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Believers are ever in fellowship with God via “desiring and doing His good pleasure” (Phl 2:13). They are saved by His grace, and manifest their love to Him by their obedience. The place where God has them is in a constant and unbroken state of holiness and acceptability in His Son, the Lord...

Doubtless the Church is to reign over the earth, the bright witness of the Father’s love; for the world shall then know that He loves her as He loves His Son, both being displayed in the same glory (Jhn 17:22). How blessed the ministry of the Church in that day serving the gladsome earth...

If we are saved there is no failure--only continued learning from the "conforming" (Heb 12:6). We often fail is service, but it's the attempts to service that counts!

Amen, no man, and that includes self because if your truly reborn God insures you will "desire and do His good pleasure" (Phl 2:13). If He is not "working in you," your not saved yet.

Just as from Adam the First, sin, condemnation and death came to all his race, so there comes, to those who trust the Last Adam, justification, righteousness and eternal life. What Adam did was reckoned to his posterity; so what our Lord Jesus did is reckoned to those who are in Him. What...

True and Amen! Thanks for the comment, and God's blessings to your Family!

Some say water baptism, others, that man must be born first (water and embryotic fluid) before he can be born again. Still, some say the "water" is the same as the Spirit, e.g. "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols...

Through faith in Christ's expiation for our sins!

Hi, and those are all good applicable passages, as only those who are truly reborn will continue; for hypocrites and apostates will not remain in their false profession of the Lord Jesus.

God does want us to know we are His. That is what all the Scriptures are for, to ensure we have the faith for it; and "the Spirit himself bears witnesses with our spirit that we are the children of God (Rom 8:16). Without this reassurance there will be confusion, but yet, you will saved if your...

Thank you too and God bless!

Hi and thanks for your reply and comments! I see it that we can settle for the basics, or go on to completion (He 6:1, 2). It depends how much you want to know about God, for much the Word is deeper than what is generally understood. Not that we want to know more than others, but that we should...

All of the Scriptures that appear to teach that one can become unsaved, which word isn’t actually used, are just suppositions in order to express the impossibility of being saved more than once, enforcing the desire to be saved. If the statements were true, what sense would there be in God...

“The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.” That shows that the flesh is still there (Ro 7:17, 20—NC), and they are “contrary one to the other”; but the Spirit obtains the upper hand, “that you may not do the things you would” (Gal 5:17). As the Spirit acts, as the...

Reckoning on our life-union with the Lord Jesus Christ establishes us in the full assurance of salvation. On this foundation we are able to reckon on our eternal, unconditional security in Him. Until we are grounded in the truths of substitution and union, we are not prepared for the more...

Everything we have is founded on “position and “condition.” Our position in the Lord Jesus is who we are; our condition on the earth is what we are. Assurance of justification is established on our position in the Lord Jesus Christ, and is an imputation not an impartation. Our condition is that...

It is lawful for the Father to do what He will with His own. Have we served Him only from selfish interest? Are we going to cling to Him only in the time of prosperity? Shall we not accept from His hand sorrow and suffering as well as joy? It is, alas, true that many of the children of God, in...

Thanks for the compliment! Yes, once we are His, He keeps us from desiring ever again the pleasures of our sin nature--the old man (Pl 2:13); and His Spirit keeps us by opposing the old man (flesh - Gal 5:17), so we wont want to do what we know we shouldn't!

To “abide” in the Lord Jesus is to trust (rest) in the work of His Cross by which He has permanently provided “propitiation” for the sins of the believer. This means every accusation from the opposition, esp. from the closest enemy—old self, should instantly default the believer to rest in the...

Having a sin nature still, nobody can always make choices. That's why I said "we will continue to remain on the increase in making the right choices more than not." "On the increase," i.e. as we mature.