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Not an outward religious effort. It is a determination of the will by faith that seeks God in a full surrender. Once we let go our outward defenses...and our religious justifications...we are free to ask, seek, and knock until we receive grace from the Lord. The effort to seek God comes from...

The full measure of grace is AVAILABLE to all believers....it costs us everything...but most will be satisfied with the free sample. Initial grace (being born of the Spirit) is like the free samples they hand out in grocery stores. Can we live on the free samples? Or are we meant to try the...

I hope you have a good day today...yesterday something frazzled you. :) The pure in heart don't lash out with outrageous statements from a wounded pride. That pride comes from the part of you that is meant to go to the cross. So you are over-estimating your purity...your hands are full of...

FYI walking by the power of the Spirit IS by grace not by human effort. Your scheme is based on carnal understanding...a human effort to justify itself...and one that makes God cover up sinful flesh. But God uncovers the flesh in order to put it to death...to save us. And you are right in that...

I don't believe what you interpret the bible to read. You are far more indoctrinated than you think. Know yourself...and your own religious inclinations. Now honestly...no one would ever consider God's Spirit to be a separate person from God. The Jews know the scriptures much better than we...

Ever heard of the Ebionites? They were Jewish believers who believed in poverty...as per Acts 2. They acted out the poverty of Jesus by following Him in a physical way. Are you like them? Or do you just do the easy stuff? They died out because their understanding was faulty. The kingdom of God...

The "Spirit of God" has always been God's Spirit. read the Old Testament and ALL the references to God's Holy Spirit...then ask..why didn't the Jews ever consider God's Spirit to be a separate person from Him? Do you realize that God (plural) IS SPIRIT. let's see how you reason away the actual...

Can you see that both are due to human extremes? We go from 1 to 3 by bypassing 2...which is required for a proper balance. We have 2 eyes and 2 ears...not one or three. Eyes in Hebrew is eynayim. ears are oznayim. No other number is required to show the duality. Ephraim means DOUBLE fruit...

This is inaccurate. The Hebrew reads ..."see, I (will) give to you God (plural) to Pharoah." Never does it say that Moses is God. And Jesus never claims to be both Father and Son (plural). Jesus is the Sar Shalom (Prince of Peace) and the El Gibor (Mighty God). Both are singular. Elohim is the...

Mark, Mark, Mark. How you miss things! We are to purchase eye salve from Christ...and oil from our lamps...with our LIVES. Do we need to shed our blood to give up our lives? Or is it spiritual? The same goes for Jesus and His church. Jesus is alive...not dead. Life is in the blood. Shed blood...

The early Jewish Christians ended up denying Christ as God...and so were lost to history. Likewise those who saw Jesus as ONLY God (and not human) also were lost to history. The ONLY reason why the Trinity idea took root is because it places divinity and Godship on both Father and Son. The fact...

Eternal life is by the Spirit of God. We have both the Bible AND the Spirit to guide us into all truth. Traditions of men lead people astray. Besides, we will never all agree on the same errors. The corruption of ALL man-inspired institutions (including the RCC) is evident to all but to the...

"Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." It is assumed that the church was purchased with the SHED blood of Christ. But to add in the word "shed" is...

Actually Salem (shalem) is not a place. In Hebrew the word shalem is very close to the word shalom. Now Jesus is the Prince of peace (Sar Shalom). We know that Shalom is not a place, do we not? Shalem is akin to this. It is not possible to understand what shalem is without understanding...

LOL Only in your imagination. :) Taking Bible verses willy nilly...out of context...only proves you have a religious bent that borders on a psychological need to be pure in your own eyes. Religion deforms the mind....and sets up the pretense of the carnal mind to be justified for having agreed...

you forgot...."who walk according to the Spirit." When we enter INTO Christ we walk in His life and power...over sin. In Him is no sin. Those who are IN Him do not sin. It stands to reason that the one who has put away sin has no reason to be condemned. If we overcome sin by the Spirit then we...

Jesus ate with sinners...even prostitutes. Our Christian communities are not based on spiritual life anymore. But even one disciple who abides in the truth makes everything written in the Bible have support in the world.

Sure there is. We have been given the technology in these last days to speak to one another on zoom and speak on phones. Of course it's not the same as person to person...but it is still a support mechanism that encourages spiritual growth. Getting together in person also comes with other...

No, here where we live. The home fellowship that I oversee. We have a good support system here among us that encourages us in the Lord.

This home fellowship over the last 23 years. Before that various attempts at fellowships that hit dead ends...and before that 10 years in the wilderness of denominationalism. :) We refuse to compromise the truth...seeing that God is going to be taking over Creation again soon. It might look...