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I appreciate that brother..still love you bro! :)

What man means for evil God uses for good! :) ALL things work together for the good of they who are the called in Him. Only an all-powerful God can do that...and a loving God. Yet we mourn for those who must oppose us and hate us for the truths' sake. These are already gnashing their teeth at...

PREACHING law and Christ are indeed mutually exclusive. Most people can't understand 2 concepts at the same time. when I preach of the perfection IN Christ...many people think I'm talking about me. So these can't even track ONE subject...Christ. When we preach Christ...we are speaking far...

2 Corinthians 3:6 6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. The law failed mankind because it presented a standard that men could not fulfill. The law made nothing perfect. (that is a...

AMEN! :) A sneaky God...yes...but to our benefit! What a wonderful God we serve! He wants more for us than we ever could want for ourselves...because we are ignorant of His great riches. His purpose is better than our wildest imaginations!

There is no spiritual understanding in your statements. We need to walk in both the death and life of Jesus to walk in Him. It's not a choice. Like when you get married for better or for worse...it's not a choice of one or the other. But as so many theorists you only want what seems easy and...

The spiritual conundrum! :) We want to have more friendship...but for the sake of love we need to let go of people. So we let go in order to obtain. We give up our lives in order to find them. Can you say...paradox! :)

Sometimes a spouse can get in the way of a spiritual advancement. I'm thinking more about the correct functioning of the church..like having experienced brethren around to encourage us in our time of being crucified to this world. Jesus promised us that we would indeed be forsaken by our...

A legalist is one who pushes the letter of the law without regard to the spirit of the law. This is not to be confused with a law-abider who is in favour of the law and wants to obey it. Is Joyce Meyer not permitted to teach because she is a woman? Well, she can teach other women. She is...

Me too! :) When a person is going through surgery it's helpful to have a loved one nearby to help you through it. The same goes for the heavenly surgery of the cross cutting out the power of the selfish flesh out of us. The brethren are there to help us though that difficult process. But I'm...

There is truth to this of course. But it isn't the doctrine itself that justifies us. It's what the doctrine pushes us to do. As in...what are you going to do about it? We hear so often...you have to believe (this or that) in order to be saved. As if there was a questionnaire to be filled out...

Now, I must begin by saying that I don't believe in doctrinal salvation. But the divinity of Jesus ...His divine origin as being in God, part of God, from God...is really beyond dispute. Jesus Himself testifies that He is from above...from heaven. ALL have sinned...all of us created beings. But...

Amen. No one is saved by holding a certain doctrinal position. It is more like what is our doctrine doing to us?

The reformation brought about the novel idea that one is saved by holding to one form of doctrine over another. A doctrinal salvation. Of course this is all man-made...a construct of a competitive mind that says...."I'm right and you're wrong." Can any kind of unity come from that? Apart from...

More unbelief on this thread...which must be corrected. 1. Jesus is not a religious idol that people must bow down to for salvation. So you are on a different plane...not the truth. Acknowledging deity for an invisible Jesus has no merit...but acknowledging Christ ON a person and submitting to...

Actually the righteousness of God comes with the power of judgment and much more personal responsibility. For myself to be justified I only need to be righteous of myself. But to minister to others ...and teach others...I need a higher qualification and power. So then with the righteousness of...

Thank you for your kind words dear sister. I feel often that people don't like to be encouraged in the race of faith. But you have a seekers' heart that is precious in God's sight. :) His blessing and peace on you.

Can a book replace the person of the Holy Spirit? Of course not....it points to Him.

Of course. Getting into the Spirit is very hard indeed. And staying there brings new challenges. I have experience of going in and out. So I have walked in His power...and my own. The difference is like night and day. And yet in my own strength I am still led by the Spirit and feel His presence...

That's fine! We all need a saviour. Now that saviour can just be a constant forgiver...in which case that's not a Saviour. A Saviour is one who rescues you from the trouble...Jesus saves us from our sins...not in our sins. It seems like a subtle difference I suppose. Mat. 1:21 She will bear...