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NASB | Exodus 1:1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; they came each one with his household: |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Exodus 1:1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; each came with his household: |
Subject: Are Positional and Practical truths true |
Bible Note: All you have managed to do here is take verse 10 and sandwich it in the middle of verse 12 and say that THAT is what Paul is pressing on toward. And it doesn't make sense in the context of the rest of the chapter. In verse 14 he is not pressing on toward any type of knowledge, but he is pressing on in answer to God's upward call. This is the thing for which he has been laid hold of. In verses 16-19 he is talking about nothing else but living to a standard (notice how many times he talks about the "walk" of individuals), contrasting himself and other true believers with those whose end is destruction (and he isn't talking about the "unchurched" here, either). What we see here, as in a number of passages theoughout the New Testament, is the end being sure for those who are truly believers in Christ, but at the same time there is indeed labor and striving on the part of the Christian to attain to that future reality. All of this is accomplished by the Spirit's work in our hearts, but nowhere are we called to "sit back, take it easy and enjoy our already attained righteousness." The apostles' lives and direct teachings convey the opposite. You wrote: "We can't DO anything to grow the fruits of the Spirit on our own." Of course not. But that doesn't mean we just sit back and watch as God does everything. We work out our salvation as God works within us. We labor and strive and press on just as Paul did. Why? To earn our salvation? No way. But we do need to take the words of Scripture seriously that say: " For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end," --Hebrews 3:14 "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments." --John 14:15 Works are not the basis of our salvation, but rather the evidence of it. In other words, if the Spirit of Christ truly indwells us, it will show in our lives. John elaborates on this throughout his first epistle, and James chapter 2 points out that we are indeed shown to be God's children by our God-honoring works. You wrote: "The law DEMANDS that we put in our self-effort" How so? Scriptural support, please. The gospels tell us that even Jesus fulfilled the Law by relying completely upon the Father's leading and the Holy Spirit's power: "I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me." --John 5:30 "But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you." --Mathhew 12:28 "Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led around by the Spirit in the wilderness." --Luke 4:1 "until the day when He was taken up to heaven, after He had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom He had chosen." --Acts 1:2 Lastly, how do you come to the conclusion that the new wine and old wineskins represent what you say they do? If they represent the new and old covenants respectively, what do the old wine and new wineskins represent in Jesus' parable? --Joe! |