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The more one enters into understanding (via the Spirit and His Word) the presence of the enmity God has placed between believers and unbelievers (chiefly between Christ and His, and Satan and his, which are unbelievers - Gen 3:15), the more potential there is for the tendency of loneliness, due...

I am devoted to the Lord Jesus as I learn, first, how He meets my need, and secondly, how superior He is to everything and everyone. The heart likes to be devoted to the one who commands (i.e. attracts—NC) its affections. Thus there are two kinds of devotedness, both true, but the one greatly in...

“In the knowledge of Him” (Eph 1:17). We will not learn truth in reality except in the deepening knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ (4:17). It is the lack of this which is the cause of weakness and immaturity among believers; knowing bare doctrine is not abiding in the Lord Jesus. When the...

Concerning the article about God’s omniscience, I felt a need to clarify what I mean by “God’s commands are only to those whom He knows are going to desire to obey them.” My intention in this statement is related to those who God knows are never going to believe, e.g. “he that believeth not is...

Note: I occasionally let viewers know that the comments I include in these articles are not intended to be accepted necessarily as what the authors mean but that I’m just sharing my opinion of what they mean to me. Thanks and God bless! The chief glory of the Lord Jesus is His redemptive work...

I believe God’s commands are only to those whom He knows are going to desire to obey them. What sense or reason would there be to think He would command those whom He knows would not obey them, which I believe if conceived otherwise, would be to misunderstand His omniscience. I see it that his...

The word “sanctify” has the same sense as holy and consecrate. There is that which man can sanctify, and there is that which God sanctifies. Man’s sanctification is the esteeming of self or something apart for God. God sanctifies believers apart from unbelievers and is why the believer is holy...

The Life that the Spirit of God gives to those reborn is not His Life but the Life of the Lord Jesus’, in which we are eternally implanted (Col 3:4; also Jhn 11:25; 14:6; 20:31; 2Ti 1:1). “These Three are one” in accord and in agreement concerning all things, and They possess the same Divine...

One may have an appearance to obey the Lord Jesus (Jhn 14:23, 24), but it is the test of time that will determine its genuineness, for it will never cease. The Lord Jesus said, “He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved” (Mat 24:13). In other words, only whosoever is saved will...

Gifts To The Giver Nothing can be more edifying than to repose in the love of the Lord Jesus when it is known, and the heart set free to rest in it. The soul may have a long journey to reach it experientially; there may be needs and exercises to be met and removed on the way; the old man and...

What evinces faith in God the most is—rest—that is, trusting always in Him, that He “means” and “works” good to the believer in all that is encountered (Gen 50:20; Ro 8:28)! There is no other means of peace in the true sense of the word, and there is nothing that you will think, say or do that...

Christians know life in Christ, but what of its liberty in the walk. It’s in the walk that intents of the heart are manifest, and it’s the walk that is used more than all to reveal the testimony of the soul. For some time now (about the last century of so, and becoming more obviously present in...

Note to reader: It’s the hopes of this poster that viewers understand and apply the truths of Israel’s eschatology to their faith; and it is also acknowledged concerning the suspicion that most will find this doctrine unfamiliar, and so, initially difficult to understand or lacking interest. God...

Believers function by two natures: I the old man and I the new, but “live” and “walk” only after one (Gal 5:25), because nobody can have two masters (Mat 6:24). It’s not merely in the desire to sin, but also in the willingness to sin that confirms the “dominion” of sin (Ro 6:14) in the “natural...

What is to be said of Israel’s eschatology—God’s first-loved on the earth (the Christian being His first-loved in heaven)? Israel is one of the prime examples of God’s faithfulness to His promises to man, which are a show off His love. The most significant emblem of His love is confirmed within...

No matter how well maintained we are at disallowing our problems to escalate into “troubles” (Jhn 14:1, 27), there will always be prearranged difficulties in the way. Though sovereignly controlled (Ro 8:28), they will require “enduring” (2Ti 2:3), by “casting all your care on Him” (1Pe 5:7); and...

Obviously Satan does not believe God is omniscient, which is seen in the fact that he did not realize God knew Job is always faithful, regardless of what he encounters. Surely one of the greatest comforts to us can be in just knowing that God not only already knows all that we will encounter...

In the beginning years of our rebirth we find that God meets our earthly needs and we are much drawn and thankful to Him for it, and we continue to learn that He will ever meet them during the remnant of our earthly time! But once spiritual growth of the Word begins to become more understood...

A believer is “a wise master-builder” (1Co 3:10) if he is given to know the purpose for “works” (in the Word which produce love), that they derive in this life from the grace of salvation! In relation to this life, they are purposed to glorify God via being used to “draw” the lost and “exhort”...

The most helpful truth I’ve learned about myself is that which concerns my “old man” and how busy it seems to maintain itself in everything. During the times I identify the old man’s activity it’s then I can determine how far back and how long it has been affecting me in my present situation...