Antichrist, Part 2

Posted on April 22, 2013 by admin

Before I could write about Lars von Trier’s movie, I had to return to what John the Apostle had to say about antichrist (ἀντίχριστος).^[1] 1 John 2:3-6 served as a preface and point of departure for that study.

Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments. The one who says “I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person. But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love (ἀγάπη)^[2] of God has been perfected (τετελείωται, a form of τελειόω).^[3]

In other words God’s ἀγάπη, when it is perfected, empowers me to keep his commandments. For this is the love (ἀγάπη) of God: that we keep his commandments, John penned later in the same letter. And his commandments do not weigh us down, because everyone who has been fathered by God conquers the world.^[4] Or as Paul said, ἀγάπη is the fulfillment of the law,^[5] and, the one bringing forth in you both the desire (θέλειν)^[6] and the effort – for the sake of his good pleasure – is God.^[7]

God’s ἀγάπη is perfected in me by faith: we have come to know and to believe the love (ἀγάπην, another form of ἀγάπη) that God has in us. God is love (ἀγάπη), and the one who resides in love (ἀγάπη) resides in God, and God resides in him [Table]. By this love (ἀγάπη) is perfected (τετελείωται, a form of τελειόω) with us…^[8] Not only the ἀγάπη but the faith was supplied by God—But the fruit of the Spirit is love (ἀγάπη), joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness (πίστις)^[9]—if I had but gotten out of his way. My religious mind stumbled over John’s statement, The one who says “I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.^[10]

I thought I could avoid the stigma of being called a liar and prove myself true by obeying—first the law then Paul’s definition of love—in my own strength. I set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!^[11] A note in the NET on the phrase love of God (1 John 5:3 NET), reads: “Once again the genitive could be understood as (1) objective, (2) subjective, or (3) both. Here an objective sense is more likely (believers’ love for God) because in the previous verse it is clear that God is the object of believers’ love.” What is far more obvious to me now is that my love for God was not sufficient to keep his commandments, and all my efforts to do so did weigh [me] down, when compared to being buoyed up by the fruit of his Spirit.

Still, I had received the desire (θέλειν) to keep his commandments, though God’s love was not yet perfected in me. For I want (θέλειν) to do the good, Paul lamented in Romans, but I cannot do it.^[12] My friends’ desires, on the other hand, did not suddenly change. And nothing I said mattered to them. Their ongoing sinful behavior tormented me. Why don’t they see? I wondered.

Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you,^[13] Paul replied when the Lord had said to him, Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.^[14] And when the blood of your witness Stephen was shed, Paul continued, I myself was standing nearby, approving, and guarding the cloaks of those who were killing him.^[15] It seemed to me that since someone like I was had changed (repented) that everyone should change. By this we know that we are in him, John wrote. The one who says he resides in God ought (ὀφείλει, a form of ὀφείλω)^[16] himself to walk just as Jesus walked.^[17]

There is nothing wrong with translating ὀφείλει ought: “We have a law, and according to our law he ought (ὀφείλει, a form of ὀφείλω) to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!”^[18] religious leaders said of Jesus. But with my predilection for proving myself—“what I could do for God”—I need to remember that to owe is the primary meaning of ὀφείλει: Now if [Onesimus] has defrauded you of anything, Paul wrote Philemon, or owes (ὀφείλει, a form of ὀφείλω) you anything, charge what he owes to me.^[19] My religious mind has used ought to turn John’s statement on its head. I have believed that anything but absolute conformity on my part to walk just as Jesus walked is proof that I am not in him and do not reside in God, despite the fact that a sense of obligation, that I owe this to Him, has been with me since I believed. My friends did not think they owed this to God, or anyone else, simply because I began to believe.

Children, it is the last hour, John wrote, and just as you heard that the antichrist (ἀντίχριστος) is coming, so now many antichrists (ἀντίχριστοι, a form of ἀντίχριστος) have appeared. We know from this that it is the last hour. They went out (ἐξῆλθαν, a form of ἐξέρχομαι)^[20] from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained (μεμενήκεισαν, a form of μένω)^[21] with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.^[22] And I think 1 John 2:3-6 has more to do with the antichrists’ point of departure—They went out from us—than any geographical or institutional location.

