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Yes! Something we see little of today. :) The love God is looking for requires commitment and sacrifice, it is the same love Jesus had. If we give our lives for each other, first, and also for our enemies, we shine bright for our Lord. The way we can shine this without persecution is to do as...

Good post! Dispensationalism lacks in spiritual understanding, and takes the new covenant and tries to explain it with carnal means, thus the confusion. The New Covenant is according to life, the life of Christ in his people. Those who walk according to the Spirit are the sons of God, Israel. :)

I understand both these groups to be the same. :) If indeed we are grafted into Israel, we are part of the ten tribes, AND we are redeemed from the earth. Also, the 24 elders represent the twelve of the Old Covenant and the twelve of the New, and they form one group.

Yes and no. I agree there is two sides to the issue. It would be far better that we wake up now and use the freedom! :) But the church is founded on the blood of the martyrs... If the true men of God rise when the church is persecuted, then the church becomes unstoppable. One is killed, and...

My thought on that is 'let it be an offense'! And let it be a wake up call to a dead church! If we are to suffer great persecution to finally awake and become true witnesses of the life that is hid in Christ, it would be better for us than a comfortable life.

It is true of all those who are faithful. The finished work of Christ is only the beginning of ours. HIS finished work is our reconciliation, our work is to 'Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many...

Interesting. I think respecting and pleadging allegiance are two very different things. :) My understanding is that we pledge allegiance to God, and obey God. As long as what the state requires us to do is not against what God asks of us, we obey, and do all things as unto God. When the...

Right, so then it is NOT according to the seed, but rather the Spirit. :huh: "You were baptized into one Spirit" Ok, thanks for clarifying. :) My understanding is that there is one group of 144,000, 12,000 from each tribe, into which we are grafted in.

So the real Gentiles, who are not physically descendants of Abraham, are not actually grafted in? What do you make of a native American brother who is born again of the Spirit, for example? And a man of clearly Gentile descent, or asian for example, who is born again of the Spirit?

Heb 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, Heb 6:2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of...

So then you would agree it is not according to the literal physical seed? :huh: Just trying to understand! :)

No, what I am saying is that we must clothe ourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, put on the armor of light, and overcome... By his power. Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. John...

No one is saved through dead faith, 'faith plus nothing'. Even you, because you believe, you obey, don't you? We are indeed given God's righteousness, but in a far more real sense than just a figurative imagination, or a positional receiving, but rather we receive it in reality, that we...

Also... 28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus 29And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. Romans 11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am...

16Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, Abraham the father of... Romans? How then, considering scriptures...

Amen! The old man must die, that Christ might live in us!

Yes! It is a process, we are invited to be part of it... And those who endure faithfully will be. Many are called, but few are chosen.

The significance is that salvation is of the Jews. First Christ, then his disciples... But then unto all the nations! :)

Honesty is a virtue... Posting as a christian member was not exactly honest on your part! ;) Nonetheless, I answer this. If we look at the world and say 'the poor are so because they are bad, and the rich are so because they are rich' we are simply justifying our own richness, and bring...

If I lived in Roman territory, I would look in a fish's mouth to provide for the taxes, but since I don't, why the trouble? :P