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Be perfect as your heavenly father is perfect? Col. 3:14 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

1 Cor. 13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3...

We know we live according to the Spirit when we identify with Christ and His body. Are we really discerning the Body? What does it mean to discern the body of Christ? We are learning to love and to recognize Christ in one another. If we don't love then we can't discern the Body. Are gifts proof...

We are made in the image of God. What is that image? God is love. The image of God is love. So then we are created as beings to be loved and to love. Our faith in Christ makes it possible to love others without any evidence of love around us. We place no conditions on this love. This kind of...

The only proof of salvation (that can't be duplicated by the outer man) is that we love. We are saved BY love in order TO love. Too simple? This is the simplicity which is in Christ. How will people know that our gatherings are of the people of God? By the love that warms the gathering. You...

The apostasy is here already. It is the apostasy concerning the faith OF Jesus Christ. What has replaced this is a belief system concerning things about Jesus....and even a human belief in Jesus for services provided. But NOT people who worship in Spirit and truth. That's what is lacking. We...

We ALL as sheep have gone astray. The sheep are not exclusively as one kind of people. Jesus is the Shepherd of all His sheep.

In politics, the devil is working both sides against the middle, so to speak. Both sides are his already. All political power is the devil's. Satan offered Jesus the political powers of this world....if he would just conform to those powers. But Jesus refused...as ALL His followers also refuse...

Improving the flesh and the world is the province of human efforts and means. Trust God instead and look to the victory of Jesus Christ over this world. Go the way of faith in God. Faith is active...but the means are love and the Spirit of God. Nobody is advocating doing nothing. Christianity...

I think the difficulty with many here with the political seduction lies in the fact that people think they are citizens of a worldly country now and only a citizen of heaven after death. But this is false. We are not to love this world. Either we are presently a citizen of heaven or else we...

You are speaking as a person of this world.

No one earns salvation. It is always through God's mercy. God first loved us....not the other way around. We have not earned anything. God IS love. He loves because He loves. For no human reason. He has mercy on whom He wills. For no apparent human reason. No one can figure God out and make a...

This is the seduction of the world you are speaking of. No mention of Christ and HIS power. It is relying on human means towards human ends. I think that Americans have been so blinded to this that they can't tell the difference between Christ and a president.

Politics is about law not grace. Are we to be enforcers of law? This is antithetical to the mission and person of Christ. Politics is based on violence....force...or the threat of these. Politics divide a country. The surest way to unite a country on the political level is to have total war...

I can buy groceries without being a farmer. I can take a bus without being a driver. I live in a country without having to devote my life to it. I can be a Christian anywhere in the world...and beyond. I don't need to identify with anything in this world....yet I still eat food and drink water...

Make programs? We are called to help our neighbour....not make a ideological utopia. It's ironic that I live in Canada which has universal health care...and is far less concerned with God. Are these issues related? Is it better to leave God and provide a humanistic ideology? In the end we...

Not inwardly....from the motivation. Our life is hid with God. There is an inversion that takes place whereby people accuse you of their own failings.

outwardly....yes! Inwardly to God's laws.

Of itself....no. But a vessel that is filled with Christ, is as Christ in the world. As He is, so are we in this world. Remember that Jesus was fully human just as we are.

And yet we have this treasure in earthen vessels. We are essentially just containers....more often than not, of a sum of all the things we have been inspired by, both good and bad. If we would allow His purifying operation to overcome ALL our hearts and minds....then there would be no more...