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Hi again Brother, and thanks for your reply here too! The most important spiritual growth doctrine of Scripture is that faith and salvation are permanent, and until this is understood there isn't much to grow on. It stands to reason that the most important things of God are the most difficult to...

When Scripture admonishes the believer concerning the lifestyle of a Christian, the intention is to reveal what can identify one who is reborn. It’s not like the admonitions are as though one who is reborn and indwelt by God’s Spirit would ever desire to “live after the flesh,” considering this...

Believers are “heirs of God” via “being joint-heirs with Christ,” which engenders a tailor-fit life by God for us to “suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together” (Rom 8:17). Christian, be comforted to know that each and every difficulty, regardless of how seemingly small or...

At rebirth believers are complete in salvation (we will never be more saved in our spirit than we are now), and in our spirit being we have been fully “conformed to the image of His Son” (Rom 8:29) via being “partakers of His divine nature” (2Pet 1:4), which in my understanding exists via the...

Good reply and thanks!

How about "from the new nature which is in our heart?" I think this parallels "conviction by the Spirit." It's definitely not from our old nature! I believe the Spirit uses the new nature in our godly walk. Thanks!

Hi SP, the point I'm making is that we receive from God the desire and will to obey and repent because this doesn't originate from our sinful nature, unless this isn't what you mean. Thanks!

Hi BG, and thanks for letting me know your opinion. Blessings!

Amen, the "conforming to His image" has been applied in completion concerning believers in their spirit, and our "walk in the Spirit" manifests it. Blessings!

Hi APAK, and thanks for your reply and comments! God's blessings to your Family! Resting Above

Though atonement entails all that is provided for forgiveness, are we traversing onward from there (Heb 6:1), or are we yet at the foot of the Cross, with Christ yet there upon it? If we lack the fullness of understanding our “reconciliation” (Rom 5:11; 2Co 5:18, 19; Heb 2:17), we will lack...

As Scripture declares, we are to place our love to God above all others (Mat 10:37). There is the desirous love for God, and then there is the practical love for God—and our practical love for God is in accordance to our love for one another (1 Jhn 4:12, 20), esp. to those “who are of the...

I believe some Christians think they have nearness to the Lord and spiritual rest who very little understand either the one or the other. It is quite possible for a soul to rest satisfied with a certain quietude, and to be in a certain degree devoted and devotional, who is not near the Lord in...

Nowhere does the patience and longsuffering of God appear greater than in His dealings with Israel in the wilderness. Nothing like it had ever been seen before. The antediluvian world, the cities of the plain, and Egypt bore witness to the judgment of God; the wilderness to His mercy. Why is...

Hi Richard - I like and agree that it's and ongoing attitude, and I believe it is part of the gift of faith because it doesn't come from us but from God--through us.

As David’s men were withdrawn from all connections with Saul’s system by virtue of their association with him, so all those who are led by the Spirit to know their oneness with the rejected Lord Jesus, must feel themselves dissociated from present things here, by reason of that blessed oneness...

Hi BG, and thanks for the encouraging words! Yes, I also found the part you sectioned to be highly instructional. Blessings!

Though the word “sanctification” has been often described as some type of process or progression, Scripture always presents it in its completed sense at the time of rebirth (same for righteousness and justification). Its general meaning is the same for holy and “consecration” (OT term), of which...

Thank you too SP for our Word-fellowship! I think our understanding differs concerning the "soul." I understand it to be the rational, thinking and deciding element of the spirit (person) which is where accountability is incurred, similar to the brain being the same for the body. To me the...

It is a solemn thought that there is no place in heaven above or on the earth below that is not filled with the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, except indeed the one sad exclusion of the poor, wretched unbeliever’s heart. There is no place from Calvary to the throne of God that is not filled...