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Thanks for your reply DP! I copy and paste after I type it because most of it is out of print Been studying these materials for nearly 20 years to get a good understanding of the impart. The only danger for those who are born again is their growth being lulled from not studying truth properly...

Hi SA - Thanks for your instructional reply. I agree, the permanency of faith and salvation is still unlearned and misunderstood by many believers, but it's comforting to know that this is true for believers regardless of their understanding here. Salvation comes in this life only, for the next...

It is neither the possession of the Spirit (we can have the Spirit and have yet to learn to walk in Him, in which takes time to mature – Gal 5:25—NC) nor of actual spiritual tastes that makes (but does lead to because of continual desire – Phil 2:13—NC) a man spiritual. The mark of a spiritual...

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Surely we may look at the Church as a great ship, moored to the heavenly port; the deep sea, the Red Sea of Scripture, crossed over, and also the Jordan, the river beside the land. Seats for every believer in the great assembly are on the other side, in the land flowing with milk and honey. No...

“Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling . . .” (Heb 3:1). “Calling” here, as always in Paul’s epistles, has reference not to an invitation to go to heaven, but to a present heavenly standing and manner of being. For Christians according to Colossians 1:12, have already by...

The Lord Jesus Christ is at the Father’s right hand, and He is there as our righteousness*. By Him too, we have access into our Father’s favor. It is not only that grace meets us in our need and distance, but us brings us nigh to the Father as those who have access into His favor. To understand...

Hi DPM - Interesting reply and appreciate the compliment and your comment. The name at the bottom of the entire body of material indicates the writer. A name at the end of a line or paragraph also is the same indication for that line or paragraph. I usually indicate my name if it's a personal...

Soon for us all things will be new (that which we wait for; new body, new heaven, new Jerusalem and new earth—NC). Indeed now for faith, the “old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” I believe that when we truly see our new position where the Lord Jesus is, we find it easy...

Hi DPM - To me, the Kingdom being in us means that which of the Kingdom is in us, e.g. Jesus--through the Spirit--via the "new nature" which is of Jesus. Only in position are we now There, e.g. we are now as good as There because we are assured that we will eventually be There. Appreciate your...

Yes, and if you're His, He will drive you to "seek the Kingdom first." Blessings!

“Our citizenship is in heaven.” “Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longer for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord” (Phil 3:20; 4:1). Your polity, your citizenship, is in heaven. If you simply accept the fact that you are a citizen of another country, then you are not really a...

Just a little FYI, nearly all the materials I’ve been posting in the last 15 years are from three books compiled by Miles J Stanford entitled “Position Papers,” which consist of his selections from various Christian writers (circa 1700’s—1800’s) who shared their beliefs of the Scriptures...

This is not related to this article and is for those who may not know, but I thought it significant enough to mention a quick and easy way to create a desktop shortcut of any site you’re presently on. First, on the page you’re on, you restore down with the top right double box symbol which is...

Hi Mjr H - Amen! So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory." I can see why others might put blame on the body when being used for evil, but it...

The body is only a thing, an object that contains that which is accountable--the person in their spirit, who makes the decisions of what the body does.

Thanks HR for sharing your belief's in these areas, which is I believe how we can be more taught by God through one another! Concerning the physical body, no part of it incurs accountability of the guilt and curse but it is merely subject to these. The body is just an instrument being used for...

It has been inspiringly said that “there was never a time when believers were not on the Father’s mind”! In their spirit and soul believers have been “raised with Christ” (Col 3:1). This is the present reality in experiencing part of the “Resurrection,” for we are in the death and resurrection...

True, not all who profess Christianity are Christians ("a man may say" - Jam 2:18) for the primary evidence of Christianity is love to all others--esp. the household of God! Practical love to all others progresses as we continue to desire to love others, which is what God "works" in us over all...

Hi HR, and appreciate the reply! Amen, and the "circumcision of Christ" (Col 2:11) are manifested by one's greatest desire always being to "desire and do of His good pleasure" because He works this in everyone born again (Phil 2:13). Three of the primary evidences of God's "work" within is the...