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Hi! Yes, I mentioned this verse in my second paragraph. Believing without seeing gains the special "blessing" of being in the sonship of Christ, and inheriting the new heaven.

Hi, and thanks for your replies. It's my belief Jesus could see the face of God Jhn 6:46.

Surely, it would suffice us to see the Father, but that would not be faith, and if one cannot be satisfied without seeing Him yet, one will never be satisfied; because it would not be faith that sees Him, but our flesh! We should be most encouraged just to know that the Father is ours and we are...

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ” (Eph 1:3). Here the Apostle Paul unfolds the blessing of believers according to the purpose of the Father, and therefore their highest blessings. In this great...

Appreciate you sharing this, and showing the strength you have in Christ. It's enough for our encouragement to know we're saved and on our way up, and that nothing can change this. We think on this, while we go through our courses of trials, and we are taught by the Spirit to respond the way we...

“That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man; ye have put off the old man” (Eph 4:22; Col 3:9). What exactly is “putting off the old man”? It’s not sending it away, for it remains constant with us. To put off someone means not to attend to what they are saying, like putting...

Amen! God doesn't replace us with His Son, but desires our personal character (in our new man) that He gave us. This is where the fellowship is, personally with the soul and its character.

This one is special to my heart! “The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love” (Jer 31:3). God cannot be otherwise than He is. All of our Father’s actions are perfectly free. His first act, as Paul tells us, was His purpose of the incarnation...

God knew man was going to be a sinner, which answers to His provision for a way out of our sin—which is the Cross of Christ—His only Begotten! His desire for others to come to Him comes from the fact that He made us to be incarnate, and knew we would have a carnal, sinful nature, which is used...

This is the basis for growth—to be so occupied with Christ, as to forget self! While told to reckon ourselves dead, we are looked upon as already dead in Christ. How is this? Christ is looked upon as coming down into the place of death, that there, where I was without stirring, Christ might be...

In experiencing sin and hatred, people who want to know and love God can, by knowing and understanding His love and holiness. This is what the Tree brought, without which man would not even know good and evil, just wright and wrong. He knew most would not choose to love Him (Mat 7:13, 14), but...

God condemned man, but that was just the beginning of what His love would show! His intended purpose was not only to condemn, but also to save; and without being guilty of sin man would have never been a part of God’s plan to be in Him, and Him in us. Whatever it takes, we should be willing to...

No comment, and one can believe what they want concerning this issue without salvific affect. God bless!

The place of the Christian is free from sin's guilt and dominion, but not from the old man's presence, which harasses and continues it's temptations, but to no avail against the believer. No clouds of fear or doubt that any opposition (self, Satan and society) can use to discourage.

The sin is still present, there, in the "old man," until it is removed. God forgives us our sins, but not the old man, which to me is a permanent spot in our nature, and undeniable. What He removes from us is the guilt and dominion of sin, but the sinner is still there, and He lovingly guides...

God makes everything right—always—no matter what, if you’re a believer. Believers are continually being brought to the sense of their wrong, in order that they would know what not to do, in their repentance; We are also brought to the sense of God’s love in order to know what to do (Rom 2:4)...

Hi, and like your post! Yes, service for God is precious, and is why He is always providing to us His guidance enablement (when we seek it) to reach the lost, and strengthen the saved. God be blessed!!

The believer is never in trouble with God! Everything he goes through is for learning, and never punishment; “For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth” (Heb 12:6). Chastening out of love is God’s way, and not out of man’s anger, for they “chastened us...

The trials and testing of the believer in Christ are ever ongoing and can be quite daunting, but never “grievous” or “troublesome” (1Jo 5:3; Jn 14:1, 27). They may at time seem so but they’re really not, because it’s only God’s way of maturing us in our faith when we exercise it in the Word...

No deeper truth could be uttered than is expressed in the words of Christ, “Ye in Me (by the baptism of the Spirit), and I in you” (by the Spirit’s regeneration – Jn 14:20). That this and all similar truth is wholly foreign to the OT is obvious. Many fail to recognize the vast distinctions...