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I believe the person, through the physical mind, uses the soul for all the thought processes and that it is the nature of the person which the soul uses to conclude its' determinations. Our spirit is the medium which houses our soul and our body is the medium which houses our spirit. So, the...

Good works will follow salvation, not precede it. The desire for good works originate, not from within, but from God. "For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure" (Phil 2:13). When we want to do good, it's because God keeps putting it in us to do so...

We came to God empty-handed, so, everything good we do derives from God and not from us. "John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven"(John 3:27). "For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure" (Phil 2:13). When...

Hi Mark S! Thanks for your reply and well stated. I liked your input with Habakkuk.

Isa 50:6 is also a good companion verse! "I gave My back to those who struck Me, And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting. Love You Brother

I believe the abandonment concept derived from the passage, "[Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look upon iniquity" (Habakkuk 1:13). I found Gills commentary to be helpful here: The Lord with His eyes of omniscience beholds all things good and evil, and all men good...

“And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me" (Mat 27:46; Mar 15:34)? Did the Father momentarily forsake Christ on the Cross or was it just Christ, in His humanity, feeling forsaken by Him...

Many a Christian encounter experiences which they may not understand but the Lord uses His written Word to give us the understanding of all things which He wants us to learn. All our experiences are to be discerned by Scripture, not the opposite, this way we have a "sure word of prophecy" (2Pe...

Reckoning on our life-union with the Lord Jesus Christ establishes us in the full assurance of salvation. On this foundation we are able to reckon on our eternal, unconditional security in Him. Until we are grounded in the truths of substitution and union, we are not prepared for the more...

I believe holiness is never self-originated and therefore is not imparted, but imputed, the same way for sanctification, righteousness and justification. It's all vicariously ours from Christ, who is the originator of all these attributes. "God imputeth righteousness without works" (Rom 4:60)...

Thanks for the information about Sparks Jiggyfly!!

Hi Episkopos! It's a true comment you posted, that, "we don't know what we are really searching for". We never fully know what to look for in Scripture but through consistant exposer to the written Word, the Holy Spirit ("God shows us") "guides us into all truth" (Jhn 16:13). Surely, we cannot...

Jiggyfly, knowledge preceeds experience because we cannot experience or walk in that which we know not of. Our maturity in Christ is commensurate with what we understand in Scripture.

Miles Stanford quotes from Sparks some but I'm still not too big on purchasing books yet. Miles has enough free to view and print material that has kept me buisy going on twelve years now.

Hi Jiggyfly! Thanks for the complement too. I'm not familiar with that book but I like the title because it means that God made us in a way that we have to depend on Him for everything to be right with Him.

To be perfectly scriptural, it must be said that the reckoning of Romans 6:11 has nothing to do with the self-life. We are certainly not to reckon the old man to have “died unto sin,” any more than we are to reckon him to be “alive unto God in Christ.” The reckoning of this key verse applies to...

REST IN HIM "He has created us through our union with Christ Jesus for doing good deeds which He beforehand planned for us to do" (Ephesians 2:10, Wms.). The turning point in our Christian life comes when we begin to "let God be God," the day we throw all caution (fear) to the winds and look...

Thanks for you comments 7angels and Episkopos. I like the play on words with Miles!! Once we unserstand that it's God using us, not us using Him, we more clearly understand and live in what He means by "entering His rest". We no longer attempt to work with our old nature but through our new...

For those who receive Christ (Jhn. 1:12) and welcomes Him into their life (Rev. 3:20), being “crucified with Christ” (Gal. 2:20) is in a mystical and spiritual sense because there were only two who were literally crucified with Christ (Luke 23:29-43), but nevertheless, it’s an actual occurrence...

Fit First: "And the servant of the Lord must not strive" (2 Timothy 2:24). Our one responsibility, that of concentrating upon the Lord Jesus, has a three-fold result: (1) fellowship with Him; (2) growth in His image; (3) ministry of life to others. "The love of the Lord culminates in this...