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We have been saved from Egypt (instantaneous), are being saved from our old ways, and will be saved from the power of death. Salvation is not a one time thing. Salvation is not an event. Salvation is Christ himself. Otherwise we make something else to be salvation than God himself! But HE is...

I have found it a common delusion today to believe we are so depraved we cannot even do what is right, as the publican or good Samaritan did. It is a belief that says "I can do nothing, nothing, nothing, thus any striving is foolishness". Subtly, this is used to deny the necessity of growth in...

Salvation is a process. Unless one endures to the end, he will not be saved. Thus everything matters. To make salvation a 'ticket punching' event is simply a convenient way to put the dust under the rug, and ignore the need for growth and perseverance!

I agree with you about John the Baptist. :) The way I understand it is that the bride is the saints, it is those who walk in the power of God, in the new nature. Jesus says of John that he is the greatest of prophets, and yet the smallest in the kingdom is greater than he. Thus those who walk...

Amen! 12 Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you. (Hosea 10) We sow, we break up the fallow ground, we seek... Yes, he rains the righteousness, but after we have done...

My pleasure, brother. Song of songs is also a good reference. :)

It's a complicated subject. It is God who grants us repentance, but we can also resist the Spirit. Considering also that God desires all men to be saved, my understanding is that as he gives rain to both the wicked and the righteous, so he atleast gives a chance to all, but whether we choose it...

Amen! That is the gospel! :) He took on our nature, and now we take on his, and so we can be, by his power, as he is! Blessings, brother!

Again, as I have explained, because of our fallen nature, we have a total inability to be righteous as God is and to be perfect as he is. That is why we have the new nature, that ALL righteousness might be fulfilled. But placed in a sinful nature, man can still choose to live his neighbour, as...

Once again, you use all these things to try and divide the body into Jew and Gentile, you rebuild the middle wall of partition! But what God has made one, let no man separate. God came to fulfill righteousness, and the prophets, not destroy it. The old was an image of the new. Knowing this, we...

Oh ok. :) I understand that as being wisdom. Jesus was calling people then to follow him physically at that time. But we must still leave everything behind, simply, that does not mean not taking care of family. I think we should still consider both, but rather understand what it means...

We can be sinless while IN the body, by putting to death the FLESH NATURE. This is what you cannot understand; they are two different things. Otherwise, you are once again saying that the flesh is more powerful than the spirit... It goes perfectly with your denial of the power of Christ in us...

Yes, but the word evil in Hebrew means 'sore' or 'trouble' (strongs), and the word good means 'welfare'. Man has known trouble and welfare, because of this. Man has chosen the hard path. This is akin to Paul saying that he has learned to be content with much and with little, with welfare, and...

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and...

It's only ambiguous if you can't understand a statement like 'the ball is in our court, and the response to the grace given is ours to give.' The post seems very clear to me, and knowing the arguments people bring against it, I know many people who understand very clearly what I said, whether...

Could we see some of those verses, Buzz? This is a friendly question, my friend, I honestly want to know. :) I don't see the scriptures saying all will be saved. I have heard before people saying some might receive a second chance to see because they didn't have it in this life, and so far I...

Marriage is not for the sake of our own desires and loves, though God may grant us that because he loves us, but ultimately, as everything, it's purpose is to give glory to God. 14 Yet you say, “For what reason?” Because the LORD has been witness Between you and the wife of your youth...

You said: In other words, you are judging and making a standard of your own, you measure everything in comparison to yourself. You have also made it very clear that you divide between the Jews and the Gentiles, who have been made one in Christ, hence a divided kingdom. This divided kingdom is...

Paul's focus was the gentiles, and to bring them to new life in Christ from where they were, whereas Peter, James, etc, where bringing the Jews to new life from where the Jews where. Thus the angle is very different, but the message and the arrival point is the same. I think the best way is to...

Actually, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil doesn't give man discernment for what is good and what is evil, to the opposite! Eating of this tree means to decide for ourselves what is good, and what is evil. What helps us is good, what doesn't is evil, but this is on a carnal sense. When...