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Amen. See, by this I see that the man knew God and His power...and wasn't just an indoctrinated dogmatic religiously converted man. Amen again! If something is true...we can seek the Lord for the experience of it. If we do it by faith...without being double-minded...we can experience the...

2 Cor. 2:14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

Being dead to sin goes beyond just not doing as the world does. According to the Lord, the religious person can become more sinful even than the world based on pride, judgmentalism, and taking on a mocking spirit. We can take on a false covering. We all have an inner man...and some of us even...

Alzheimers is no joke...

Don't be swayed here by a false understanding. The parables are about the COST of having the truth. We are to BUY the truth and sell it not. Prov. 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. Jesus says to buy eye salve. He says that the ones who have...

We see a LOT of flesh being molly-coddled in the modern church based on a false idea of "fellowship". Sure the flesh can get along when it is directed...entertained... catered to. But take away the entertainment..the distractions... the abundance...and you will see the true nature of people come...

I agree with that. But the love is between inner man and inner man. We are not to love the "Esau" in another. We are not to love the hell in one another..we are to love the hell OUT of them. If we only love those who love us is that love??? A real love is sacrificial in nature. It does what is...

It is a honour to be hated and rejected by the religious mob. That's what happened to Jesus and all the prophets. ALL who live godly in Christ will be thus hated and scorned.

The wheat and the tares... That's a different parable...actually a two-tiered parable based on first the righteous, and then the saints.

You are seeing the effect of a person having penetrated into the kingdom realm and then being hated for it by the religious mob. If we receive a prophet in the name of a prophet we get a prophet's reward. If we receive a righteous person in the name of a righteous person we get a righteous...

No ticket. Only the foolhardy believe that twaddle. No religious scheme comes from God. My love for all here lies in the fact that I suffer the abuse of many to try helping them to escape the coming judgment of God. No one will point the finger at me on that day and say...you weren't adamant...

I don't see where the filed is the world in this parable. Having found the treasure the man HID it..and went and bought the filed that the treasure is found in. This is akin to a man learning about the risen Lord...and surrendering all to God to enter into the realm where the risen Lord abides...

An empty gift is like a cloud without rain. No love, no humility, no surrender, no fear of the Lord...just religious hubris. The lawless among believers will claim to have done many wonderful things in the name of Jesus. Why not having operated in the gifts? But God is looking for an eternal...

The initial grace...yes. The sample. This turns us away from wickedness...but does not protect us against the iniquity of pride and self-justification. God is waiting to see what we will do with what we have been given The rich spoiled ones will judge others as they have always done. They will...

I'm not seeing a clear explanation to the parable here. Jesus says to "buy the field" in the parable. What is the field we buy??? We buy access into the eternal realm...given "eye salve" so that we have the spiritual faculty to walk in an eternal consciouness. The pearl is Christ who dwells with...

This is just part of the indoctrination that has no basis in the biblical narrative. There is no free ticket. There is God's mercy...that depends on whether you also have mercy. Read the parable about the man who was forgiven his debts...but who didn't forgive the debt that was owed to him. You...

First....be born again in the inner man. Then ....go to God for a full measure of grace by being baptized in the Spirit. Then .....go to God for a deeper work of the cross by losing the outer man...being disconnected from him through being crucified with Christ (the full power of the cross)...

These are kingdom parables. The field is the kingdom realm...the pearl of great price is the intimacy one finds there with the living God. We sell all (the outer man) to be permitted entry into the higher walk...experienced by a liberated inner man. He came to set the captives free.

In all the religious hubris in being shown an initial grace...people tend to forget what Jesus said...His parables, His warnings. All of it thrown out by a new "justified" status that many feel needs to be vigourously defended AGAINST the parables and teachings of Christ. It is not about who...

This is actually very basic and fundamental to our own understanding of the gospel. The gospel was always meant to be preached to the poor....not the rich, not the smug. It is not meant to further bolster the religious aspirations of the outer man. But the outer man is a leech on the potential...