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This is false of course. (not the love part) The answer to our flesh problems is the cross of Christ and abiding in His power and life...NOT by just ignoring these thinking that God has become blind to sin. I can only imagine the shock of so many believers that think they can get away with sin...

In this statement the emphasis should be on the number 4...as in the 4 angels and the 4 spirits (winds) mentioned along with the 4 "corners" as in Rev. 7:1. There are many such references to the 4 ends of the earth...the 4 winds (rouach or spirits)...etc. So to keep the mysteries available to...

It is a true saying that the carnal nature seeks for gratification. Self-satisfaction takes many forms. The least desirable of these forms is the religious tendency to look for a justification for remaining in a sinful state. Why do this (shortchanging the faith) when Jesus has won the victory...

During our sanctification? What are you talking about? A sanctified person doesn't sin. There is no process of sanctification. It is a gift of grace from God...not by works or labour lest any man should boast. Entering into Christ is done at one time...just like the baptism of the Spirit and...

It is a common error to attribute a consecration of oneself to God with holiness. But these are as different as heaven is from earth. Can we rob Christianity of it's fundamental supernatural element and rest on the works of men?

Mature people perhaps...but not mature Christians. The tendency towards sin is done away with when we bring ourselves to be crucified with Christ...then it is the works of Christ that take place...away from sin. There is a maturity in THAT life...that is the Christian maturity. A maturity that...

What is finished is the perfected humanity of Jesus...given to they who are crucified with Him in the form of grace power to walk as Jesus walked. Now all that remains to do is for people to surrender their lives to be crucified with Christ so that HIS life is made manifest in these mortal...

The bible relates Christians as ESPECIALLY saved....not exclusively saved. So there is room for God to declare a man or woman righteous who doesn't know the spiritual walk in Christ. If the church could just understand the difference between righteousness and holiness....we could take more than...

For God so loved the world...not just a particular nation....or people. Now how and why would God redeem some sinners but not others? All people are in the world are they not? We all need a Saviour. As usual people will take this to extremes....as in...only Christians are saved....or else ALL...

Is God imaginary to you? God does have His time. And we are to wait on the Lord for His time in all things.

If we consider that these words of Jesus were meant to convey how hard it is for a rich person...like ourselves...from entering into the kingdom of God...then we can't miss the meaning for it being how easy it is for us for us rich Westerners to be saved. Although we do just that! Then it is a...

A very reasonable approach. :) Once we start inventing "biblical" meanings for the words of the bible....we are well on the way to subversion of the biblical message. A case in point is with the word "impute". The "biblical interpretation" method makes the word to mean the very opposite of...

So you think Paul continued to kill Christians as a sideline?

In our time the standard of Christianity has been lowered into what people can do in their own strength...not what grace can do in a person. It is seen as offensive to many to post about the victory in Christ. The good news is for they who are weak in need of strength...a strength made...

It is...I was blind but now I see. I was a sinner but now I walk by grace. But this standard seems out of reach for many. I think that the standard has been lowered to accommodate people...rather than the people lifted into God's holy standard.

Being "dead to self" is not by a human effort...it is a gift of God...by grace. At that point what seems "normal" has nothing to do with what we once found to be normal. We do things quite instinctively as we have always done until we question what we are living by. But it is good to question...

Now can we be justified IN our indulgences? Yes...God is merciful. All is possible with God...since even children innocently indulge their fleshly whims. But we can never justify our indulgences before the Lord. God can justify a person in the flesh if that person's heart is righteous. Then it...

When one is crucified with Christ, the desires of the flesh are nailed to the cross. If a person is Christ's (in ownership) then his flesh is crucified...out of the way...so that he might serve the Lord fully...without need to indulge his own desires. No longer I but Christ. Now Jesus NEVER...

The Lord has been putting this subject on my heart lately. I think that this is an important subject and necessary to understand properly for any kind of spiritual maturity. Now we all indulge our flesh to some degree and at some point if we are walking in our own strength. There are different...

Every one does works. It is just a matter of what kind they are. There is no such a thing as a person who is void of works...who just sits there and does nothing, says nothing, or thinks nothing. So then the whole works thing is a strawman argument. :) Our works reveal our hearts and our ways...