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Hi E, and thanks for the input! For clarification, justified has two primary definitions: to make one righteous; to show one is righteous. If you mean the former I agree. But the latter, as I suspect you may agree is used in Jas 2:24, which is in reference to the latter definition, for there...

HI ETB, thanks for your comments, with which I partly agree! It's my understanding that if one is reborn, there will unavoidably be evidence of manifesting the "fruit of the Spirit." I don't believe one who is reborn can ever choose to live any other way, considering that the Father "works in...

Believers are not intended to walk within the Law for their righteousness, for it is only Christ and His work that brings one to rebirth and which imputes His righteousness! Surly there is nothing more hindering to Christian spiritual growth (but not to receiving salvation itself) than to...

Though obedience holds no favor with God but pleases Him, disobedience evidences His absence!

Is it not in the difficulties (that all must endure) where we are “conformed” to grow the most in our faith, which growth continues until departure? Obedience pleases God but is never causal for His blessings, which are solely derivatives of our favor in Christ! If obedience (intended out of...

Life and living are concerned about the possession of a physical body, and as the Lord Jesus has always been the One-of-a-kind Son of God, He now and will ever also be the One-of-a-kind divine Human (theanthropic, as the writer shows); all of which results greatly in additional glory and joy for...

The real good in any ministry is in the measure in which it feeds the heart with the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the sun to give to give light and warmth, and the greater the extent of surface presented to Him the more He confers. There is more capacity to receive, which is increased as the heart...

There's nothing one can do to please the Father without the Lord Jesus (Jhn 15:5). Yes, Darby is known as the father of dispensationalism. God used him and many others like him from England in the category of spiritual growth.

“He ever maketh intercession for us” (Heb 7:25). We are constantly upheld in perfectness by the power of the intercession of the Lord Jesus. It is this that ever keeps us in the right place before our Father, however infirm or mistaken in our walk here. The blessedness of the ministry of Him Who...

Amen, and thanks for your input Far! It's also is a truism that retaining salvation requires the same power that effects it!

The believer’s part is to “walk in the Spirit” (Gal 5:25), which ability is given by God as He unceasingly “works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure” (Phl 2:13). Thus self cannot retain redemption any more than one can save one’s soul! Sustainment of redemption attributed to...

HI BG, and always appreciate your encouraging replies!

I believe our thoughts are often on this world, but Scripture instructs us to let it be heaven and where God is to move us more than anything here, so we might not get too caught up into what we think of this life and ourselves.

I appreciate your comment but my goal is centered on the spiritual growth truths of the Pauline Epistles. The materials require typed and then pasted, which can take up to a couple hours or more per article. I share then because most of them are long out of print (200-300 yrs. old). After...

What is the sum of the believer’s blessings in Christ? Heaven, because it eventually physically places us with God. Not as now in the presence of His sight (Pro 15:3), but latter, in the presence of Himself (Rev 21:2, 4). The thought of Heaven has no equal as to its exhorting encouragement when...

Like your comments! I believe Judaism was a way (when God was working in it) to have union with God but generally there was no fellowship with Him in it because of the absence of the nature of His Son within. You can be a people of God without being a child of God (Israel), which only can be...

Thanks for the comments! The more I contemplate faith, the more I see its work of love because "faith works by love" (Gal 5:6).

Can you always, with permanent conviction, call Heaven your present possession? This is one among many Biblical truths from which believers are to appropriate for exhortation from the “comfort of the scriptures” (Rom 15:4). How eternal life is comprehended will determine whether or not there...

Hi BG, and always appreciate your replies! And concerning the testing of faith, it's not the pass or fail test because faith never fails, but the test in the exercising of it resulting in increased strength. Like gold that is purer every time it's through the fire, which determines what it tests...

Amen, and thanks for your comment!