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    Justification, instant sanctification and progressive sanctification and sainthood..

    I Numbered your point so that I can answer them individually. 1. I Understand and never implied you are me, I am judging you by what you have written to me here on line. As I said previously, you have desire for Truth, and your heart is in the right place, but you are afraid of error and this...
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    Justification, instant sanctification and progressive sanctification and sainthood..

    When I first read these words of Tozer, I as a fundamentalist Baptist was offended, but those words convicted me, and showed me what I was missing out on in the faith. They showed me My complacency, my inability to learn from the Holy Spirit, How my self-sufficiency was getting in the way of my...
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    Justification, instant sanctification and progressive sanctification and sainthood..

    Marks, None of what i wrote was a "put down" of you. what you are experiencing is the CONVICTION of the Holy Spirit. I am speaking of a general condition in the church as a whole, the words are pointing to this in yourself, there is no malice nor "ad hominem" attempts in any of my writing. This...
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    Justification, instant sanctification and progressive sanctification and sainthood..

    I Will let Tozer define Textualism since you have a hard time grasping it. Most who are fundamentalists do have this difficulty, because it is how they were raised to think. I am adding parts to give this context for you. Note especially the highlighted parts. "....Here are my reasons. A...
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    Justification, instant sanctification and progressive sanctification and sainthood..

    I Was wondering when you would chime in. I use believer interchangeably with the Born again in this, so your point that the devil and those in hell believe is a moot point. To be Born again does not make you a saint. A saint is one who has walked the path of a saint, and has been chosen by God...
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    Justification, instant sanctification and progressive sanctification and sainthood..

    Correct, The doctrine of rest is when we yield to the work of the holy Spirit in us, We No longer are working but resting in His promises, and his ability to accomplish his will in us. Overall I agree with this comment, and it was well put. On the other side of the coin, the devil has his own...
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    Justification, instant sanctification and progressive sanctification and sainthood..

    If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. Let's Just say, the clothing of the bride is the righteousness of the saints, would this not mean the bride and the saints are distinct? How did Paul view those whom he converted? Here...
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    Justification, instant sanctification and progressive sanctification and sainthood..

    Good Question: I Know the army of the Lord is made up of 10,000 saints, (Jude 1:14) The fine linen of the bride is the righteousness of the saints (Revelation 19:8) an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. (2 Peter...
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    Justification, instant sanctification and progressive sanctification and sainthood..

    I Think you are still living in complacency, thinking You are in need of nothing (Revelation 3:17) That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is...
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    Justification, instant sanctification and progressive sanctification and sainthood..

    No need to narrow this as I already answered these concerns here... You probably missed it? Peter in this 1st chapter of 2 Peter 1 explains all of this quite eloquently speaking of his foretold death, May i suggest you read and study the entire chapter, because this is not a "narrow focused"...
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    Justification, instant sanctification and progressive sanctification and sainthood..

    We are all members of the same Body, One in Christ Jesus. According to my heritage I am of the tribe of Issachar, but that is not what matters, but that we are a new creation in Christ Jesus, a fruitful branch.
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    Justification, instant sanctification and progressive sanctification and sainthood..

    The New testament is built upon the Old testament, Concepts such as the Blood for cleansing are foreshadowed in the Old Testament. The definitions of a what a saint is in the Old testament show that saints are a unique group from amongst the faithful. For example Hosea 11:12 states: "Ephraim...
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    Justification, instant sanctification and progressive sanctification and sainthood..

    The calling of a saint is by divine election, Every believer is called to be a saint few are chosen. I Do not Know if I will "make the calling sure" or if I will not be called upon to make that sacrifice. The call of saint leads to a definite destination, to give their testimony (Martyria in the...
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    Justification, instant sanctification and progressive sanctification and sainthood..

    Marks, This error has been perpetuated by protestantism for 500+ years now, so it will take some time to address, and if you are willing to learn i will respond further. I Have a little time now but will try to get back to this tonight or tomorrow. Needless to say there is a lot of assumptions...
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    Justification, instant sanctification and progressive sanctification and sainthood..

    Saints as defined in scripture are those who are sanctified and set apart from the whole for service to the LORD. the Levites were saints, the rest of the tribes of Israel were either faithful or unfaithful. In the NT this distinction is made by Paul Who addresses his letters to the Saints AND...
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    Justification, instant sanctification and progressive sanctification and sainthood..

    When a Person first has saving faith, they receive justification, which is being declared "not guilty" by the judge, and instant sanctification, a clean slate for all past present and future sins. We are declared righteous and made righteous by the blood of the Lamb which cleanses us, We receive...
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    three warning dreams.

    Interesting way to see this, the disarming is of the church, by silencing the Truth of the Word of God. (My paraphrase of what i think you are implying). We are losing our saltiness and savor that makes us a force in this world and this is coming from within the church. I can think of many...
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    three warning dreams.

    These are not my dreams but ones shared to me by another, and i feel they are worth sharing here and getting feedback. The person does not claim to be a prophet or anything like that, he was just sharing them. They all tie together. 3 Dreams Last Night: Disarmament, Churches, and Power Outage...
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    The Fourth beast of Revelation

    There is a large segment of the church that silences the teaching on the fallen angels and the principalities of this world, which is what Rev. 17 is speaking about, and these characters have a role to play in end times before their judgment.... And those very principalities like to work in...
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    "refuse to be average": A.W. Tozer

    This has long been a favorite quote of mine from Tozer, I have used it in many ways whether coaching Kids, or in the work I do, or whatever life has in front of you, but ultimately this is about Spiritual motivation and the context of this quote is from an article entitled the "Our Enemy...