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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
All I know is I can't hardly love those that actually do like me, let alone those who "spitefully use" me. Therefore, I need Another life. We can step out on faith and obey, but just to be clear - it's His living through us that does the genuine loving.
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You are talking about your experience, I'm talking about scripture. Jesus said, "I obey". The common refrain of "nobody can obey God" excludes Jesus, yet the gospel narrative centers wholly on Jesus, on his being sent, his obedience, his resurrection, his exaltation. Not your inability, or mine. It is the 'gospel', the good news - not our failure but his success. And his success was his obedience. His obedience allowed him to receive the Father's life, and now our obedience to him allows us to receive his life. I can quote all the verses again.
"Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me." Do you see the 'just as'. Jesus' eating was to obey. Our eating is to obey.
"When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love." Again, the 'just as' is here. Jesus obeys, abides in the Father's love. We obey, abide in his love. Don't look at your inability, look at his ability to obey. By faith you we follow, and yes of course it's HIS ability. "No longer I but Christ." We believe in his ability, his being sent, his obedience, his propitiation, his intercession, and his rule. And we by faith obey. And we by faith love those around us. This is his command, and we obey. He is king.
It's even called "the faith of Christ", not the "faith of aron" or Stg or WL or whomever. Gal 2:20, 2:16, Rom 3:22
Now, the scripture doesn't forbid praying as we read the word. But the scripture doesn't tell us what WL sold us, that pray-reading would "eat" the tree of life and "assimilate" God and so forth. The Bible rather talks of obedience. Jesus' to the Father, and ours to him. This is our food.
Hebrews 5:7 While Jesus was here on earth, he offered prayers and pleadings, with a loud cry and tears, to the one who could rescue him from death. And God heard his prayers because of his deep reverence for God. 8 Even though Jesus was God’s Son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered. 9 In this way, God qualified him as a perfect High Priest, and he became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey him.
You have obedience, suffering, life. That was Jesus. Then, obedience, suffering, life. That's us. We follow the Master.
On the flip side, disobedience brings death. Right? Not "eating the wrong tree".
Jude 1:6 And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling--these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.
Nothing about eating or metabolic assimilation but rather disobedience. God gave a boundary, and the angels trespassed it.