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Because... A father asked both his sons to work in the field, one says yes, the other no. They end up doing the opposite of what they say, which pleased his father? My point is this, God freely gives us the grace to do his will, but we must decide to go through ith it. As it says, 'if we...

I understand it to mean to die daily, and to surrender fully to Christ. We must give up our life to have his. The cross works death in our life, that it might work life. We are crucified with him that we would be ressurected with him, not only in the physical sense. :)

Wow... May the Lord give him strength to hold fast his good confession! And may the Lord make us as faithful as he is, and keep us when our time of testing comes! :)

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings to seek it out. He reveals his mysteries to mere men! Some things are not revealed, because we need to know them, but those are things of knowledge that will only be needed when the time is right. As for faith, and the ways...

Good catch! :) The gospel destroys all barriers, making us one with Christ, and so one with the Father. We have his promise, that is, new life!

Yes. We have taken Jesus and made him the new reason to sleep comfortably, instead of recognizing the agent of spiritual awakening he actually is. The Jesus most often presented today is nothing like the Jesus of the gospels. Jesus calls us to come die on a cross, not live comfortably on...

The things that are hidden in God is the mystery of the new life that we have now received. Angels are left in wonder to see that in such weak vessels can live such glory, that is, Jesus Christ. The mystery is that somehow he lives in us, and makes wretches into his glorious tools. The...

We love all. We do not walk in the world's ways. As men of God, we are to understand we do not fight with flesh and blood, otherwise we will be our generations version of inquisitors, popes, whatever man who, in the name of Christ, takes an earhtly throne.

Nations of course do matter in the sense that God judges them, and that all men must give account. But as Christians, we are ambassadors of the heavenlies, it is not about what nation we are from, and national pride is not part of God's ways. Trying to change politics only puts another set...

Christ died so that we could be like him. The power of the ressurection is what we are given access to if we die with him. Thus, we can be like him.

I think that's a great attitude to have! :) The enemy attacking us shouldn't make us fear, it is for our own good and training. We only have one chance to run the race, and it is wise to wish to run well, even if that is to our own detriment in this life. I think that anything less than this...

Yes, but not things of this earth. We are stewards of the mysteries of God, and our ministry is spiritual. We are here to make people partakers of the life of Christ. We are to be, as Christ was, the link between men and God, bringing them his life. Do we feed the poor and help those in need...

FHII. I agree, we have hope in this life of what Christ may do. But we must understand that the building that Christ does in this life also goes the route of death, but we rejoice in that death because of the fruit it produces! :) The church is born out of the blood of the saints. (Not...

Yes, I realize the flaw in how I explained this. Thanks FHII! :) The error is not to seek safety in Christ of course. But it is to think that Christ desires a carnally safe life. God is not a perpetuator of the bourgeois, middle class lifestyle. Our safety must be in Christ. But that means...

Welcome, John III :) ... By the way, is that John III as in John 3, Jesus' encounter with Nicodemus?

Yes. The only way to NOT become a business is do things like Jesus taught. A little leaven leavens the whole batch, and so it is with the world's ways in the church. The world works according to money, we work by sharing with other and by faith when we are lacking. The world Lord's it over...

and he who loses his life for My sake will find it. :)

I agree. The cross was an offense to the Jews ('WE, the CHOSEN people have to die?') and foolishness to the Greeks (you mean we have to die to live?). Either way, the carnal man does not understand it. Christianity instead has made the cross into a symbol, with no true meaning. The real...

Yes, there is a time for all things. :) If the Spirit leads us there, it will be for the glory of God. As long as he leads us there... He will be the light that shines in us.

The Lord gives us power to overcome the world and to remain faithful in the face of rebellion of all others. He gives us that while we are still in the world. It is always tempting to decide to remove the opposition the world gives us so we can more easily be like Christ, but I think it would be...