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Presently, the Lord Jesus is the sole Human without sin, but soon “when He shall appear,” the believers “shall be like Him,” because they “shall see Him as He is” (1Jhn 3:2). “Like Him” in being “without sin,” for sin was imputed to Him when He first appeared in the humiliation of His earthly...

Poster’s (NC) Pro-log: “There is proof in the pudding,” but for faith, belief is not in the proof but in the source of the proof. Belief by faith only, or by proof, it will be one or the other, but once proof is established there is no longer place for belief by faith only. The growth for the...

The preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom by John the Baptist and the Messiah laid upon the chosen nation, Israel, the demand for a decision. This demand was openly present in all the early preaching of the Kingdom Gospel. The imperatives were “repent,” “believe,” “receive,” “confess,” and...

It sounds very easy and simple to say, “You must not be self-centered, you must be occupied with Christ,” but it is not always so easy to act on this oft-repeated advice. Some of the most acute spiritual distress that I have met with has been in souls who were most anxious to be “occupied with...

One of the most significant lessons to learn in the first flush of our rebirth is that though we possess the Spirit of God we will not be readily equipped with the necessary knowledge to receive mature direction from Him until there is an ample amount of time in Word-study. One can possess...

It may be accepted that all believers, to one degree or another, have desires after holiness. But a Christian who is trying to be holy is legal*; working on himself to get something out of himself*, and thus far leaving out the Lord Jesus. Until what He has done for him and what he is in Him...

When the world put the Lord Jesus to death, the sentence of death was put on all that is in it; but we have complete deliverance out of it. The Lord Jesus took me down into death on the Cross. In Him I came out the other side, as dead to the flesh and the world*. I have got a new position where...

Faith is resting on the known mind of the Father which He has communicated, assured that whatever be the difficulties in the way of its fulfillment, or however great the opposition, it will ultimately be established. If everything here were in full uninterrupted righteousness, there would be no...

Considering the significance in the meaning of the above terms, I believe it would good to note the difference between them. Sanctification is a single work and is synonymous with holiness, which is to identify someone or something that belongs to God, which He has set apart for His pleasure...

I would not hesitate to say that “the Book of Life” and the writing of its contents had no beginning and has no ending, for it is a conception of God, and everything known by Him is from everlasting (eternity past) to everlasting (eternity future), as in Psalm 90:2. Eternity has no time but it...

Do we collate our union and fellowship with the Father and the Son according to our obedience, or according to how we are to Them in the Son? Our obedience is the result of the Father’s work in us (Phl 2:13), which never needs to address the attainment of favor (already permanent in Christ)...

All Christians traverse through the same conformation progressions, because it is the same Spirit working in them the same life of the Lord Jesus (Col 3:4). The desire to please the Lord is a two-fold progression which usually begins with our service to Him, and then we learn the superior...

“Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus . . . Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith” (Heb 10:19, 22). The Apostle does not take the stand of one in preeminent nearness himself to God, inviting others to draw nigh, as though...

Why does the Lord Jesus (and the writers of the NT) express a variance in significance between the revelation to the OT saints and that to the NT saints? It is because the prior led to the latter and the contrast between them enhances the importance of each, with the Gospel revelation being...

Of the New Creation it is written, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor 5:17). “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature” (2 Cor 6:15). A...

There is no disappointment as we contemplate the Lord Jesus. If you are sometimes disappointed, it is because you are looking at yourself, and reasoning from yourself to God upward, searching into your own heart to find some good reason why He should bless you, and troubled because you cannot...

[Thank you to the CB staff for the nice, new look!] The most effective service is to stand openly for God when the opposition is at its height. “When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.” To stand for God when there in no one to...

No worthy student of the Bible would question that God has a sovereign purpose or that all things are working toward the realization of that purpose. But it must be acknowledged as well from such passages as Rom 12:1, 2; Gal 5:16; Eph 4:30; 1 Thess 5:19 and 1 John 1:9 that the appeal is to the...

We do not give flight to faith, but rather it gives flight to us. As air gives flight to the eagle’s wings (flight is impossible in a vacuum), so is faith (impossible without the Word of God) moved by the Spirit of God within the believer. Faith never originates from within but always from...

The grace “through faith” (Eph 2:8) cannot be altered concerning its place within the believer (Rom 11:29), but concerning the oppression (dominance) from the sin nature, the believer can live under its effects, but only unnecessarily so. It is only a matter of time until this opposition (Rom...