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The kingdom of God is in the spiritual realm. It is Zion where the Lord has chosen to fellowship with humankind. When we enter into Christ we are translated (Harpazo) to be with the Lord. This is a mystery that must be experienced to understand properly. Being filled with the Spirit is...

I find that the Catholic church has basically good doctrine...to a point. The problem is the practice. It is how the doctrine is being interpreted that leads people astray. I see the RCC as a state religion based on ceremony as opposed to a church that makes disciples. The idea that traditions...

This is a self-destruct thread based on proving how carnal religious people really are. We are all affected by the fallen human condition. The key is what to do with it. The Catholic institution has some things right and some things wrong. The protestant institutions have some things right and...

There is more than one way to believe in Jesus Christ. The bible records that many believed in Him but later betrayed Him. Even Peter, although he recovered from that, betrayed the Lord. To ascribe all belief in Jesus to being born again is foolishness. Here are some of the ways we as humans...

There are 3 different books that a name can be written in. One has to understand how the bible is written. For instance...times (plural) and a time (singular) is 3 years. Look at how the bible records the following. "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were...

What does it mean to be under grace? What does it mean to be under the headship of Christ? What does it mean to have the covering of God's righteousness? What of the false doctrines that seek to destroy the church of God's power? What of the false notion of imputation. Imputation is on the...

Hi to all! This thread is about grace. Not the grace that many people are taught by ministries that are trying to attract numbers and make money. No, this is about the grace of God as taught in the bible and experienced among the saints of God. There is a difference between being justified and...

You are mistaken in taking verses about the baptism and further fillings of the Spirit and trying to apply that to receiving an initial grace as a sample at regeneration. Are you determined to NOT sow to the Spirit? Are you determined to think it is wrong for God to reap where He has not sown...

It only sounds nonsensical from a human standpoint. No amount of our faith can do miracles. But even the smallest amount of faith can move mountains. This is obviously not human beliefs. Drug addicts can fully believe they can fly...and die trying. This shows that human beliefs have ZERO power...

This is too great a mystery for the present times. It's so basic yet not understood. This proves how few indeed have entered into Christ. Entering INTO Christ remains the best-kept secret in the world. All the promises are for those who are IN Christ as abiders, not just believers in Christ...

People will sin until they are filled with the Spirit. If there is room for something else besides the Spirit then it will get in. But an overflowing vessel will NOT let any impurities in. People need to be filled with the Spirit...which is a fullness or abundance of grace BESIDES or after...

This is a case of God not being LIKE a man in the way he acts. For example...saints are in the world but not of the world. Jesus came into the world as the Son of Man not a son of man. He is unlike any person that ever lived. So there is no comparison there. The emphasis is not on WHERE Jesus...

The genius of God is that we need BOTH kinds of faith to live the entire scope of human experience as He intends. However weak our own contribution is to the overall picture...as long as it is in submission to Him...what makes us human is the "fusion" of what we are and what He is together into...

Jesus' death reconciles the whole world to God. Jesus bought back His creation from the devil. With His death comes ACCESS to God...not automatic salvation...otherwise ALL men would be saved. Does the OP believe that ALL men are saved by Jesus' death? The main thing that is forgotten in all...

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Welcome to the forum. :) We know that a message is from the Lord when it has two levels of meaning...both in righteousness AND in holiness. The above verse can mean two things. Either the kingdom to come in the future or the presence of the kingdom at the present time. Examples of this...

Welcome to the forum Mugre! :) <><

Renewing of the mind can be confused with the carnal mind ADAPTING to an experience. There is a world of difference between having the mind of Christ and a carnal religious mind that has gotten used to religious matters. We are very adaptable, as a means of survival. Just hope that what you are...

Eternal reality only trumps temporal reality if you enter into it. That eternal reality is only entered into by the power of the cross...becoming dead to the world and the flesh with all its reasonings and religious posturings.

Of course you will react this way. But no one is given the free gift of being a living sacrifice. THAT is what we are to return to the Lord. THAT is what gets us the second, third, fourth etc...work of grace. To be filled with the Spirit in an ongoing way requires we come before the throne of...