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Luke 4:18 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance (aphesis) to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty (aphesis) them that are bruised, In...

OK...we can see that we can reject or accept the biblical message or not. We can turn to Christ or continue to follow the wide road to ultimate judgment. If you are reading this post you most likely have chosen to follow Christ and to not avoid the biblical truth...at least not knowingly. But...

So many doctrines these days seek to wrest the initiative of salvation away from God and onto themselves. But God is sovereign. He has sent grace into the world...for all men. Our decision is whether we wish to cooperate with God or not. No acceptance of His grace is required. It is already...

The Old Testament gives us analogies and pictures of the spiritual process which is salvation in Christ Jesus. So then the New Testament is in the OT concealed....and the OT is in the NT revealed. That brings us to Jericho...the first city to be conquered by God's people upon entering into the...

Now any honest person who owns a bible and believes in God knows that any kind of opinion as to what God will decide about us personally is strictly based on conjecture. I say an honest person. There are a lot of indoctrinated people out there. And a lot of dishonesty. con·jec·ture...

I thought it just might be time to have a very positive praiseful thread about the wonders of a walk in the Spirit. :) We have this treasure in earthen vessels. We are to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. Now this a miraculous place to be...so far away from our routine...

It has been said that for every mile of road there are 2 miles of ditch (one ditch on either side of the road) But in truth those ditches are more like vast fields. The road is the elevated road of holiness. Isaiah 35:8-9 8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The...

Greetings to all, I remember speaking with a man who was afraid to become a Christian because he didn't want to lose his ability to reason. I thought it was interesting that he thought that way...as he saw that Christians were no longer able to think rationally. And he did have a point. At...

...and a most neglected warning.... And no letter is more put aside than the one to Laodicea (which means "the people's opinions"). We are in that time period of the church...right now. But who is taking the Lord's warning to heart? Has anyone noticed how many opinions there are...or how anyone...

I'll start with this illustration... I see the Christian walk like driving a car from point A to point B. We get a filling of the Spirit at a fill-up station. And we are meant to go to the next point for the next fill-up. So we are given just enough gas to get there in a straight line. But...

I saw this video once on facebook that sought...very mistakenly...to present how Jesus presents His advocacy of His followers before God. In the video it has certain non-believers being sent to hell no matter what they did...which is false to begin with. Then it has another sinner come up to be...

Greetings to my fellow Board members. We are told by Peter, after having visited Cornelius the centurion and his oikos, that God accepts people from the nations along this criteria. Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: 35...

As some of you may know I have written on this forum about the perfection of Christ and that level of walk..which few will attain to...and so many are unreasonably hostile to the very idea of. But I'd like to dial it back somewhat and speak of the walk that is being one of being led by the...

There is a mystery to this. Jesus has 2 separate flocks that come together under His Headship. There is the flock of natural Israel...that comes to Christ in the NT times...but who were tamim and shalem in the OT. And there is the flock that is spiritual but from the nations. These are they...

Greetings! Now I hope we all know the parable of the sower. Heavenly seed being sown into the world ....with 4 possible kinds of ground receiving it (or not), only one of which bears a lasting and perfect fruit. And have we not all thought or entertained the idea at some point that we...

Greetings to all...even those who by seeing the OP title are already spoiling for a fight! ;) The title of the OP is vague in that it brings in an already determined...even set in stone...religious response that tends to be jumped on without a second thought. So then the OP can mean various...

As long as we live with selfish motives we will never understand the gospel nor the ways of God. God is selfless and only properly understood through the same kind of selflessness. Otherwise we tend to get things exactly backwards. Now a man who doesn't stand up to, say, a bear attacking his...

Most believers think that Jesus was perfect in His life on earth. By perfect I don't mean mature. Jesus was immature as a child...but always perfect. Perfection is the image of God in any given situation. We could say it was a state of being or even a place. It is walking in a heavenly...

With all the talk about spiritual gifts and salvation and doctrines...etc....what I find is missing is speaking of the intimate walk in the power and presence of God. In the Eastern churches this is known as THEOSIS...union with God....Oneness with God. This is not in the sense of being God or...

So this is a spin-off thread from "Maturity in Christ"... We can't speak about any kind of spiritual maturity without speaking of the narrow gateway of being crucified with Christ. The narrow path that follows in this now resurrected life of abiding in Jesus is as we remain a living sacrifice...