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Question from a Site Viewer I’ve struggled with lust for a long time. I have victory at times, but I continue to fall. I continue to turn to Scripture for help but overcoming sin seems so impossible. Tim’s Answer Thanks for going to Scripture to find your answers. One of the Spirit’s close associates is the Word of God, as the Word is His sword (Ephesians 6:17). I think it is critical to spiritual maturity that we keep our minds…

…was in them (1 Corinthians 6:19). Yet, there is a separation from God that is real and that we feel, whenever we sin. We cannot have fellowship both with light and with darkness (2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1). As the Apostle John states, if we say we have fellowship with God and walk in darkness we lie (1 John 1:6). If we are walking in sin, we do not have fellowship with God. That sense of a loss of fellowship can be…

…doing to serve the living and true God and to wait for His Son from heaven (1 Thessalonians 1:9-10). Repentance is a turning of our minds towards God. Colossians 3:2 tells us to set our minds on things above. Jesus taught us to seek first God’s kingdom and His righteousness (Matthew 6:33). Repentance is changing our minds in two different ways: (1) to begin thinking about God and His will when in the past we thought only of our own…

…God. Those who have the knowledge but do not practice the word are often in danger of greater judgment (2 Peter 2:21; see also Hebrews 10:26-30). The Apostle Paul speaks of those who know God’s will, having been instructed from the law, having a form of knowledge and truth, but not doing the law, as causing God’s name to be blasphemed (Romans 2:17-24). God’s word was never given to us to be a dead letter, but a living presence in…

…knowing Jesus. There are over 10,000 times in the Old Testament that God is reference by nouns, and many more times where He is referenced through pronouns. The New Testament does not let up either. Each of the first four books are about Jesus’ life. The book of Acts is about the spread of the good news of Jesus. One would be blind to not see the Christological emphasis Paul places in each of His epistles. Hebrews is essentially a…

…paints with God. God is of such purity that sin is revolting to Him. No amount of doing what God expects of us is sufficient to undo even one time of when we do not do what God expects of us. It is like a scorecard in bowling. One mess-up, and it is impossible thereafter, no matter how good you are, to reach holiness or perfection. And without holiness, Scripture tells us, no one will see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14)….

…us. He was a man, like we are (Hebrews 2:14-17). And, as a man, He established Himself as the prototypical man, the model for all humanity who would follow Him. In the argument of the Apostle Paul, Christ became the second “Adam” (1 Corinthians 15:45; see also Rom. 5:12-21). The “Son of Man” is a phrase used exclusively by Christ to reference Himself (81 times in the gospels). Only once do other people use it in the gospels, and then…

…Hebrews 2:4. However, Paul says in 1 Corinthians 12:30 that not all speak in tongues. Yet, he said earlier that all have the same Spirit (1 Corinthianss 12:4). The Spirit gives to each one different gifts (1 Corinthians 12:7-11). The evidence of the Spirit’s control in the life of a believer is the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). If someone is filled with the Spirit, this will be the fruit. There is no teaching that all will speak in…

…Romans 8:16 that the Spirit of God bears witness within us that we are His children. If the Spirit is convicting us when we sin and teaching us about Jesus, then we are saved. If we have the Spirit, we are His. Hebrews 12 tells us that if we are His children then we will be chastised by God. If we can sin and things do not go well with us, then His chastisement becomes a proof of our salvation….

…and in many other passages makes it clear that Christ is eternal (cf. Isaiah 9:6, Micah 5:2, I Timothy 1:17, 6:16, Hebrews 7:3). What I believe Paul is referring to is Jesus’ incarnation, that is, His birth on earth as a human. His being fully human makes Him a part of creation. This provides a devastating argument against the teaching of a group known as the Gnostics, who did not believe that Christ could have been human. Yet, by Paul’s…