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Grace is what empowers us to go beyond our human limitations. How did Peter walk on water or heal people? Not human effort.

Again this seeing grace as a commodity. We can easily grieve the Spirit. When the Spirit is chased away...the grace goes too. You can't have a non-spiritual grace that has no presence of God. Grace isn't like a coin we put in our pockets. Nobody owns grace. Grace is how God puts us into a...

You are quoting a part of the righteousness law. As in... "The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them." It is the soul that sins that shall die. This is true. But there is a higher law than righteousness. (the...

No one is under grace AND in their own strength. One displaces the other. One precludes the other. I think at least half the people on this board have never experienced anything beyond their own power, ideas and opinions. And these have been indoctrinated into believing whoppers about themselves...

That's indoctrination my friend. You read that in a book. If I read a pamphlet about a trip to Greece....that doesn't make me a tourist. If you just read the bible and claim all the good stuff for yourself...then you are just a spoiled sinner. Look deeper.

I said you have it backwards...and you keep speaking that way....so you aren't listening anyway. But grace keeps the law. If you cannot stop sinning then you are NOT under grace but under the law. Sin shows our distance from God. But grace places us into God's bosom. Turn your ideas inside out...

This is speaking of conversion....or reversion. This happens a few times in one's life. Like Zacchaeus who gave back the money he stole from people as a tax collector. Jesus said...salvation is come here. Or the thief on the cross. Same law of righteousness. You need to study what righteousness...

That means we can abide under His wing. He can shelter us in His presence and power. But we can get up any time and walk what we think is a safe distance away...until we like sheep go astray. Are you saying that sheep never stray?

God gives grace to people who deserve nothing of the kind. But you have a spoiled attitude of thinking you have that priviledge of owning God's favour. God is FREE to do as He wants. He can withhold a new pouring of grace until we stop being so self-centered and spoiled about it...for example...

So you are saying that a person can flip between being righteous and unrighteous all day? THAT is not biblical. Is a proud person humble in between his outbursts of pride? God's laws don't change. So you have it backwards. Grace is the power that fulfills the law. As we abide in...

That's not how grace works. You are confusing grace with law. Do you think God rescinds law in favour of grace? Not a chance. Grace doesn't need to be rescinded for it to be dissipated. Do we own grace? Do we own God's Spirit and presence. When we act foolishly, are we still being wise? When...

Speaking of respect... The other day my wife calls me and says to me, hey there's nobody home, why don't you drop in. So I did and there was nobody home. I get no respect... Couldn't help that... ;)

Good points. Not very many are cut out to be saints. But there are many saved nevertheless.

You are getting some things mixed up here. There are 2 biblical standards....one is holiness and the other is righteousness. I'll stop there and let you do the study. The calling of saints in glory is to holiness. The calling of the saved (but not saints)...the minimum standard....is...

Well, for a proper understanding of one verse or idea it needs to be seen in the context of the whole counsel of God. Cut-off: This is a common reference to God's people being cut off from His presence. If you do a study on this you will find many references to this. Paul feared being a...

The fact is that people will forever squabble over how God does things...until they mature a little...since God has more than one way of doing things with people. God knows how to tailor His approach to each one of us as individuals. There is really zero point in arguing over it. It is quite...

Amen. Grace is the power of God us-ward...and the connection between us and the Lord.

The proviso to going into all the world to preach the gospel was to tarry in Jerusalem until the grace to do so was received from heaven. The same applies today. we are not to go out half-baked in our own strength but be imbued with spiritual power to truly be ambassadors of the kingdom. One...

Apparently everyone has it. :)

Phil. 1:7 "Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace." In Greek there is no..."with me" ...as has been added in. In fact, but for a faulty...