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Mainstream Christianity has always sought to avoid the cross of Christ. To find a more religious way that doesn't offend the flesh. It famously offers a salvation status to it's carnal devotees in a total abandonment of the narrow way. But in so doing these have also cut themselves off from the...

We can love on different levels. These loves don't need to be against each other. We can love in a reasonable way...treating others as ourselves. Considering others as well as ourselves....in balance. And then there is the crucified self-emptied love where self is annihilated so that Christ can...

Actually we are the ones that come and go as WE please based on our desires and lusts. But they that are Christ's....and remain in Him...do so because their own lusts and desires have been crucified away from us (we become dead to them by the working of His power on us).

Anything done outside of God's presence really. All that is not of faith...or in faith...is sin. Jesus Christ came to reconcile us to the Father so as to restore that intimacy with God...but at a higher level. This is accomplished by becoming a disciple of Christ and entering INTO Him....taking...

Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. Jesus put on OUR flesh to perfect a walk in holiness IN OUR flesh. Otherwise why would He come all the way here? So then they who walk in sin deny the resurrection of Christ...not in word...but in power. These also deny that Jesus was fully human. (Again not...

Self-indulgence demands a flesh gospel whereby we continue to walk as we always have...justified by continuing in the weakness of sinful flesh. Behold all things are become the same old same old??? No...all things have become new....not a new way to sin or a new coverup for old sins...but a new...

That's why you need to be born from above...by the Spirit. That which is born of flesh is flesh...but that which is born of Spirit is Spirit. Then it remains to put on Christ who is our overcoming power in this life. This is done by faith. So then turn to the living God in a surrender of your...

The flesh judges that God's love should just cover up the sins of His favourite humans. But God is not like that. His love bore our rebellious natures on the cross so that by entering into Him...by love and faith in Him...we should be just as He is....empowered by His love to overcome sin. But...

This is false of course. (not the love part) The answer to our flesh problems is the cross of Christ and abiding in His power and life...NOT by just ignoring these thinking that God has become blind to sin. I can only imagine the shock of so many believers that think they can get away with sin...

In this statement the emphasis should be on the number 4...as in the 4 angels and the 4 spirits (winds) mentioned along with the 4 "corners" as in Rev. 7:1. There are many such references to the 4 ends of the earth...the 4 winds (rouach or spirits)...etc. So to keep the mysteries available to...

It is a true saying that the carnal nature seeks for gratification. Self-satisfaction takes many forms. The least desirable of these forms is the religious tendency to look for a justification for remaining in a sinful state. Why do this (shortchanging the faith) when Jesus has won the victory...

During our sanctification? What are you talking about? A sanctified person doesn't sin. There is no process of sanctification. It is a gift of grace from God...not by works or labour lest any man should boast. Entering into Christ is done at one time...just like the baptism of the Spirit and...

It is a common error to attribute a consecration of oneself to God with holiness. But these are as different as heaven is from earth. Can we rob Christianity of it's fundamental supernatural element and rest on the works of men?

Mature people perhaps...but not mature Christians. The tendency towards sin is done away with when we bring ourselves to be crucified with Christ...then it is the works of Christ that take place...away from sin. There is a maturity in THAT life...that is the Christian maturity. A maturity that...

What is finished is the perfected humanity of Jesus...given to they who are crucified with Him in the form of grace power to walk as Jesus walked. Now all that remains to do is for people to surrender their lives to be crucified with Christ so that HIS life is made manifest in these mortal...

The bible relates Christians as ESPECIALLY saved....not exclusively saved. So there is room for God to declare a man or woman righteous who doesn't know the spiritual walk in Christ. If the church could just understand the difference between righteousness and holiness....we could take more than...

For God so loved the world...not just a particular nation....or people. Now how and why would God redeem some sinners but not others? All people are in the world are they not? We all need a Saviour. As usual people will take this to extremes....as in...only Christians are saved....or else ALL...

Is God imaginary to you? God does have His time. And we are to wait on the Lord for His time in all things.

If we consider that these words of Jesus were meant to convey how hard it is for a rich person...like ourselves...from entering into the kingdom of God...then we can't miss the meaning for it being how easy it is for us for us rich Westerners to be saved. Although we do just that! Then it is a...

A very reasonable approach. :) Once we start inventing "biblical" meanings for the words of the bible....we are well on the way to subversion of the biblical message. A case in point is with the word "impute". The "biblical interpretation" method makes the word to mean the very opposite of...