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"Deny yourself and take up your cross and follow Me", as well as "go and sin no more", applies to homosexual believers just as much as it does to heterosexual believers. Anyone who is a true follower of Christ will sincerely make every effort to obey Him and begin the journey of dying to self...

We can love and be kind to individual persons who are homosexual or trans, while at the same time hating the agenda that is being propagated by Satan...and also indeed hating what Satan is doing to those individuals. The fear of the Lord is to hate sin. That agenda is going for our...

The story of the publican and Pharisee are about those who aren't saved, who haven't yet come to the Messiah. This agrees with what Jesus was saying about sinners needing a physician, but not those who already think they are righteous implying that He would be of no benefit to those who don't...

This is one of the prevailing lies in our culture today.....a belief (in spite of all the evidence to the contrary) that human nature is inherently good....but the bible teaches the opposite. It's the very reason mankind needs a Saviour. The verses that speak of this are on both an individual...

Except how could we put on and walk in something we haven't received yet? We must have first received it to be able to walk in it. We have a choice and are learning to walk after the spirit (new man) or walk after the flesh...sow to the spirit or sow to the flesh. The new man....is our...

Agree with this (as you know because we have discussed it). The Lord is working in our lives to break the flesh nature in order to free our souls from that bondage that we all fell into when we harkened to the serpent and sinned for the first time....same pattern as Eve. This is what the...

Not so. God's word says the heart is deceitfully wicked, who can know it.

Amen...and then His love is shed abroad in our hearts.

I'm surprised Epi is agreeing with you here, since he doesn't believe most believers have been given that new self yet, which is created after the image He who created him...righteous and holy.

It's not a Luther idea, it's God's idea. It doesn't stop me and I'm sure many others from going to the throne of grace every day for more grace. And the Lord answers those prayers in ways that we don't enjoy but are necessary for our "refining". I like what Watchman Nee says about Him...

What is the truth is that those who are born of the Spirit are justified by faith in Christ and His atonement, and we have received His gift of righteousness, as Paul clearly teaches and lays out in the epistles. But unfortunately that is not what you are reporting and I'm amazed and saddened...

It is a word - the truth - for all believers, not just those who are "perfected". Nobody here is justifying themselves, only gratefully saying (and pointing out the word) that Jesus has justified us through the cross, by our faith in Him. As others have already said we still have work to do...

Amen. And that word came and dwelt in us the moment we believed. It brought us through the veil into the Holy of Holies, into the presence of God. We've had His presence and attention and been in audience with Him ever since.

Amen. Paul's letters are such a blessing to read. How about this from Rom. 4/5...clearly for all believers, not just the "perfect": But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered for our offences, and was...

I think it's in the same sense of where Paul said, "If I do that which I don't want to do, it is no longer I who sin but sin dwelling in me" (Rom. 7:16-20). This is kind of companion to where it says it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me. Both are being reckoned to us....His...

Learning to rely on the Lord more as I get older.

Don't know if there's any point in commenting any further, but hypocritical and bigoted are YOUR judgments, which just to let you know I don't put any stock in. And I've seen the kind of "love" that people "exude" from self righteous flesh, it isn't the kind of love that God is talking about.

We are called to be faithful witnesses of Jesus Christ who we are witnesses of because we actually have met and know Him personally, having our lives turned around and being in a living relationship with Him. The only thing me or anyone else here is judging regarding the world is that they are...

Unfortunately, it's the gospel that Jesus brought and the apostles taught that Epi is calling bigoted and religious. He's on dangerous ground.

That reminds me of both the Roman Catholic selling of indulgences, as well as today's hard sell of "sowing into the ministry" in order to receive healing and financial help, etc. No wonder the true gospel was and still is good news to the poor! Isa 55:1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to...