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Firstly, you forgot the context of the Pauline statement was the prohibition against immorality--he is warning that if they choose to live in immorality, the God Who is supplying His Spirit will be upset, and will not continue supplying them His Spirit. Same as John says: 1 John 3 23This is...

Our "salvation" is like the Jews' "salvation" from Egypt--yet, after, they sinned. so they fell under God's wrath, anyway, and they forfeited the promise God made to them. 1 Corinthians 9 26Therefore I run in such a way as not to run aimlessly; I box in such a way, as to avoid hitting air...

1. No, that's not the question. Many say "faith alone", then, to uphold that in the face of the obvious reality you must do good works, they say "good works automatically flow from faith". That is what I reject, based on the aforementioned Scripture. 2. No, believers are not "sin-less" before...

"God works in you", therefore "obey" (Php 2:12,13). If that were not the case, Christians could never sin. "Good works automatically happen for a saved person" isn't in Scripture. It's a myth the "faith alone" crowd need to shoehorn in to uphold "faith alone".

Everyone knows the difference between the Old and New Covenants, and how "this He spoke of the Spirit which had not yet been given because He had not yet been glorified"--and, yet, God is "the same yesterday, today, and forever", and Paul cited those very same "OC" Scriptures to teach Christians...

As Paul says, those things were written for OUR instruction (1 Co 10). Only those who abide are supplied with Spirit. Only those who obey abide. This is all in 1 Jn 3. 1 Jn 2:28 warns the little children to remain, and 1 Jn 5:21 tells us what draws them away :idolatry. When people don't...

When God is at work in you, and you walk accordingly, you walk in God's righteousness (Ro 1:16; Php 2:12,13). God is righteous, not "desperately wicked". If you walk in doubt, you sin and are condemned (Ro 14:5,23).

Edit: That prophecy seems to be about the Bride of Christ, the Church, which is comprised of both Jew and Gentile (Rev 21:9+).

Actually, it was the Jews who did that--they cause the Name of God to be blasphemed among the nations by their unrighteousness (Ro 2). They are "displeasing to God and hostile to all men" (1 Th 2:15), just as their Talmud reveals how they detest non-Jews: The Tanya Ch 1 - Likutei Amarim The...

New Creation = New Sabbath

Paul said Gentile believers, who did not know the Law, qualified as "doers of the Law" (Romans 2:14, 15, 26, 27). How did that happen if God expects Christians to serve Him by the Law?

How does answer any of the statements I made? 1. David asked for God not to remove His Spirit, Paul warns that God will remove His Spirit from the immoral, John says only those who abide in Christ, by obeying His command, the twofold Law of Faith (1. Believe in the Name of God's Son, and 2...

Well, I knew God, too, but was still terrified by the Scriptures. I had/have a background that fosters that sort of perception. And if I'm to say "I believe God--by believing God's Word", but, then, I listen to men's encouragements, "it's OK", but they don't really believe Scripture, because...

It's good that you do not fear, I only disagree with how you arrive there. I need real firm foundations--the idea that people cannot be lost after they're saved isn't, for me, a firm foundation, since I do not read anything of the sort in Scripture (and I, in fact, read the very opposite); I am...

@marks God loves us, and gave His Son to be tormented/punished in place of the torment that would otherwise be ours on account of our sins. We should remember that and "do not permit your hearts to be troubled" by the fear of punishment/torment.

The issue of "fear" is important: "fear" characterizes the "slavery" (Ro 8:15) of those "under Law" (the Law produces slaves Gal 4:23,24), and this arrangement is called "the flesh" (Ro 8:3; Gal 3:3), so, if we're threatening to steal the glory (in that we are relying on the flesh under such...

Through talking with other Christians, I have received the grace of prayer, and, through that, have received many answers I could not find without praying. I think discussion is integral, but not because others have answers, it's just the grace they have that opens my eyes.

1. Sealed--that's why it says not to grieve the Holy Spirit, so He doesn't leave. 2a. It's Paul who said "obey for it is God at work in you"--obey the working of God. When Christians sin, they're not obeying that working. 2b. No, "obedience" is not "obey the Gospel message", it has to do with...

Already showed you 1 Co 9:27-1 Co 10, and you had no answer.

You said some things concerning the phrase, I responded.