To sense the obligation to walk just as Jesus walked while being imperfect in God’s love is a state of dynamic tension. Though I didn’t realize it at the time, seeking to obey the law or Paul’s definition of love in my own strength was a way to ease that tension. After all, no one, not even Jesus, could expect me to be as perfect as He is in my own strength. I was completely aware that I was easing that tension when I deliberately abandoned my obligation to walk just as Jesus walked because “it didn’t matter what I did, because I was forgiven and because I was not under law but under grace” (as some of my new friends interpreted and preached the Apostle Paul).

Still, He always brought me back from the latter excursions: Now as for you, John wrote, the anointing that you received from him resides (μένει, another form of μένω)^[23] in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as it has taught you, you reside (μένετε, another form of μένω) in him.^[24] If you love me, Jesus said, you will obey (τηρήσετε, a form of τηρέω) my commandments. Then I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever – the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides (μένει) with you and will be in (ἐν)^[25] you.^[26]

The former excursions (though less like excursions and more like my lifestyle) were a bit more intractable. After all, wasn’t God pleased by my noble efforts to keep the law or Paul’s definition of love? Who is the liar, John wrote, but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son. Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also.^[27]

I didn’t deny Jesus with my mouth. I honored Him with my lips. But in my heart I rejected the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness in favor of my own righteousness derived from the law^[28] or Paul’s definition of ἀγάπη. I was certainly hearing some of the things I’ve written about here. I did attempt from time to time to trust Him with MY righteousness. It wasn’t that I was better somehow at it than He was. It was that I demanded 100% compliance from Him (e.g., from me when He was in charge) but I was much more lenient with myself when I took control.

Dear friends, John continued, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.^[29] For me now this means more than paying lip service to Jesus. Does the spirit encourage me to trust God’s credited righteousness, to rely on the fruit of his Spirit? Or does the spirit encourage me to turn back to my own ways, striving in my own strength to keep his commandments?

Again John wrote of antichrist: But now I ask you, lady (not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another. (Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it. For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist! Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, but receive a full reward.^[30]

John wrote his own ode to the love that fulfills the law (1 John 4:7-19 NET).

Dear friends, let us love (ἀγαπῶμεν, a form of ἀγαπάω) one another, because love (ἀγάπη) is from God, and everyone who loves (ἀγαπῶν, another form of ἀγαπάω) has been fathered by God and knows God. The person who does not love (ἀγαπῶν, another form of ἀγαπάω) does not know God, because God is love (ἀγάπη). By this the love (ἀγάπη) of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him. In this is love (ἀγάπη): not that we have loved (ἠγαπήκαμεν, another form of ἀγαπάω) God, but that he loved (ἠγάπησεν, another form of ἀγαπάω) us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Dear friends, if God so loved (ἠγάπησεν, another form of ἀγαπάω) us, then we also ought (ὀφείλομεν, another form of ὀφείλω) to love (ἀγαπᾶν, another form of ἀγαπάω) one another. No one has seen God at any time. If we love (ἀγαπῶμεν, another form of ἀγαπάω) one another, God resides in us, and his love (ἀγάπη) is perfected (τετελειωμένη, another form of τελειόω) in us. By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God. And we have come to know and to believe the love (ἀγάπην, another form of ἀγάπη) that God has in us. God is love (ἀγάπη), and the one who resides in love (ἀγάπη) resides in God, and God resides^[31] in him [Table]. By this love (ἀγάπη) is perfected (τετελείωται) with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love (ἀγάπη), but perfect (τελεία, a form of τέλειος)^[32] love (ἀγάπη) drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been perfected (τετελείωται) in love (ἀγάπη). We love (ἀγαπῶμεν, another form of ἀγαπάω) because he loved (ἠγάπησεν, another form of ἀγαπάω) us first.

