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There are spiritual forces at work that your mocking tone will only encourage. And I'm not saying those forces are good. You can remain confident in yourself...but it is ignorance that you are exhibiting. Unless God holds back the full force of the deceiver....until you are ready to overcome...

The problem is that you are honest. :) A lot of people are defeated but just don't admit it. They hide behind religious facades. But you have not been taught correctly...is all. Believing in Jesus is not a source of power. Believing INTO Jesus is. Jesus in you is the start. But the full...

Jesus did say He came to bring a sword....and division....and a fire. Spiritual Christians recognize other spiritual Christians. Religious Christians recognize other religious Christians. And never the 2 will meet. Add to that the different maturity levels...and it can get quite confusing...

You are denying God's conditions? Then you are either a universalist....or a Calvinist. Both extreme views deny the truth IN Christ.

The more mature a believer gets the more God allows the full deceptive powers of darkness to test him. Think of it like belts in karate. You don't take on the harder competitors until you advance farther.

Salvation by works...is...Judaism. Paul was against bringing Gentiles into Judaism and so bringing them under the law...instead of the full freedom of grace. So then the works of the law are...a physical circumcision...kosher eating....sabbath keeping...etc...

What happens is that God leads us slowly into ALL truth...ALL righteousness...and a FULL obedience. As such we are given a measure of these things. God expects more from us as we go along. So for us they are moving targets. We can't say after doing the initial things....there I'm done! When you...

In the older Greek manuscripts Barabbas is called Jesus Barabbas. But this was seen as a sensitive issue for the translators. However by leaving out his full name we don't get the tension that believers face in regard to the real identity of Jesus. So we are faced with a choice....just like the...

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

And why the house of David? Besides this being in Jerusalem.... The tent of David was for all nations... Acts 15:13And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me: 14Simon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of...

Keys unlock doors. They also lock doors. When I think of a key I think of those machines that duplicate a new key from a blank by cutting one in the same mirror image as the original. So I see also we are being conformed to the same image of Christ. We are being cut into that which opens...

Jesus Barabbas. The popular one. The one that loves freedom of action.

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I use "peg" to refer to a tent peg...which is what the letter vav represents in the Hebrew aleph-beth. It is the 6th letter.

Answer the questions....and we will see what unbelief is...or is not.

Do you believe that God's grace is sufficient to make you able to walk as Jesus walked....without any spot of sin in either thought or deed? Do you believe you can walk in Zion in the presence of God so that you are living in 2 dimensions at once....just as Jesus walked?

But what is the "key of David"? It is access to Zion...in the spiritual realm. The kingdom of God. Jesus said to Peter..."I give you the keys of the kingdom." Mat. 16:19 "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you...

Concerning Eliakim and Shebna...and the letter vav....or peg. This is prophetic according to the name Shebna...who had a "vav" removed from his name. Difficult to understand unless you think in Hebrew... ;) But let's try... Is. 22: The key of the house of David I will lay on his shoulder; So he...

God teaches us by comparisons. He will often allow something that is far less than His will at first....like a king Saul....in order to better display what He does approve of.....as in king David. The same goes for Shebna and Eliakim. (Is. 22) Shebna was over the household of the king....but...