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Celebrating easter is another example where subversion is possible! We should not celebrate 'easter', with easter eggs (representing the goddess of fertility, which is the pagan celebration of easter), and chocolate rabbits! Rather we should celebrate the passover! Share the wine and the...

Yes, and Americans not allowing a Bible study to be conducted in a house shows they are all anti-christs too :rolleyes: It is not wise to judge a whole nation on the basis of some, as God would not destroy Sodom for the sake of ten righteous. We must be wiser than the world, who judges...

What did they not believe, Richard? :)

All our vaccines, tactics, etc are another example of man trusting in man. Men fight men, and trust in the power of their arm and in the wisdom of their mind. But who is there that trusts on the Lord?

Yes, we have authority, and power to overcome. :) But in this time, we do not take authority over men, we are rather to be the servants of all. We preach the word, and we follow the commands, rather than man. But if man will crucify us for this, let it be so, and may God forgive them, because...

Trials and tribulations, FHII :) Through those, if we learn from them what the Lord wishes to teach us, and faithfully allow them to burn away the chaff, to refine us as gold, we can come to have a mature character which always praises God and gives him honor. If we have this character, we...

Revelation 2:26 And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations— Revelation 3:2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God. Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead...

Richard, I did not declare judgment on anyone. I am declaring we must obey, leave iniquity, and walk in the paths of righteousness, seek Christ, and his holiness, and walk in his ways, and obey his commands out of faith. :)

Amen! :) 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. What's in the heart? Obedience out of faith! ;)

14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.15 Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. 16 Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by...

Man made a demon-designed system by which he doesn't have to obey God. In this system, either man is not accountable, or God is weak and unable to empower man to overcome. Tragically most of Christianity has forsaken the faith by which it becomes the light of the world, because it shows to...

Paul follows this by saying... (Hebrews 6 in parts, my thoughts in blue) 1 Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection... ...and this we will do, if God permits. (There we have the mature mind; it's aim is to go on to perfection.) 7 For...

12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But...

1 Peter 4:1 Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, Here we see one aspect of the mind of Christ; willingness to suffer for others, and for godliness. And here we see the result of...

Yes! More on that later, your leading right to one of my thoughts! :) The purpose then, of having a mature mind, is to 'prove' what is the will of God. G1381 δοκιμάζω dokimazō dok-im-ad'-zo From G1384; to test (literally or figuratively); by implication to approve: - allow, discern...

Hello all! Decided to do a small study on what it is to be mature in the Lord (to a degree). :) When we repent and believe, our Spirit is quickened, and we receive a new heart. At that moment, we begin our race, we are grafted in to the vine. What follows after is the process of maturing of...

This is the Gospel of God's grace. ;) It is the gospel of the new creation, by which the most abundant grace is made available to us, if only we enter by faith, that we might stand pure and without blemish on the day of the Lord. For God is able to save to the uttermost those who come to him...

Amen, Episkopos! :)

The scriptures clearly say that faith without works is dead. Not because it is by works we are saved, but because the kind of faith that pleases God requires obedience. And then God decides who is 'saved'... At the time of judgment. Anything else takes the 'disciple' out of 'discipleship'...

We shouldn't confuse divine authority with the earthly authority and power of the flesh. We go as lambs led to the slaughter. :)