Watchman: Daily Devotional,Paul Said God’s Wrath Is Being Revealed. It Is a Present but Also Progressive Revelation. They Could See the Consequences of Sin on the Physical and Emotional State of Those Who Were Given Over to It. You Can Too, if You Are Discerning

Romans 1:18-20 18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. According to Paul, God’s anger is now being shown. It is a current revelation that is also developing. They could observe the effects of sin on the minds and bodies of individuals who had succumbed to it. If you are wise, you can do it too. The temple was completely destroyed soon after Paul’s passing. Rome will eventually persecute that generation of…

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“NOT IMPUTED” IS WHY PAUL COULD SAY THERE WAS NO LAW FROM ADAM TILL MOSES- Rom.5:13 AND WHY THIS MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE IF WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE…

HNewsWire: Sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses. This is what Paul taught in Rom.5:13,14. This does not mean that God had never given instructions to people before Moses. It is clear all through Genesis that He did. What Paul is saying is that the instructions God gave to Moses were different in that they carried with them penalties for their violation. Otherwise known as imputation. But, instructions for Adam, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and others who lived before the law was given through Moses, if not kept by them, were winked at by God. So says Paul about “the times of this ignorance” when he was witnessing to the unbelievers at Mars’ Hill in Acts17:30. But, now that Jesus has come Paul says, God instructs all men every where to repent.…

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WHAT THE DEVIL BELIEVES VS WHAT WE WHO ARE SAVED BELIEVE

Edward  O’Hara: Have you ever heard someone respond to the preaching of salvation by grace through faith without works by saying, “Well, the devil believes. So just believing is not enough”? I have. And it’s very frustrating when hearing that from anyone who claims to believe in Jesus. It can attributed to immaturity. But, this kind of response can also mean that they really do not know Jesus. Because this kind of response comes from their belief that only when works accompany faith is anyone saved. Saying in effect that we are saved by works as if James was contradicting what Paul taught. Which also means that if we are not saved it is because of bad works. So salvation becomes an issue of works rather than of grace through faith. Which is the antithesis to everything the Bible teaches about…

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UNDERSTANDING GENESIS–The Lord God sent him forth from the garden…

I read a meme recently that made the claim that it was the gospel in a nutshell. It said God made it- Adam broke it- Jesus fixed it. If you believe this is the Genesis account in a nutshell then you do not know the first thing about the true and living God. His Son Jesus. Or what the atonement was for. In Rom.5:12,13 Paul tells us that when Adam sinned it brought sin into the world. Not all sin. Just his. And Paul also said this sin was not imputed to him or anyone else. This means that God did not hold this sin against Adam. So that he, nor anyone else for that matter, was not punished for it. So how could Adam be accused of breaking anything? And how can the rest of mankind be punished for…

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LIVING SOUL OR LIVING SPIRIT IS WHAT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE

Edward

https://rumble.com/embed/v1mhwg9/?pub=4aes9 When Adam was made God said he “became a living soul”. Strong’s defines a living soul, nephesh in Hebrew, as a living breathing creature. When Paul wrote about what Adam was when he was made he gleaned this truth from what he read in this Genesis account. And in 1Cor.15:45,46 he said Adam was a living soul. And that he was not spiritual, but only natural just like the animals, birds, and creeping things when he was made. And he pointed out the difference between his being only natural, with the living spirit that Jesus was when He was made to come as a man. Living referring to Jesus’ body. And spirit referring to His Spirit. Paul could not have been referring to Jesus’ body as spiritual. Because Heb.2:14 says His body was the same flesh and blood that…

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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN OUR DEFINITION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS INCLUDES WORKS?

How do you attain righteousness. By works? Or by faith? Let’s do an examination and see, ok? Do you believe when Paul taught none are righteous it was because all fall short of God’s perfect standard of law keeping? If you do then you have missed the mark as surely as anyone who says there is no God.   In Rom.4 Paul taught that righteousness is only attained by faith. He says that Abraham was righteous because he believed God. And that if it were by works, and in this case Paul is not referring to works of the law because Abraham was before there was law, Abraham would have grounds to boast.   In John17:3 Jesus said eternal life is knowing God. In Gal.3:21 Paul said life and righteousness are synonymous. In John6:28,29 Jesus said the work they must…

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CHIEFEST AMONG SINNERS… AND “BLAMELESS”? Does that seem like a contradiction to you?

Edward O’Hara Sat 7/11/2020 10:13 PM… The apostle Paul said of himself “that Christ came to save sinners of whom I am chief”. And he also said that “touching the righteousness that is in the law(he was) blameless”(1Tim.1:15, Phil.3:6). Does that seem like a contradiction to you? How is it that Paul could say of himself that he had been both “chief” among sinners, and at the same time “touching the righteousness which is in the law blameless”? Is it possible that both of these could be true at the same time? Is it possible that Paul kept the law blamelessly as he said he did and was chief of sinners too?   I remember hearing the pastor of a church I once attended, after reading this passage in Phil.3, say that he could not understand how Paul could say he…

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WHY BELIEVERS IN JESUS ARE HEIRS THAT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Edward O’Hara… Does our being God’s children by spiritual birth entitle us to an inheritance? According to Paul’s gospel, it does. Paul wrote that “flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God” in 1Cor.15:50. And Jesus said in John3 that we must be born of the Spirit to see the kingdom of God. So from this, we know that no one who is flesh and blood will be there. And that only those who are spiritual have God’s kingdom for their inheritance.  When Paul said this he had just written about Adam and the rest of mankind saying that it is because all men are exactly as Adam was in every way when God made him that they could not inherit the kingdom of God. That this included the fact that all men since God made Adam are “a living soul”,…

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LEARN HOW EPHESIANS, LIKE ALL OF PAUL’S EPISTLES, REVEALS GOD’S AMAZING LOVE IN OUR REDEMPTION- VS.1-14

Edward O’Hara Mon 4/27/2020 12:45 PM… Paul’s letter to the Ephesians is an amazing letter. He teaches them about all the things he has in his other letters regarding salvation and our life in Christ. But, adds something he doesn’t say in most of his other letters. He adds that his doctrine is something that has never been taught or heard by anyone before. So starting with vs.1 in chapter1 we will look at what this means for us in the New Covenant. And see just how blessed we are to live in this time Paul referred to as “the dispensation of the grace of God”.  In the first 14 verses that we read in Eph.1 Paul addresses the issues that have confounded Churchianity because they have believed the false teachings of Augustine instead of Paul so that it has…

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