Though Paul didn’t use the word antichrist he described a similar phenomenon of a religious person in whom God’s love is not perfected (1 Corinthians 13:1-3 NET).

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love (ἀγάπην, another form of ἀγάπη), I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love (ἀγάπην, another form of ἀγάπη), I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love (ἀγάπην, another form of ἀγάπη), I receive no benefit.

The meaning (in words) of ἀγάπη does not come from an understanding of a word in the Greek language, but from the following (1 Corinthians 13:4-13 NET):

Love (ἀγάπη) is patient, love (ἀγάπη) is kind, it is not envious. Love (ἀγάπη) does not brag, it is not puffed up. It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful. It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love (ἀγάπη) never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, but when what is perfect (τέλειον, another form of τέλειος) comes, the partial will be set aside. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways. For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love (ἀγάπη). But the greatest of these is love (ἀγάπη).

Antichrist, Part 3

Back to Fear – Exodus, Part 3

Back to Romans, Part 44

Back to Son of God – 1 John, Part 2

Back to Antichrist, Part 5

Back to Son of God – 1 John, Part 3

Back to The Righteousness of God

Back to Romans, Part 50

Back to To Make Holy, Part 5

Back to Fear – Exodus, Part 9

Back to Condemnation or Judgment? – Part 3

Back to Fear – Leviticus

Back to Condemnation or Judgment? – Part 13

Back to Romans, Part 78

^[3] 1 John 2:3-5a (NET)

^[4] 1 John 5:3, 4a (NET)

^[5] Romans 13:10b (NET)

^[7] Philippians 2:13 (NET)

^[8] 1 John 4:16-18a (NET)

^[9] Galatians 5:22 (NET)

^[10] 1 John 2:4 (NET)

^[11] Galatians 2:21 (NET)

^[12] Romans 7:18b (NET)

^[13] Acts 22:19 (NET)

^[14] Acts 22:18 (NET) Table

^[15] Acts 22:20 (NET)

^[17] 1 John 2:5b, 6 (NET)

^[18] John 19:7 (NET)

^[19] Philemon 1:18 (NET)

^[22] 1 John 2:18, 19 (NET)

^[24] 1 John 2:27 (NET)

^[26] John 14:15-17 (NET)

^[27] 1 John 2:22, 23 (NET)

^[28] Philippians 3:9 (NET)

^[29] 1 John 4:1-3 (NET)

^[30] 2 John 1:5-8 (NET)

^[31] The NET parallel Greek text, NA²⁸ and Byzantine Majority Text had μένει here. The Stephanus Textus Receptus did not.

Romans, Part 38

Posted on February 1, 2013 by admin

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law, Paul continued. “The one who does these things will live by them” [Table]. But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down) or “Who will descend into the abyss?” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we preach)…^[1]

I have already gone into this in some detail elsewhere, when it seemed appropriate to understand Paul’s rhetorical question: If some did not believe, does their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God?^[2] Here I will simply point out the recurring pattern. The righteousness that is by the law is an external code of conduct forced upon the sinful flesh of Adam. There are rewards for compliance, and threats of violence and death for noncompliance. The righteousness that is by faith wells up from the Holy Spirit and communes intimately with the spirit born from above, so intimately that this righteousness seems like that spirit’s own idea and longing.

Paul continued, because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord…^[3] There is a note in the NET here: “Or ‘the Lord.’ The Greek construction, along with the quotation from Joel 2:32 in v. 13 (in which the same ‘Lord’ seems to be in view) suggests that κύριον (kurion) is to be taken as ‘the Lord,’ that is, Yahweh…” Jesus was quite clear on the subject, saying, I tell you the solemn truth, before Abraham came into existence, I am!^[4]

Paul continued, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved (σωθήσῃ, a form of σώζω).^[5] What this salvation is substantively is the righteousness that is by faith, a righteousness that comes from God through his Holy Spirit. When Peter defended his actions with Cornelius, he said, He informed us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, “Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter, who will speak a message (ρήματα, a form of ῥῆμα)^[6] to you by which you and your entire household will be saved (σωθήσῃ, a form of σώζω).” Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us at the beginning. And I remembered the word (ρήματος, another form of ῥῆμα) of the Lord, as he used to say, “John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”^[7]

