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Romans 6:5 (NASB20) For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As this scripture brings forth, if one would walk in newness of life, one must first be united with Him in the...

Galatians 2:21 (KJV) I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How is it that a believer can be said to be frustrating the grace of God..?? For this is the same truth Paul speaks about in another place...

1 Peter 1:13b (NKJV) …………………………………………..and rest [your] hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here once again scripture is directing the believing soul to look away from this world to Christ, but this scripture goes...

Hebrews 12:7 (NKJV) If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If and when one endures the correcting, it being the most beneficial and freeing of things, for it is then that one knows they are...

Romans 6:4b (NASB20) …………………………………………… just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just as Christ was raised by someone else, the believing soul is to walk in newness of life the same way, that...

Acts 6:5 (NASB20) ………….. and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit,……………….. Acts 11:24 (NASB20) for he (Stephen) was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and faith……………… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Faith and the Spirit go hand in hand, one cannot have one without...

Romans 8:8 (NASB20) and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. Romans 14:23 (NASB20) …………………………………. ; and whatever is not from faith is sin. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ These two truths are speaking to the same truth that points to the boat of faith, one putting it forth one way, the...

Matthew 8:2-3(NASB20) And a man with leprosy came to Him and bowed down before Him, and said, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out with His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A...

Philippians 3:9 (NKJV) and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which [is] from the law, but that which [is] through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Enough can not be said about the manifestation of the righteous life that...

John 15:5 (NASB20) “I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This expression of remaining in Christ is not directing one to anything outwardly, for no physical location can...

Galatians 4:19 (NASB20) My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul is writing to Christian’s here, those that are indeed saved and in possession of the new birth, yet still there is something more that he puts forth, this being...

Philippians 3:9 (NASB20) and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This righteousness that one needs to be found having...

John 15:18 (NASB20) “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Why will the world hate one…? That would be because God sent the law which is the knowledge of righteousness and truth through Moses…. Then in the course of time, God...

2 Corinthians 12:9 (NASB20) And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ God’s grace, being the active power...

John 14:23 (NASB20) Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will follow My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our dwelling with him. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scripture teaches that God’s indwelling is tied to one following His word… This can...

Luke 1:38 (NASB20) And Mary said, “Behold, the Lord’s bond-servant; may it be done to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ One can be said to be living by faith when one’s faith sees that one can do no more towards the forming of Christ in...

I was talking to a friend of mine awhile ago and he said to me; ‘he would not let them steal his joy’…. It struck me as such a real and active truth, I told him I was going to use it, for it sank home to me that all to often I was controlled by other people’s demeanor…. So I actively, when I...

2 Corinthians 5:14 (NASB20) For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This truth that all have died with Christ is a most valuable, if not the most valuable teaching in Christianity, except perhaps for the...

2 Corinthians 6:12 (NKJV) You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your [own] affections. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Being restricted by one’s own affections is that which limits one’s ability to experience God… For Paul is addressing believer’s that were keeping something alive...

2 Corinthians 5:16 (NASB20) Therefore from now on we recognize no one by the flesh; even though we have known Christ by the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scripture puts forth there are two ways of knowing someone, by outward appearance and that...