification in any other way], for you to become Another's [the Christ’s as members of the holy spirit covenant], Who is roused from among the dead [to become the head of the holy spirit], that we should be bearing fruit to God [as kings and priests]. CLV Ro 7:5 For, when we were in the flesh [in ignorance of the truth], the passions of sins, which were through the law [accurately knowing right from wrong], operated in our members to be bearing fruit unto Death [as ministers of Satan]. CLV Ro 7:6 Yet now we were exempted from the law [by forgiveness of sins when baptized into a true church], dying in that in which we were retained [unclean sinful flesh], so that it is for us to be slaving in newness of spirit [as sons of the JAC] and not in oldness of letter [following the traditions of our forefathers with regard to law]. CLV Ro 7:7 What, then, shall we declare? That the law is sin? May it not be coming to that! But sin I knew not except through law. For besides, I had not been aware of coveting except the law said, "You shall not be coveting." CLV Ro 7:8 Now Sin, getting an incentive through the precept, produces in me all manner of coveting. For apart from law Sin is dead [It is beguiling to know that since your sins of the past present and future are forgiven that you can do whatever you wish and not suffer any consequence]. CLV Ro 7:9 Now I lived, apart from law [as a spirit son in the JAC], once, yet at the coming of the precept [of forgiveness of all sins] Sin revives [fleshly urges come back to mind]. Yet I died [in the flesh with reference to sin], CLV Ro 7:10 and it was found that, to me, the precept for life [the urge to go back to living in sin], this is for death [the second for those once tasting the free gifts of the holy spirit must finish the race]. CLV Ro 7:11 For Sin, getting an incentive through the precept, deludes me, and through it, kills me. CLV Ro 7:12 So that the law, indeed, is holy, and the precept holy and just and good. CLV Ro 7:13 Did good, then, become death to me? May it not be coming to that! But Sin, that it may be appearing Sin, is producing death to me through good, that Sin may become an inordinate sinner through the precept. [as we increase in knowledge and understanding our urge to sin decreases accordingly and in effect is producing “death” with reference to sin in our flesh] CLV Ro 7:14 For we are aware that the law is spiritual, yet I am fleshly [still in the body], having been disposed of [sold] under Sin. CLV Ro 7:15 For what I am effecting I know not, for not what I will, this I am putting into practice, but what I am hating, this I am doing [and we all go through this every day]. CLV Ro 7:16 Now if what I am not willing, this I am doing, I am conceding that the law is ideal [as it is holy and righteous and was established in order to make sin manifest]. CLV Ro 7:17 Yet now it is no longer I [as a spirit being] who am effecting it, but Sin making its home in me [my flesh]. CLV Ro 7:18 For I am aware that good is not making its home in me (that is, in my flesh) [for the flesh is good for nothing at all], for to will is lying beside me, yet to be effecting the ideal is not [as long as we still wear the flesh we can never achieve the “good” as Jesus made clear to us]. CLV Ro 7:19 For it is not the good that I will that I am doing, but the evil that I am not willing, this I am putting into practice. CLV Ro 7:20 Now if what I am not willing, this I am doing, it is no longer I who am effecting it, but Sin which is making its home in me. CLV Ro 7:21 Consequently, I am finding the law that, at my willing to be doing the ideal, the evil is lying beside me [those who are spirit sanctified are increasingly cognizant of the law (the bible) and are accordingly more aware of sins presence all around them]. CLV Ro 7:23 yet I am observing a different law in my members, warring with the law of my mind, and leading me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members [no matter how hard we try as spirit beings as long as we are in the flesh we are held captive to its desires and have not the power to release ourselves]. CLV Ro 7:24 A wretched man am I! What will rescue me out of this body of death? Grace [Amen for it is not by our works but the grace of God that we are being released]! CLV Ro 7:25 I thank God, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Consequently, then, I myself, with the mind [spirit], indeed, am slaving for God's law, yet with the flesh for Sin's law You cannot serve two masters and it is apparent from this that our spirit serves Jehovah but our flesh is still captive to Sin’s law and we know we cannot please Jehovah in the flesh but we can in the spirit. We have no reason to beat ourselves up when we think evil thoughts, say vile things or even do errant deeds from time to time for the flesh is weak. But we must try our best as spirit sons to think, say and do the right things and to follow His Precepts and repent any time we are errant. All who are in the JAC have been called to be vessels to Christ and to serve God due to Their love and profound grace and They are well aware of how weak we are in the flesh and will rescue us out of our bodies and in fact already have by forgiveness of sins past present and future. Please read Romans 8 as it clarifies much of this in great detail!
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