For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness, Paul continued, and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.^[8] This translation is a little confusing. It sounds like one possesses two different things by two different means: 1) my heart believes and thus has righteousness and 2) my mouth confesses and thus has salvation. But the Greek word ἔχω ^[9] (to have, to hold) is not found in the text. The actual word is εἰς^[10] (into, unto): For with the heart one believes unto (εἰς) righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto (εἰς) salvation.^[11]

I did not believe once upon a time and thus possess righteousness. I did not confess once upon a time and thus possess salvation. I believe and confess daily that I am utterly dependent on Christ’s righteousness and faithfulness. Give us today our daily bread^[12] of this new life, the fruit of your Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.^[13] What is our belief and confession (Titus 3:3-6 NET)?

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another. But “when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared, he saved (ἔσωσεν, another form of σώζω) us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us in full measure through Jesus Christ our Savior.”

“And so, since we have been justified by his grace, since we are experiencing this salvation, this righteousness by faith (through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit),^[14] we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.”^[15] Now having written that “we are experiencing this salvation, this righteousness by faith,” I certainly don’t mean that “our experience” is a 100% accurate translation of Christ’s righteousness. When it came to his bout with coveting Paul wrote, For I want (θέλειν, a form of θέλω)^[16] to do the good, but I cannot do it (literally, For to wish is present in/with me, but not to do it).^[17] Still, he recognized that this desire was from God and not from himself or his own righteousness by the law, for the one bringing forth in you both the desire (θέλειν, a form of θέλω) and the effort – for the sake of his good pleasure – is God.^[18]

For the scripture says, Paul continued in Romans, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who richly blesses all who call on him. For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved (σωθήσεται, another form of σώζω).^[19]

Romans, Part 39

Back to Antichrist, Part 2

Back to Son of God – John, Part 5

Back to Who Am I? Part 7

^[1] Romans 10:5-8 (NET)

^[2] Romans 3:3 (NET)

^[3] Romans 10:9a (NET)

^[4] John 8:58 (NET) Table

^[5] Romans 10:9b (NET)

^[7] Acts 11:13-16 (NET)

^[8] Romans 10:10 (NET)

^[11] Romans 10:10 (NKJV)

^[12] Matthew 6:11 (NET)

^[13] Galatians 2:22, 23 (NET)

^[14] Titus 3:5b (NET)

^[15] Titus 3:7 (NET)

^[17] Romans 7:18b (NET)

^[18] Philippians 2:13 (NET)

^[19] Romans 10:11-13 (NET)

Romans, Part 29

Posted on October 19, 2012 by admin

There is therefore now no condemnation (κατάκριμα) for those who are in Christ Jesus (ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ),¹ Paul continued. I want to list some of the things that are true for those in Christ Jesus:

In Christ Jesus…
1) …born of water and spirit [Table]…What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.	John 3:5, 6 (NET)
2) …the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want [Table].	Galatians 5:17 (NET)
3) I delight in the law of God in my inner being.	Romans 7:22 (NET)
4) I know that nothing good lives…in my flesh [Table].	Romans 7:18a (NET)
5) I want to do the good, but I cannot do it [Table].	Romans 7:18b (NET)
6) I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want [Table]!	Romans 7:19 (NET)
7) Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me [Table].	Romans 7:20 (NET)
8) So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin [Table].	Romans 7:25b (NKJV)
9) There is therefore now no condemnation [Table]…	Romans 8:1a (NET)

For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.² All of this was achieved by God. For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned (κατέκρινεν, a form of κατακρίνω) sin in the flesh…³

Only God knows how much sin is condemned in my flesh. I have a general sense that while I’m preoccupied (and frustrated) with the opposition of the flesh that keeps me from the perfection I want (and think I should demonstrate by the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ)⁴ less and less of the sin (that is the desire of the flesh) sees the light of day. It is not expressed in the world. It is confined, trapped, condemned in dead and dying flesh.

