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It's a like Spirit recognizes like Spirit kind of thing. My sheep know My voice...so then many could seem to be on the right track until confronted with the actual reality of a God intervention of some kind. Then the reaction to that shows the intent. It is very easy for man to simulate...

In the book of Job we see how mankind perceives God's actions. Mostly wrong. And a lot of self-justification. But there is another speaker...Elihu...and he ends up being the voice of God. To me that is what the book is about...how God can speak to us through others...but to us it is just another...

Building a bridge can be a tricky thing. A group of workers begins on the one side and another group on the other side of the river bank....hopefully to join up in the middle in a precise way. Now the Christian walk is like that too except for the added difficulty of there being fog and mist of...

Exactly. In the NT the covenant is spiritual...so then without giving up your life there is no "aphesis"...freedom. (not forgiveness) Blood represents life..and this idea of forgiveness isn't right....it's about freedom from sin...not just a pass on sins.

The fruit of the Spirit is not measured in conversions. Otherwise how do you account for conversions to other sects and religions. Those are converts too. There are many Christian false conversions. And Paul was concerned he would be cut-off from God even after having preached to many. So that...

That's just it. We can't claim for ourselves what we have received from God...to do with as we please. Everyone that is alive in the world has received the gift of a body and a temporal life. And we all will be judged afterwards for what we have done in the body. Likewise we who have received...

High end skills in languages doesn't mean understanding or accuracy of translation...since what isn't being understood is being passed over. A different language requires a different sensitivity to things like context. So then when a word leaves it's natural state...like the word "salvation"...

Not everyone who has the Spirit dwelling in them sows to the Spirit. As Paul says to the foolish Galatians...having begun in the Spirit but now being made perfect by other means. And this is separate from having the Spirit of Christ dwelling within. So then we can be both His AND...

We should look to God for a new salvation. A new and fresh filling of the Spirit. Going to the throne room of God to receive more grace...an abundant grace in time of need. To fill our lamps anew with oil. (of course they who see salvation as a one time event will NOT go back for a refill...so...

And what of they who are in Christ that walk not after the Spirit but after the flesh?

Amen. And the jury is still out on who has been faithful till the end. So we encourage another daily to stand fast and press onward. (as opposed to arguing about how saved for all eternity we are)

We are not to compare with our previous life or people in the world. But we are to look to Jesus to run the race that HE has set before us. To look back is not pleasing to God. We should strive to be ever pleasing to God in this race of faith. Luke 9:62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having...

We are sealed into the coming judgment for the house of the Lord. And that judgment is going to be a fierce one. We are to walk in the good works of heaven. If we don't bear an eternal fruit we could be cast out....beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

2 Cor. 1:10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; But after the initial salvation...the rest is conditional to our being faithful and in line with His Spirit and His will.

Yes....but they are listed as they happen. This modern reformist idea of a one time salvation for all time is not biblical.The bible is a narrative that displays God's salvations as they happen...or happened. In the OP I posted a narrative list. Salvation is past, present and future...and it...

As in...I will spit IT out of my mouth...but not..I will spit YOU out of My mouth? Is the shame and nakedness attributed to a series of words? (surely words can be naked) Or will God judge the works of many as being of no eternal value so that these although saved will be vessels of dishonour...

This is a very contradictory message. As in.."those I love can ignore my warnings because even though I say I will spit you out...I'd never actually do it??" Normally, people who hold to your view stay away from warnings by ignoring them. Here you post the warning and then ignore the...

In Christ one salvation is being built upon the other. Just like an upper room is built upon a ground floor. Now some who have entered into the salvation of Christ on the ground floor will refuse to believe that there is more to it than that. The belief they started with they now shut off...as...

So then to think in terms of a one time salvation is to miss the biblical narrative. With God salvation is part of a bigger story...whereby we are saved more than once. The bible offers us a look at God's ways in the Exodus of His people from Egypt. God saves His people many times in the...

Ps. 116:13 I will take the cup of salvations, and call upon the name of the LORD. In the Hebrew way of thinking...salvation is plural. Just like the above verse...which because it involves a different mindset...has been erringly translated into the singular. But in the Hebrew it is plural. And...