Love Fulfilled Ministry

among who you also all once lived in the desires of your flesh, doing the will and thoughts of the flesh and existing naturally children of wrath also like as everyone else (Ephesians 2:3) We once lived this way, we were dead in trespasses and sin, but God was rich in mercy through his great love he made us alive, by grace being saved. We were living in a natural body and had a soul, but we were dead, the walking dead, like everyone else who is not born of the Spirit. This is how the world lives, in the sinful nature, according to their nature they live, in fleshly desires and they do the will of the flesh, also influenced by the prince of the power of the air (the devil) who energizes the children of disobedience and wrath. What we do is governed by our nature, external influences, and the mind.  ... doing the will and thoughts of the flesh... (Ephesians 2:3)  Notice those of a sinful nature do the will and thoughts of the flesh. The word thought is διάνοια ( dianoia ) (from ...

in this, we know because abiding in God and he in us because [he has] given us from that his Spirit and we have seen and testified because the Father sent his Son, savior of the world. If anyone confesses that Jesus exists the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God (1 John 4:13-15) In the phrase "if anyone confesses," the word for if  is not the regular if it is called a future open conditional, which usually refers to a future event being conditional on another event. *  The word confess is derived from "homo" meaning the same and "logos" meaning to speak or out of, and the basic meaning is to say the same thing, to agree with. So what do we agree with? "God abides in him and he in God." So confessing" is the future event that is conditional on God abiding in us. Confessing with the mouth is in agreement with the first event of believing in the heart. This event is a new birth of the Spirit, of adoption, and of  God abiding in us, and ...