I am the resurrection and the life, Jesus said. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies, and the one who lives and believes in me will never die.⁵ This was a difficult saying for Martha to believe, many years before Paul wrote to the Romans. Jesus asked her, Do you believe this?⁶ Martha’s answer was a model of tactful diplomacy, Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world.⁷

Jesus knew Martha’s brother was sick, but deliberately waited two more days until he died.⁸ Our friend, He told his disciples, has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.⁹ His disciples were not eager to return to Judea. Rabbi, they said, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! [Jesus had claimed to be Yahweh, John 8:58, 59 NET] Are you going there again?¹⁰ Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.¹¹ So Jesus told them plainly that he was dead, and said, I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe.¹²

Jesus had deliberately contrived this situation as an object lesson for his disciples, but then Mary, Martha’s sister, came and fell at¹³ his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died:”¹⁴

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed. He asked, “Where have you laid him?” They replied, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus wept.¹⁵

It was a profound moment. Only He knows how many people He killed as Yahweh, sinners, yes, but people. He planned the death of Martha’s and Mary’s brother. He knew what He intended to do in the next few moments. And yet He wept. To say that Yahweh was not empathetic with human death would be false. I’m particularly affected by the implications of Genesis 18, that before the omniscient, omnipresent Yahweh decided to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah he took physical form and walked its streets. But there is something even more affecting about Yahweh, born of the flesh of Adam as Jesus, standing before the tomb of a friend weeping human tears from human eyes.

Take away the stone,¹⁶ Jesus said. Martha, ever the proper hostess, protested, Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days.¹⁷ Jesus responded (John 11:40-44 NET):

“Didn’t I tell you that if you believe, you would see¹⁸ the glory of God?” So they took away the stone.¹⁹ Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you that you have listened to me. I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.” When he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The²⁰ one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, and a cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and let him²¹ go.”

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord²²…who will rescue me from this body of death.²³ The ultimate condemnation of sin in the flesh is the death of the body. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,²⁴ Jesus promised everyone born of the flesh and of the Spirit. To those who already consider themselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus,²⁵ who accept their new identities, with the mind [they themselves] serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin,²⁶ Jesus promised, the one who lives and believes in me will never die.²⁷ To them the well-deserved demise of the body of death is a welcome relief, not a cause of apprehension.

Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, [Jesus] likewise shared in their humanity, so that through death he could destroy the one who holds the power of death (that is, the devil), and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death,²⁸ is the way the writer of Hebrews put it. Paul concluded, so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled (πληρωθῇ, a form of πληρόω) in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.²⁹ The righteous requirement of the law is fulfilled by the righteousness of God [apart from the law³⁰] through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe,³¹ the love that is the fulfillment (πλήρωμα) of the law,³² the fruit of the Spirit³³ of God, in other words, to walk according…to the Spirit. As Jesus said, Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill (πληρῶσαι, another form of πληρόω) them.³⁴

Paul continued (Romans 8:5-11 NET):

For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit. For the outlook of the flesh is death, but the outlook of the Spirit is life and peace, because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him [Table]. But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness. Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you [Table].

Addendum: May 15, 2024
Tables comparing John 11:32; 11:39; 11:40, 41 and 11:44 in the NET and KJV follow.

John 11:32 (NET)	John 11:32 (KJV)
Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”	Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

John 11:32 (NET Parallel Greek)	John 11:32 (Stephanus Textus Receptus)	John 11:32 (Byzantine Majority Text)
Ἡ οὖν Μαριὰμ ὡς ἦλθεν ὅπου ἦν Ἰησοῦς ἰδοῦσα αὐτὸν ἔπεσεν αὐτοῦ πρὸς τοὺς πόδας λέγουσα αὐτῷ· κύριε, εἰ ἦς ὧδε οὐκ ἄν μου ἀπέθανεν ὁ ἀδελφός	η ουν μαρια ως ηλθεν οπου ην ο ιησους ιδουσα αυτον επεσεν εις τους ποδας αυτου λεγουσα αυτω κυριε ει ης ωδε ουκ αν απεθανεν μου ο αδελφος	η ουν μαρια ως ηλθεν οπου ην ο ιησους ιδουσα αυτον επεσεν αυτου εις τους ποδας λεγουσα αυτω κυριε ει ης ωδε ουκ αν απεθανεν μου ο αδελφος

John 11:39 (NET)	John 11:39 (KJV)
Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, “Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell because he has been buried four days.”	Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.

