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During your times of light, moderate or severe trials do you look unto self to find what you may have of the Lord to endure, or have you learned that there is nothing within you personally—not even the new nature—that delivers through trials. Knowing what to do in our times of stress is only...

It’s not in redemption that one “changes . . . from glory to glory,” for once applied it fully saves; which will show in our permanent lifestyle. It’s our earthly walk that manifests in escalating glories all that we already are (1Jo 4:17), and all that we already have (2Pe 1:3) in Christ! The...

Same answer I gave. If our desire is always to place neighborly love first, God will teach us to continue to be more involved with it all the time--since the way one loves God is by loving others. Unless you're meaning something else and I'm missing your point. God bless!

Hi and appreciate your input and reply! Myself, I've learned that the death in Christ starts with self, i.e. always attempting to put self last (Phl 2:3) and the rest is learned from it, because I believe this helps keep love to one another at the front, and love to one another is the primary...

Death in Christ is antecedent to life in Christ, and not only is this death a single occurrence but renders one to remain so concerning the curse of sin. Thus believers do not die to the sin nature but “are dead” to it; and this death intends not the absence of its presence in us, nor immunity...

Thanks and amen!

Thanks and appreciate your communications!

Hi and God bless! Any extant writings that survive 75 years or more following the writer's death become public domain, and the materials I post are 1600's -1800's. I happen to obtain much of the writings about 20 years ago and have been studying them and sharing them since. They are teachings...

When the light first breaks in on the soul, it is sweet to it, to the new life and nature. It is the work of the Spirit; but in order to promote it, and to enjoy what the light confers, I must practically prefer it to everything else. If I do not give it first place and absolute attention, it...

The Christian in Romans Seven might have tasted the unsatisfying pleasures of the world during his unsaved days. Now he had turned his back on the world and his face to the Father, yet never was there (he felt) so disconsolate a being. The misery increases till he bursts out with “O wretched man...

True, these days there is much difference in scriptural understanding between Bible studying believers. God give us to know His mind in His Word! God be blessed and all who are and will be His!

I suppose there is another way of attempting explaining it. "He has saved us . . . according to His own purpose and grace" (2Ti 1:9). God did not intend the whole of mankind to be saved because He knew most would not "choose life" (Deu 30:19 - Mat 7:13, 14); for what God knows will not be, He...

Hi and appreciate your replies! It's my view that what man chooses decrees his ways, and the decree for "the law of sin" is "the soul that sinneth, it shall die," and since God knows man's chooses He knows what decree he must encounter, i.e. He knows ahead of time what he is destined for...

To me, predestined is God's foreknowledge of our choice for Him. He knows, even before He brings us into this life, that our choice will be to love Him (when He draws us, and I believe the drawing can be resisted - Act 7:51), and therefore He knows we're predestined for eternal life. "For whom...

Good point, and it's my understanding that our only responsibility is to always choose God, and He enables us to be responsible (Phl 2:13)!

It still depends on our meanings. Predetermine isn't to be confused with predestine. Predetermine has to do with what we choose, not what God chooses for us, because we must make the choice for Him when He draws us, and not resist by rejecting it (which most do). Thus our choice and not God's...

Hi and thanks for the good instruction! Knowing that God is allowing what happens to us, who are we to oppose or disapprove otherwise, esp. knowing it's all for our good, thank and blessed be God!

Have you ever thought that what occurs is supposed to occur or it wouldn’t have occurred? Myself, I believe all that happens is supposed to happen because not only was it foreknown to happen but has also been allowed to happen! This is an example of providential care of the only omniscient God...

Amen, and thus shall we be with Him together, all of which He has known from everlasting to everlasting!

If the need of man were the sole measure of the grace of God, then man only would be thought of, the work of the Lord Jesus would be simply for man, and the power of God expended merely in rescuing man and securing his relief. Man would be the object and end of it all, and not God. Whenever the...