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The thing is..I don't derive my happiness by thinking I'm more saved than anyone else. To me that's an unnecessary ego thing. I can rest in God and HIS judgments (not my own). I fear God because I don't know how I will end up...as no one really knows (unless they make-believe they do). I think...

And if they who say they love the Lord would just pay more attention to His words of warning...they would depart from iniquity by the fear of the Lord...and move into glory. But seeing that so few count themselves as worthy of such a high calling...claiming to not need to lift a finger for...

Yes...God sees to the infinite detail. God wants to see what we will do with our freedom. With His words. Will we use them for ourselves...or will we seek Him about them? The kingdom of God must be a safe place for the innocent. If a person is self-seeking he will hurt the weak and defenseless...

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The true saints of God. Not to be confused with "saved churchgoers". People have set up a counterfeit system that claims Christ as their "saviour"...as if He was not already the saviour of all men. Organizations and religious businesses try to market Jesus as if He was THEIR product to...

I think that people make a religion out of Christianity because they think that believing in Jesus...or His works...gives them salvation. They don't see that obedience to the gospel is what saves them. They think just accepting Jesus and taking His sacrifice unto themselves makes them saved. But...

This reasoning is itself a strawman. You are offering a false choice. The initiative never rests with us...but with God. One must go to God to receive the gift....not just believe you already have them. So then IF you believe that God has these gifts waiting for you...seek the Lord for them.

The walk with God is about relationship. And there are two kinds of ships in that relationship. One is by sail and the other by engine power. On a sailboat a person learns how to trim the sails to catch the wind and how to move forward even when the winds are contrary. That is based on good...

That is your position in a nutshell. But the new birth is by the power of God. No one is born again just by believing. God has to intervene. The walk is by faith. But the new birth is by the will of God....not the will of man. You can't believe yourself into the kingdom of God. Just like you...

There is a real place where that is true. But just because you own a bible and want to believe it doesn't mean that this has happened to you specifically yet. The latter is what I call....reading yourself into the text. What is the difference between a real knight and Don Quixote who thought...

true dat. Those who are looking for the "exceedingly great and precious promises" for themselves are bound for stumbling over Christ. We should never go after the promises of God...but go after God Himself in whom are those promises. Again that would seem too subtle of a difference for many...

The truth always has a polarity..whereby both poles must be brought to bear in order to see the truth. Here are 2 polarity verses... First verse: Psalm 91:10-12 10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. Compare with... Second verse: Amos 9:10...

It is one thing to claim the greatness of God...and quite another to vainly boast of one's own position in that greatness. The Pharisees claimed to see. But in truth they were blind. Their blindness was such that they had exaggerated their position with God and were leading others astray as...

Is it a coincidence that Jesus only got angry when He went to "church"? :rolleyes:

Then why don't you seek to abide in Christ? You in particular react very strongly against that suggestion claiming that you already are. So then you are trying to avoid that seeking. You think it foolish to seek God for something that you don't need to seek about. So why doubt what you were taught?

God is a righteous judge. But you are making God sound like a kindergarten teacher here. There will be rejections and weeping and gnashing of teeth. People will wail and be very angry at the people who taught them lies. Go back and read what the bible actually says about God's judgments. We are...

When Jesus walked the earth...nobody could tell who He was just by looking at Him. But to be able to see as Jesus saw and walk in the power He was walking in would have astounded people that a human being could see like that and operate like that into another dimension...that of the Spirit...

The methodology is through indoctrination and appropriating things for themselves that are written in the bible but in a shallow "done deal" kind of salesmanship...but of course only those things that are desirable. Anything written in the form of a warning and/ or a discipline...these things...

Actually what I'm saying is... "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world." Do you not think you are above being deceived by A FALSE SPIRIT? Which of course means that you are very much a candidate...

We are actually called to further enter into Him so that we can partake of His grace and life. Those who abide in Him walk as He walked...in His holiness. To be holy as God is holy. This is a gift...by grace through faith. Sanctification is about location. In Him. We are to be partakers of HIS...