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God's ways are always equal. He has NO favourites and He judges impartially. On top of that He tells us exactly what to do in order to receive His life and favour.

Sanctification is both an initial infilling of the Spirit AND an ongoing process of learning to maintain a vessel unto honour. One can only be sanctified as being a vessel that contains the Holy Spirit. The maintaining the purity of a cleansed heart requires maturity in a character that is...

Man has done nothing that merits a continuance into eternity.

You know, the popular Jesus. The one that forgives everyone with no strings attached! certainly not the One that demands everything from us including our lives.

God uses religion...as a carrier of a truth that they themselves don't really understand. Religion has it's own agenda. But God is sovereign and will use religion in order to preserve His words that bring life to many. The irony is that it is the religious institutions that ultimately persecute...

There is no life without death. This is a clear idea expressed throughout the NT. Paul said...It is no longer I who live. Hence the secret to a sanctified life is not a self-improvement....but a getting out of the way. A spiritual awareness is only possible when the carnal awareness is out of...

I'm a notorious scribbler and verse highlighter. I like writing the Hebrew in the NT margins... lots of fun!

There is another Jesus...Jesus Barabbas. He escaped the death penalty...he was saved...he got off scott free! He also has many followers.

A walk without the cross leads to just more of the same old futility in life. The greatest obstacle to a sanctified life is the avoidance of the cross. Embracing death for our old lives leads to new life in Christ.

Faith pleases God. Religion pleases men.

Pro 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

We don't need freedom of religion. Freedom in Christ is enough!

What about a man as a mother? Why not go all out!

She was merely human. She was no different than any other woman.

The truth is "hidden" behind the words. Just like the eternal things are hidden behind the temporal things. There is a spiritual plane of reality juxtaposed with what we see with our eyes. But only by faith can we walk in this reality. We intuit what cannot be seen...we grasp the truth by faith...

One who practices sin DOES have a sinful nature. Just like one who indulges in gambling has a gambling nature. Sinful man is carnal man...a man who walks in his own light (which is darkness) and his own strength.

Jesus is not a cover for the sinful man...he leads a man to the cross in order that he might become a new creation in Him through being (actually) born again of the Spirit. The sinful man is condemned already...but Gods calls us to come to His Son by forsaking our old condemned lives and be...

You must admit that it is the claiming of righteousness WHILE WE SIN SO EXTRAVAGANTLY that leads to bringing shame on Christ and the gospel. We are saved...not from the responsibility of sin...but from sin itself. Those who still sin are yet incomplete in their salvation...and this has eternal...

I believe that Scott is making a stand against the easy-believism that is so prevalent in the churches today. These are the pew warmers...the lip service crowd that goes along with the status quo of religious consumerism. In a rush to get the pews filled the standard of God has been set aside so...

You have hit on the issue here. His Love is shown through the power He gives. He doesn't condone sin because of Jesus' sacrifice. But He is training us to become as obedient as His own Son.