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You would have people deciding things for God. Again, you want to lean on the understanding of men. But you have chosen a wrong argument...again. God puts people in authority who only look to Him. They are place markers for HIS authority. A man of God comes in the name of the Lord. Not in his...

God never delegates authority. All authority is His and remains His. He allows us to partake in His will by coming under HIS authority. In the church only men who are following Christ and doing as Jesus does...have any authority. It is God's authority THROUGH an obedient vessel that any real...

Authority from God comes with responsibility. But God never expects us to follow our own understanding. We are never to judge....we must only speak what God is saying....no more, no less. Have you not read where it is written...lean not on your own understanding. So then every scenario is meant...

In your opinion...that is. An opinion that proves just how unable the carnal man is to wield any kind of real authority in truth.

I believe we must all do as you have stated in your OP. At times we will all fail the grace of God. At such times we need not give up and only do what is easy... we need to exercise ourselves unto godliness as well. But the desire of Paul was for the grace that makes walking in faith as a...

All this is good...but it leaves out the most powerful faith of all. The faith OF Jesus Christ. With our faith, the battle is a constant one...like carrying our own cross. But there is a keeping power of Christ when we are fully surrendered to God...where He takes over. This is the full effect...

It's a lot more than that. It is spiritual warfare in an ongoing way. A constant setting of things in order...by the Spirit.

Holiness divides the world into they who are loosed into righteousness and those who are bound into condemnation. Jesus came to bring a sword and a challenge to mankind in the form of an invitation into the truth. Mat 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send...

A person who seeks to have authority over another is ALWAYS doing so by the power of the flesh. It is a denial of grace. It is an effort to dominate through the law and this is in stark contrast to grace. Being under grace means that we have ceased from our own efforts in favour of an...

Binding and Loosing “Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.” Mat 18:18 When Jesus spoke these words His listeners already knew something about binding and loosing. In the Jewish tradition...

There is a spiritual realm from which people are "moved" as by a physical wind. The present reality we see is but a facade. There is truth behind this reality. It takes spiritual faculties to see or perceive that other realm.

The law of faith is that which overcomes the law of sin. Faith is our access to grace which triumphs...always.

A good example of this is Eric Liddell of "chariots of fire" fame. He won gold at the Olympic games AND was an exemplary missionary in China. Quite the feat!

Grace (a five letter word) gives us the means of obeying God's law. We are able to love others because His love is in us. Love fulfills the law.

In our time the mystery of the kingdom is still intact. Who has walked in it?

God indeed sees to our needs. As adults we often don't want to live only by our needs...but our wants. But God knows that our wants lead us away from the God who looks after our needs. :)

Ever since God's intervention at Babel, mankind has witnessed the spiritual phenomenon of a break in the ability to understand each other. The truth is too deep for men to come to agreement without God being directly involved. The truth is owned and supported only by God....not by men without...

...or each have a piece of the puzzle in the bigger picture that few if any can grasp... our differences need not be divisions but rather contributions to a greater whole. I see that not being grasped. Of course there are those who are just plain wrong as well... :rolleyes:

My sincerest condolences.... :(

Great to hear! So how many grandkids is that? We recently had the addition of another grandson....a total now of 12.