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Though it will manifest works (Jam 2:18), faith in God is not something which can be produced, only desired, and even the desire for faith does not originate from man because it too must be given from God; “For it is God which worketh in you both to will (desire) and to do of His good pleasure”...

There will be found in anyone who is really “in the seventh of Romans” an intense separation from the world, a holy abhorrence of sin and a vehement desire to do the will of God. That will has become the glory and goal of his heart and soul; sin is no longer any pleasure to him. Now his distress...

Evil is what is produced by sin, or in other words it is the activity of sin. The believer overcomes the evil from sin because Christ has overcome the sin in the believer; thus our actions are not what overcomes, but is evidence of having overcome - through Christ’s atonement in our stead. An...

We are in the presence of the Father, representatively speaking; because we are in Christ, we are positionally before the Father. It is not the life of the Spirit that is supplied, but the life of the Lord Jesus--by the life of the Spirit; the Spirit reveals not His life, “for, He shall not...

I believe "the judgment seat of Christ" is something that "all must appear before", which will be completed at two varying chronological events of resurrections. Our judgment began when we were saved and involves, not punishment but chastisement. I believe that Rev 20:4 is the completion of the...

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad” (2 Cor 5:10). The two phrases, “the things done in the body” and “whether good or bad” can only refer to those who have received...

“Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom 6:11). It is an immense thing to see how we are “alive unto God”. I think a great many are trying to live to God. That is, they want to reach it in their responsible life...

There are two great revelators, or unfolders of Divine Truth in the Bible—Moses in the Old Testament and Paul in the New. Some may ask, Is not Christ the Great Teacher? In a sense that is true; but actually He is the Person taught about, rather than teaching, in the Gospel. The Law and the...

There is no one who will be so conscious of indwelling sin as the believer who walks in the light. “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us” (1 John 1:8). In the verse immediately preceding, we read, “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all...

Due to a further reflection of pondering my post on “The Controlled Fall”, I would like to offer to Admin. that if they deem the content unsuitable for posting, they may remove it with my concurrence. I’ve wanted to share that concept for a long time, to see what others think about it but I’ve...

I do not believe Satan transferred sin to Eve that wasn't already resident within her and Adam. Their disobedience was evidence of possessing a sin nature prior to the act. I believe the Enemy did not inject something but rather revealed something preexisting. Eve's disobedience was due to...

The history of Adam, the moral history, is closed; that is what we were. In all this we have God’s history of man’s responsibility. I find in the Cross that I was in a condition which God must reject. The Lord Jesus has come to be made sin, my sin, and a work has been accomplished according...

The righteousness of the righteous is that righteousness which is from Christ, for He has been "made unto us . . . righteousness" (1 Co 1:30). The same is for those even before the coming of Christ, which God mentioned to Adam and Eve concerning the coming of Christ; “And I will put enmity...

Since salvation is impossible without faith in Christ, there are two elements of procurement; Faith and Christ. Grace is the source “by” which regeneration is available and faith is the vessel “through” which it is procured; “by grace . . . through faith” and not the invert. It’s not the faith...

The primary difference between Law and Grace isn’t their motives, for both desires to please God. It’s their method; Law has to do with works of the carnal nature - from man towards God. Grace has to do with works of the new nature - through man towards God; it’s all a matter “of the heart, in...

We are not to confound “consciousness of sins with “conscience of sins.” The worshiper once purged has no more conscience of sins in the presence of the Father (Heb 10:2). He knows that if He would impute to him even one single sin, it would involve nothing less than judgment and condemnation...

Of the five covenants made between God and man (Adamic, Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic), none were intended to procure fellowship with Him, but were used to prepare and lead men to the one covenant which would procure fellowship with Him, which is the Everlasting Covenant (Heb 13:20)...

-------------------------------------------------------------- What explains Scripture? It is the Spirit of God alone. His power can unfold any part of the Word of God. Do you ask if I mean to say that it is of no importance to know languages, understand history and so on? I am not raising a...

The proper rendering of Romans 8:4 is, "That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us" (Rom 8:4 - NKJ). There was only one requirement of the Law covenant, which was the same for the covenant God had with Adam and Eve; obedience or death. “The soul that sinneth, it shall...

Romans 10:4: “Christ is the end of the Law unto righteousness to everyone that believeth.” There has been much discussion of the meaning of the word "end" here. Let us see if Scripture does not clear up the matter for us. When Christ died, He bore for Israel the curse of the Law, for they...