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My ministry toward the church is a spiritual one of casting down imaginations and things that exalt themselves AGAINST the actual knowledge of God. Religious certainty is a faith destroyer. Religious hubris is just pride that God resists and will reject on judgment day. How many have become...

It is to attain to heaven right now...in fear and trembling...not just name and claim to have something like the smug Laodiceans. Most have no idea of the high calling that is in Christ. No the sample is there as an inward witness that is required for you to SEEK GOD for the full measure of...

You notions are simplistic in the extreme. Catering to the flesh. Salvation works in time...past, present and future. Inheriting life is not the same as walking in eternal life right now. A man can be rich right now. Another might become rich later as an inheritance...having been previously...

This episode is not about whether one is saved or not...all who have faith in Christ will indeed be saved. No, this is about the quality of that salvation, whether for glory and honour or else, for shame and dishonour. Do we even care about the outcome of our own spiritual race? What's it going...

Why is that? Why is it more important to convince oneself that one is rich and in need of nothing than to seek the Lord?

For those who are actually born from the Spirit (a LOT fewer than those who claim to be), these can be said to be FROM heaven...not in heaven (unless the person returns to Zion after diligently seeking it from the Lord). So you are espousing a theoretical religious status that has no power over...

That's incorrect. Jesus used the rock and sand analogy as a kingdom principle...building on sand....doing as you do. Building on the rock...working out your salvation with fear and trembling and allowing God to cause you to be a DOER of the word, not just a hearer deceiving yourself. Your...

You are using circular reasoning here. You assume you are already seated in heavenly places because Paul describes that as a reality that is AVAILABLE to us. Laodiceans will name and claim whatever they read that appeals to them. That only works if you understand that an empty lamp that once...

Saints have always come into being in spite of the surrounding church culture. One must always take the path less followed. The way is narrow...and that's after having been permitted entry through the narrow gate, which few can even conceptualize now. The way that is in Christ is very...

Oh, the irony.

Jesus said that to build on the rock means more than hearing and accepting (believing about). One must DO what He says. To obey is to DO the commandment. Whoever loves the Lord obeys Him. Obeying the gospel means actually entering into what the gospel is about. One who does this carries one's...

The ones who are cast away from the presence of the Lord are the pretenders in the house of God...and they are saved. Where do you see the lake of fire in the statement? The casting away into outer darkness is a destiny of the saved ones. And you are missing the "and" again. There are two...

Like heaven and earth? The same thing? I have found the and in scripture to mean something very different being compared against. Like light and darkness. Good and evil. I'll break it down for those who are interested. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if...

Why are there so many pretenders in Christ in our time? Why are people so hostile to the narrow door and narrow path? The American style churchianity has opened up the narrow door as wide as can be, even offering free coffee and daycare, attracting crowds....and people are hoodwinked into making...

You are missing the "and" in the verse. Peter is not calling the saints righteous. He is calling the righteous of the nations righteous...who will be judged together with the wicked at the GWT. Yes, the holy must also be righteous...or be filthy. There is no half-holiness. We will be judged by...

The righteous are scarcely saved. But the holy are abundantly saved. People have to learn to make distinctions. That being true, Jesus is speaking of entering into the narrow gate, the subject of my present episode. We can follow Christ from a distance OR enter INTO Him to walk as He walked...

How are we to harmonize a divine equation like...all who call on the name of the Lord shall be saved... with... many will say Lord, Lord, (and yet be rejected)? Why are these not mutually exclusive? Is Jesus really under obligation to receive all who claim Him as Lord? Does it matter how we go...

What is the doctrine to which we hold to doing to us? Does it make us merciful, patient, kind, and loving? A true understanding and doctrine helps us in all those areas. Good doctrine displaces bad/harmful doctrines. It is no wonder that bad doctrines are meant to edify the wrong part of a...

Your theoretical approbation (lip service) flies in the face or your actual position vis à vis any spiritual consideration. A tree is known of its fruit. You have proven to me that you have no understanding of the deeper walk that those who go to Christ in repentance and full surrender can then...

I see no discernment in your understanding concerning the kind of improvement you are thinking you are growing into. More wood, more hay, more stubble. You deflect the discourse to what is obvious in order to obscure the weakness of your position. Increasing in what? Growing in what? Seeing...