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There's a difference between how we approach those who don't know the Lord, as opposed to those do, or claim to. Paul said it isn't our business to judge those outside the church, but inside the church. We do have a responsibility for what goes on inside the Father's house, to keep it clean...

You didn't answer my question. No need to know Christ if we can be saved by our own righteousness. I was talking about the level of righteousness...which you say is acceptable to God. What pretend stuff that I believe about myself? I don't believe there is anything good in me, apart from...

Not difficult at all, unless one is blinded by an unwillingness to see the truth for some reason: Jdg 19:22-24 Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the...

No, I'm not condemning folks...where did you get that idea? And of course we need to seek God for His grace, amen.....we don't tend to do that until we start to realize we need it. But I know this is you as usual, tarring with your broad brush everyone who doesn't see eye to eye with you.

So there is no difference between the child of God doing good and the lost soul doing good? No benefit from knowing Christ? What does it mean where it says He has chosen the weak things of this world to shame the strong? Are the children of God strong in our own righteousness? No, I would...

Sensitive, aren't you. You really need to look into that, with the Lord. I'm talking about doing our best period. Loving the Lord with all our strength, whatever strength we have...usually a mixture of flesh and spirit for the child of God who comes to realize we are often falling short in...

How does the gospel fit into what you are saying? Rom 10:9-14 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth...

Amen...and that way HE gets the glory too.

Sometimes these days I sure could use His unction to get out of bed in the morning, yes, lol. But seriously, to your point, yes we are to do whatever we can..... until we run out of our own strength. "Cast your bread upon the waters (til we run out of bread) and after many days it will come...

The bible doesn't confuse me..........but you do. Why is that?

I still am not sure if I'm grasping it, but I believe it means to stop serving God from our own flesh - ceasing from our own works and dying to our self, to our old man - in order to serve God in and by His Spirit. Let God put everything to death that belongs to the flesh/old man, including...

Ditto here sister. I would have thought that a teacher of the word would teach the word of God, not their own words.

And here's me thinking I can't serve God in my own strength......tried that and failed. Isn't that the whole point of burying "our" corn of wheat in the ground to die in order to become truly fruitful?

And you are judging, wrongly, that everyone who disagrees with you on this is judging others. All I want to discuss is the word of God.....so why don't you bring it? Please make the case for what you are saying. I'd be happy if this were true. But instead of bringing the word of God to bear...

Oh I do look to myself, don't you worry about that. I came to realize that in me, my flesh, is no good thing, that's for sure. The heart is deceitfully wicked, who can know it? And isn't that really true of everyone and why we all need the Saviour? If I'm not mistaken you are having in mind...

Amen brother. Some are tares and false brethren and others fall away and stop enduring sound doctrine. I think those who are younger in the Lord and not as established in the faith might be more vulnerable to being deceived and being led astray by false teachers. There sure is a spirit of...

Ah - well I guess you need to "buy" the answers to those questions.

Yes, but like His peace, it's not as the world gives. Pro 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. Dont' sell out (wrest, twist, dilute) the truth for a bowl of stew to find loopholes for the flesh. The extra oil for our lamps must be bought by...

Hmmm, you might want to remind the poor cannibals as they give you a cup of cold water before cooking you for dinner, lol. Or shrinking your head, or scalping you, or stealing from you, or doing what some poor folks did to Israelis on Oct. 7 recently, or the poor Boko Haran soldiers who steal...

That is for sure the lesson of the concubine and Lot's offering of his daughters. When we stop our grappling and trying to figure it out on our own, but ask and seek the Lord, and wait upon Him, He will give the illumination. We are saved when we receive Christ by His Spirit and begin to walk...