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Amen to your post brother. Yes, it's emotions and going by how things "feel" that is leading many astray. And it's sad, but unfortunately certain groups of people are prone to suicide and inner turmoil due to their own personal issues and emotional wounds. Which Jesus can help them with, if...

Amigo's comment assumes that every effort was first made to counsel the person and support them in turning from their sin. Turning away from the person who is sinning is not something to be done maliciously, and is a last resort in an effort to save their soul that they are in danger of losing...

And thank you sister! That is SO encouraging! Amen! For the joy that is set before us!

Amen. He is a good God and faithful. I also have found that trusting Him involved/s a learning curve. Faith grows and keeps growing through experience of the Lord...how He stretches our faith. Individual circumstances of each soul and life are not the same, so His dealings with us are...

That's just how it feels at times, to me. When the heavens seem like brass. Jesus on the cross feeling as though God was forsaking Him.

Amen, it takes trust. And we need to endure when He feels like our enemy at times, when it is really only that He is an enemy to our carnal nature.

Let me just add this....I think there would be a danger in trying to circumvent the cross, brother, however well meaning. The process is necessary. We shouldn't skip the painful process and let our carnal mind just choose a stance. That would be unspiritual because it would be us doing that...

I agree as long as your thinking is in the spirit and a result of God's working in you, and not due to the carnal mind taking a stance. I think we are sometimes double minded in the sense of the flesh being at war with the spirit, ie, the carnal mind vs. the mind of Christ. That is the reality...

Epi and I don't agree on what the outer man is. I've been re-reading a booklet by Watchman Nee that talks about God breaking the outer man. Breaking is very scriptural...who falls on the rock will be broken....by reason of breakings they purify themselves...etc. In my opinion Epi is partly...

Hmm...don't think about any of that? But what is His LIGHT for then? The Lord even gave me a dream about a searchlight....it was partly humorous because He wanted me not to fear His searching, but rather allow it. David prayed search me and know me O Lord and see if there be any wicked way in...

Please don't try to lump me in with anyone, brother, and just address what I post as an individual. Last I heard, Epi thinks I'm a Calvinist. As I said there is a paradox with these things and I'm sure there is a lot we will not fully understand this side of heaven. I just take everything as...

I be I think realizing our shortcomings is like an unfolding revelation and doesn't seem to begin to happen until we start to grow - the bible says blessed are you who mourn now for you will be comforted. It's a necessary part of maturing. We don't begin to seek what we don't realize we need...

It's the flesh nature...our old man (where Paul said no good thing dwells) that needs to be put to death as it were, to be put under our and Christ's feet. The chastisments and breakings that we go through and why it is necessary. (Epi doesn't equate old man with outer man, and neither do I...

We've been made the righteousness of Christ, yes....this is in our renewed inner man (why we delight in the law of God after the inner man) But there is a conflict with the old/outer man and this is the area where we need to overcome.

I dont' disagree in principle. Walking in the spirit. But it's a battle to get there isn't it...I don't think anybody is "born" perfect and spiritually mature. And all those things you listed in your first sentence we are to do, nevertheless. We have our part....denying our self, taking up...

I was talking about the repentance that accompanies salvation in the first place, though repentance as necessary after being saved is part of working out our salvation. The Lord is looking for fruit that accompanies repentance in either case. Yes, we grow and mature as we work out our...

We're saved by faith, yet at the same time, the Lord has given us commands and instructions, which the NT is chock full of. He is looking for fruit in keeping with repentance/salvation, and James 2 also speaks of works that work together with one's faith. Therefore, we're instructed...

The inner man is every bit in the image of Christ, if we have received Him. But have you seen no changes in your life? No sins gone at all? No affections for things of this world gone? No healing at all? If someone is on the narrow path, carrying their cross and dying to themselves there...

How so, when the bible says the lost are dead in their sins...?

Yes but surely love doesn't mean withholding the truth that can save them or anyone from His wrath. The bible says, "some save by fear, some by compassion". God knows what each soul needs, but we need to be led by Him.