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Some time ago, a believer came to me with the dilemma of waiting for a visible sign of spiritual growth. Desiring to be a spiritual being more than anything, this believer was caught in the throes of God’s time element. The flesh was seeking to find the deliverance so needed at this time, but it...

God Salvation 2 Once again, as in natural birthing, everything is done by God outside of the sinner. The sinner is placed automatically, “baptized,” into Christ (1 Cor. 12:13) and this constitutes membership in the body of Christ (the Lord’s Church), at the same time the sinner, by this...

God Salvation Paul’s revelation was given to him personally by Jesus Christ and it constitutes the final gospel of Jesus Christ. It is a whole new gospel not given anywhere else in the Bible. Two of the most important aspects of this new gospel can be summed up in this way. One, it presents...

Far above all heavens To a Christian, understanding who you really are is contingent upon your understanding of the scriptures. If your understanding of the scriptures is based on something other than the epistles of Paul then you will miss the secret that is found in the scriptures as to who...

Tutors and Governors 2 We have dealt with “yielding by coercion” or “yielding by persuasion.” In essence, this is the child under tutors and governors in contrast to the child under the ministry of the Holy Spirit. The yielding process is learned under the jurisdiction of tutors and governors...

Tutors, Governors, and a Child Galatians 4:1-3 "Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; 2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under...

Things a believer must know Romans, Chapter 6, is the believer’s first truths he must learn to fully understand about his new life in Christ. 1) You must learn that you have been baptized into Christ’s death. (See, Romans 6:3). Many believers have spent a lifetime trying to kill out their...

The Cross There are many in the world, atheists, certain historians, and Hollywood celebrities that have all done their best to slander the Cross of Jesus Christ and what He accomplished there. The Cross is what turns a person’s world upright. To hate the Cross is to destroy one’s self. Here...

Upside down world 4 Remember, this world is the Father’s creation, as well as His place to work out His will for humanity. Many have advocated that this is the Devil’s world, but remember, Satan is simply a tool bringing about God’s purposes. What are His purposes, one important purpose of God...

Upside down world 3 Aside from politics, the biggest headlines today have to do with money. There never seems to be enough money to go around, especially when some who have a lot of money keep wanting more and more. These are those to whom money itself is not the issue. They have more than...

Upside down world 2 There is nothing as disconcerting to this upside-down world as when somebody who tries to live by the rules of the Creator comes along. The governments in this world, whether they are civil, religious, or big business, all feel they have done their best to serve and make...

A young, beautiful couple stood before their Creator. They had done something awful. They had been given explicit instructions regarding how to operate their new world. However, they ran into someone else who had his own ideas to twist the way the world would run. When the young couple listened...

Great secrets and revelation of the cross The glorious cross of Christ is Gods gift to a world lost and separated by the Adamic sin-nature, Eph. 2:3, "Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and...

Christ is the only life of the believer All of Paul’s epistles are an uncompromising protest against any intrusion of the law or any phase of the law into the teaching of the Christ-life. It should be seen from Paul’s life that the simple knowing that Christ was in him by the birthing was not...

Revelation knowledge Someone is always asking me how I come to understand things concerning Paul’s revelation of Christ. I have to tell you that Paul’s revelation of Christ it is the key. It is not the key to being saved. The key to being saved is being born again. It is not the key to being...

New Creation 3 The essence of, John 14:20, is to pinpoint vividly the purpose of the Day of Pentecost. Once again we hear Jesus explaining the purpose of the Holy Spirit by what would happen on that day. In John 14:20, Jesus focuses the entire plan of God to the believer receiving the Holy...

New Creation 2 Saving faith is of the Father, for He has given to every man a measure of faith so that when he hears the gospel he will have the ability to believe. Then after the new birth, the believer grows in the Lord out of his own independence to the Christ-life. As this takes place, all...

New Creation God would depend on His own nature, Christ in us, as the means of saving us. This was the most important thing the Father ever did. Saving mankind by placing another person in them was to accomplish the two greatest demands to God’s justice. The creature was to remain a free moral...

Knowing Christ Paul says, in 2 Corinthians 5:16, that if we did once know Christ in the flesh, now, that is not how we should know Him. ."Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more." What a...

One gospel A new gospel, is this what is needed in our world today. Has the “grand old gospel” failed us. These are questions that hungry, sincere believers are asking today. Everywhere, we see different gospels preached that seem to be contrary to the way that the Spirit is leading many...