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And yet all that people come away with is that they are now saved? saved to what?

That is the test of faith. With God all things are possible. We can do all things through Christ who gives us His grace. So God indeed asks us to do the impossible...but only what is impossible for men to do with their own strength without grace. So your reasoning ignores grace. You are still...

I can't engage you in matters concerning the New testament as I believe you have not entered into that kind of life and understanding. You are stuck in the OT and what the flesh can do...and how God deals with mankind OUTSIDE of Christ. The fact that you only see Gentiles entering in by the...

The bible never says that ..."without holiness none shall live." It's about seeing God or not. The minimum criteria for salvation is righteousness not holiness. And this is a righteousness that speaks of an honesty and transparency as well as a fear of the Lord. Very few will be qualified to...

That's not what "All Israel" means. Not all are Israel who are of Israel (according to the flesh). The Christian Gentiles coming into the commonwealth of Israel is the completion of Israel.....God's Israel...(not man's political entity) to fill in what is lacking by appealing to every tribe...

A gospel of salvation is a focus on mankind. But a gospel of the kingdom of God.... is God oriented. So which of these did Jesus preach? What about Paul?

There are those who say "if the good news is not for everyone, then it isn't good news". But this is according to the will of carnal men....who just won't hear anything that doesn't edify the flesh. But we know that the good news is for those who have faith. They may be poor, persecuted and...

It should be remembered that the difference between a good report of the promised land and an evil report of it was based on either having faith in God to do what seems impossible...or not. Had the good spies actually conquered the land yet? no. Had the bad spies been defeated yet? no. But...

Jesus Christ is both the cornerstone AND a stumbling-block. The land is BOTH flowing with milk and honey where WE eat of it's goodness AND a place that eats US up. It's both a place of victory AND defeat. Hence the opposing testimonies to the land. The test of the mystery of faith is that it is...

Many today believe that God loves Gentiles more than the original people of God the Jews. These think that God makes things easier for us than He did for them. That somehow we are more lovely or desirable to God than they were. That somehow we are better or wiser than they who missed the mark in...

What part does the Spirit play in all this? What part are we to play? The people in the wilderness were LED by the Spirit even while they had not yet entered into the land. A cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night guided the people so that they followed after these when they moved on from...

The wilderness church. Now we are called not only to come out of the world but also to come into the promised rest of God. We are called out in order to strive to enter in. We are saved away from death in order to enter the race for life. Hardly anyone is allowed to see the promised land...

The English translation is taking liberties with the text. The Hebrew says....Chasid...as in Hasidic Jews. Are Hasidic Jews holy? Well maybe outwardly. But Chasid means to be loyal to the covenant. The Hebrew word for holy is Kadosh/ Kodesh. You will find that only God is holy. Rev. 15:4 Who...

And yet a man....Jesus ...did it. So when we enter into Him we do exactly as He did. It is like...anything that Jesus can do...I can do in Him. Did Jesus not have real physical limbs? Yet these limbs were able to walk on water because they were part of Him. The physical human feet of Jesus...

With God all things are possible. But without Jesus we can do nothing. Mankind was incapable of conforming to God's ways in holiness until Jesus came to give His life to do it with. Jesus is the way...the truth AND the life we are to abide in to fulfill all righteousness...including that which...

People in the OT sought to obey the righteousness of the law....the outward righteousness of not actually stealing, or killing people..yet inwardly people were still carnal in their thoughts and hearts. The NT life in Christ not only follows the righteousness of the law...but also the...

The NT is about the grace required to fulfill the law that was received in the OT. If there had been the sufficiency of the Spirit in the OT, then Jesus would not have had to come personally. But do we really understand why Jesus came to earth?...I mean apart from a being a better sacrifice for...

There is a big difference between receiving a law one cannot obey and receiving the grace to fulfill it apart from the law. Our job is to put it together. God provides the puzzle pieces and then shows us Christ who is the image of what we are to become. Life trumps law just as love does.

Revelation and regeneration and the need for such is not condescension. Spiritual things don't make sense in the human mind. One must see the foreshadow as well as the prophetic fulfillment. It is assumed by many that these are straightforward...yet the confusion persists in many. I'm not...

The OT was about sanctifying yourself. ...washing and putting on certain clothing and doing certain rituals. Outside things...like a temple built by human hands. In the NT the temple becomes they who enter into Christ....to have the presence of God within....as well as upon....when you consider...