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So sorry your mother was being so callous with you, that is sad. Sounds like you might have been trying to escape from things at home and maybe even trying to find what was lacking at home among your friends. Is it possible your friend is just under the weather, or not feeling up to...

Those "pop-up" things I consider to be inadvertent/unintentional sins, not deliberate/wilful.....and that they do come from the flesh/old man. When someone is in the spirit that will not happen. I think you handled it right with the Lord in acknowledging it and repenting. Maybe let your...

Oh but those fish do have meaning beyond just being food for the body.

It does seem to me that Scott has already answered your question. Spiritual discernment.....testing by the Holy Spirit. The example you gave is not about higher things, but is foundational/elementary....Christianity 101, although there may be a bit deeper lesson embedded even in that, since...

Amen, yes indeed brother. And when we are focused on what is true, then we'll be able to discern the counterfeit angel of light, just like how they teach bank employees to tell counterfeit money by being very familiar with what real money looks and feels like. I think a couple more keys as...

By all means, let's throw out all that is antichrist brother, of course......they are not building on the right foundation. I'm especially grieved for the younger generation coming up who have been deceived and led astray and are not being taught right by the older ones. I pray the Lord will...

Sins are sins. But God treats wilful sins differently from inadvertent sins. Wilful sins are those things which are within the person's power to not commit, such as committing murder or embezzling, lying in a job interview, etc. whereas inadvertent sins have more to do with personal...

We just need to be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I've both seen and experienced how people so easily will persecute and misjudge things they don't yet understand, like the religious leaders of Jesus' day did with Him. It's humbling to remember we only know in part.

Jesus "taking away" our sin.......I don't take that to necessarily be in a literal sense, but spiritual, in a manner of speaking kind of way. It means our sins are remitted/forgiven....like a debt. Sometimes the Lord can and will literally remove a specific sin or sins in His wisdom and by...

Careful there brother..... 1Co 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 1Co 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the...

I'm finding it hard to follow and parse everything that is being said these days, but think I might be able to comment on this. Since we are instructed/taught to sow to the spirit and not to the flesh......it seems to me, this must mean that believers still have the ability and power to choose...

The Law contains shadows/types of spiritual things and spiritual truths......and the Old Testament and New Testament are not in opposition to one another. There IS a difference between wilful sins and unintentional or inadvertent sins, which is seen in both Old and New Testaments. The New...

I'm afraid you're overthinking it and grasping at straws in order to try and make it fit your OSAS belief. Reaping corruption is as opposed to reaping everlasting life......the two are mutually exclusive. It's either inherit eternal life or don't. Nevertheless, scriptures teach that...

Yes, I do know what is written there, but it's a general statement, not a guarantee that everyone will automatically respond. We have to look at the whole counsel of God.

There is no guarantee in Hebrews 12 brother, or anywhere. God does His part, but we also have our part and need to be willing. The bible says that if we sow to the flesh we will reap destruction. People aren't always repentant no matter what the Lord does, that is just a sad fact. There are...

Yes, the bondage/dominion of sin left you, could we say...? Sin shall no longer have dominion....praise the Lord. And amen, keeping ourselves, purifying ourselves etc.....we have our part to play, though it is by grace and not in our own strength. For example, we mortify the deeds of the...

There is a lot to consider with all these things. If you don't mind me butting into the conversation, it seems to me that sin is sin in that it all proceeds from the same main source whether wilful or inadvertent. But I do agree that the Lord treats them differently. We are covered for, and...

It becomes very simple when we separate the holy from the profane. It is governments that have the responsibility to keep order and maintain justice in the world........as Romans 13 says they are God's ministers (so to speak) for that purpose and do not bear the sword for nothing. But that is...

What I seem to observe is that after coming to Christ, we follow the same pattern as Israel.......learning and being tutored by the law until Christ is fully formed in us. The law teaches us about our lack, how we fall short in our own selves. Jesus said to the rich young ruler....."If ye...

Yes, I agree he has been completely dealt with as I was just mentioning to Mark..........but we need to walk in that reality. Most of us aren't there yet. But I believe it is possible, and we should be aiming for nothing less.