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When we enter INTO Christ we take on His perfection to become "perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect". Of course this perfection is according to holy purity....not maturity...which is something that must be walked out. No one can enter into another person in this way. Jesus is God. He is...

Actually I'm trying to help you to see the inner man in yourself...which I want to rejoice in...and the outer man in you that reacts. What makes it difficult is that this forum is public. I meant no disrespect to you at criticizing your previous behaviour...I tend to forget what its like to care...

Mark, this is good! :) You know I don't say things lightly. The is no baby "new man" however...but I know what you mean. Putting on Christ is putting on a fully grown Christ....in purity. However, our lack of maturity spoils things. So then WE are the babe in Christ...the spiritual infant (even...

Don't defend. I'm only stating what is true. Taking things personally is from the outer man...defending the "purity" of your intentions from the inner man. It's far better to learn a deep lesson than to defend yourself and stay the way you are..no? What is the way to growth in the truth if not...

yes, our defense mechanism...our preferences...our tastes and bents. Anything outside the knowledge of God...that is meant FOR this temporal world. The outer man cannot live on into eternity. We are only our inner man at the point of death...basically the soul. Did we trust in God or did we...

The Spirit itself does many things. One of those things is to intercede with our inner man to edify it to move into the character of the stature of Christ. Nothing strange here. What is lacking is understanding of how God's Spirit functions...how God creates with His Spirit...how gentle He is...

The inner man is not the New Man. We have both an inner man AND an outer man AFTER conversion....and always. The New Man is Christ whom we put on to be perfect as He is perfect. That is a covering and NEVER us. No longer I.... 1. We are a new creation in Christ....check 2. We are called to put...

The issue here is with WHAT PART of us God is making intercession for. The coming of God's Spirit is only something new when you consider what has been taken out of the way. it is drawing the wrong conclusion to personalize a function of God's Spirit...unless you see this as the Father doing His...

No. Being quickened into life is FROM death. We come to the light FROM darkness. There is no darkness in light. What you may be referring to is that we walk in HIS death in order to walk in HIS life. But if we are dead to sin we are not dead IN our sins. Being dead IN sin is not the same as...

You are not making the further distinction between the inner man and outer man....in every believer. The Old Man is the carnal entity we once were. The New Man is what is created in Christ's perfect image. We are to put on the New Man...put on Christ...to walk as He walked. No sin there. The...

Father and Son. Moses spoke to the Lord face to face....Jesus. But anyone who looked on the face of God (the Father)...had to die. Look at Ex. 33 v. 11...and v.20. Unless you see that YHVH is BOTH Father and Son...like a family name...and that the Father is GREATER than the Son...the MOST HIGH...

The Bible contradicts your opinions in every way. Is God's hand depersonalized because it is only a part of Him? God's Spirit is an extension of Him....the way a hand is an extension of us. In Acts we see God "stretching forth His hand"! (Acts 4:30) Does that mean a hand will mysteriously...

That's TENET of faith (actually religious beliefs) not tenant. A tenant is someone who occupies a building. Creeds are a wrong approach to the mystery of God. Carnal religious men divide over them...proving just how carnal they are. They seek an outward conformity...whereas the apostles NEVER...

Obscurantism and a dishonest strawman. A human baby is still a human....same nature...but different stature. A father and a son share the same name...same nature...different stature. Is any father and son co-equal? No...the father is always greater than the son. So it is with God. The Father...

There are no such examples. But there are many examples of Jesus Christ being One with His Father. Both Father and Son make up the Godhead Elohim. Do you deny this? Do you deny that there is only ONE Holy Spirit? God the Father has a Spirit and there is the Spirit of Christ to consider. Are all...

“Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.” John 14:8 "Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say...

What is under attack is the Father's place in the Godhead. Rather than casting Him aside...we are to worship the Father in the name of the Son in the POWER of His Spirit. Worshiping God's Spirit is like worshiping His hands or His finger...or what He has done. Rather Jesus came to restore us to...

Some people think grace is the overlooking of sinful ways....and others believe it is the power to not sin. Being dead to sin means that the power of sin has no effect on us. That is only possible when our outer man (containing the sin nature) is crucified with Christ.

Beliefs have no power. Faith does. And faith moves mountains. Sanctification is based on being IN Christ...He is our sanctification. we are justified through His life as we walk in the power of His Spirit. Being sealed for a later judgment works kind of like an RRSP. We have a chance to change...

Present salvation is walking above sin by the Spirit. INHERITING life is a whole other matter. No one inherits something until the end of something. if we remain faithful to Christ till the end...we have an inheritance. However, to experience salvation now we must enter into Christ to overcome...