Search results

Dear Doug, The New Covenant of Grace through Faith began with the resurrection of Christ - it went first to the Nation of Israel and then a short time later to the Gentiles. If you don't believe the New Covenant is for you, then do you believe that you are under any covenant? Just how are...

Dear Soyeong, As I have stated, you are not seeing that the physical is only a foreshadowing of the spiritual that comes to a person upon their conversion. There is nothing more I can say to help you. Christ is the only one who has that power. He did it for me 21 years ago and He will do it...

Dear Doug, The New Covenant is a spiritual covenant that conforms a person's "will" to Christ's "will". When the process is complete, the person will be like Christ and will never sin again. This process is what this verse below is describing: Isa 26:9 With my soul have I desired thee...

Doug, It is a concept that applies to many things. You just can't see it. Joe

Dear Soyeong, You haven't understood the difference between the Old Covenant and New Covenant. The Old Covenant is natural and the New Covenant is spiritual. You are living like the Old Covenant laws and ordinances are still necessary to be performed. The Old Covenant laws and ordinances were...

Dear Doug, The Early Rain is a small measure of the Spirit. It is not the baptism. There is only one baptism. The Early Rain is what Paul received on the Damascus Road. This gave Paul a measure of faith and caused Paul to call Jesus "Lord". But Paul remained blind and had to be lead by the...

Dear Doug, A measure means a portion. Christ had the Spirit without measure (the full amount). Joe

Dear Soyeong, You said: While you didn't say that it has been abolished, you are interpreting fulfilling the law as meaning the same thing as abolishing or relaxing it. No, the law was not abolished but since mankind cannot fulfill the law, Christ came to do it for us. We share in that...

Dear soyeong, I will respond to a couple of your statements. You said: In Matthew 5:17-19, Jesus said that he came to fulfill the law in contrast with saying that he came not to abolish it and he warned against relaxing the least part of it, so you should not interpret fulfilling the law as...

Dear Soyeong, What I just stated to Doug in my last three posts to him should answer most of your comments. If you can't accept what I stated, there isn't much more that I could say to help you. Joe

Dear shepherdsword, Please read my responses to Doug. Joe

Dear Doug, Yes, I understood. The Old Covenant has been abolished but not the Law though - it is eternal. The only way to be acceptable to God now is under the New Covenant. Under the New Covenant, Christ will cause us to obey the Law. You have equated the Law of God as being the Old...

Dear Doug, The phrase "first comes the natural, then comes the spiritual" is a CONCEPT that applies to many things. Isa 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts (converted believers). 10 For...

Dear Doug, Yes, I follow the whole law because Christ within me follows it. Let me explain this statement, otherwise you will not understand what it really means. Christ fulfilled all the Law. The portion of the law that requires a blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins was fulfilled by...

Dear Doug, You are reading the verse wrong. Faith is the gift that puts a person under God's grace. The verse says "grace through faith". We must have faith or we can't have grace. Paul says that our faith is "not of yourselves" because it came from God as a free gift. Here is where faith...

Doug, You are only understanding the NATURAL fulfillment of the Sabbath Day law. Christ spiritually fulfills the Sabbath Day law within us upon our conversion. First comes the natural (the law written on tablets of stone/outwardly observed), then comes the spiritual (written in our...

Dear Doug, I have not been taught this concept by anyone except Christ. The Sabbath Day law is part of the whole law of God. The whole Law of God must be followed whether a person is a Jew or Gentile. Christ even said that He came to fulfill the law of God (not just some of it): Mat 5:17...

Yes, faith comes by hearing the Word but the individual must have at least a small measure of the Holy Spirit (Early Rain) for faith to develop within them. Faith is a gift from God and it accompanies the gift of the Holy Spirit. 1Cor 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the...

Dear Button, "Morality and thinking the moral laws of God" are not works. Trying to follow the laws of God without Christ within you doing it for you is what constitutes "works". That is the difference between the Old and New Covenants. What you are teaching is the mixing of the old and new...

Dear Button, Trying to follow the laws of God (like the Sabbath Day law) are works. And yes, the Sabbath Day is God's gift to mankind. When Christ enters a person, they will rest from their works of trying to make themselves acceptable to God. Christ Himself is the gift of the Sabbath Day...