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I do not believe the Scriptural definition for sinner is merely “one who sins”, because the Christian isn’t referred to as a sinner, in Scripture. The only passage that appears to indicate Christians are sinners is 1Ti 1:15; “. . . Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am...

We continue to deal with foundational facts, since the life can be no better than its root, its source. Youth and immaturity tend to act first and think later, if at all. Maturity has learned to take time to assess the facts. Our patient Husbandman is willing for us to take time and learn the...

“Personality doesn’t determine the nature of a person. Conversely, it’s the nature which determines the personality. What we think, say and do is the summation of our personality but it’s the nature, which is the essence (dictionary definition of nature), that controls the personality and...

I've presented this material, which concerns our eternal assurance, not to refute opositional concepts to its ideals, but because I thought it should be seen. I don't believe the Truth needs defended, anymore than a lion needs defended! Ephesians 1:4, ". . . He chose us in Him before the...

Greetings and God's blessings to you! I wanted to know if my posting has been excessive. If so, will correct, just let me know. Sola Scriptora!!

Think of the closer-than breathing, bone “of his bones” (Eph. 5:30) relationship of life we have with the very Creator and Sustainer of the universe. Although He is seated in glory at our Father’s right hand, He is not far off—His life is in us where we are, and our life is in Him where He is...

We can be saved only one time, because that’s all it takes and there’s no Scriptural evidence of anyone being saved twice. We know that to be saved, one must come to Christ, for He said “No one comes to the Father except through Me” (Jhn. 14:6). We also know that it requires the drawing of one...

Vicarious Law-Keeping? -mjs This article addresses the concept that Christ's earthly obedience of perfection fulfilled the Law for the Jew and hence, eliminated the guilt of the Law to the Jews. This is a false concept because His perfect obedience was so He could be the perfect sin sacrafice...

LAW OF LIFE "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ" (John 1:17). We need not submit to the law, nor do we need to struggle against it. It is now a matter of our standing on heavenly ground in our risen Lord, free from the influence and demands of the entire...

We should agree on the essentials (i.e., doctrine of salvation) and can lovingly dissagree on the non-essentials (i.e., dispensatioanlaism, predestination, etc). The essentials are a must for salvation and the non-essentials are for growth in salvation. "Therefore leaving the principles of the...

The Lord Jesus, as Israel's Messiah in His pre-Cross humiliation, "went about all Galilee, teaching in their [Israel's] synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom" (Matthew 4:23). It was at this time that He sat upon the mountainside and taught His disciples the Sermon on the Mount...

4-13. DUAL RECKONING "For in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily" (Colossians 2:9). "Reckoning" on the work of the Cross is the only relief from the carnal burden of self. Then comes the spiritual burden of Christ--to be more like Him. "Reckoning" is the answer there, too...

Are Christians Under Any "New Covenant"? The subject of Israel's New Covenant, and the erroneous notion of its relationship to the New Creation Christian and the Body of Christ--the Church, remains a hot topic in dispensational circles. Like the doctrine of the Fall, the subject of the "New...

We can never use our condition, regardless of how good and pure it may seem to us at times, as a reference for God to determine our position in Him. We must use what He uses to determine our status with Him and that is His Son, our Lord (Col 3:3). It has been well said that “when we are...

ISRAEL'S NEW COVENANT Miles J. Stanford We must stop here and stanch the flow of Covenant theology that is flooding onto Dispensational ground--beginning with the primary effusion, Israel's New Covenant. All traditional Dispensationalists believe and teach that...

HAND HEWN "Hearken unto Me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord; look unto the rock from which ye are hewn" (Isaiah 51:1). If we care for His glory, we will want to serve. If we care for others, we will want to be well prepared for that service. And that care will enable...

INTERNAL PRIORITY "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27). Beware! The world, both secular and religious, is seeking to destroy your individuality by conforming you to the mass of faceless ones. But our heritage and destiny in the Lord Jesus Christ is to be conformed to His...

HIS HUNGER "Oh that men would praise the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!" (Psalm 107:8). Our Father gave us the hunger to be justified (John 6:44), and He gave us the hunger to be sanctified (Philippians 3:10). This same principle applies to our...

(Fact pertaining to conditional truth is that it cannot affect positional truth. Fact pertaining to positional truth is that it can affect conditional truth: Parenthisis mine ) First of all, we must consider the area in which we are not accepted by God, nor ever can be (Rom 8:7: verse insert...

I believe the most important fact to remember, while we continue to learn to “rightly divide the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15), so that we may mature unto “the stature of the fullness of Christ” (Eph. 4:13), is how many things we have in Christ are “imputed but not imparted” (mjs). For example...