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Read this last night and it made me think of this thread. 11 Her heads judge for a bribe, Her priests teach for pay, And her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the LORD, and say, “ Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.” 12 Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed...

To work for salvation means to try and be saved by works. It does not mean we do not do works. Otherwise Paul contradicts himself when he tells us we were called for good works. We draw near to God by faith, by this we are safe. But to be near to him requires obedience. 1 Corinthians 4:2...

Galatians 5:16 [ Walking in the Spirit ] I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Your confusion still is the same. To do something while living in the flesh does not mean to do it by the flesh. To do something by the flesh is to do it by the strength of...

The love of God is nothing like the love of man, because it loves, and bids man to come and die with him.

The cross is laid on every Christian. The first Christ-suffering which every man must experience is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. It is that dying of the old man which is the result of his encounter with Christ. As we embark upon discipleship we surrender ourselves to Christ...

That is the truth for all those who live godly in Christ Jesus. Paul himself said this of him, and this is true also of most of Christianity. The message is not a comfortable and peacable one. It is not one of safety. Rather it is one of persecution, trials, tribulations. The more a man...

Hi all! Had some thoughts on this today... The comfort of the Holy Spirit is given us when we share in the sufferings of Christ. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be...

You're not using proper deductive reasoning, veteran. Improper deductive reasoning goes like this, 'christians follow the word of God', 'captialism follows one aspect of the word of God', 'therefore captialism must be christian' :)

We must seek to constantly grow in the Spirit until we have attained Christ. We must be set in his ways, not ours.

American Christianity. Disagrees with Christ, the aposltes, and the apostolic fathers... But atleast it doesn't disagree with America's founding fathers!

To be succesful in the world, men must be worldly. Success is a temptation of the enemy. I agree with you, Josant, and think it is sad to see men fall into ungodliness for the sake of fame. :( I agree about artists, I think it is also true of many, many others. It is rampant in every area of...

Old men's minds will not follow change, if they are not in Christ, and young men's minds will seek false revolution if they are not in Christ, both fail. We can be set in our ways, or looking to change things to how we like it, which is an illusion of change. It's like shuffling a deck of...

The commonwealth of the people of God is not on this earth, but in the coming kingdom. To understand spiritual things, one must understand that a Christians treasure is not on earth but in heaven. Who offers Christ power over all the kingdoms, God or the devil? Woe to you when men speak well...

So I agree with one thing the bible says and that makes me Christian, veteran? Well then even the devil must be Christian!

We don't change things by trying to tell the government what laws to put in. We don't strive with flesh and blood! If we really lived as the church Jesus Christ came to build, full of love and the Spirit, we would change the world simply by that life. But in North America, we don't, and then...

The righteousness is imputed to us so that we may walk in it. His righteousness is in his very nature. We receive that nature that we might be like him, thus we are 'born from above'. If we are made alive in the spirit, we must also walk by the spirit. Can man walk by the spirit and fulfill...

You confuse by the flesh and while still living in the flesh. I said, by the SPIRIT. It is because you do not understand we have received the same nature as Christ in us :) Tell me this; Christ, did he live perfectly on earth in a body like ours?

Amen! As Paul, 'I count the sufferings of the present time to be little in comparison to the glory we will share in'. The message of Christ is not about salvation, but about glory. Salvation is given to any who do what is right. But glory is given to those who suffer for Christ, which is the...

I had a thought tonight. Most of Chirstianity, when it comes to Christ, is looking for safety and assurance. They are presented a Christ who offers them a comfortable and safe life here, where you go where you like and pick what you choose, AND assurance of eternal life. Yet Christ is not...