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Myself, I believe the more significant issue to be that which concerns God's foreknowledge of those who will and will not perish. Scripture is not clear concerning why God would or would not choose anyone to salvation (if that's true), but there is much clarity concerning His omniscience of...

There is no disappointment as we contemplate the Lord Jesus. If you are sometimes disappointed, it is because you are looking at yourself, and reasoning from yourself to God upward, searching into your own heart to find some good reason why He should bless you, and troubled because you cannot...

[Thank you to the CB staff for the nice, new look!] The most effective service is to stand openly for God when the opposition is at its height. “When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.” To stand for God when there in no one to...

Hi DPM - Thanks for your input, which I find interesting. In order to maintain that God is impartial (2 Chron 19:7; Rom 2:11; Eph 6:9; Col 3:25; 1 Pet 1:17), I prefer to believe that God's foreknowledge of man's decisions are instrumentally crucial, which is evident in God allowing Adam choices...

Also, I believe the offer for salvation is to the world (John 3:17), thus mankind is called (as in "many called" Matt 22:14, not as in "the called" Rom 8:28). It's also axiomatic in Scripture that God is omniscient and therefore foreknows everyone's choices even before creation and thus...

No worthy student of the Bible would question that God has a sovereign purpose or that all things are working toward the realization of that purpose. But it must be acknowledged as well from such passages as Rom 12:1, 2; Gal 5:16; Eph 4:30; 1 Thess 5:19 and 1 John 1:9 that the appeal is to the...

We do not give flight to faith, but rather it gives flight to us. As air gives flight to the eagle’s wings (flight is impossible in a vacuum), so is faith (impossible without the Word of God) moved by the Spirit of God within the believer. Faith never originates from within but always from...

The grace “through faith” (Eph 2:8) cannot be altered concerning its place within the believer (Rom 11:29), but concerning the oppression (dominance) from the sin nature, the believer can live under its effects, but only unnecessarily so. It is only a matter of time until this opposition (Rom...

This article has a bit more comprehending difficulties than most of the others I’ve posted. If you encounter enough difficulty (in which it took me a bit to get it all), please feel at complete liberty to bring it up for discussion, which of-course is the same for any material I post. From...

I dare say the Lord has a distinct purpose in allowing you to be placed in so many new circumstances, that you are to be emptied from vessel to vessel. A person in nature gets used to one set of circumstances, but really in grace there is a novelty in every step of the way; and it is because...

What is your definition of "the Law?" If you mean the TC'S (Law of Moses), only the Hebrew/Jew had to die to it, which is what occurs at rebirth. Mankind is under the curse of "the law of sin," which was incurred to mankind from Adam (Rom 5:12). This law of sin has its force from God's command...

The Lord Jesus is always more concerned with what He can do for us, rather than what we can do for Him (Luke 10:40-42). The desire of worship and service to Him and the Father is sought and returned (John 4:23, 24), and if the intention is out of debt (which there is none), the full work and...

I was referring to a particular definition of the word dispensation: To dispense or distribute; an issuance.

Hi DPM - I use the word dispensation to mean a dispensing, i.e. Paul was charged with "a dispensation of the gospel" (1 Cor 9:17). Thus, there is a dispensing of the Old Testament and New Testament.

Hi Poppin - I believe the Law was fulfilled by the Lord Jesus because He's the only one who could, as the Scriptures indicate in post # 6.

There is much difficulty today in the sharing of the Law’s dispensation and is understandably so, because of the teachings of our upbringing in the knowledge of Christ. I believe the focus on the present dispensation is the life of Christ (Col 3:4), which those prior to the giving of the Law...

"For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." This does not mean the Law will not be fulfilled until heaven and earth pass away, but that it would be more likely that the heaven and earth would pass away...

Much confusion has come about by a failure to distinguish the principle of law and the dispensation of the law. Paul makes a number of statements about the passing away of the law, such as, “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth” (Rom 10:4). And in 2...

The Pauline doctrine of the true spiritual Church is second only in importance to the doctrine of salvation by grace. That salvation of which he wrote leads to and provides the supernatural material out of which the true Church is formed. The two taken together constitute what the Apostle...