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Hi Faithful - Thanks for your encouraging reply. Man is seen good by God for those in His Son because "As He is, so are we in this world" (1 John 4:17). "He that doeth good is of God" (3 John 1:11)or, he that is of God doeth good.

Though it will manifest works (Jam 2:18), faith in God is not something which can be produced, only desired, and even the desire for faith does not originate from man because it too must be given from God; “For it is God which worketh in you both to will (desire) and to do of His good pleasure”...

Hi UHCAIan - Thanks for you reply and God's blessings to you family!

There will be found in anyone who is really “in the seventh of Romans” an intense separation from the world, a holy abhorrence of sin and a vehement desire to do the will of God. That will has become the glory and goal of his heart and soul; sin is no longer any pleasure to him. Now his distress...

God never punishes His own, but rather in love, chastens and rebukes them (Heb 12:5-11); which affords great comfort in the knowledge that regardless the occurrences in our lives He is always for us and accepts us. The remorse the Spirit causes us to feel is His loving hand guiding us to know...

Evil is what is produced by sin, or in other words it is the activity of sin. The believer overcomes the evil from sin because Christ has overcome the sin in the believer; thus our actions are not what overcomes, but is evidence of having overcome - through Christ’s atonement in our stead. An...

"The place of man under grace is that he has been accepted in Christ (Eph 1:6), who is his standing and therefore is not on probation. As to his past life, it does not exist before the Father; he died in Christ on the Cross and now Christ is his life. Grace once bestowed is not withdrawn...

UP HERE! - Miles J Stanford "And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus" (Ephesians 2:6). The spiritual babe has faith for the wondrous fact that he will go to heaven when he dies. The spiritual father has faith for the inexpressible fact that...

For the Jew pre-Cross, the Sabbath represented a dedication to God's holiness and His cessation from the works of creation (Exo 20:8, 11). This was a foreshadow to the Christian to rest (rely) in God and not in self, which many did not do, "because of unbelief" (Heb 3:19). "For he that is...

We are in the presence of the Father, representatively speaking; because we are in Christ, we are positionally before the Father. It is not the life of the Spirit that is supplied, but the life of the Lord Jesus--by the life of the Spirit; the Spirit reveals not His life, “for, He shall not...

I believe "the judgment seat of Christ" is something that "all must appear before", which will be completed at two varying chronological events of resurrections. Our judgment began when we were saved and involves, not punishment but chastisement. I believe that Rev 20:4 is the completion of the...

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad” (2 Cor 5:10). The two phrases, “the things done in the body” and “whether good or bad” can only refer to those who have received...

Hi TGG and like your ID. Christ has the "preeminence" in all things (Col 1:18) and is the first to teach His salvation Gospel and then went on to teach others to "learn of Me" (Mat 11:9), that they will also bring others to Him so that He may teach them also. Hi Mjrhealth - Even though this...

Hi Trekson and God's blessings to your Family! Thanks for the compliment and your comment concerning "the Bride" well deserves a reply because of the manner of its usage in Revelation 21, 22. I believe what you might be referring to is Revelation 21:2, 9, where the description of "the Bride" and...

“Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom 6:11). It is an immense thing to see how we are “alive unto God”. I think a great many are trying to live to God. That is, they want to reach it in their responsible life...

HEART TO HEART - Miles J Stanford "That I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus" (Philippians 3:12). Our spiritual puppy-love is soon lost, to be replaced through the years by our bridal-love. The bride always gravitates to her Bridegroom. "My beloved spoke, and...

There are two great revelators, or unfolders of Divine Truth in the Bible—Moses in the Old Testament and Paul in the New. Some may ask, Is not Christ the Great Teacher? In a sense that is true; but actually He is the Person taught about, rather than teaching, in the Gospel. The Law and the...

I do not think this is a way to encourage someone to correspond with you. There is only advantage if you seek to encourage, not accuse. No offense and I desire a good heart for you. Wish you His best and God's blessings to your Family!

Right and thanks for that heads-up because the way I posted it, there was no point of separation in thought. I agree with your post, except I believe God eventually made them right with Him because their disobedience did not evidence disbelief in Him, they just started learning the way He...

Hi Ax - My concern isn't with the chronology of sin's presence as much as it is concerning the fact that God foreknew what they did from eternity past and in this omniscience I find security in knowing He has control of it all.