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Salvation is squarely in the hands of God. What people actually like to do is to take judgment out of God's hands and put things like salvation into their own hands. It makes it "simple" as you say.

God judges and Jesus saves. But although Jesus died for the sins of the whole world not everyone will be saved. So then it isn't for us to determine who is saved or not at this point. I think it is very human to want to figure these things out and take judgment away from God. But judgment rests...

What we should be desiring is to enter fully into His rest. We are to enter into His eternal life. And to remain there. This takes a sacrificial love for God and for others. Agape. So we are learning to be as Jesus in the world.

The right kind of fruit. Obedience. Faithfulness. Faith. Mercy and not judging others. Humility. The character of Jesus.

Eternal life is a kind of life in the Spirit. We have a taste of that kind of life now...which is supposed to win us over to the cause of Christ and His kingdom. It is certainly not meant to give us a false assurance that we have some kind of guarantee because we are anything but a vessel. If we...

The truth cuts both ways. The sword is double edged. Just as we can repent of evil and turn to the living God...so also we can turn aside to fables and dead religion. Paul says this. Rom. 11:21 For if God did not at all spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you. God is love. But...

I'll take this one up. "rock of offense" Jesus said that He was coming as a thief in the night. Jesus was crucified between 2 thieves. So then the offense is that Jesus seems to be taking away something we think we have. For many that will be the taking away of the salvation they presently...

To whom much is given more is required. So then if we have received grace and a new heart...we should seek God in order to walk in a way that is pleasing to Him. We should seek that intimacy with Him. If we become smug and take salvation for granted without the fear of the Lord in a continuing...

Revelation is a good answer...but restored relationship is an excellent answer! :)

There is a time when we consider is the right time...and there is God's time .Like a drowning man...we tend to try pulling people into our problems...but just before we go under we stop kicking and panicking and we let go, resigned to our end....and THEN God intervenes.

"zipzaddle, post: 431845, member: 7923"]God wants to remind you that He sees you as complete in Christ… perfect! So God only "sees us" as a new creation? God sees us just as we really are. The only people that can be fooled as to our true condition...is ourselves. Not only has He decided to...

Psalm 22:1 does say forsaken. But Jesus says "entangled". :) Jesus got entangled in the affairs of men....and paid the ultimate price for it. But His resurrection "untangled" things so that we can now walk a straight path!

In short...a best guess? What seems right?

"Taken, post: 431809, member: 7756"]A mystery of Gods Works; It is The Fullness "OF" God... His Spirit that Fills "our Quickened" spirit. Our Body's Are DEAD, (crucified). We live IN Christ's glorified body. Not really. We will only put on a glorified body after this body dies or is put off...

Have you experienced His resurrection power? We have a new nature and when we enter into Christ there is a new law...the law of the Spirit of life IN Christ. There is power in His life and blood. Resurrection power that can animate these mortal bodies to be fully pleasing to God...without spot...

2 Cor. 4: 10 "always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies."

Our calling in Christ is to walk in the same life that Jesus did...not do specific things that can be done by human strength. Christianity is not supposed to be a religion....but an anti-religion that exposes the flesh. We are to live by another power, another life...that of the Spirit. That is...

Yet we can be filled with all His fulness that we can contain in these bodies. Eph. 3:19 "and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."

I saw this advert for a church that supposedly is modeled on Acts 2. Really? And what do they do that resembles the major revival that kickstarted the faith on Earth? They hold to the doctrine of tongues. That's it. And doing this compares with the power exhibited in Acts? Really. The...

This is true. But there is a real barrier to coming together in the unity of the Spirit nonetheless. I met a brother yesterday and we spent a full 9 hours fellowshipping in the Lord. A great brother. He told me of a brother that he knows that he lives next door to..they have been the closest of...