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Old 03-11-2008, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by thekingsknight View Post
Often times we think of "walking in (after) the spirit" as a "manner of acting" rather than a "state of being". We are "Alive in Christ, and dead to sin" - i.e. the power of it, not the presence of it.

Ted, it's both. We are in the Spirit but we are also to walk in the Spirit. The latter is possible because of the former. That's what I was trying to elucidate in my previous post.
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