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'And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope...

Hello @Backlit, Except for your reference to Abraham that I referred to, I think maybe you are actually addressing the lady who entered the OP (@1stCenturyLady), for the points you are raising relate to her entries rather than mine. I spoke as an individual believer, rather than corporately...

Hi @marks, I don't know about you but I feel like breakfast. :) Thank you Lord, for a new day. @VictoryinJesus

Hello @1srCenturyLady, God has told me in His word that in Christ Jesus I am complete: Accepted in the Beloved; Holy and without blame before Him in love. I believe that, not because it is born out in my experience, but because God has told me it is so in His word (Ephesians 1). Abraham...

Hello @soul man, Yes, I agree, and can empathise with what you are saying. How wonderful it is to have received light at all!! Like David I feel like saying, 'Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.' (Psalm 139:6) . Such thoughts lead to worship and...

Preeminent = superior to. 'Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son: In whom we have redemption through His...

Hello @soul man I also think of the words of Paul in Galatians 2:20 'I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me.' Christ is all. -...

'For He that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is His Name.' (Luke 1:49) Hello @theefaith Surely the detail is in the context in which this comes: and the statement on it's own is sufficient of itself, for it is a proclamation regarding God's might, and His Holiness, and the...

Hello @NewMusic We have every reason, considering present trends, to believe that believers would be able to communicate with and rally to help and rescue those in need, as we always have in the past. There is no lack of faith I can assure you. I know that God is able to do far more...

Hello @NewMusic, I live in the UK, and see on the news refugees fleeing from their countries of birth for many reasons, including war and conflict, and seeking asylum here. With rising sea levels, I can see the movement of people taking place both internally and abroad, who are fleeing their...

'For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in Thy sayings, and mightest overcome when Thou art judged.' (Rom 3:3) Hello @Grailhunter...

Hello @NewMusic In the light of your request that we do not discuss this further, for it could overtake the main purposes of your thread: I will only say that though it is true that you cannot prove something by a negative; you are justified in taking note of it's absence in the light of the...

Hello @Addy, Yes, it was for, 'the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him' (the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ) that Paul prayed for first: for the readers of his epistle to the Ephesians, in Ephesians 1:17+; and in both that prayer and the one that followed in...

Hello @Taken, Yes, I agree that this warning is very much needed. The role of the parent is underrated, when it is the most important role anyone can possible have. To bring up a child in the way that he/she should go. Children are handed over to teachers who are duty bound to teach to a...

Hello @Addy, By the time Paul wrote his last letter, to Timothy, he was talking in singular terms, and not corporately. It had come down to personal faithfulness to the word received: for all in Asia had deserted Paul, and presumably His message. Timothy in Ephesus, was surrounded by dispute...

Hello @MatthewG, We know that ultimately there will be a New Heaven and a New Earth, 'wherein dwelleth righteousness' (2 Peter 3:13): in which God will be all-in-all (1 Corinthians 15:28). Before that we know that Christ must reign until all enemies have been placed beneath His feet (1...

'He hath made every thing beautiful in His time: also He hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.' (Ecc 3:11) Hello @Naomi25, Thank you for your response. :) Yes, resurrection is what we all look for, I agree...

Hello @stunnedbygrace, I am glad you have responded to my post, for I began to wonder if you had me listed as one that you did not want to see posts from, because you have not responded to my previous post. :) I meant neither yourself or @MatthewG any offense: but just wanted to clarify the...