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The “law of sin” or, in other words, the principle and power of sin, is in its ability to cause the desire to sin; it’s in the desire to sin, and not in the sinning that the “old man” has its “dominion” in those yet to be reborn (Romans 6:14). Thus to eliminate the dominion of the old man or old...

Anyone can live in respect and kindness towards others. To do so is merely to put to use the natural abilities that all have in their earthly makeup of thoughts and feelings that are acceptable. Morality is generally related to the conduction of response between mortals; godliness is generally...

The Father had a sovereign purpose to take certain creatures into His own glory, to share in that glory. He desired also that these should know Him in His nature as Love, and be with Him, before Him, in that blissful atmosphere of pure love, forever. These happy creatures were not to be taken...

It would be well for us to consider the twofold bearing of the type of the Jordan River in Joshua Four. In Colossians Two and Three, we have that which clearly corresponds to these two things. The end of Chapter 2 reminds the Colossians that they were “dead with Christ.” Verses 12 and 13 show...

Being ever “circumspect,” esp. of “the old man,” is one of the spiritually healthiest commands to maintain (Eph 5:15), it being the closest enemy; and the doorway for distraction to believers from Satan and the unsaved world! We ever stand victorious in the Lord Jesus concerning salvation, but...

It is in the conscience of believers that the guiltless-position of their souls manifest how well they know completeness in the expiation of the Cross. There is an ingredient of legalism if there is insufficient understanding that their spiritual condition involves the perpetual forgiveness of...

We must be in the light (“the light” i.e. anything that reveals truth - Eph 5:13) in order to walk in it. The light is the full revelation of the Father; the truth as now unfolded in the Son, and Christians are before the Father according to what He is. To be in the light is to be in the...

“Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform (Greek: epiteleō – accomplish; finish) it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Phl 1:6). “Until the day of Jesus Christ” needs no interpretation, as it obviously refers to His second coming which is known as...

At the Cross there has been the greatest moral revolution that can possibly be conceived. The revolution is, that now the glory, instead of repelling (Exo 20:18-21; 1Ki 8:11; 2Ch 5:14—NC), attracts (2Co 3:18—NC); the glory is the expression of God, the thing of all others that invites you, and...

As a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, I’ve found the worth of it all is in coming to the knowledge and understanding (got to have both) of God’s holiness, which to me has some to do with revealing His love for us. Though He knows most will not choose to desire it, His love and justification in...

I believe the “hardness” (2Ti 2:3) saints endure is the Father’s primary instrument of “conforming” us “to the image of His Son” (Ro 8: 29). Even those who choose to remain unbelievers must endure hardness, but theirs is a witness “against” them, not “for them” (Deu 30:19; Ro 8:28). How we...

Significance is not so much in wondering about the reality of God as much as it is in knowing what His Word says of Him, because our reasoning is at times inaccurate, it being effected by our senses and “the old man.” The “wondering” for the believer isn’t doubt of the Word but of self in...

The purpose of the Father is to glorify the Son, and bring us to the Son (Jhn 6:44). The purpose of the Son is to glorify the Father and bring us to the Father (Jn 14:6; Eph 2:16, 18; 1Pe 3:1; Rev 5:9). NC His Special Blessings “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who...

In our relationship with the first Adam we had no freedom at all, the members of the old Adam being under obligation to furnish personal righteousness before God, as moral beings responsible to Him (in doing all he was told to do, e.g. “dress and keep” the Garden – Gen 2:15; avoid the Tree of...

The epistle to the Ephesians has already carried us to the height of our Christian position. Consequently, we have no further step to take in this direction; but as ever, the carrying out of the truth thus revealed is now to be proved in practice. Hence Colossians gives us, in fact, if not...

Even knowing for certain that God—without fail—always brings us successfully through every discouraging and discomforting difficulty, it doesn’t ease much of the “hardness” in what the trial brings. It can often shorten the soak-time when remembering all of this, but nothing is supposed to...

ALL CLEAR! In Romans Eight we get the believer escaped from sin as a master, and the Law as a husband (concerning the Jew), in his new place in the Lord Jesus Christ. Being in Him, the believer is a spiritual person, no longer in the flesh (Ro 8:9), and the flesh is discharged as well as sin...

As babes-in-Christ in the outset of receiving salvation (whom this article addresses), it is normal and acceptable to be preoccupied with appreciation for the blessings. But as we grow in our faith and in the image of Christ we learn the goal of becoming more occupied with the Blesser than the...

After being saved, it then is all about growth in the Lord Jesus (Eph 4:15), and the greater this growth the more we are used of God. One of the most significant aspects of faith is that it will be used solely in this life, for then we shall walk by sight, but now it is our walk of faith and...

The willing of the soul and the desire of the “old man” are separate entities within the believer in Christ! With the unsaved, unregenerate soul they are coalesce in their operations. Those reborn do not will after the desires of sin nature. But the unbeliever, being bereft of the new nature and...