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Our carnal nature with its selfish reasoning (self-love) is our living sacrifice to God. Our animal nature is our animal sacrifice. Does our carnal nature die at the cross. Well, yes and no. We are dead in Christ when the power of the flesh is disconnected from us to free us to be holy in...

It takes an understanding of what part of us is able to live together with the Lord and with His people. Look at the state of the church...where every carnal consideration is being met. Now why doesn't the modern church look like the early church? The difference is the love of the flesh and the...

God sees us a garden. Now, a garden has as many weeds as proper plants. If we just water a garden without also taking out the weeds...then the weeds will choke out the plants because they grow faster. Lies have a way of taking over the garden unless they are properly identified. So then what...

Hi to all, I think it necessary to do a post on maintaining some discernment when trying to encourage or discourage people in their Christian walk. What normally happens is that there is NO discerning between the inner man and outer man of a person so that either a person is encouraged as a...

I'm encouraging people to be properly encouraged! We are all created in God's image...in the inner man. That is the only part of us that should be encouraged...the part that God has chosen to regenerate and save. I'm not suggesting that this thread is for weeding out weeds...but simply using a...

God sees us a garden. Now, a garden has as many weeds as proper plants. If we just water a garden without also taking out the weeds...then the weeds will choke out the plants because they grow faster. Lies have a way of taking over the garden unless they are properly identified. So then what...

Christianity is not a list of things to avoid. It has to do with what we are to do. An idle mind is the devil's plaything. Study the Word. Look more deeply into a proper understanding of the truth. When you put more effort into seeking the Lord then God helps you with the rest of your life. Seek...

There is absolute truth...in a Person. Christ the Lord. The popularity of Christianity is not due to the faithful witness of believers. Most believers do not line up with the truth because of a lack of conformity with Christ. The conundrum lies with having to believe in the truth but with the...

The truth is not an either-or, but a both-and in regard to what can be taken as an extreme position that leaves out either God or ourselves out of the relationship we were created to have with the Lord.

Great post. 100% accurate. And the carnal reactions to the deeper walk...that very few will experience...proves the point. People want to believe that there is nothing beyond themselves and their own experience. They deny the testimony of the Lord and His saints...and they refuse to esteem...

Welcome here Carl. :) <><

We will not be judged by accepting a concept...but by our works...or what we have done with what we have been given. Whoever is faithful in little is also faithful in much. The trinity doctrine has nothing to do with the deity of Christ. God is a duality of Father and Son...together in One...

It means you have to look deeper. Learn more Greek and Hebrew. God is waiting for you as you follow Him where He is. You will need to seek harder....as the scriptures are opened up more to you. Each time you look deeper, the words open up again and take you farther into understanding the heart...

It is commonly known that this verse (Matt. 28:19) was corrupted from the original..."baptize them in My name". it seems you didn't get the memo? :) The Johanine "comma" from 1 John 5 was also a later addition (much later) and is now left out of more modern translations. In this we see the...

It's important to realize that this particular verse was changed by the Roman church early in the second century. The original read..."Baptizing them in My name." That is the name of Jesus. We know this verse was altered because of early Christian writers who quoted the verse in its original...

Faith can be equated to trust...and I like your way of saying that the faith OF Jesus is to have the same trust of the Father as He had. But I see another dimension to faith. I see it as a key to a greater realm. If trust could be seen as defensive in nature, there is an aggressive aspect to...

On that count, there is the example of Caleb...who was so robust that he was as much a warrior (not a worrier :) ) that he could fight as well in his old age as when he was young. The wilderness walk is where we all spend most (actually mostly ALL) of our own spiritual lives. We lack the faith...

True...but the spiritual battle is only taken to the enemy once we have been conquered from within. If we are conflicted within ourselves we will not be able to stand against the enemy without wavering. The devil has our number until we are taken out of the equation by being crucified in the...

I see what you are getting at now. We hunger for righteousness IN THE WORLD...as per Matt. 5. We look for justice and equity rather than the lawlessness we see all around us. That is not the same as hungering for our own righteousness. We hunger and thirst for the Lord to fill us in our...