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Salvation is to the Jew first and this is why Christ was sent to the "House of Israel" and His Apostles and disciples to the Gentiles--through Him, who are part of the remnant, which consists of Jewish and Gentile Elect. The Gentiles of the the elect have never been and will never be considered...

Hi DAQ - I appreciate your zeal, but in Christ there is only Christianity, not Jewish or Gentile; but this does not mean those in Christ are no longer of Jewish and Gentile heritage and genealogy. An unsaved Jew is not a true Jew in the faith. I believe every time Scripture uses the word Jew it...

The Epistle to the Hebrews is primarily addressed to believers in the Lord Jesus from among the Jews. Its contents clearly show that it was written to establish these believers in the truth of Christianity with all its privileges and blessings and thus to deliver them from the Jewish religion...

BA - I wanted to re-edit what I posted here: "We grow in our sanctification." It's more accurate to say we grow, not in our sanctification but from it, because sanctification is not in degrees but the growth from it is.

Regeneration and sanctification are single simultaneous occurrences. We grow in our sanctification, but we are sanctified because of being regenerated (renewed). Kindly put and I know what you mean, but the issue of the believer's condition is essential to proper growth and is important to get...

Thanks for your reply, but I believe the saint is guiltless, but not sinless (1 John 1:8). Christ's atonement "condemned sin" which nullified its guilt in the believer and is how the Spirit can now indwell him.

I believe born again includes sanctification unto justification (1 Cor 6:11). Many have the idea that sanctification is an ongoing process, but it involves a single act which never needs to be repeated. Same as salvation, which is eternal, or it isn’t salvation (Heb 5:9). The believer is...

Regeneration is not a change of the old Adamic life, but the introduction of a new; it is the implantation of the life of the Last Adam. This is by the operation of the Holy Spirit, founded upon the accomplished redemption of Christ and in full keeping with the sovereign will or counsel of the...

Chiefly in the Pauline Epistles, we open upon those pages of the Word of God which give us the yearnings of the child of God in some of their highest forms. We find that the most intense desires are after the Son of God in heaven, in and by whom God has now revealed Himself and to whose image in...

Nothing sinful comes from us in our "new man,"; only from "the old man" which abides within.

“Grace wherein we stand” (Rom 5:2; 1 Pet 5:12) is not attempting to completely disassociate our words and actions from sin, as if this were expected or even possible (1 john 1:8); nor is it to empowers us to overcome sin (not the same as “overcome evil”, the product of sin), something which only...

Unregenerate man is guilty of the same sin in Adam's transgression because the primary broken law for mankind was and still is Adam's transgression. He established the "law of sin and death" which is passed to all. The law of sin and death is that "the soul that sins shall die," which is what...

Everyone who has faith in God's works is going to be "peculiar" because of how God is using them. Noah and all who are in God are suppose to stand out because of what others see from them--obedience to God.

Was Noah's faith in the "works of God" or in the "works of man"? Noah believed God so his faith was in the work which He promised, as all the list in Hebrews 11: "By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet . . . prepared an ark."

The believer has departed from iniquity (sin) by way of co-crucifixion, but the passage does not imply that the believer will no longer have iniquity. To depart from it is to "put it off" (Eph 4:22; Col 3:8, 9), as one would put off doing something someone wants them to do. This does not refer...

Keeping the commands of Christ (i.e. love one another as I have loved you, the Supper Communion, the ordinances of baptism etc.) do not obtain union with God, they reveal that it is has been obtained.

Clearly put, it all comes down to, "Is your faith in the works of Christ or the works of man?" There's nothing the believer has or can obtain through faith in the works of man because everything a believer has is in the works of Christ, esp. His virtues and attributes (holiness, righteousness...

Hi Rex - I believe you're close to what I'm sharing and would like to address your comments here. You're correct that the body of the believer is still under "the law of sin and death", which is "the soul that sins shall die," but we also still posses the sin nature: "by one man's disobedience...

The believer in his "new man" (new nature) cannot sin, because it "is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him (it)" (Col 3:10); We have "put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness" (Eph 4:24). But the spirit still deals with our "old...

I understand you and rightly put, but I'm referring to a "perfect" or completed fellowship by Christ--through the Holy Spirit, which was not available until Christ, for "the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest (for all, not just priests), while as the first tabernacle was yet...