http://rlemmel.com/blog/2008/08/12/when-the-good-becomes-the-ultimate/ How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns." Isaiah 52:7 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:01:29 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://rlemmel.com/blog/2008/08/12/when-the-good-becomes-the-ultimate/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Glenn Baaten Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:44:34 +0000 http://rlemmel.com/blog/?p=46#comment-27 I'll give a try, Randy. As Bob Dylan once sang, "it might be the devil, or it might be the Lord, but you're gonna hafta serve someone". We're free to serve sin, and be conformed it, which in our fallen human nature comes naturally; or we can be blessed to serve Christ and be conformed to Him, which in our redeemed human nature is being shared in us supernaturally by agency of the Holy Spirit. We've got to work with the Spirit, of course, and so we do truly "build our lives" as you say, but to do that, we must lean on the Lord in obedience. As St. Paul writes in Romans 6:17-18, "But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become OBEDIENT from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted, and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves to righteousness." Thanks be to God! I’ll give a try, Randy. As Bob Dylan once sang, “it might be the devil, or it might be the Lord, but you’re gonna hafta serve someone”. We’re free to serve sin, and be conformed it, which in our fallen human nature comes naturally; or we can be blessed to serve Christ and be conformed to Him, which in our redeemed human nature is being shared in us supernaturally by agency of the Holy Spirit. We’ve got to work with the Spirit, of course, and so we do truly “build our lives” as you say, but to do that, we must lean on the Lord in obedience. As St. Paul writes in Romans 6:17-18, “But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become OBEDIENT from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted, and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves to righteousness.” Thanks be to God!

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