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With this article I have included the link to a new site (August 1) which contains the material I believe is central for the learning of the antiquated Christian writers whom I believe are well within the Biblical dispensational ideology. As many are aware, their teachings are applicable within...

Hi AM - Well put, and considering the way the author presented the self-interest concept, your comment is understandably so and makes a good point for requiring further clarification. He refers to our old self or "old man," that sinful nature, which is the self we're to hate (Luke 14:26). All...

The same power that took man away from innocence is active still to move man away from the blessings of grace. You can see in the early chapter of Acts how quickly selfishness and self-interest came in to divert souls, and the same thing has continued to work wherever the Light of Christian...

Hi AB - Amen, love is chastening and chastening is love and through everything in the life of the believer, nothing occurs that God does not foreknow which He never uses for punishment, but rather for instruction and correction (chastisement).

Hi RJP - Amen and thanks for the reply!

Hi RJP - Nice comment and thanks for the reply! This part is instructional--"In doing so, certain things must be added to or cut away from the life of the new creature in Christ." The primary source removed is the guilt and rule of "the old man" (sin nature--Rom 6:12, 14) and the primary source...

We are all prone to forget the weighty fact that “God trieth the righteous.” He withdraweth not His eyes from them.” We are in our Father’s hands and under His eye continually. We are the objects of His deep, tender and unchanging love; but we are also the subjects of His wise moral government...

That which we most dread—weakness and failure—are the very means by which our Father turns us from self-reliance to full dependence upon the Holy Spirit. “Walking in dependence upon the Holy Spirit, He leads up our hearts to where we are in the Lord Jesus. The new man finds delight in Him, and...

Many have an erroneous idea of what “chastening” means. We think, perhaps, that it represents God as having a big stick in His hand and knocking us about all the time. You have only to make a mistake and down comes the big stick! That, of course, is a wrong conception of our Father, and is not...

Hi JF and thanks for telling me.

When our desires guide us to think on righteousness and holiness, from who is it to be sought? In the one and only place it exists—the Lord Jesus Christ! Yes, and from where is it to be sought? In His saints, because it is where He is via His Holy Spirit. This is to understand that there abides...

It's a significant point you've indicated, but just wanted to know, where in Gill's comment is eating of the offering mentioned? Regardless, he also shares this: "Every offering, and so every sin offering, was killed in the court of the tabernacle, on the north side of the altar; and the blood...

“Regeneration is a birth: the center and root of the personality, the spirit, has been re-created and taken possession of by the Holy Spirit (Gal 5:17). But time is required for that center to extend through all the circumference of our being. It is akin to a seed: the life of the Lord Jesus...

The reason the author mentions Leviticus 16, (Yom Kippur) is because of his doctrine that "Yeshua is his scapegoat", (a completely false doctrine) and this comes from his own faulty understanding and teaching from Psalm 22 with the reason for why Yeshua quoted it on the Cross, (it was a "remez"...

To fail to differentiate between dispensations is a normative within contemporary Christendom but I believe to fail to seek understanding in this area is to miss a great mass of spiritual growth doctrine available to the Word-hungry believer. Presently, many do not realize God’s work of...

“And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for My strength is made perfect in weakness….Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then am I strong” (2 Cor 12:9, 10). The thorn in the...

The overriding concept is that the believer is not required to address our sin nature, but rather realize it has been dealt with by Christ, and presently the Spirit causes us to live after Him instead of, as in the past, the old nature (Gal 5:17).

There is no strength or power in ourselves against “the law of sin which is in our members” (Rom 7:23). The Father has lefts us much dependent on the Lord Jesus’ work on the Cross for our deliverance as for our forgiveness! It is wholly because we died with Him on the Cross, both to sin and to...

“It is during the time of our being broken that we learn that His promises concerning us cannot be broken.” –MS “It is more than comforting to realize that it is those who have plumbed the depths of failure to whom the Father invariably gives the call to shepherd others. This is not a call to...

The primary significance concerning the life of the believer is not him in Christ, but Christ in him! It is not the life of the believer that produces the doing of “the will of God” (1 John 2:17), but the life of Christ within the believer—“through the Spirit” (1 Pet 1:22 KJV); and it is not the...