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Romans 15:13 (NASB20) Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scripture puts forth that man does have a part to play if man is to receive the blessings of God…...

Romans 4:21 (NASB20) and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Knowing that Christ Himself walked in righteousness when He was in a body of flesh like ours, this establishes that this body of flesh can be made to walk in...

Romans 9:32 (NASB20) Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though they could by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scripture is putting forth that not pursuing righteousness by faith, but by thinking one can achieve the same by self effort...

Hebrews 12:2a (NASB20) looking only at Jesus, ……………………………………… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ‘looking only at Jesus’ In the practicing of these words will the blessings of God be found, for in this practicing the eyes are kept off that which keeps God from blessing the experience, that being...

Romans 6:12 (KJV) Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ‘Let not sin’ Knowing, that it is learned by experience that man’s will power is not sufficient enough to bring these words to fulfillment… Therefore must...

Jeremiah 22:15b~16 (NASB20) “……………………..Did your father not eat and drink And do justice and righteousness? Then it was well for him. “He pled the cause of the afflicted and the poor, Then it was well. Is that not what it means to know Me?” Declares the Lord. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ‘Is that...

Romans 8:38-39 (NASB20) For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord...

One wakes up in the wee hours of the morning in a start, with a nervous shaking, with a sense of dread, because one realizes one has been dreaming thoughts of passed sins, dreaming of entering into them… The heart reels at the thought and try’s to ignore them, but the thoughts are persistent...

Galatians 4:15 (NASB20) Where then is that sense of blessing you had? For I testify about you that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Galatians had lost something, that being the sense of blessing they had…. Paul is putting...

Faith is what overcomes sin…. No amount of self-effort will cause self to stop its sinning, for its sinning is in its functioning… God, knowing this, He therefore put it to death on the cross with Christ to stop its functioning… It is man that does not know this and needs to be brought to see...

God is not going to fix one, but replace one… For the seeing into this truth, is the truth that will free one from looking to God to fix one’s own abilities… For the self life being that very life that God is not going to fix but replace… For coming out from under the control of the self-life...

Romans 7:6 (NASB20) But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Meaning, that we have been released from the doing of the requirements of right and...

Romans 8:23 (NASB20) And not only that, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons and daughters, the redemption of our body. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The inner groaning of a life that has...

Romans 6:17-18 (NASB20) But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were entrusted and after being freed from sin, you became slaves to righteousness. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This entrusting that is being...

Romans 6:17-18 (NASB20) But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were entrusted and after being freed from sin, you became slaves to righteousness. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What truth is being put forth...

Our salvation is the life of Christ actually coming to life in the believing soul… Since this is the truth of the issue, it is than to be asked by the believing soul, what can it do to progress this coming to life? Scripture says to; Romans 12:1 (NASB20) Therefore I urge you, brothers and...

Romans 6:4 (NASB20) Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life… Hebrews 4:10 (NASB20) For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from...

Philippians 3:12b (NKJV) ………………………………….but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What was it that Christ had laid hold of Paul for? That being, the restoration of the image of God… This truth is put forth in...

Galatians 2:17-18 (NKJV) “But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, [is] Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not! “For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The truth...

Hebrews 4:3a (NASB20) For we who have believed enter that rest, ………………………………… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Belief and rest go hand in hand in scripture, for a proper belief produces a rest in God which the heart itself can know by experience…. But just what exactly is this proper belief that...