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Just look at the tag to this forum..."loving people living community" Now that is a slogan. I'm sure many people come here not seeing the love nor the community. Such is the way of slogans. They are shallow and misleading. Better to be humble ...do the right things...but claim nothing.

Humility sees in a greater context. The proud man only sees himself in every context. A Christian...who knows God...is the humblest person of all. Since he is a constant awareness of the immensity of God. But we can become smug even in our knowledge of God. So we can't become too familiar with...

If we take a look at God's canvas we can see that there are things put together that seem to cancel each other out. But in God's world BOTH fit together. (Hence the importance of not trying to understand God's ways with the carnal mind) For example... Rom. 6:23 For the wages of sin is death...

Gal. 5:24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. There is a problem with the translations in this verse. The Greek does not imply that we are to crucify ourselves It goes like...."have had their flesh crucified" One can only enter into Christ...

Then there is the "foreignness" of God's character to consider. He is not like us. As His friends...or as we are learning to develop friendship with God.... He gets us into situations where we have real trouble with His ways. Are we sacrificial in our love? He is. And He wants us to learn from...

Now with everyone doing their own paintings...no two are alike. This tends to separate people based on style, opinions, inclinations etc... But this is not God's will. God wants us to all come to Him to be in His canvas. It is there that we become one....that we become members one of another...

I think many denominations come out of a revival. But the denomination itself is just the man-made attempt at preserving something that God did among His people long ago. There is a counsel of God that says...don't go back to Bethel, or Gilgal...IOW God moves on...don't try preserving what God...

Community in the Spirit. Supernatural love, supernatural power...supernatural witness of light to a world in darkness.

Actually we can only know God apart from sin. Sin separates us from God. Sin is against love. So we only know God as we allow His love to grow in us. Not sin.

There you go! ;) A crazy quote if I ever saw one...but it is consistent with your beliefs...I'll give you that. :)

Searing the conscience.

You would have us serving two masters...God AND sin. Didn't Jesus say that we can't serve two masters? Reading Paul correctly...he is not saying that he is serving God and sin simultaneously. When a person walks according to the flesh there is no power to overcome sin and remain pure. Only when...

All that is not on God's canvas is sin...it is taking something out of it's proper context. And the worst sins are the religious kind because they seek to take a piece of truth away from God in order to add it into another painting which does not represent Him.

God's love is holy. :) His holiness is love.

Now the Pharisees were very sincere in their commitment to God and what they perceived were His ways. They defended their faith against pagan encroachments. As such they were champions of the faith. We see al lot of that going on in our time as well. ;) The unrenewed mind thinks...

Dave I love you in spite of the crazy things you sayo_O... you are so sincere in your opinions about God.:rolleyes: I picture you...when you meet the Lord, saying..."OH I'm changing my beliefs to this!!!"

The law says...the soul that sins, it shall die. Or else...the wages of sin is death. Does grace make these laws go away? Of course not. If it was up to us we would eliminate such hard sounding laws. Hypocrites say they admire God's painting...but claim to not be able to see the mountains...

God's ways are equal....He is just. He always works by laws. There is no arbitrary and preferential treatment to one group of people over another. With God it is always ...whosoever. Of course He already knows who will follow His ways....and who will resist Him. Does grace take away the law...

Now the title of the painting is "holiness unto the Lord". Everything on the painting is in connection with God's purpose and His glory. Now we lesser artists seek other things with our artistry...with titles as mundane as "how to get saved in one easy step"...or...this is why I justify...

Enter free will and mankind who doesn't necessarily care to be subject to God the great Artist...and who see themselves as artists in their own right. When we spill paint on our canvas...it is just a mess. But God knows how to weave our spills into His masterpiece. He knows how to make ALL...