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It is the Lord who reveals it by his Spirit. Yes, scripture is one of the Lord's instruments to reveal it to us, but as always it is by his spirit. As James said, if any of you lack wisdom, ask the Lord to grant you this. Wisdom is not head knowledge, and neither is revelation. The...

Jesus IS the word. He IS the source of life. 51I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. Jesus gives of himself.

They are the work, as I have said already. What is confusing you, I think, is that I say that HE does the work in us THROUGH the scriptures, AND through other means, which is true. :) The scriptures is the word of the Lord, but HE wields it, and the spirit does his work and guides us, while...

Yes. :) 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.... (Notice the scriptures were not there in the beginning, before creation)... 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father...

Once again, your carnal understanding stops you from seeing what I'm saying to you. The word IS important, it IS valuable, and THROUGH it, the Lord works in man. But it is the Spirit that quickens. I do not tell you the word is not good, but that if you do not have the Spirit's quickening and...

It does not say Christ became the living word out of obedience to it, it says he IS the word, and he became flesh. Once again, you misinterpret all of these passages in a way that goes against the rest of scriptures. Yes, the word is useful, but that is, in the hands of the Spirit and the man...

No. The scriptures are indeed the work of the Spirit, but which is superior, the words spoken with authority, or the one who gives those very words authority? The answer is obvious. The scriptures and the spirit work as a map and a compass. Yes, we do need both. But the error is in claiming...

Life comes from Christ. The scriptures confirm his work and tell us of it. 16All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: The word is wielded by the Spirit, and by the man who walks according to...

Yes, it is possible to misinterpret scriptures. I don't mean to say that I have it all figured out brother, and I could be wrong on something. :) But the whole of scriptures does show us that some will go to shame. Why would we deny this? Dan. 12:2 'everlasting contempt' We cannot draw these...

The gospel has not changed, as it says, we are justified the same way Abraham was. I do concede I did not use the best verse, not a wise way. Thanks for the correction, BibleScribe. :) What I'm trying to say is that indeed God has not changed the way we are justified. It is by men...

We are called to attain unity of faith, and be one in the Spirit, since we are born of one Spirit. Only this remains impossible as long as we divide according to doctrine. The Lord has said his disciples will be recognized by their love for each other, and John says that if we do not love our...

Ephesians 4:13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; God has asked nothing of us that he has not or will not empower us to do, what is impossible with man is possible with...

The new covenant has broken the wall of partition, and made us one in Christ. Anything that seeks to rebuild this wall is nothing short of madness! What God has made one, let no man break asunder. We are grafted in to Israel, those who reign with God, and called to overcome, and that is the...

Absolutely! The old covenant was a shadow of things to come, and in it, with the veil taken away, we see Christ! :)

God has not changed how he works. Does God change? Of course not. What has changed is that now we have received the power to overcome by new life in Jesus Christ. Anything that denies that we receive power through Christ, which is what grace is, does not understand the purpose of his coming...

Amen! It is about the power of Christ in us, not our strength. If Christ could walk perfectly in the flesh, and we have the same life in us, by this life we can. It requires sanctification and complete submission, and a changing of our character to us. Surely, this is a hard long work, like...

Good post... This brings us to the core of the issue. Christ is to be experienced, HE is the word of God, we are to know him experientially. Unless we understand what John talks about in 1 John 1:1-4, we cannot understand the work of the Spirit.

If we follow any man that has been religiously trained, we will fall into error. Those who trust in men, according to the Bible, receive a curse. We must follow the Spirit!

Amen brothers! We are to be led of... The bible? Of course not. The Spirit. The Bible is true, and confirms the word of the Lord. But we are to follow God himself, and as Jesus, do only what we see the Father doing.

When the presence of the Lord is their, all men do indeed obey. Does that mean they are glorified? Is a dog great because he obeys, or does he obey because the Master has authority. We misunderstand when we think people always obey out of love. When he rules with a rod of iron, all obey, some...