John 11:39 (NET Parallel Greek)	John 11:39 (Stephanus Textus Receptus)	John 11:39 (Byzantine Majority Text)
λέγει ὁ Ἰησοῦς· ἄρατε τὸν λίθον. λέγει αὐτῷ ἡ ἀδελφὴ τοῦ τετελευτηκότος Μάρθα· κύριε, ἤδη ὄζει, τεταρταῖος γάρ ἐστιν	λεγει ο ιησους αρατε τον λιθον λεγει αυτω η αδελφη του τεθνηκοτος μαρθα κυριε ηδη οζει τεταρταιος γαρ εστιν	λεγει ο ιησους αρατε τον λιθον λεγει αυτω η αδελφη του τεθνηκοτος μαρθα κυριε ηδη οζει τεταρταιος γαρ εστιν

John 11:40, 41 (NET)	John 11:40, 41 (KJV)
Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?”	Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?

John 11:40 (NET Parallel Greek)	John 11:40 (Stephanus Textus Receptus)	John 11:40 (Byzantine Majority Text)
λέγει αὐτῇ ὁ Ἰησοῦς· οὐκ εἶπον σοι ὅτι ἐὰν πιστεύσῃς ὄψῃ τὴν δόξαν τοῦ θεοῦ	λεγει αυτη ο ιησους ουκ ειπον σοι οτι εαν πιστευσης οψει την δοξαν του θεου	λεγει αυτη ο ιησους ουκ ειπον σοι οτι εαν πιστευσης οψει την δοξαν του θεου

So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.

Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

John 11:41 (NET Parallel Greek)	John 11:41 (Stephanus Textus Receptus)	John 11:41 (Byzantine Majority Text)
ἦραν οὖν τὸν λίθον. ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς ἦρεν τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἄνω καὶ εἶπεν· πάτερ, εὐχαριστῶ σοι ὅτι ἤκουσας μου	ηραν ουν τον λιθον ου ην ο τεθνηκως κειμενος ο δε ιησους ηρεν τους οφθαλμους ανω και ειπεν πατερ ευχαριστω σοι οτι ηκουσας μου	ηραν ουν τον λιθον ου ην ο τεθνηκως κειμενος ο δε ιησους ηρεν τους οφθαλμους ανω και ειπεν πατερ ευχαριστω σοι οτι ηκουσας μου

John 11:44 (NET)	John 11:44 (KJV)
The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, and a cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and let him go.”	And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

John 11:44 (NET Parallel Greek)	John 11:44 (Stephanus Textus Receptus)	John 11:44 (Byzantine Majority Text)
ἐξῆλθεν ὁ τεθνηκὼς δεδεμένος τοὺς πόδας καὶ τὰς χεῖρας κειρίαις καὶ ἡ ὄψις αὐτοῦ σουδαρίῳ περιεδέδετο. λέγει \|αὐτοῖς\| \|ὁ\| Ἰησοῦς · λύσατε αὐτὸν καὶ ἄφετε αὐτὸν ὑπάγειν	και εξηλθεν ο τεθνηκως δεδεμενος τους ποδας και τας χειρας κειριαις και η οψις αυτου σουδαριω περιεδεδετο λεγει αυτοις ο ιησους λυσατε αυτον και αφετε υπαγειν	και εξηλθεν ο τεθνηκως δεδεμενος τους ποδας και τας χειρας κειριαις και η οψις αυτου σουδαριω περιεδεδετο λεγει αυτοις ο ιησους λυσατε αυτον και αφετε υπαγειν