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God's people, who form his temple, are called to be holy. The old covenant, which was a shadow of the new, had God's people be according to a nation that had been chosen. But in the new covenant, the peculiar people, the nation of priests is God's people. God has broken the wall of partition...

Exactly! Grace is not a license to sin, but the power in us to overcome and please God.

Because of his faith, Noah built the ark. This is the kind of faith that saves. Jesus calls us to follow him, saving faith follows him. He only is salvation, and we are safe only in him.

Hmmm.... Here's one. Romans 8 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not...

I know this is one of the most heated subjects, and one that evangelicals are adamant about. Well, I have an issue with both a 'works based salvation' AND a 'free gift salvation'. I believe both are wrong. I know they are generally pinned against each other as being option A and B, and the...

Is it a works based religion when Jesus says 'unless you leave everything and come and follow me you cannot be my disciple'? No, it is love based. Our love for God is what ends up saving us. Here's a scripture: Colossians 1:24 [ Sacrificial Service for Christ ] I now rejoice in my sufferings...

Good post Pegg. In today's christianity the moment someone says we need to actually go and follow Christ, everybody starts screaming 'Works, works, works!' Christ is not a free pass to heaven. Christ is our salvation, but he says follow me, and abide in me. Our salvation is moving, as long as...

Thanks for sharing your thoughts brother. If there is anything godly in me, it is by the grace of God, who had mercy on me and taught me. Still, I know there is a long road ahead of me. :) I agree about adopting a more 'permissive theology', I think it's not wise. We should accept what the...

Hi all! I wanted to look into the parable of the man who did not have a wedding garment. 11 “But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment. 12 So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was...

I agree! It's so easy to turn our eyes away from him... We must learn faithfulness! We are to do all things as unto the Lord! May the Lord open our eyes and bless us with understanding in this, and may he keep us from idols.

As long as we are abiding, we are safe, yes. I'm not saying hope with faith doesn't save. I'm saying hope WITHOUT faith doesn't save. If we hope we will be saved by Christ, but don't walk daily in faith, this hope will not be fulfilled. We must grow now and walk in faith now, obeying God...

It does to be fulfilled in us, jiggyfly, we are the body of Christ. :) Christ has fulfilled it, and now he lives in us. Our being dead and his living through us is the reflection of his fulfillement. Consider also Colossians 1:24 : it is for the sake of the church, that she be conformed to his...

We must grow in Christ, yes. As Noah's faith required that he build the ark, otherwise his faith would not have saved him, so our faith requires that we put to death the deeds of the flesh and grow in the character of Christ. We must put on Christ and become like him.

So to conclude there are two judgments and four destinies. For those who know Christ, either glory or shame, and for those who do not, life or death. 9 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me[f] and talked with me, saying, “Come, I...

This puts in perspective the parable of the sheep and the goats. 31 “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy[c] angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a...

7 Now when the thousand years have expired, [......]11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God,[c] and books were opened. And...

Hi everyone! :) This is a study I thought I would do on judgment. The popular view today is that there is one judgment, and two possibilities; heaven and hell. A closer study of the scriptures reveals there's more to it! The idea that there is a 'good' people, and a 'bad' people, in our case...

I agree with both of you. I would say it like this: Faith is to understand the spiritual reality, and call into being what is not, because it was promised by God. Hope does not 'see' spiritually, but faith does. I think the dangerous thing is we can have hope, and think that hope is...