Jabcat said Further, we should not add unscriptural beliefs to the gospel message of God's marvelous grace.
True but being as you have directed that statement to my post and me it shows that on your part there is a lacking in understanding the things of God.
However for your edification read on
The fruit identifies the tree and if Christ who is the tree of life that overcame the curse of the law that defines righteousness is living in ones heart then it is Christ and His works that come forth....... if the works of Christ are not coming forth then it is not Christ who is living and ruling over the heart but instead just a better disciplined form of the first Adam with your name living in your heart in place of Christ.
This is the teaching behind when an unclean spirit gets the boot out of a mans heart (Matt.12; 43-45, Luke 11. 24-26) from when the Holy Spirit comes into it because light displaces darkness. (darkness is NEVER EVER changed to light). But then when he finds and mates up with Eve in the dry places (dust, flesh) he then returns and takes back over trying to appear right (be transformed as Christ) and the person is worse off then before not seeing nor understanding how the law of sin works (NOT THE LAW OF MOSES !!!) and the works of law of sin that identifies the first Adam who along with Eve can only produce good along with evil together rather than just good. Consequently the poor Christian is outside the garden ( "Gan" fence of God and righteousness) looking in instead of being in and to make matters worse they cannot tell the difference. However the Bible tells us that by their fruit (the man of the heart) we shall know them, where they are from and therefore who sent them.
This old man Adam in you knows the law and can read it written upon tablets of stone that get broken because the proof of the pudding is he cannot overcome them as Christ did consequently the life and works of Abel and Cain, good and evil are what comes come forth with Cain being the one who in the end turns out to be his brothers keeper (murderer)
On the other hand if Christ was there in your heart "manifesting and fulfilling the Law of God" that translated means OVERCOMING THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH YOU WOULD BE DOING THE WORKS OF CHRIST. If however you still say Christ is there THAT IS THE SAME AS SAYING "a man who says he has no sin" (1Jn 5) you deceive yourself ...... get my point?
Now if you will admit to who and what is obviously NOT LIVING AND WRITTEN in your heart through the proof given in the scriptures we can make some progress. HOWEVER IF YOU INSIST THAT CHRIST WHO MANIFESTS THE LAW BUT FOR SOME REASON IN YOU IS NOT ADHERING TO THE LAW OF GOD THAT HE FULFILLED AND WRITES ON FLESHY TABLES OF THE HEART INCLUDING THE LAW OF THE SEED THAT PRODUCES THE FRUIT OF CHRIST .................. then we need to go to over to the Book of James and find out what is wrong and why CHRIST IS DIFFERENT IN YOU THAN WHEN HE WAS ON EARTH THE FIRST TIME.
You see Brother....... you really do not know the Laws of God and according to Jesus and His Word as found in the Holy Scriptures you need to. Also it is quite apparent that they are not written in your heart
but not because that you do not mean well but because you have been deceived.
Moving on
70sevens askedI never knew that there was a story of two homo in bed in the Bible.
Where is it?
And what is the case of having 2 male spirits together in heart, please?
Hello 70sevens
Pleased to make your acquaintance.
IMO because the knowledge concerning the laws of male and female are not known Christians as whole are in serious trouble. Because of this we have the well known teaching of Satan that says "my spirit is ok but it is my soul that is the trouble" as one of the chief foundational reasons taught in the church and why the Glory of God remains departed from the Church.
The bed is the heart and this is to be where the Holy Priest in us and a virgin bride will bring forth a male child that is to be caught up to heaven.
However when there are two men in a bed and because homosexuality is a sin that cannot produce a new life we have a problem and one is taken away........ that one taken away is Christ the Holy Spirit who will not share the heart that He has paid for with His Blood with a man of sin........ not today, not tomorrow, not ever !!!!
Luke 17:34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two [men] in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
Because it is "night" time means it is a place and time resulting from the lack of knowledge and truth of the Scriptures being taught that causes God's chosen to perish (Hos.4:6) we have two men in the bed instead of just one......... consequently the virgin bride in heaven (Re 21; 1-3) will not come down and bed remains defiled because of the first Adam (the "old man of sin) of 2nd Thessolonians sitting where he ought not. Thus Christ the "acceptable man" departs and the old man saying he is God who now appears transformed as a minister of righteousness remains and the person is worse off than ever. Being as the virgin bride is the mind of Christ she is not fooled but the church both corporately and individually is fooled.
The end result of all that is a clergy running around saying they free from the laws of God that are supposedly written on their hearts teaching others what they think is the truth with the end result being that Christ has no place to rest His head because what is suppose to be His Body, the Church remains defiled and not Holy as commanded to be.
Blessings
Doug