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Just want to add..........I am not sure we have to wait to physically die for the day to dawn.......just the death of our old man. And as scripture says, our old man really has been crucified with Christ already.......Jesus has accomplished it for us, but we need to "apprehend" and get hold of...

Thinking in terms that it is our new man who cannot sin......but our old man will continue to sin or miss the mark at times in spite of our best efforts, to some degree until he is completely dealt with.

Amen. The battle and struggle is like the struggle and squeezing of a baby through the narrow way to be born....it's purpose is to kill the life/power of the old man over us....like the baby is delivered from dependence on its mother (old life source). I think most of us are aiming too low...

I would say one is perfected in love insofar as they are walking and living in love....which is another way of saying living and walking in the Spirit. And that is what John was speaking of. I don't believe anyone will sin or have an evil thought of their own when they are walking and...

I don't think we should limit God to our experience. Is anything impossible with God? It is not arrogant to think we can be like Jesus...since we are called to become conformed to Him and like Him. We are called to be perfect as He is perfect and holy as He is holy. Mat 5:48 Be ye therefore...

I don't see why the Lord could not cast Satan entirely out of these earthen vessels of ours and take full possession of us....prepared as a bride. Jesus has all power and authority to do so. But I think we need to come to the place where we realize we need that and are willing for Him to do...

Never said that we are under the Law. What is it you are trying to protect or defend? Are you thinking that everything that is written in the Law is null and void and therefore it's ok to wilfully sin willy nilly? The wages of sin is still death and always has been since the beginning long...

Just in a way of trying to reach out brother. You seemed as though you were feeling ignored or un-helped or something like that. And I wanted to say a little something about revivals because you were seeming to think there is no value in them (genuine revivals). But of course you don't have...

Well for example, the Law says do not commit adultery. .....but Jesus and the new covenant says if you so much as lust after a woman in your heart you have committed adultery. So that is the spirit behind the Law which said do not commit adultery.....inward purity, not just outward physical...

From scripture I believe we can glean that the Lord deals with His people both in a corporate way as well as personally. The bible speaks of "times of refreshing" coming from the Lord......revivals, movements. His Spirit moves at certain times to restore, refresh, rebuild, strengthen, purify...

I consider that it is the spirit of the Law written on our hearts and consciences. Not the temple ordinances, which were nailed to the cross, but the weightier matters of the law.........justice, mercy, faith, love, purity in morals/ethics etc.....serving in the new way of the Spirit, not the...

I don't know if we're getting our wires crossed, but this is the scripture I had in mind: Jer 31:31-34 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in...

No, it's not mutually exclusive like going left or right.......because inward change brings about a corresponding change in outward behaviour as well. That is the meaning of writing the Law on our hearts.........it speaks to inward change, not a matter of outward behaviour only.

Jesus was giving them a deeper understanding of it....as well as showing them the higher standard of the new covenant. An inward change, not just outward. The Law never could justify anyone....that is why the new covenant was necessary.

Amen, we serve a spiritual God, after all. I came to faith in a cessationist Brethren church. I'm grateful to them for their part in my salvation, but as we grow in the Lord we get weaned from our "mother", from she who gave birth to us as it were. And sometimes there are more weanings to...

The Law is not just hearsay, but was put in effect by angels and the new testament affirms that it is spiritual....and good if it is used properly...useful for instruction in righteousness, correction, etc. But with the new covenant, we can see the Law in a new and deeper light as well....type...

I kind of see some middle ground with this too. There are different gifts and callings, as well as an appropriate time to speak and a time to be silent etc. Some save with fear, others with compassion making a difference. Agree that the bottom line is to be led by the Spirit if/when/what to...

I believe the bible does point to a "second blessing", so to speak. We follow the same pattern as our example, the church in the wilderness. After crossing the Red Sea, they had a second barrier to get across, a second baptism to undergo as it were, to enter the Promised Land of Rest. They...

This sounds similar to the beliefs of the "holiness" movement. Different people can have very different ways of describing the same experience, and it also seems evident that becoming holy doesn't mean one has all understanding or is infallible. I have wondered about the baptism of the Holy...

Amen. There is a world of difference between a "concert" and worship. Everything seems to be a performance nowadays....from so-called worship, to the preaching and prophesying. The bad fruit - love of fame & money, and sin in the camp, is being exposed - it's all very sad. "Mega-ministry" is...