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I like your phrase "will be obedient," to me same as saying - 'will be seen to be obedient'; and those not born again who profess to be can also appear obedient, but they will eventually cease, and those reborn never will cease. I think this should also answer to the truth that all who are...

Hi and I appreciate and like your input! True, all of which you've listed will be seen in a believer, but I would say that our obedience and service to God is maintained by His "work in you" (Phl 2:13). Our nature (old man) is incapable, so its by His Son's nature in us (Col 3:10) and His Spirit...

My position is in heaven, and my path upon earth is that which belongs to, and is consistent with, this place I have in the Lord Jesus in glory. My path ought to be the expression that. What was the Lord Jesus’ path in this world? Even as the Son of Man upon earth, He was ever “the Son of Man...

No, because the Son (Jhn 3:16), like the Spirit "proceeded from the Father (Jhn 15:26)! The Son and Spirit are always said to come from the Father or God, because They always represent, not His presence but His will in all things. It is never said that the Father or that God has ever come from...

Hi JBF, and appreciate your point, but since distinct means separate, you might be describing another issue. They are three Individuals representing the Godhead. "These three are one" (1Jhn 5:7). One, meaning "in agreement" in everything (Definition of ONE). Blessings!

Hi and appreciate your input with your reply! The conjunction "and" has two primary senses. One is copulative and the other is cumulative. The copulative or copula has the sense of description. The cumulative has the sense of an additional noun, and not descriptive. Thus "God and our Father here...

High, and thanks fro your quite probing inquiry! I believe the primary reason that the Son of God became a Son of man (of mankind) is to demonstrate the Father's (God's) love towards mankind, which would be meaningless if the Son He sent was not the Son He's had from everlasting; and the Father...

I believe this passage to be one of others that demonstrates Jesus being the complete representative of the Father, because "in Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily" (Col 2:9). I see it that Jesus is the revelation and full representation of His Father, thus in representation...

The Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit are of the same eternal essence and power as the Father, which answers to all Three being referred to as God. I believe the significant difference Scripture reveals is within Their positions, in which position the Father is the “greatest” (Jhn 10:29; 14:28)...

Have you ever been so busy desiring to do for others (admirable and honorable in its proper place) that its undertaking has often inadvertently reduced your time of fellowship with them, which detracts from keeping up with knowing them? We all continue to change in our lives concerning what we...

You too Sis, and thanks!

HI, and always appreciate your replies and comments! Amen, our example is most successful to others if displayed in a manner of not so much as to what we are doing for God but what He is doing using us. This is as you've mentioned, in a way that "reflects God's love"---His life in us more than...

Believers are to be independent of one another, yea, of all others, even of self and our present condition (pleasant or difficult) when it concerns dependence on sustenance. This is that on which we rely the most to keep us upheld in all things and at all times—which should be God Himself, and...

Yes, I noticed it after editing was disallowed. Blessings and thanks for viewing the material!

The veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom. I see the holiness of God; but the very stroke which has thus unveiled His holiness has put away my sin that would have hindered my standing in the presence of that holiness. I see what my Father, in His holiness, has done for me in the...

Thanks Far, and Amen? No map but the Word; no helm but the Spirit!

How much dissatisfaction and disappointment do we allow when there is seemingly at times a lack of spirituality, which is common to all believers? This is merely one manifestation of the ongoing presence and effects of the old man. Just as one cannot “take fire in his bosom and his clothes not...

How can I have boldness before the judgement seat of the Lord Jesus Christ? Why, I am the same as my Judge—and while in this world too. “As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly” (1Co 15:48). It is the same truth. What a thing that is! What a salvation it is—not merely mercy that...

There can only be minimal appreciation (though in full possession) of that which derives from “life and godliness” (2Pet 1:3) if there be not settled assurance concerning the permanent efficacy of Christ’s redemption (unfailingly covers all sin). What fruit of redemption could there be that...

In the fruit from a tree man lost fellowship with God; in the Cross from a tree He regained fellowship with man. Now, there can be nothing remaining between believers and the Father that the Lord Jesus’ reparation has not forever removed which hindered fellowship with Them. All that remains for...