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There's the issue. A lot of people read the bible but very few actually go to Jesus in order to receive of His kind of life.

We tend to fail the grace of God because we don't go far enough. We give up before we succeed with God. But Jacob wrestled all night to get the victory. And Jesus tells us to be like woman who knocks all night until the goodman rises to see her. Ask, seek and knock! We fail the grace of God...

The rest is waiting for us when we go through the narrow door. Getting there is very hard. Just when we are having the hardest time of it...peace is there. So then God comforts us. And that is why I see self-comfort as so deceptive.

Grace is a gift that enables us to do things...not to be forgiven things. Quite the opposite. We will be judged harder under grace. Mercy is not the same as grace. God has always been merciful...but grace comes from the resurrection power of Christ. I explain grace like this. We are told to...

The bible is there to warn people. Nothing personal. God doesn't respect persons. So if you disobey God...you are cursed. God is not going to change the law so you can escape the ramifications. it is on us to fear and depart. So God warns us over and over again. The answer is to fear and depart...

Humans don't usually care about truth...they care about their children. But God always judges with justice. So right off the bat by comparing people to God you are going to get things backwards. God is not like us...at all. Did God hate His children for no cause? Did He not reject national...

Hebrews 4:1-11 4 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. I think that the bible writers of that day would be shocked at the state of the modern church. Do we even know what entering into rest means? Ceasing...

Amen. Speak the truth...but do so in love. It seems that the church is split over doing one or the other....but without that balance. So then you have the "love" churches that champion gay rights; and then there are the cold hearted "truth" churches that bash the other kind. So we end up...

A lot of people are declaring themselves saved. It's a modern fad. But it's all very subjective. The goal of faith in Christ is to be a light to the world. But because people are selfish (can a person be selfishly saved? ) what matters to them is security...at least the feeling of...

The Subversion of Christianity by Jacques Ellul...and so many others. Watchman Nee...

The purity of Christ is a gift...all at once. We have all the grace He has for us when we abide in Him. But maturity is progressive IF we are learning from our experience. And we grow in righteousness if we can remain humble. So then everything is at either the level of what we are doing (our...

I'm talking about the modern rabbinic mindset concerning the laws post temple. The rabbis don't condemn Jews for not practicing every law...since they can't...no temple. So they have opted for a "more is better" but not necessary approach. It is identical to the evangelical model of..."do what...

To bring us to what state? To bring us under grace where there is the power over sin? Or that we continue to live in our own power and just expect to be covered for our sins?

The "I'm doing the best I can" under grace...is not what grace is for. Everybody is doing the best they can. Grace is meant to make all the difference...to do things that are impossible to do for regular human beings. But have we really tapped into the eternal life and power? Are we really...

The issue is always going to be...in what capacity will you live eternally? A person can survive a war and be blind, and a paraplegic.....but is still saved. I think it is very simplistic to see salvation as only one thing...without looking at the choices we make.

Humility dictates that we see our failure ...that we have failed grace...as the Jews before us failed the law. That's the point of it. It is the exception that makes it through to God...not the rule. A remnant. A very small remnant. So by exposing people to the truth it allows the remnant to...

Now I think that most believers today would agree that the Jews failed at fulfilling the law...even while holding it out to mankind. But did they fail the law because they were just too busy doing others things...like chariot racing? or... did they fail in their direct attempt...a very...

To understand God's ways one has to realize that we are offered choices and that there are both good and bad outcomes for everything. So there is life and death. Now a believer has passed from death to life. So that's the first level. But then there is also after that blessing and cursing...

It only seems like that to someone who is very far to a far rightist religious ideology that has no actual contact with God at all...just a book about Him to be exploited for the self-seeking bent in the fallen nature.

You can tell what realm you belong to by your convictions. If you entangle yourself in the affairs of this world...then you are OF this world. The kingdom of God is not of this world. Avoid politics IF you are of Christ. Otherwise you will be entangled in the carnal futility of politics...