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Hi MJRHealth - Thanks for the instructional reply and God's blessings to your Family!

Hi JF - Thanks but if you don't take offense, you don't get discouraged. Always good to here from you Brother. Those who are use to doing such things will eventually learn not to if they are seeking neighborly love over doctrine.

I believe you misunderstand my motives but that's common between those who correspond on the internet.

"All scripture is given . . . That the man of God may be perfect" (mature, complete--2 Tim 3:16, 17). Though the above truism is for all Christians, there are passages that are independently directed to unbelieving Jews and those to believing Jews and Gentiles. This is where "dividing the Word"...

The believer, regardless of his beliefs, is under the law of the Spirit of life and no other law (Decalogue). If you mean law to be God's will and not the TC's, then we're in agreement.

Not very encouraging to see that you're mistaken about my motives, which is always the Lord's best for those who are His. I wouldn't mind replying to your post but there would need to be a discontinuation of aggressiveness first, or the correspondence wouldn't be right.

Amen JF. Thanks!

I understand what you mean but I'm trying to share that obedience isn't something to obtain favor but an evidence of a preexisting favor obtained--through Christ, not self. Pretty strong and accurate CRFTD. Hampered voltage often results due to reverse-polarity. To put obedience before the Cross...

There are many Christians who live within the above mentioned positions and yet still lack understanding that "the Law" (Decalogue--Ten Commandments) is not and has never been part of what God expected of the Gentile and has never expected the Jew to be able to keep; which Law is now nonexistent...

The majority of believers today are in legal bondage because they do not see the essential difference between our position and that of Israel under the Law. Israel depended upon their own obedience to get their blessings in the land. Christians receive their blessings because of the Lord Jesus’...

Hi Niki - Thanks for the reply and I agree. love is first, or the rest hasn't been learned yet.

Hi RJP - This "conflict" is between our sinful nature (flesh, not our physical body but our spiritual nature) and the Holy Spirit (Gal 5:17), which I see it more as an opposition than a conflict because the "old man" (sinful nature, flesh) is powerless against the Spirit of God in the believer...

Amen - The right thing is yielding to the Holy Spirit in everything as He causes (Gal 5:17) you "to will and to do of His (God) good pleasure" (Phil 2:13).

I understand what you mean and maybe I'm being too technical considering the old man as an it, because it's not an actual man.

I believe the "old man" is the nature of the spirit (person), which isn't an entity such as the spirit or person is. I also believe the soul is the rational (thinking, decision making ability) part of the person. Thanks for your reply.

Hi Daq - I believe the flesh (nearly all the time the word "flesh" is used in Scripture is refers to the sinful nature (old man). Not saying this is you but many mistake it for the physical body, which is "pure" because it is a thing. Man in his prideful, sinful nature often attempts the...

It is essential that we take a moment to consider the inward conflict of the growing child of God. It may be said, “What if a man knows his sins to be forgiven and more, liberty” (which some call “sanctification,” “deeper life,” etc.), “then, surely, every spiritual desire must be gratified, and...

Hi to all who've replied to this thread and thanks for your laborious work in the Word, which I find your posts instructional and caring to all. In brief, law is intended only to reveal sin and not deliver from it (Heb 7:19), thereby incurring guilt (John 15:22, 24; Rom 5:13), because...

“Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh” (Gal 5:16). To “walk in the Spirit” is the only measure of right living for the Christian. Do you enquire, “What is it to walk in the Spirit? It is to walk in communion with the Father, by the Holy Spirit, having the Lord Jesus...

My meaning is that those who are Christian obey willfully and out of the desire God continually gives them (Phil 2:13), unlike before regeneration, where one must be told or forced by law to do so against their desire. Your correct that "there is no law against all those actions" (fruit of the...