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Before the Cross, it was all about man in establishing salvation, but after the Cross it’s all about glorifying God and His Grace, which is all entailing because is includes atonement for all the sin of the believer. His Grace is most depicted in knowing and remembering that the believer is...

The "seed" in 1 John 3:9 is the "new man" or new nature the believer has which was created after Christ's nature (Col 3:10). It is the believer in his new nature that "cannot sin," but does unwillingly sin in his old nature (Rom 7:17, 20, 25). This is the meaning of "captivity," (Rom 7:23)...

The believer’s standing (position) is the way the Father sees him in His Son, as perfect in Him. But his state (condition) is the way the Father sees him in his daily walk, which is sinful and erring and needs to be developed and improved. “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with...

The OT law of Moses involved judgement and all were still under the curse of "the law of sin and death" (the souls that sins shall die), which Adam incurred. This was why the repetitious sin offering, until Christ nullified it in His atonement. It went from a conditional love to others, to an...

I believe the "law of God" (Rom 7:22) to which Paul refereed was the will of God or the fulfilling of the OT law which, "was our schoolmaster" (for the Jew) to bring them "unto Christ"; also which they "are no longer under" (Gal 3:24, 25). The "law" which the old testament saints "delighted in"...

Paul’s great endeavor, in his entire Romans Seven struggle, was to make “the flesh,” his old man, consent to do that holy law of which his new man approved. He had not yet despaired of himself. When he understood this conflict, he thought he had in his own will the power to do the things, that...

Hi TKIAH - Just wanted to point this out: "Shall He find faith on the earth?" Either in the land of Judea, the believers being removed from thence and scattered among the Gentiles and not a man, at least in Jerusalem, that had any faith in Jesus, as the Messiah. "Or in the world at the last...

"Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned" (Rom 5:12). The reason why death passed to all is because sin passed to all, "for all sin." We were "made sinners" by Adam (v 19). John Gill-- "Wherefore as by...

Hi DF - Thanks for sharing the video Brother but the narrator is denying the possession of the sin nature, which is the primary rudiment concerning the believer's condition. Regardless of the believers view concerning this issue, it will not affect union with God, only fellowship and it's our...

The same principles which accompany the moral deadness of the unbeliever, are found in the believer, weakening and hindering his resting in the Lord Jesus above and his resultant walk here below. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh.” It is true, the believer is not in the flesh (Rom 8:8)...

The John 10:27 reference is the voice of Christ in His Gospel, both externally and internally and since most Jews did not, it was a plain case they were not of His sheep.

“Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.” “He shall live!” Of everything that concerns a “resurrection,” the eternality which it establishes is the prominent significance, thus, focusing on the term “live” should not be...

I'm not sure what you mean by trinity churches and what military?

Those who persecute or kill are unregenerate and natural men and are void of the Holy Spirit. "Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His" (Rom 8:9).

Yes, my mistake and thanks Brother. Hi M and a very applicable inquiry. One who truly has faith in Christ will eventually evince it "by my works." This is the effect of James 2:18: "Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee...

Amen Ax! He is a Person who can only be received through, first the knowledge of His Gospel, then proceeded with faith in His Gospel, because to have faith in His Gospel is to have faith in Him. Good seeing you again!

DF - I'm convinced you have a sincere concern for the truth, as all believers should, but as we've often traversed this issue, we've only seen Scripture that discloses we were crucified and died, but Scripture is void of disclosing that our "old man" was crucified and died. The significance...

There are usually at least two schools of thought concerning every issue and it has been said that any doctrine can seem to be established on part of Scripture, but the truth is established on the whole. Romans Seven is what I like to consider as the pinnacle-doctrine in spiritual-growth...

Hi Will - It appears to me that our belief's are generally the same, esp. concerning the first line. To me, it's not so much as "God decided beforehand" as it is that He foreknew, concerning everyone's decisions. I believe if one is in true humility, it and all God's attributes and virtues...

What does Scripture intend by the use of, “the old man” (Rom. 6:6; Eph. 4:22; Col 3:9)? Is it an entity, such as a person or an angel? Whatever it is, Scripture’s reference to it attributes it as the determining factor of the quality of an individual. What is it within a person that determines...