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When we first start out hungry and zealous for Him it is often imagined that extensive progress has been made, when as yet we have barely begun. As our Lord Takes us along through the years it slowly dawns upon us that there are vast, almost infinite, areas of development through which He must...

TYRANNY OF SIN "You were set free from the tyranny of sin" (Romans 6:18, Wey.). The tyranny of sin over the lost necessitated the death of the Lord Jesus on the Cross. The tyranny of sin over the saved necessitated the death of the believer in the Lord Jesus on that same Cross. The dual truths...

Sarx, pronounced as sä'rks is the Greek word for “flesh” in scripture. The two primary definitions, depending on the context of course, are: a. the soft substance of the living body, which covers the bones and is permeated with blood; b. denotes mere human nature, the earthly nature of man apart...

I believe Paul in Romans seven revealed a dual-naturism within the Christian. Our personality isn’t equated with our nature because I believe the nature determines the personality, so it’s unlike a split personality as in schizophrenia. I’ve yet to encounter scriptural support for the concept...

For most of us, it is time to stop asking God for help. He didn't help us to be saved, and He doesn't intend to help us live the Christian life. Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper. Maturity knows Him to be Life itself. Dr. J. E. Conant wrote, "Christian living is not our living with...

When a believer begins to discover something of the awful tyranny of the self-life, or has been endlessly struggling against that tyranny, he becomes intensely concerned about the denial of self with the resultant freedom to rest and grow in Christ. Man has many ways of seeking to escape the...

3-25. COOPERATIVE LIVING "Put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man" (Ephesians 4:22, ASV). Positionally, in the finished work of the Cross and resurrection, we have been cut off from the old man through death, and have been born into the new Man by the new birth. "Ye have...

Bible translations aren't perfect but the word of God within the translation is. Though a translation, regardless the version isn't perfect, it still shouldn't contain errant readings, esp. if it causes contradiction. The most obvious example is 2 Sam 21:19. It doesn't effect much doctrine but...

As our thinking moves along from the Substitutionary (birth) truths, on to the Identification (growth) truths, it might be good to consider briefly what leaders, honored of God through the years, have to say about identification, as centered in Romans six. Evan H. Hopkins: "The trouble of the...

This is lengthy but I believe worth it! Here is an important subject that has to do with faith, and the practical reception of that which we are able to trust Him for. Appropriation does not necessarily mean to gain something new, but to set aside for our practical possession something that...

Why should Christians have knowledge of basic textual criticism? Let the definition speak for itself: Textual criticism (or lower criticism) is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts. Errors in...

3-23. CALVARY AND PENTECOST "But now that you have been set free from the tyranny of Sin, and have become the bondservants of God, you have your reward in being made holy" (Romans 6:22, Wey.). When the believer truly sees Calvary he says, "There, through the work of the Cross, I died with the...

Our rest is from something in order to rest in something. The concept is to rest or cease (as God causes us to) from the works we think can add to the labors of which Christ has already performed for our sin atonement and our justification, which prepares us to rest or confide only in the...

Do we do God's work by using His Spirit or does God's Spirit do His work by using us? The primary issue in this question is who's doing the work because that's where the credit is solely attributed. Us not desiring the credit can lead us to the answer that God does the work, using us, like the...