Sinclair Ferguson’s paraphrase:
“There are actually only two pastoral problems you will ever encounter.
“The first is this: persuading those who are under the dominion of sin that they are under the dominion of sin. That’s the task of evangelism.
“And [second], persuading those who are no longer under the dominion of sin that they are no longer under the dominion of sin because they are Christ’s.”
— Sinclair Ferguson
@GreyBearLtd@Russtophocles1@Primewave96 Being forced to show ID without Reasonable Articulable Suspicion of a crime or Probable Cause is a violation of your 4th Amendment right to be secure in your person papers and effects. You are quite literally giving up that right by “just showing your ID and getting on your way.”
The Spirit is not mentioned anywhere as Paul speaks about the struggle. I think the best way to interpret Romans 7 is that this is Paul speaking as a “good Jew” who has God’s good law in front of him, sees the goodness of it, wants to walk according to its principles, and finds that he cannot, in fact, do that. Which reveals the need for Christ to deliver him from his body of death.
@FivePointYoda@dereklanemelton Like baptizing little kids (who have made a professional of faith) before they’re old enough for any kind of discernible fruit to be displayed.
Galatians 5:16-17
[16] But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. [17] For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
"Just say He's not Jewish."
"The Son of God. How is the Son of God a Jew?"
"I don't think the Bible every says Mary is Jewish does it?"
This is a great opportunity to help a very confused person under important biblical distinctions. Yes, Mary was Jewish. Very clearly. The genealogy is not complicated at all (a cowardly equivocation of a claim) . . . the geneaology was provided to prove that Jesus was Jewish. Salvation is of the Jews (John 4). He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him (John 1). The gospel is the power of God to the Jew first and also to the Greek (Romans 1). This is not a complicated question. Stand on the Scriptures. Affirm what is true, and then go on to explain what happened in AD 70, etc.
It's deception based cowardice. His whole posture and rhetoric.