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1 Co 4:20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

The obedience of faith is to continue to ask seek and knock until you are filled with the exceeding greatness of His grace power in order to walk as Jesus walked. And this is AFTER we have believed. The obedience of faith is not to justify oneself because of one's beliefs or decision. So we...

The Pharisee is the one that justifies his salvation IN his sins. The repentant one realizes that he is not doing as he should.

So then you deny the power of Christ over sin? Jesus said to ask, seek and knock, But He also said that few will be able to walk that narrow path...especially when religion tells a person that they are never going to have the same walk as Jesus did. But to abide in Christ is to walk as He...

All people are victorious IN Christ. That's the point of the gospel. The victory is to enter in. That is salvation from sin. What is false is to claim to be in Christ and also sin. So to be really gutsy and truthful....just say that you are a student trying to get into Christ. There is no...

Amen. Luther is an enemy of the cross...and people think he is a great reformer. He is in fact a Gnostic.

See you are stuck in Romans 7. The difference between you and Paul is that he was not satisfied to remain in the bondage of sin...and you have been taught that it's normal and ok. But the call of Christ is to move on into the freedom of Christ....where you are set free from that bondage. Through...

It is very difficult to be accepted INTO Christ. It takes a lot of faith and seeking the Lord. And it is the Lord who does the work of translating people into the kingdom. Now we are to encourage each other in this endeavour. The devil does NOT want any of us to penetrate into the kingdom realm...

I think it's better to call oneself a seeker or a Jesus fan rather than a disciple of Jesus if one has not known the walk in the Spirit by the blood (life) of Christ. To call Christ impure is to insult the God of grace. So it is better to fear the Lord and not try making Christ a sinful saviour...

You may be in the minority that thinks that in Christ is sin. So some of us have found the perfect saviour. You need an introduction? I think the modern church doesn't have any depth of understanding or experience of Christ when compared to the living church of the 1st century. They certainly...

People say they believe that their own righteousnesses are as filthy rags. But these same people also say they now have the righteousness of God (or of Jesus). So then does that mean they have exchanged their own filthy rags of righteousness...with it's sins...for "God's" righteousness or His...

False of course. The bible says that Jacob was "tam"...innocent of evil. And he then became "shalem"...raised to an intimate place with God. The bible says none of those things concerning Esau. So you are inventing things...or just repeating what you have been told to believe.

Do you believe in sinful grace? Do you believe that the righteousness of God is as filthy rags just like our own? So then your question should go in the unbeliever section of the forum. And that's why your kind of question doesn't get answered. You are assuming that we remain the same in...

What do you mean by eternal life? Do you have an assumption of an afterlife? Or are you experiencing the fellowship of God in Zion right now...which IS the eternal kind of life?

I call what you are disagreeing with.... baby evangelicalism. Where there is only Goldilocks or the big bad wolf. ;) Everything is seen as black and white...or binary. everything that is good...that is them. Anything that is bad...well that's for someone else. And they actually teach this stuff...

Evangelicals can't relate to James at all. But Catholics can. And that's because James is speaking about righteousness whereas evangelicals have this ingrained idea that none are righteous. And evangelicals are going after holiness...as per Paul...but missing the point of the high calling. And...

This is true by and large...but the question is the depth of it. We are not to judge anything before it's time...and that means that we must endure to the end to be saved. Most modern believers have a very superficial binary grasp on things biblical...very far from the actual training of...

This is too often taken to mean that Paul was trying to please God when he's dead...as in.... "Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him." 2 Cor. 5:9 A dead person doesn't labour. This is speaking about being in the power of the Spirit or not...in either...

But what pray tell is God asking for from us? Who is created for whom?

God is going to test everyone of the elect with fire. Some will receive a reward and be robed and others will lose everything and be eternally naked. This is the Bema judgment....for the house of God...the furnace spoken of is NOT the lake of fire. It tests the works of the brothers...of what...