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Posted by: Jimmie Warren on Sun, May 11 2008

MY NAME IS SARAH AND I'M ONLY THREE

My name is Sarah I am but three,
My eyes are swollen I cannot see,
I must be stupid, I must be bad,
What else could have made My daddy so mad?

I wish I were better, I wish I weren't ugly,
Then maybe my Mommy Would still want to hug me.

I can't speak at all, I can't do a wrong
Or else I'm locked up All the day long.
When I awake I'm all alone
The house is dark My folks aren't home.

When my Mommy does come I'll try and be nice,
So maybe I'll get just One whipping tonight.

Don't make a sound! I just heard a car
My daddy is back From Charlie's Bar.
I hear him curse My name he calls
I press myself Against the wall.

I try and hide From his evil eyes
I'm so afraid now I'm starting to cry.
He finds me weeping He shouts ugly words,
He says its my fault That he suffers at work.

He slaps me and hits me And yells at me more,
I finally get free And I run for the door.
He's already locked it And I start to bawl,
He takes me and throws me Against the hard wall.

I fall to the floor With my bones nearly broken,
And my daddy continues With more bad words spoken.
"I'm sorry!", I scream But its now much too late
His face has been twisted Into unimaginable hate.

The hurt and the pain Again and again
Oh please God, have mercy! Oh please let it end!
And he finally stops And heads for the door,
While I lay there motionless Sprawled on the floor.

My name is Sarah And I am but three,
Tonight my daddy Murdered me.

There are thousands of kids out there just like Sarah. And you can help. If you know anyone harming their child, then it is your duty to act. Tell somebody else if your afraid to act.

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Warning For America--Wake Up Before It's Over

Garner Ted Armstrong

America is no longer a God-fearing country. We are not a Commandment-keeping people. Sure We give lip service to God, but as a nation we will not OBEY Him or His word!

WE ARE unthankful, Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers,incontinent, fierce,
despisers of those that are good,Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Paul wrote," This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unholy
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away". 2 Timothy 3:1-5

Our leaders have a form of godliness.They mention God frequently in statements like "God bless America," or "May God continue to bless America." This enrages many Americans who have gone to court to expunge all mention of any deity from the Pledge of Allegiance or public buildings.

Millions of those who use the generic title "God" neither know the true God or His son Jesus, nor obey the word He gave. How do we deny the power of God? By failing to rely on Jesus Christ, and Him alone, for our protection and our salvation as did Jehosaphat and all his people. Read 2 Chronicles Chapter 20

David's greatest sin was depending upon the size of his army, and forgetting to depend instead upon God! Read the account in 2 Samuel 24:2-10. Because of his lack of trust and faith, thousands of his citizens died! If we DID rely solely on God, and if we were an obedient people to His Son and the Bible, here are His promises to us:

"And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God,
to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day,
that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth".

"And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee,
if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God."
"Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground,
and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kind, and the flocks of thy sheep."

" Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in,
and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out."
"The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face:
they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways."

"The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee."
"The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.
And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD;
and they shall be afraid of thee."

"And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body,
and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground,
in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee."
"The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure,
the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season,
and to bless all the work of thine hand: and
thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow."

"And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them: "And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them". (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).

Such fabulous blessings cannot be imagined. Rain in due season That would mean no deserts, no droughts, no crop failures huge WEALTH for farmers. Obedience to God would mean no infant mortality (and no abortion!), no crib death, no childhood disease or any other kind of disease; it would mean an end to heavy taxation and the introduction of God's tithing system; a ten-per-cent flat tax across the board;
every laborer would keep NINETY PER CENT of his or her earnings!

It would mean no crime, no divorce, no pornography, no kidnapping, no child molestation! It would mean happy, healthy families; long lives, happieness, joy ,love, lasting marriages, full lives!
What are we reaping,instead? And what is the underlying CAUSE?
"it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God,
to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day;
that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

"Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store". "Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body,
and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out".

"The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand
unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly;
because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me".

"The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee,
until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it".
"The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever,
and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning,
and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew;
and they shall pursue thee until thou perish".

"And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass,
and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust
from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed".

The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies:
thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them:
and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air,
and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away".

"The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, where of thou can not be healed. The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: "And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee".

"Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house
and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof".
"Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them".

"Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand". "The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see".

"The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone".

"And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword,
among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee".
"Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field,
and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them,
but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes;
for the worms shall eat them ".

"Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit. Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity. "All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume".

The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail".

"Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee" Deuteronomy 28:15-45.

God also said, "And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me,
then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
And I will break the pride of your power..." Leviticus 26

We need to wake up before it is to late. People we need to be on our knees today,
are you prepaired for what's to come? If you haven't given your life to Jesus Christ,
Now would be the TIME!

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GOD'S LAW FOR ALL MANKIND NOT A FEW!

All Other Rules And Commandments Are Subordinate To This One Law, And They Must Not Conflict With It.The Bible states it very clearly, so there can be no possible misunderstanding: the Law Of Love fulfills the whole Law of God.

