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Salvation and justification by Christ is cross-based, both His and ours together: He did the work for forgiveness of sins on His cross, and we must do the work for repentance of sinning on our cross. If we are not doing our work of faith on our cross, His work of salvation on His cross is made...

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God. Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith...

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Adding alone to faith is adding to Scripture false doctrine. What is not of ourselves is the faith given us to be saved by, which is the faith of Jesus. Our own faith alone is important to us, but...

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. We see in Romans 3, the first question of how it profits to have been a natural Jew born under the law, even though neither Jew nor...

Some OSAS Believers have officially transformed their image from being the self-proclaimed unrighteous sinners of modern Christianity. They now declare they are not sinners just like the saints, but not being saints. By devising a special maps and clues like a Scriptural playfair cipher, they...

I don't know of any time in Scripture where God ever commanded any man, much less His own people not to even try to be good or do good. And there is plenty of judgment against man for not doing so, especially them that don't care to, including Cain: And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou...

Normally this would not need be taught, but countering foolish doctrine many times leads to reducing the argument to the basics: Reductum Absurdum. Which is not bad in itself, since it clears the air to return to a refresher course in the first principles of the doctrine of Christ: But to us...

We all know how faith alone without works is dead, and so is not justified by Christ, and it is the same for doing works of the law alone without faith: it is not justified by Christ. When it comes to faith alone, being dead without works, no one has suggested all faith is dead and doing away...

It's one thing to teach that babes are sin-filled children of the devil, which some teach, though of course not so plainly. Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. But then when confronted with Scripture, to stick to their guns and say such sinful...

Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even...

In all arguments of doctrine, we always get caught up in the weeds of many Scriptures, but there is always one or two Scriptures that end the argument, by stating something so plainly about the subject at hand, that there is no room to argue otherwise. And the interesting thing about it, is...

Sinners say that preaching righteousness at all times, without making provision for the flesh to sin, are preaching gloom and doom. To a sinner seeking self-justification by faith alone, that is true. But what of preaching being born with a sin nature as a baby? And having a powerful sin...

And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him. The grace of Jesus is now for all sinners to repent, but is only upon them doing so for His name's sake. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our...

Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And so, the enemy of God first calls into question the commandment and law of the Lord. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. It...

There is a natural desire of every babe coming into the world, and it is the divine one of Christ to do good and please God, not to do evil and serve the devil against God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the...

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Lust entices the person to sin by tempting thoughts, and so lusting for sin is the source for sinning, not...

People keep trying to tell how a sin nature was put into man, with a process for which man is now born with it. But no one has ever said who does so. Until we have a creator and maker of something new, then there is no such thing that actually exists. Except in the imagination of people.

Gen 1, Ps 139, Ezek 28, show that both angels and men are created perfectly good and clean by Christ, as spiritual beings with the power of God to choose good or evil. And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be...

Jesus the man was God in the flesh, not God the Spirit on the throne. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. This Scripture is falsely used to say that any imperfection of spirit, such as any unrighteous thought is sinning, because it is supposed to come short of the glory of...

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. This Scripture is speaking to all freshly washed and sanctified saints, now walking in the eternal life of fellowship and light of Christ, and not in the death and darkness of sins and trespasses. Such saints, as...