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This article has a bit more comprehending difficulties than most of the others I’ve posted. If you encounter enough difficulty (in which it took me a bit to get it all), please feel at complete liberty to bring it up for discussion, which of-course is the same for any material I post. From...

I dare say the Lord has a distinct purpose in allowing you to be placed in so many new circumstances, that you are to be emptied from vessel to vessel. A person in nature gets used to one set of circumstances, but really in grace there is a novelty in every step of the way; and it is because...

What is your definition of "the Law?" If you mean the TC'S (Law of Moses), only the Hebrew/Jew had to die to it, which is what occurs at rebirth. Mankind is under the curse of "the law of sin," which was incurred to mankind from Adam (Rom 5:12). This law of sin has its force from God's command...

The Lord Jesus is always more concerned with what He can do for us, rather than what we can do for Him (Luke 10:40-42). The desire of worship and service to Him and the Father is sought and returned (John 4:23, 24), and if the intention is out of debt (which there is none), the full work and...

There is much difficulty today in the sharing of the Law’s dispensation and is understandably so, because of the teachings of our upbringing in the knowledge of Christ. I believe the focus on the present dispensation is the life of Christ (Col 3:4), which those prior to the giving of the Law...

Much confusion has come about by a failure to distinguish the principle of law and the dispensation of the law. Paul makes a number of statements about the passing away of the law, such as, “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth” (Rom 10:4). And in 2...

The Pauline doctrine of the true spiritual Church is second only in importance to the doctrine of salvation by grace. That salvation of which he wrote leads to and provides the supernatural material out of which the true Church is formed. The two taken together constitute what the Apostle...

Not that God would have it done any other way in which it has been done, but if all men in the OT were as Abraham and others who He used, there would have been no need of the Mosaic Law which came after them. When all of them were brought to, and convinced of their indwelling sin, they chose to...

To me, the most significant misunderstanding in contemporary Christendom concerning the Law is that it was never intended for Gentiles, this was to show the world God chooses people to be separate (Hebrews/Jews first) to Him, which He shows now in Christianity; from being separated from the...

God never intended for man to keep the Law, it was His way of revealing to man, not only His requirement for fellowship, but also the inability (even if desiring to) of the creature to do so. Perfect obedience to His will cannot be accomplished in the creature (man), in who dwells the sin...

Maturity of the believer is measured, not in his position in reference to sin's guilt, which is all settled at rebirth, but in his liberation from sin's oppression, which will be commensurate with the level of God dependence! -NC Heavenly Dependence The calling and position of the believer...

Note: Scriptural doctrine materials (below) from circa 1600’s through the late 1800’s can be initially misunderstood due to the antiquity of the syntax, and therefore patience is recommended for understanding and receiving the intended instruction. -NC First Work, Sins—Second Work, Sin It...

It is both interesting and edifying to observe the suffering which each servant is passed through before he is fit to enter on God’s purpose for him—be it an Abraham, a David, a Stephen or a Paul; their sufferings and exercises in a way indicated the goal, or their promotion. Each of them had a...

Once that faith in God, guided by His Word, became the power and light for the walk of the saint on earth, from that time every visible thing or judgment of man, when entertained, weakened and diverted him from the path of faith. It is important for us, as saints of God, to be assured of the...

Sorry for the title but I don't know how to edit it, which should be "No Turning Back!" There was a time for the “tutoring” of the way to Christ (Gal 3:24) among whom God knew the generality of those instructed would not move on to its completion. For those He knew would (Jewish Christians)...

Among the identities of the Christian, which are faith, holiness, righteousness, justification, sanctification, etc., faith is the only attribute which is not a constant. Upon regeneration (rebirth) by the Holy Spirit the believer is holy, righteous, justified and sanctified, which are states of...

It is important to distinguish life and the Spirit, as the two are quite distinct. The new life which the believer receives in Christ is not God, though of Him; but the Holy Spirit is very God. The believer’s life is a new creation, while the Holy Spirit is the Creator. It is not because we...

Let us look at the difference between Israel entering the land, and the man in Christ. Everything depended upon their act. They must go in and possess the land. True, God brought them in, but they had to act in order to possess, and those who went in without faith did not remain possessors...

Wishing all a joyous Thanksgiving and Holidays! What did the Turkey say when it was angry with the computer? Google, Google, Google!!! God Be Blessed! For the one who is brought to God by the Gospel, and planted in the liberty wherein Christ makes free before the Father, it is no more a...

Not by His life, not by His example, not by His teachings, not by His miracles, did the Lord Jesus bring the devil to naught. But, as the Word says, “He partook . . . of blood and flesh, that through death He might bring to naught him that had the might of death, that is, the devil” (Hew 2:14)...