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James 4:7 says, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
How can a Christian do this?
How do I do what the scriptures say do? How do we keep Jesus commands? How do we love the Lord God with all our mind, emotions and soul and that we love our neighbors as much as we love ourselves?At it's simplist by obeying Jesus when he said, " If you LOVE me you will obey my commands."
What are Jesus's commands?
That we Love the Lord our God with All our mind, emotions and soul and that we love our neighbours as much as we love ourselves.
How do we keep Jesus commands?
None of it is easy, and I think it really comes down to circumstance for those new in the faith as they learn and grow in the faith.James 4:7 says, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
How can a Christian do this?
What does it mean and how do you live out loving God with everything that you are?By reading scripture so we know what Jesus has said and by seeking to do what it says.
What of the 10 commandments do you not understand?
submit myself to God for me means say yes to God and side with God with my thinking and feelings - think of God as being for me and i choose to be with Him - iow i don't think of God and i being on opposite sides - i pledge my allegiance to God and God pledged to be my God/Redeemer/Healer/Protector/Provider/etcJames 4:7 says, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
How can a Christian do this?
We submit to God by the Plan He has provided, which is the Cross (Romans 8:2). We resist the Devil by strictly looking to Christ, and what He has done for us at the Cross, where Satan was totally defeated (Colossians 2:14-15).James 4:7 says, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
How can a Christian do this?
so what are you saying?We submit to God by the Plan He has provided, which is the Cross (Romans 8:2). We resist the Devil by strictly looking to Christ, and what He has done for us at the Cross, where Satan was totally defeated (Colossians 2:14-15).
God has chosen to operate His work from the basis of faith. "The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:2) is God's prescribed order of victory for the Believer over sin, the world, the flesh, and the Devil.
The Holy Spirit operates in a Christian by the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:2). This Law requires the Christian to place and maintain their Faith exclusively in Christ and the Finished Work at Calvary's Cross where the victory was won (The Blood of Jesus). This Law delivers you into the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, which allows the life of Christ to manifest through you by the power of the Holy Spirit (this includes the gifts of the Spirit and the fruit of the Spirit in demonstration of the Spirit and of power). This is how you receive grace and favor from the Lord because you are not frustrating grace, but growing in grace by walking and being led by the Holy Spirit.
The Believer who doesn't understand this or has chosen a different way, is operating in the Law of Sin and Death (the works of the flesh - sin has dominion over them).
Brother,so what are you saying?
do you have the answer to your own question?
were you asking this question to find out what we do because you need help? - or to debate with people?
we are always here to help anyone - if what works for us does not work for you that is also fine - let us know if you need help or just want to debate
ok that is cool -Brother,
I just feel that sanctification is so important, I had to teach about this subject.
amen - so many people struggle with addictions and when they fail to overcome they think God rejects them tooHow about we talk about addiction? How does one draw close to God while resistng the devil to free thenselves from their demons?
Our faith has to be lived out... We need spiritual courage so what we do changes our world.
Salvation is a wonderful gift that will last an eternity. But sometimes we just need to be saved here, now from the things that seek to destroy us.
What does it mean and how do you live out loving God with everything that you are?
Please post book, chapter, and verse that says we must work it out ourselves.That is why Paul tells us to have Bible Biased Brains in Romans 12 v1+2 and why we have intelligence.
We have to work it out for ourselves from what the bible says.
No sin can attach itself to any born-again Believer if their Faith is placed exclusively in Christ and the Cross of Calvary where the victory was won.
Question for all? If sin can't attach itself to a born-again Believer whose Faith is placed exclusively in Christ and the Cross, i.e., The Blood of Jesus, i.e., The Finished Work, then how is it that most Christian are in the snare of the Devil, taken captive by the Devil through bondage and sin? (2 Timothy 2:24-26)
Please post book, chapter, and verse that says we must work it out ourselves.