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So another way of saying this is Encountering God's Power In The Midst Of Resist. Yup, it’s the same thing as saying that you are a willful sinner and that you believe the power you have to resist God is greater than the power of God has to resist you, and so therefore you remain a willful sinner:

Jer 27:7-9 - O Lord, You induced me, and I was persuaded;
You are stronger than I, and have prevailed.
I am in derision daily;
Everyone mocks me.
8 For when I spoke, I cried out;
I shouted, “Violence and plunder!”
Because the word of the Lord was made to me
A reproach and a derision daily.
9 Then I said, “I will not make mention of Him,
Nor speak anymore in His name.”
But His word was in my heart like a burning fire
Shut up in my bones;
I was weary of holding it back,
And I could not.

So of course, I had to put that human strength argument to bed so that we understand our position as it relates to Dad.

Now this message is not to insight you to foolishness, nor is it to lead you to be one of those religious people who think God needs their brains and wit to keep things in order as it relates to everyone else who is doing the work of God:

Jer 10:14 – Everyone is dull-hearted, without knowledge;
Every metalsmith is put to shame by an image;
For his molded image is falsehood,
And there is no breath in them.

Jer 4:22 – For My people are foolish,
They have not known Me.
They are silly children,
And they have no understanding.
They are wise to do evil,
But to do good they have no knowledge.”

Oh I know that we are in a different dispensation, but like in the days of Jesus, some tried to bring in the old dispensation into the new one.

Luke 5:36-39 - 36 Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. 38 But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. 39 And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’ ”

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