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Amen once again and thank you for the quote. :) Yes, the cost of the pearl of great price. We only find (or are found of) the Lord when we seek with ALL our heart. Peace and blessings <><

Death is necessary to unlock the life...but it is not the death of Jesus that saves us...but His resurrection. Just like it isn't our beliefs in Christ that justify us but walking in His resurrection life. Jesus died for the sins of the whole world whether we like it or not. But He was RAISED...

Amen! I hope you don't mind if I use your quoted sentence in an upcoming publication! :) One small point. Our perfection is only found as we abide in Him...having been crucified in the outer man. (Not the Old Man as He is dead through the new birth in the Spirit) The Old Man...I see as the...

Great comments Lizbeth...I was particularly struck by this you wrote... "Until then we're really building on top of the carnal nature, not the foundation of Christ, and that's what makes us "religious" and unloving, judgmental, suspicious of others, etc." We are to build on our childlike inner...

An important foundation in understanding the deeper implications of who Jesus is and what He came to accomplish. Are we walking in the 4th dimension of a spiritual kingdom realm in eternal life? Or have we gone the other way and reduced our walk to a 2 dimensional dogmatic level where we see...

Most believers will never walk in the Spirit. This idea of a "saved" status has destroyed the race of faith for many. People are now taught that entering into the wilderness walk (by an initial grace) is all there is...no Promised Land on this side of eternity. Only those who are called by God...

Jesus said that very few would be able to enter into the narrow way and walk the narrow path. Of course, that doesn't make much sense to the modern believer since most people walk in their own power and just claim that they are doing so on a level that is equivalent with the very righteousness...

The Bible says..."work out your own salvation with fear and trembling?" Phil. 2:12 Also that we can be cut as easily or more easily than the Israelites in the wilderness...who were almost all rejected. "For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee." Rom...

1. Jesus died for the sins of the whole world. 2. He became the sin of ALL men. 3. The only way that you are making that about you is merely to CLAIM it is for you personally 4. That puts you as the one who decides you are saved. The truth is that receiving the gift of grace gives you the power...

Actually, not so much. In between the words for THE (article) faithful and THE (article) saints is the conjunction "kai" which means "and". We are called to be saints...as in, the high calling. But we can be faithful in what God has given to us. Not only the saints are saved. These are...

This without question. Whoever GOD makes clean is clean. However, in your scheme you would have being made clean by people rather than God. There is a big difference between being made clean by God and being made clean by our own decision to believe or not. Notice what you wrote..."See, every...

Actually, Jesus died for ALL of the sins of the whole world. It is very wrong to take the fulness of what Jesus did for oneself. Only God can forgive and justify.

I think we confuse OT forgiveness with NT grace. God has always been merciful....and He forgives. NT grace however is where we are empowered to live in a way where we no longer need forgiveness...since we are waling in the love of God. Where there is remission (freedom) of sins there is no...

There is an Old Testament grace and a New Testament grace. This video explores the difference.

Nancy you are always in my prayers. :) May you find an even higher purpose than that which you have ever known. The Lord guide you and direct your steps. <><

I'm going with the gospel. Must we reduce God to what we are? Is that what you are suggesting. Do you think you have arrived at the pinnacle of Christ-likeness? And yet such is the will of God. Do you believe we are to walk by faith...or by what we can do by the power of the flesh? What do we...

Through grace we are made able to walk as Jesus walked.,..without spot or wrinkle of sin. New Covenant grace is the power of God us-ward who believe... INTO Jesus, By abiding in Him we overcome as He overcame the flesh, the world and the devil.

It wasn't so much poor theology as corrupt practice. Luther had his own issues that he wanted to model into the church...not from God but from his own issues. So then the bad theology came into the Reformation in the guise of reforming bad practices.

There are two levels to be understood here. There is a huge difference between a godly man and a man of God. It is good to be wise but God hides His ways from the wise. Wisdom is on more than one level....hochmah and toushiyah. The latter is an eternal wisdom of which the first is only a part...