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1 | When do we understand the scriptures? | Luke 24:45 | Arnie | 41835 | ||
Christ was with His disciples three and a half years teaching the good news of the gospel. Although they knew He was the Christ, (Luke 9:20 He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God. KJV) It appears they did not understand the gospel until the end of the three and a half years. Luke 24:44-45 44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. 45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, KJV At what point does Christ give us understanding of the scriptures? Arnie |
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2 | When do we understand the scriptures? | Luke 24:45 | Sctt | 41841 | ||
Hi Arnie the reason that they could not understand was because He was not yet crucified. I guess its like us we see the words and here the words , but until we realise that we are crusified with Christ we cannot understand the full weight of the gospel. In Christ Scott. | ||||||
3 | Crucified with Christ | Luke 24:45 | Arnie | 41984 | ||
Scott, Thanks for the reply, would you say we are crucified with Christ when we come to the point of repentance? | ||||||
4 | Crucified with Christ | Luke 24:45 | Sctt | 42002 | ||
Hi Arnie first let look at what crucified with Christ means.A good example is found in Ro.6:3-6 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin The King James Version, (Cambridge: Cambridge) 1769. So then to be crucified with Christ is to be baptised into his death and resurrection. Now lets look at your question , Are we crucified with Christ at the point of repentance? Yes , but we see in 1Co.3:1-3 that we are to grow in this grace that Jesus bestowed on us. 1And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. 3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? The King James Version, (Cambridge: Cambridge) 1769. So then we start out as babes in Christ, but we are to grow into a perfect man , into the stature of the fulness of Christ. Eph.4:13-15 13Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 15But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ The King James Version, (Cambridge: Cambridge) 1769. I hope this is the kind of answer you were looking for. God bless, your brother in Christ Scott. |
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5 | Crucified with Christ | Luke 24:45 | Arnie | 42165 | ||
Scott, yes it is, The problem I have is just as we are crucified with Christ on the cross, I find I keep wanting to come down off the cross and do my own will, or when we are baptized in to His death, I want to keep coming up out of the water. But thanks be to Christ and to God our Father for their long suffering toward me, and the grace I have been given. I believe we come to start understanding His will when we are ready to give up this life at repentance, come to realize that our natural mind will only bring damnation, and accept the very mind of Christ in us. Arnie |
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6 | Crucified with Christ | Luke 24:45 | Sctt | 42193 | ||
Arnie, Paul calls this the law of sin. read Ro.7:1-25 and take notice of the last 10 verses,Paul also found this to be true,as I think we all do.In Christ Scott. verse 23 But I see another law in my members,warring against the law of my mind,and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. verse 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? verse 25 The answer. I thank God though Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with my mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. |
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