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Hi and I like your instructional comments! The more we continue to get used to entrusting all into God's hands (1Pe 5:7), the more we receive of the lessons, and the less they become "troublesome" (Jn 14:1, 27); and the greater our endurance becomes of the grief (Heb 12:11) due to His...

The harder the trial in deed, the greater the love in need! It adds quite a bit to the difficulty of the believer, that most of mankind will not choose to be right with God (Mat 7:13, 14), but He is not interested in numbers—and neither should we be. It’s not what happens to us, or all which we...

This is a significant issue and can be a great encouragement! It's true that "God no longer looks at our sin," as He dose not observe us "after the flesh," i.e. after the old man or sin nature (Rom 8:9). In my understanding a sinner is not just one who sins but sins "willfully," as one without...

All that occurs is this life since its beginning is due to the fact that God allows it to transpire! Before creation He foreknew of everything that will happen, being omniscient! Thus, whatever comes to pass is supposed to happen, or He would have allowed something else to happen. Such is the...

Amen! Choosing to be right with God is required, and it's done via rebirth, i.e. saved. I can remember when I used to often here the phrase "born again Christian," which is redundant, because a Christian is one who has been reborn in Christ. Like saying a "tooth dentist." This is a good point...

What sense and worth could there be if one truly received salvation and then truly lost it? Can it be rightly said that God can give “eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him” (Heb 5:9), while knowing they will eventually lose it? Such a situation would have no value at any time, but only...

It is continually encouraging to know (esp. the more we see the “old man” at work in us) that God knows our most important desire is to “please” Him, because there are often times when this can be difficult to express, but yet ever remains true to those reborn (Phl 2:13). It’s when we are...

The goal of life is God’s love possessed, and the means by which it is received is “through faith” (Eph 2:8). Why does God desire only through faith for us to reach Him? Because “faith works by love” (Gal 5:6); and in my estimate, the stronger the faith in Him, the greater the manifestation of...

Though our Lord Jesus Christ is not here in presence He is in essence, for His essence is everywhere, esp. in His angels (e.g. Exo 3:2; Heb 1:7), and He has given us His Spirit, not only to be in this life but in our lives. It is not the Life of the Spirit that is in us, but the Spirit Himself...

The three Nazarites, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego walked with God in the king’s palace; and God walked with them in the king’s furnace. Is it not worth passing through a fiery furnace to enjoy more of the presence of the Lord Jesus, and the sympathy of His loving heart? Is not a furnace where...

For the Christian, once we have learned that all of God’s chastisements (trials) are for learning, and never for punishment arbitrarily (Heb 12:10), believers can ever rest assured in “the peace of God, which passeth all understanding” (Phl 4:7). We, knowing that our path is often difficult...

Presently, the Church and Body of Christ is without guilt, but not without the old man and sin. For now, grace suffices us, as we are no longer considered “in the flesh” (sin nature, old man – Ro 8:9)—but “in the Spirit,” and in the Father and the Son! But at the resurrection we will no longer...

Amen! Israel had a priesthood, but Christians are a priesthood. (Rev1:6; 5:10 20:6) Thanks and God bless!

If Adam, Eve and their progeny would have continued without the sin offence, there would be no intermingling of the spirit of man with God, that indwelling of the Life of His Son, Spirit, New Heaven and an endlessness of other blessings; such is what God would desire of nothing less! NC...

When the believer is passing through a difficulty, regardless the degree, it is never salvation that’s being tested, but faith—which manifests salvation; and the test does not determine pass or fail but is always faith-strengthening. Other than asking to receive, regeneration is never effected...

Amen, and thanks for the reply and comments!

The worldling cannot understand how the growing believer lives. Both his life and that which sustains it lie entirely beyond the range of nature’s keenest vision. The Lord Jesus Christ is his life, and in Him he lives. He feels by faith, upon the powerful attractions of One who, though being...

There is only a onetime deliverance from sin’s guilt and condemnation, but an on-going promised deliverance from sin’s “dominion” (Ro 6:14); in which dominion is the fact that one wills to follow sin with disregard unto God’s holiness and righteousness. Nobody realizes and understands the “law...

There is no greater exhortation, nor any lasting encouragement or sufficient growth in Christ other than being assured of eternal life in God; and that we are now vicariously with Christ in heaven through the union of the Holy Spirit in us—awaiting His return (Tit 2:13; Col 1:7; 3:4; 1Th 2:19...