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Like your comments and appreciate your input! Just wanted to say that the choices of the saved will continue on the increase to desire and do God's pleasure. Until we leave here there will always be choices to make between good and evil, but being reborn and in the new nature used by God, we...

For the Christian, the primary ongoing need will be “deliverance!” No, not deliverance from sin’s guilt, as this will never again be an issue with the Father, considering He gave all to establish this. I think is bears repeating, that it has been wisely said that “the lost need saved, and the...

I wouldn't either, but there will be two peoples (God's people Israel who believe in Him - Jn 14:1) and two places (New Heaven and New Earth); but Israel's eschatology will mostly be unrealized by most Christians until His appearance.

Hi and thanks for your reply! Only those of Israel who believed in God (Jn 14:1) were always drawn back to Himself, which I believe the Millennium is when He draws them permanently. They will see Christ and finally believe in Him, but they will miss inheriting the new heaven and will remain on...

True!

I suppose it depends on what you mean by "restored" because the restoration I have in mind is a completely different new earth after the old earth "passes away" (Rev 21:1).

I have learned the Christian life is not a changed life, though an outward change in a believer will evince God’s inward working. It is more accurately described as an exchanged life, in that the outcome is not us trying to live a life like Christ, but rather it is Christ Himself living His...

Appreciate your reply and comments, even though we disagree on Eschatology. Thankfully how one understands the end time has no effect on being saved. Only what we understand concerning the Gospel of Christ will determine being saved or not. God bless!

Hi and thanks for your input! Rev 20 shows Christ and the saved on the old earth (vs 8, 9) during the Millennium, for the new earth and heaven aren't until the proceeding chapter (and I don't see this happening in the old heaven, but on the old earth as it states). God bless!

Hi, and appreciate your reply and comments, though we have different understandings about much of this article. It's my understanding that we will be with the Lord Jesus on this present earth ruling with Him for a millennia, then after the creation of the new heaven and earth we will "dwell"...

There was never a time that God did not bring Israel back to Himself for fellowship after chastising them, due to His promises to Abraham (Deu 7:8). They often fell out of fellowship with Him, and are presently “fallen” out of fellowship with Him (Ro 11:11), but have never been out of union with...

An inclination for service to the Lord, however commendable, is no index of my fitness or ability for executing it. Our activities must be determined by our bodily ability, and not by inclination, and there is a great principle in this for everything. It is necessary to be subject to the Lord...

Upon our initial receiving of salvation, our eternal guiltless position in Christ is established, but the conforming of our lifestyle is immature! Thus, the sole issue ever to arise in the Father’s care for us is the progression of our walk, “even as He walked” (1Jo 2:6). This was summed up in...

True, even the Spirit works against the "old man" (flesh; sin nature) in us (Gal 5:17). The Spirit's part is to keep us from ever desiring it again by restraining it via Jesus' Cross; our part is to continue to learn to know His guidance and enablement to "put off" the "deeds" of it. Amen, the...

Great applicable verse to help clarify the issue, and thanks for the encouraging comments!

You always make good points, but in my opinion there is striving to get to the point of understanding what salvation is, and also in finally receiving it; and the striving to me is also in the "wrestling" (Eph 6:12) of a godly walk and lifestyle until we're with the Lord Jesus (not sure we're...

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Appreciate your comments, though I have a different understanding of them. You make sensible points but it's my understanding that "the resurrection of life" is possessed at rebirth, but the attaining of it (occurring of it) isn't until He returns. His intention of the phrase "might attain" is...

In my personal assumption the phrase “Paul’s Gospel” is generally the same declaration of the Gospel of Christ that any of the other Apostles would bring forth, which was “entrusted” to each (1Tim 1:11); and is what is intended by his use of the phrase “my gospel” (Rom 2:16; 16:25; 2Ti 2:8). But...

The Christian is one who is not only sheltered from judgment by the Blood of the Lamb, not only delivered from the power of all his enemies by the death of the Lord Jesus, but is also associated with Him where He now is, at the right hand of the Father; he is passed out of death in resurrection...