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There's the problem right there. You are doing what so many are doing that call themselves believers...picking your verses and expecting God to reward you for ignoring the rest of His counsel. I'm surprised you don't claim salvation for yourself. Maybe you haven't found those verses yet...

Do you want to be fixed to your purpose or to God's purpose? God doesn't want us just to enjoy this life as much as possible and then die. He wants to get you on track for eternal life...but a life lived in and through God. Struggles help us to focus on what is really important. If our...

Rom. 1:5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name: So many misunderstand grace. Grace is the power to minister Christ and to walk as He walked. Very few are called this way. But the light of grace is to shine to the world "for...

This change is in reference to the priesthood and holiness laws...temple holiness. From the Levitical priesthood to that of the order of Melchizedek. (Hebrews 7:26, 27) What was once symbolic yet weak through the flesh...is now fulfilled by walking in the Spirit by grace...thus actually going...

It is of interest that the word "Hebrews" (Ivrim) in Hebrew sounds exactly like "the blind" (Ivrim) in Hebrew. The only difference is the silent letter at the beginning of the word. The silent letter at the beginning of the word for Hebrews (Ivrim) is an ayin...which is the symbol of an eye. So...

Like any man-made doctrine...total depravity has a good point...but goes too far. If this extremist doctrine were true...there would be no need for free will or a judgment. We could not be held responsible for the evil we in fact do...as it would be seen as the animals who do things by nature...

Amen to God's providence! I retired at 43 to serve the Lord full time...without any salary. It's been 17 years now. Best time for my wife and I also. I love spending time in the word and in His presence in solitude...and this is a gift from God. I also thank the Lord for His spiritual...

Solitude Creates Space for God To live a Christian life means to live in the world without being of it. It is in solitude that this inner freedom can grow. Jesus went to a lonely place to pray, that is, to grow in the awareness that all the power he had was given to him; that all the words he...

Actually, the kind of prophecy described in the gathering of believers is to express the will of God or His heart by the Spirit. The hidden things. By revelation. It isn't always telling the future in material terms and events. In fact that is much more rare.

Man-made and man-learned doctrines. Fables......but people like fables.

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I agree. The election of grace is given by God to they whom He qualifies (for reasons known only to Him) to run the race of faith. Saints are chosen by God to be perfected in Christ. So this part of God's plan looks like Calvinism. But holiness is the light of this world and many others will...

Welcome to the boards! :) I was thinking lately on a verse in that psalm...verse 3 Ps. 11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? The foundations of the truth in our time have been shaken to the point that people can no longer endure sound doctrine. People no longer seem...

I also believe so...hence the purpose of this thread. It is the reaction against this subject that would suggest that the time of saints is past.

Saints do not walk as mere humans.... 1 Cor. 3:3 You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans? or else as they who walk in the power of the flesh... 2 Cor. 10:2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold...

"The word we use for “saint” is the Greek word for “holy” – agios. In a real sense, we are celebrating the presence of holiness in the world, incarnate in actual flesh and blood human beings. The descent of the Holy Spirit makes it possible for human beings to become and remain holy. Without...

1 Cor. 1:2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's: Both theirs and our what? The Lord! Who is the "ours" and who is the...

Col 1:2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Is the church made up of saints only? Of course not. Most are faithful brethren...learning to be well founded in the faith. As in the...

The warfare of a saint is not in his own strength. It is by the keeping power of God. Those who walk in their own strength are still under the law. They walk as mere men. But the walk of a saint is by the grace of God...the power that causes men to do the impossible. Are the dead raised through...

There is a big difference between the popularly obsessive theme of salvation ...and of sanctification. This thread is about sanctification in both purity (as a gift) and maturity...apprehending that for which we have been apprehended. Salvation is to remain faithful till the end. So nobody is...