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Regeneration is by way of an open channel to God...in order to be led by the Spirit...like the Israelites in the wilderness. Now entering into the Promised Land is another matter. We are given the "earnest" (aravon) of the Spirit as a downpayment or sample of the full product. The root of...

Not my life but kingdom life...the life that is found IN Christ. You have to lift your gaze higher to understand spiritual life.

We are baptized into Christ by the Spirit of God. A Spirit baptism. The water baptism is in Jesus name. That baptism brings us into the Body of Christ which is a corporate entity. From there we choose either to go to the throne of grace...or not. Walking in the Spirit is based on a spiritual...

I'm using the word Zion in a spiritual way....to show how Zion (replacing the natural Zion) is another term for the New Jerusalem (the spiritual version of natural Jerusalem) A simple study (and some spiritual discernment) makes this evident) It is both. We live a spiritual life by...

That is an understatement. Sola Scriptura was a religious convention that sought to eliminate the influence of tradition being equal to the weight of Scripture in the Roman church. It was one religious idea trying to fix another religious idea. But people were fooled...then and now...into...

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You are not looking at this in a spiritual way...so you will not understand the parallels between testaments. You should ask God for understanding.

Your question doesn't go with the verse you selected. Can you buy a house after you die? Why not? Can you develop character in the grave? or does our physical death end our time of training? People will always confuse the verses about perfection NOW and the inheriting of eternal life with a...

Renewing of the mind...hmm. I don't think people understand that either. What it doesn't mean is becoming religious by putting on a Christian facade. No, it's about the way the kingdom works. We can only renew our minds once we have experienced Zion or else listen to those who have. Everything...

We are sanctified...or being sanctified ...as we walk in His perfect grace. So yes it is present tense for those who abide IN Christ. We partake of HIS holiness IN Him. In Him is no sin. That's what I've been trying to get across. We are not made perfect in eternity...no...it is now. Just men...

It is a gift from heaven once God receives and accepts our sacrifice. Think Abel or Enoch. The faith chapter (Heb. 11) mentions Enoch and how he pleased God...and was translated to be with Him. The same thing takes place (spiritually) when we walk in the Spirit...we are raptured (harpazo) to be...

Such confusion. All of the things listed as holiness are in fact righteousness. No one grows into crucifixion nor holiness. We become automatic partakers of HIS holiness as we abide in Him. We can't half-abide or be half-crucified. We LEARN righteousness...but we experience holiness as a gift...

Again that is righteousness...not holiness. The righteous don't know they're righteous....they only se what they lack. The holy know that it isn't them walking in some lesser place...but the gift of grace that makes them walk as Jesus walked. No one is going to confuse that with a wasted human...

To be honest we must do the exact opposite. We must assume we are NOT living from the inner man but from the outer man. Then, it is possible to actually put off the outer man. So we tend to think backwards. Only as we repent from our present course can we turn to Christ with our hearts and be...

Again..."as many of us as" means "whoever has." Whoever has is NOT a generalized religious covering for all who claim to be Christians. This passage was written 2,000 years ago when SOME of the believers indeed experienced the higher walk. Even then, not everyone had or would. Reading skills...

No, we are each baptized in water in Jesus name. To be baptized into Christ personally we need an Acts experience of entering into Christ...personally. Peter and John were summoned from Jerusalem to go down to Samaria to lay hands on the new converts who were baptized in Jesus name only...but...

Seeing beyond what eyes can see....into the eternal reality. And BEING in a place where there is perfect peace, love, and the power over the flesh.

The Bible is more subtle than that. We can be in Christ without abiding in Christ. Otherwise Jesus would not have to spit out the Laodiceans from His mouth. I have shown this before on a number of occasions..that we can be in Christ and NOT bear eternal fruit. To do so requires the further step...

Yes...but a crown for having walked like every other person? Only one wins the prize....means that very few will walk at the LEVEL that is the high calling and penetrate into the kingdom realm to abide in Christ in a personal way. Very few are even in the race. The prize should not be confused...

1. Zion is meant to walk in right now. The downgrading of Christianity to just a world religion has seen the fall of the saints...looking only towards a "Valhalla" type of afterlife. Paganism has mixed into the gospel and affected how we read the bible. An afterlife is NOT the victory over the...