THE LAW OF LOVE:
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word,
"You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
(Galatians 5:14 RSV)

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And who is your neighbor? Everyone is your neighbor.
This is shown in the Parable Of The Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) Therefore, "Love your neighbor as yourself " really means
"Love all people as yourself," because everyone is our neighbor.
But what about love for God? Doesn't that come first? Yes, but God counts our love for others as if it were love for Himself. So when we love others, we are loving Him at the same time. This is shown in the Parable Of The Sheep And The Goats( Matthew 25:31 46). And we cannot claim to love God until we first love our fellow man.
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If any one says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a
liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen,
cannot love God whom he has not seen. (1 John 4:20 RSV)
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But what about The Ten Commandments? Aren't we supposed to obey them?
Yes, but The Ten Commandments are only an approximation of what God wants from us.

The Pharisees obeyed all of the Ten Commandments, yet God was very displeased with them because they did not have love. The exact thing God wants from us is that we should love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Everything else depends on this.

But what about holiness? Aren't we supposed to avoid improper sex, etc. and be pure and chaste? Aren't we supposed to deny our physical selves in order to strengthen our spiritual selves?
Maybe so, but our feeble attempts at being holy do not even come close to God's high standards. To Him, they are like filthy rags (Isaiah64:6).

But if we have love for others, God will over look a multitude of our sins(1 Peter 4:8. And if we forgive others of their offenses against us, He will forgive us of our offenses against Him (Matthew5:14-15).

Love makes everything holy, since God is love (1 John 4:8, 4:16).
So all of God's requirements for mankind boil down to this one command: "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."

If you truly do this one thing only, it is enough. It then doesn't matter if you fall short on some of the dozens of others. But if you do not do this, all of the others together are not enough.
This is the big one, more important than all the others combined.
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If you really fulfill the royal law, according to the scripture,
"You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.(James 2:8) RSV
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First Corinthians 13 emphasizes the primacy of love, even over faith itself.
1 Corinthians 13 (KJC - The King James Bible, Clarified)

The Supreme Importance Of Love

13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

13:3-4 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,

13:5-6 Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked,
thinks no evil; Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

13:7-8 Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

13:9-10 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

13:11-12 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

13:13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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Here are some other Scriptures which also tell us that love for others is the most important thing.

"Love For Others Fulfills The Law" Galatians 5:14 (RSV)
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word,
"You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

Romans 13:8 (RSV)
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Romans 13:9 (RSV)
The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

Romans 13:10 (RSV)
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

James 2:8 (RSV)
If you really fulfill the royal law, according to the scripture,
"You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

Proverbs 10:12 (RSV)
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

1 Peter 4:8 (RSV)
Above all hold unfailing your love for one another, since love covers a multitude of sins.

The Golden Rule Puts The Law Of Love Into Action

"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to
you,do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets."
Jesus, as quoted in Matthew 7:12 (KJV)

If we love other people as ourselves, then how should we treat them? We should treat them exactly as we would like to be treated! This is the Golden Rule: "Treat others as you would like to be treated. "The Golden Rule puts The Law Of Love into action.For more about The Golden Rule, please visit The Committee For The Golden Rule.com

Jesus Christ Makes It Possible To Follow The Law of Love

But what about Jesus? Where does Jesus Christ fit into this picture?If love for neighbor is sufficient, then why do we need to accept Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Savior? Jesus Christ doesn't "fit into the picture." Jesus Christ IS the picture, the perfect embodiment of Love.

By our own flawed human nature, it is almost impossible to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Maybe some few people can do it, but most people cannot even come close. But when we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord, His Holy Spirit enters us and dwells within us, transforming our flawed nature into a more perfect nature, more like His own. Only then are we fully able to love our neighbor as we love ourselves.

To accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior,
please REPEAT THIS PRAYER:

"Lord Jesus please come into my life, forgive my sins and lead me to a new life with your spirit in me. Lead me into the paths of righteousness and deliver me from all evil. You are the light and truth and by your name am I saved. Thank you Jesus for your sacrifice and death, always be beside me in all my actions and deeds." Amen

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The Truth Will Set You Free-Jesus is That Truth! Today You Are One Day Closer To The Kingdom

Freed From Law and Saved by Grace not the other way round!

Rev.Jimmie Warren

Freed From Law and Saved by Grace not the other way round!

When you read your Bible, have you ever noticed that Jesus never condemns anyone except the religious leaders of the time? When they came to him and asked why he ate with tax collectors and whores,Jesus told them "That the well do not need a doctor."(Matt.9:12 andLuke 5:31) Jesus was trying to tell them that those who did not know the word of God needed to hear God's plan to save the world.They all knew the Law of Moses but He preached, "that if they would only believe what he was telling them,then they would be saved." Now one young man came to ask Jesus what else he needed to do to be saved. He had kept the law all his lifeand did not want to miss out on salvation, so he asked again what he must do to be saved. (Matt.19:16-20)
Jesus' reply was shocking to thepharisees. He said, "he who believes in me and the one who sent me shall be saved." (Romans 10:9)� Where is all the law stuff?? Yes,the New Testament does talk about keeping the Ten Commandments, but Jesus goes even farther saying that if you even look on a woman and lust, you have committed adultery. (Matt. 5:28) This is the Spirit of the LAW!
Most all of us have broken the spirit of the law in one form or other, haven't we? The Jews of that time did not get it. Everything had to be by the book letter of the law.��
They even killed Jesus using the Law of Moses. A lot of churches today Still go by the letter of the law ,not by the spirit of the law. Which one do you think God judges you by??

