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A Christian is not to be under the law of Moses. Being under grace means a change from doing things in our own strength to being empowered by the Spirit...to worship God in the Spirit. This whole bent of doing Judaism has been done away with in Christ. Look instead to what the spiritual...

I've run into this sort of thing a number of times. The Napoleons of the church. Demagogues...religious tyrants... despots and martinets...for Christ? Petty kingdoms of men. These think it is THEIR church and not Christ's. They only recognize one ministry....their own. All else must be subdued...

So then besides abstaining from meat sacrificed to idols and avoiding sexual immorality what changes from the council of Jerusalem (Acts 15) would you suggest are binding on modern believers?

A change in the priesthood necessitates a change in the law. We have gone from a earthly ministry to a heavenly one. Heb. 7:12 For of the priesthood being changed, from necessity a change of Law also takes place. The holiness laws of Moses have been changed into an abiding in Christ. The...

Your post is very interesting...and I like it in part. I agree with your assessment of importance of the oneness of God. Your approach is needful and helpful to growth into Christ. But a revelation of the indwelling Christ? I half agree. If Christ is living in us...then we are to walk without...

I have not yet figured out how much it goes by desire...faith or how much God thinks we can handle. I think we need to spend some time to let each lesson sink in before proceeding to the next level.

A Christian is always at war...with the flesh, the world (and the cares of this world) and the devil. The war with Amalek is perpetual indeed. But there is victory as soon as we enter into Jesus...who knew no sin and overcame this world. The Lord Jesus is our refuge away from this world. In His...

The Holy Spirit works in our lives without necessarily telling us how He works in the lives of others. Having the Spirit in our lives does NOT make us teachers of others. We can have a testimony of God working in us according to our own needs and training...but without seeing the bigger picture...

HMM...I think it's more like the more we get to know ourselves...and who God is...the more we realize how far away we are from the Lord. We begin to see the contrast and the scale of that contrast. But there is a walk in such intimacy...through the keeping power of God so that one's life is...

Amen brother and well put. :) But no matter how we came to know the grace of God we have to come into a new humility and teachability. We have but begun to grow into something resembling Christ in His full stature. I fear that many who have perhaps begun in grace but have taken this as a new...

LOL I love you sister as you know...you are special one to me. :D I was busy yesterday as I am on most Thursdays (studio day) so I missed the dynamic. I was tired last night and went to bed early. But I'm rested now! :) I appreciate your thoughts and concern, I do. I know that failure is the...

It's like being shown what it is you're going after. How did Paul know what was the high calling in Christ? God had shown Him and let him try it on for size. If I hadn't walked where I did (In Zion) I wouldn't know the truth of what we are called to in Christ. I would just have my own standard...

I see it like big breaths and little breaths. A big breath is going in and out of the Spirit over long periods of time. Then there are the little breaths...the little things, like revelations, or miracles in the moment. Like when you feel a peace of the Lord come over you. So we give thanks for...

But to feed one needs real food...not a purely dogmatic reasoning that has no life in it. We feed on His life (blood). The dogmatic food I call "dog" food. Not fit for human consumption. Yet so many feed on it. But they feed the inner dog in themselves. A human being needs to feed on an actual...

LOL...A beautiful example of someone contradicting themselves in the very thing they err in.

How about...it becomes automatic through a lot of practice and trials! :) It's like playing a musical instrument. At one point your musical sensibilities become highly tuned...without effort. But behind that seeming ease is a LOT of experience and practice.

Our effort is always to enter into the close fellowship with God. The righteousness we are learning is quite automatic. We have been changed because we have been with Jesus. No, not trying to perfect ourselves by laws and techniques. Our righteousness is as an afterglow of His righteousness...

This idea begins well and then drops into a fallacy. Crucifixion is not a revelation...but an experience of God that must be entered into in real life. It is God operating on us...as Paul said by the operation of God...not the revelation of a doctrine. Col. 2:12 Buried with him in baptism...

We are learning to be righteous in our own lives. The time IN the Spirit helps us to have the courage and potential to do well when the Spirit is not in control. IOW we begin to act as Jesus even when we are not IN the Spirit. So we become dyed in the wool servants of God and righteousness...

Eating and drinking Christ represents that we partake of His life both in the visible (tangible) things represented by the visible flesh ....and the invisible (intangible) things represented by what we can't see such as the flow of blood (life) in a body. If we only do those things that are...