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It is presumptuous and unwise to count your chickens before they are hatched, so to speak. We should not be arrogant, smug or proud that some of the Jews were disconnected from the vine for our benefit. We can just as easily be cut off ourselves. We should never see the race of faith as a done...

Many accept Jesus and step through the narrow door...but few actually walk on the narrow path so as to be also chosen.

People are not saved by believing in what Jesus did. That is false. We are saved by abiding in Christ and bearing fruit...or else we are burned. We are to belive INTO Christ. That is the truth. The devils believe in Jesus....but this does not save them any more than we do unless we believe...

It is not Jesus' death that saves us...but His life. The devil doesn't want people to know this.

Rather than boast and be arrogant it is far wiser to just claim to be a Laodicean like everyone else and take it from there. It is far safer to assume you're duped and asleep spiritually then make Pharisaical claims to be able to see and thus prove you're a Pharisee.

To advance the kingdom...both by tearing down the strongholds of sin IN us and then in the world AROUND us.

He gave up His life for all men. What makes you different from others?

A very important distinction to be sure!

What of the standard of giving up all to follow Christ?

I wonder at those whose are against tithing...is it because this OT standard is too low?...or too high?

True faith has doubt in it. Just like true courage has fear in it. Otherwise we are just crazy and opinionated. If you found yourself to be walking on water...would that be no big deal to you?

So true! The fear of the Lord brings us back to our senses.

Yes! It is the works of the flesh which are condemned.....not all works. We are in fact created to work in the Spirit.

Salvation is not in our hands but God's. He will decide who will end up where. The wise fear the Lord...the foolish are over-confident. Many who call themselves Christians today will be rejected into outer darkness. If God did not spare the natural branches, why would He spare the wild branches...

I will pray for you! When we are already filled even to overflowing with God's Spirit then we can stop looking for more filling in the world around us. :) Lord have Your way with Doug! <><

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I am attempting to bring the truth into the false reality we see so much these days. Jesus' atonement on the cross was followed by His resurrection...which is conveniently left out of our equation. Rather than just die for our sins Jesus was raised in order that WE might be God's righteousness...

Psa 119:142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. If we love the truth then we love the law...they are the same. In these end times many do not love the truth and they rail against the law... 2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only...

A paradox to be sure. The very greatness of God....together with His eternal judgments affecting us completely means we literaly tremble at His words.

The truth goes beyond our human experience. So when we try to understand the bible from our previous experience, we will ALWAYS be wrong. We need faith to break out of the chains that bind us to our present reality. The israelites reasoned in their own minds that the God who could part the sea...