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Hi AP and good to hear from you! Thanks as usual for your comments, and it's always encouraging to share our faith, and to know that we are mostly moved in it by the "Spirit Himself bearing witness with our spirit, that we are always the children of God" (Rom 8:16).

God desires those who are His to know there is nothing we will do that can ever effect change in our acceptance of Him in His Son. He knows our ever-constant primary goal is to “please” Him, and this goal is the most manifesting issue concerning our faith, and sums up all in our fellowship with...

Hi Far, and always appreciate your instructional replies! The "future" I refer to is related the contemplation of God's plans concerning Israel, not that they may not have a future with Him, but as to the fact that they will always be His "people" as His earthly (New Earth) representatives, and...

This article may not necessarily be presently useful but may merely be thought-provoking for possible future use due to the subject (Israel Eschatology) often seemingly to be unclear in Scripture, thus in my estimation not all questions or comments here can be sufficiently addressed. Thankfully...

Hi Mark and always appreciate your replies and comments! I believe you've commented on the most significant issue presently existing in Christendom concerning spiritual growth relating to guilt, which promotes the misunderstanding of works and grace. Simply put, those reborn will eventually know...

It’s God’s care to “work in us” (Phl 2:13), and the believer’s care to “walk in His Spirit” (because we “live in His Spirit - Gal 5:25), via Him “conforming” our minds and hearts to be as His Son’s (1Jo 4:17) by His Holy Spirit (Eph 3:16) through the implanting of a new nature (“new man”) that...

Note to viewer: Hope everyone is using the daily devotional from MJS because it contains all of the same teachings as the articles I share. God be blessed! None But The Hungry Heart “Putting off the old man” involves that which it does, not that which it is. Believers cannot put of the old...

Hi, and I feel the same way, but after all, he and many others within the Brethren groups were in England.

The fact of possessing certain attributes (e.g. “fruit of the Spirit”) of God does not establish the use of them, only potential for such. Though at rebirth, saints possess “all that pertains to life and godliness” (2Pe 1:3), it is only that which is properly learned and understood in time that...

Redemption (salvation, rebirth, etc.) is not something one can grow in, for its operation exists only in a single degree, i.e. one soul cannot be more saved than another. Thus the sole difference between those reborn lies within the maturity of understanding and application of all that Scripture...

Hi and so true! The only means of course to increase our understanding is continued Bible study, through which God reveals more to us all the time. God bless and appreciate your replies!

Correction on last article. Not “food” but "flood threat," which some have suspected I meant. God be blessed!

(Thankful to be back after a short food-threat that forced my family to temporarily move most of our things. It appears that we will not return to our residence until July, which is when the threat should expire. Thank You God! NC) Man’s only contribution to Christianity is to the naming its...

Pretty moving account and thanks for the encouragement of it! Yes, He has to continue to reassure us by His Word being strengthened (tested, not pass or fail but for increase of continued deeper understandings) via our life-experiences, i.e. verifying our experiences by His Word, but not...

Thanks, and that's what I though first time I read it. God's omniscience answers more of the spiritual growth truths than any other attribute. One good puzzler here is when did They decide to create man, of which They also had foreknowledge!?*#

Yes, God never leaves us alone, and nothing enters the lives of those who are (and will be) His without His tender control of it all! Knowing this suffices all!

True, and as it has been said, "We've always been on His mind!

Amen, which is indicative of "From everlasting to everlasting" (Psa 90:2).

When anyone reborn in Christ is asked how they are doing, they can always reply (should they desire, even if in tears) “I couldn’t be doing better!” “How’s that so you may ask?” The blessed answer is that regardless of your situation, you are never without the Father (Jhn 14:23)—in the “life” of...

Only He who has created foreknows the direction which all choose to travel, which from the point of incarnation is a constant, and never changes! He knows “the end from the beginning“ (Isa 46:10) of all things and therefore knows if our direction of travel will always be either toward Him or...