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We can improve our situation through discipline and devotions. But these things were always available. On this thread I am speaking about the higher calling into which we have been regenerated to participate in. Do you see that there is such a thing as the higher walk. A walk that is actually...

With us humans there is always a trade-off....since the flesh can only do so much. We need to break free of our limitations by putting off the flesh...with God's help of course. :) Piety is based on humility and the fear of the Lord. Both of these were effectively abolished by the Reformation...

Piety is basically humility. And we are to seek humility with diligence. God gives grace to the humble. :)

That's right! The flesh needs to go to the cross for the life to come out. See, people's errors don't always overlap so that one person can correct the other :)...and yet still be missing the main thing.:rolleyes: Most believers will never walk in the Spirit. They will claim they are fully...

Not so fast. There is a husk around the seed of Christ that needs to be broken...otherwise the promotion of that filtered condition leads to adding sin upon sin. Iniquity is adding in the flesh to what is of the Spirit. So people can say...see how holy I am...and yet they are filthy. The outer...

The salesmanship isn't seen when people want the product bad enough. But when you see what is being peddled is saccharine sweet (sweet spot) and full of decay...that only props up the flesh in encouraging dogmatic foolishness...then the salesmanship becomes apparent. Too sweet is as bad as...

On the menu today from Behold: Some cross avoidance...some blah blah blah...another dash of cross avoidance...then finally bring a fleshly simmer. The gospel of Christ a devil's gospel? But Paul had it right? Or was it Luther interpreting Paul that had it right. Regardless, you are looking...

Grasping a concept? Or living in resurrection life? And since you believe that, when you read "you are poor, naked, wretched, and blind" you don't believe that could possibly be you since you surmise you are above all that? Or do you remain open to be corrected by the Lord? Are you rich and have...

When someone reads Paul in a way that makes them think that Jesus was a heretic or that He preached "another gospel"...you have to surmise that they are misreading Paul. As Peter warns us... 2 Pet. 3:16 “As also in all his (Paul's) epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some...

You are trolling my thread but it's me looking for attention. :rolleyes: You see Jesus as a kind of whipping boy who gets all your dirty deeds dumped on Him...while you get all His goodness. (No wonder you disrespect His words so much). Will God receive you with open arms for this? Or reject...

You don't have any understanding of grace beyond a free sample of it. Quoting Jesus you call misusing the bible. Why not be honest with those who have less discernment (since they can't see you for what you really are as long as you keep posturing). Are you against following Christ? Are you...

I'm finishing my salvation by quoting Jesus? Do you realize how much you are against the words of Jesus? Anyone who listens to Jesus...you write off in favour of your true master...Luther. You side with a religious spirit that loves the flesh and the salvation of the flesh. Your religious...

Being born again is a pre-requisite to oneness with God. The same goes for seeing the kingdom and entering in. Always a pre-requisite. But what of the cost of entering into the kingdom walk in Zion, and oneness with the Father? We need to look to Jesus and what He taught concerning this...

That is the problem...a misuse of scriptures. Scripture monkeys have not understood the text to the appropriate depth. We have, and you have, an amazing potential. Our collective job is to help one another to go further...together. :)

Quite the opposite. I am not being allowed to point out what is obviously wrong in a person's religious estimation. I am trying to provide balance and godly wisdom...but that affects the still kicking carnal outer man...that refuses to go to the cross. Why? Because of false promises of glory...

And yet evangelicalism does that very thing. Making people declare themselves as righteous as God for a mere religious acceptance of certain verses that are usually taken out of context. The warnings of the bible are almost always ignored...and this shows a lack of respect for God and His ways...

The question is whether you think it's true...whether you are personally involved or not. Does your personal involvement change your answer in any way?

Not really. :rolleyes:

....but what if your told to believe the good stuff and resist the negative stuff? Doesn't the flesh love that kind of directive. How do you get more people in the pews...how does a religious business model look if you are tearing down the flesh? A humble person will always receive the...

There is a lot of vagueness here...some of it almost sounds about right...but a person will never seek for something he believes he already has.