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We can only discern God by entering into a greater love. So also the greater the truth the more love we need to have from within to communicate it. It is about entering into a hidden place in the Spirit where God resides. Then our life is hid with God in a place where we need to discover more...

Amen Willie T. The truth is difficult enough even when love is present. It becomes intolerable when wielded as if the speaking of truth is more important than the person we are trying to reach. The truth is everlasting...but we humans only have a limited amount of time to get into the truth...

Greetings to all, We are to be stewards of a great mystery. The mystery of God's grace towards men. Many will say that this isn't such a mystery but this is to miss the depth of the truth and the power it has over our lives. So often we use the word bluntly as if we are playing with plastic...

Then there is the other kind of person that allows the cares of this world to interfere with a full consecration to God. Such are they who allow the weeds to overtake the wheat within themselves...so that they BECOME unfruitful. So then having started off well enough...they then shrink back due...

Yes...but as long as we aren't ever using this to defend ourselves or justify ourselves. We are to not notice the good we do...but be hard on ourselves. So then it is wise to be hard on ourselves but easy on others. Rather than what we see so much...they that go easy on themselves but hard on...

First, all communication with others should be in love...for another's benefit, not our own. It takes discernment to see what is helpful and what is harmful. It is crucial to be able to exhort others...and even correct others but in a way that is not a personal attack. It must bring life not...

The true pronunciation of God and Jesus... L O V E.

It seems men have no limits when it comes to self-delusion. It's very religious to think we are far more pleasing to God than we actually are....unless we are, of course. But can't the brethren help us to see our true state?

I have often used this story to illustrate the 'Emperors new clothes" of righteousness among they that have been told that they are now infallibly saved and sanctified and glorified for all time....etc. The Laodicean church thought they were well clothed in everything they could possibly have...

Amen. it is a gift.

Agreed! Totalitarianism seems right in the moment...but the fruit isn't ripe. ;)

I think we need a bit of both. We have to allow ourselves some room for growth and more understanding. God has this way of being infinite after all. ;)

Do the doctrines we have received help us to know God? Do they cause us to love others? Or do they cause us to judge?

Inductive reasoning: Whereby we already have a conclusion in mind as we seek for evidence of it. Deductive reasoning: Where we are trying to find a conclusion by reason of evidence. But the best way to understand the bible is by the same Spirit that wrote it in the first place. :)

"H. Richard, post: 428044, member: 6940"*** All of these suffered for the gospel. They suffered because of their faith in God. My message is that faith in God's work on the cross is the only thing that saves in this age of grace. Because I teach this I am taken to task for saying that...

This statement... But salvation has always been by grace through faith in God and Christ, and the perfect finished work of Christ on the Cross. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. We are that...

We can only fulfill the holy requirements of the law through grace. So then what we couldn't do due to the weakness of the flesh we now put on Christ in order to do as He did. That is the purpose of His coming. To equip us to walk in what He has perfected in the weakness of the flesh. Romans...

2 Cor. 2:14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.

A very good post. And how do we get more grace? By going to God. That's the whole point of it. We are to go to God by faith in order to receive more grace. We are to have a personal contact with the living God..as the saints of old. We are to have a personal relationship. That is what God...

There is another kind of faith. There is a kind of faith that moves mountains. Was Jesus exaggerating? At any rate we are to go from faith to Faith. From our own kind of human faith to the Faith of Jesus Christ. His faith...His life. Rom 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from...