Look in the Bible yourself in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They all have the message of salvation there. "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son" so you and I could be saved. (John 3:16) That's GRACE folks, not LAW. Jesus' death means nothing if we can save ourselves by keeping some written law. Jesus even tells the people that the law is a curse to man and that no man can keep the law, not even the priests in the temple. Today some churches are still trying to get us back into bondage by keeping the old laws. They want us to keep special holy days, to eat or not eat certain foods, Keep this day or that day unto the Lord, to wear what they deem fit, to drive the appropriate car, to wear our hair at just the right length, etc. Where does the Bible say, tell my people what to wear?
Where does it say , lord it over my people until I get back? Why do some ministers insist onpreaching about giving money to this cause or that cause? The Bible clearly says what you receive freely, give freely, doesn't it? (Matt.10:8) Now, everyone knows, or should know, that it takes a certain amount of money to run a church, so everyone should give as God has blessed them to give. Paul says, "we should give from our heart. "God loves a generous heart, and it is true that you cannot out give God." (II. Cor. 9:7) Come on people, where is your heart?
If you think, "Do I have to give my hard-earned money to that church or that ministry ," then you don't get it!
God does not need your� money.
Do you love your church?Well to keep it going you need to give a tithe or love offering sometimes,it cost to open the doors and pay the electric doesn't it???
God loves a giving heart.
Take someone like the little old woman who gave her last penny to help others. (Mark12:42-44) Next time you give to God ask yourself,
�"Am I giving this because I want to, or because I feel I have to?". Our churches want us to give from the bottom of our pockets, but God wants your gift to come from the bottom of your heart. If all people would give this way, God would bless them hundreds of times over. Our churches would be debt-free. Our country would be debt-free.If all, rich and poor alike, would pay 10 percent of what they make,then we would owe nothing as a country or as a people. The churches of today are always trying to out do the other churches down the street, so they plead for more money. If every saint would help his fellow man, we could reach the world with the message of Christ. Too many ministers want to build their own ministries to be world famous.Then they get so wrapped up in doing the work that they forget who they are working for. JESUS is our boss,and if he wants you to do bigger things, HE will provide for your needs without pleading the money out of people who don't want to give it anyway. Remember this if God is behind you, then you will get the job done with all the money you need or not. I don't understand all these churches preaching about� old laws that Jesus took to the cross with him. JESUS did this so it wouldn't be hard to make it into God's kingdom.
�He said he did not come to do away with the law but to complete it. (Matt. 5:17)
�Look up the word complete in you dictionary see what it means to complete something !
Jesus last words where for us all "IT IS FINISHED" Jesus is the only man who could keep the law perfectly. We need to stop here and think...
"Why would the Son of God come here tohang on a tree and bleed to death, so we could live forever.?
"Why would he make laws so hard to keep that if we even try, we fail.(Gal.3) Is this a loving Father? Does any of this make sense? People wake up.
Read what your Bible says about salvation yourself.

Jesus says over and over that he who believes in me shall be saved (Eph.2:8-9).
Not he who works his way up the ladder in some church. Remember what Paul said in I Cor.{13:1-13.} "If you keep all these things and don't have love, you may not even be in the kingdom of God." He was talking about LAW ! Jesus said he gives two new commandments.These are to "love God with all yourheart" and "to love your fellow man as you love yourself." (Matt.22:37-40)�
This is all the law we need to keep, BY KEEPING THESE TWO YOU AUTOMATICALLY KEEP ALL THE LAW! Don't let some pastor bring you back under the old law.
Read it yourself what Paul says in these books of the Bible:Ephesians, Galatians, and Colossians. These are three books of your own Bible that you need to read to be truly free in Christ Jesus. I hope in some small way that the truth is here for all of you. Get your Bibles out, wipe off the dust, and read how simple salvation really is for you and me.
Below is from the book of Romans from the NASB Bible

NASB =New American Standerd Bible!

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Rom:7:4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law,were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
7: What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, " YOU SHALL NOT COVET.'
8: But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.
9: I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died;
10: and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me;
11: for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
12: So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
13: Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.
14: For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.
15: For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.
16: But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.
17: So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
18: For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.
19: For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.
20: But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
21: I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.
22: For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,
23: but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.
24: Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
25: Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.

Romans 8

1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

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Forwhat the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did:sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,

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so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

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Forthose who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

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For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace,

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because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,

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and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

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However,you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

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If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

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But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

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So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

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for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

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For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!'

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The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,

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and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

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For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy tobe compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

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For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.

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For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope

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that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

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For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of child birth together until now.

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And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.

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For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees?

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But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.

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In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;

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and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

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And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

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For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;

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and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.

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