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The kingdom of God for us is the spiritual life in the place where God resides....in Zion. The church is a gathering of people who are to reside IN Christ and proclaim the kingdom life. We preach the kingdom by testifying of the power to live in reconciliation and fellowship with God Himself...

I think this is the root of the problem. The above statement is not true. It is a man centered understanding. Of course God wants all men to come into conformity with His will...and thereby live, but salvation for salvation's sake...no.

Rahab could have been both!! Small town diversification???

Christianity is not absorb-able by the human mind. It is based on the revelation of Christ to an individual. Spiritual discernment is required to understand the scriptures but this comes in fits and starts...not all at once. The purpose is not to fill the mind...but to give a timely instruction...

Doesn't God give sunshine to those destined for life as well as those destined for death? He gives good things to all....without bias. Do you really believe what you have said here? The disposable structure is building with a human understanding ... a carnal understanding. All the works of the...

He was DEAD according to his father. Luk_15:24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

There is indeed a place of dishonour for those who cannot keep their garments pure. We are to watch and pray and have oil ready in our lamps lest we be rejected. The Laodicean church was warned it would be spewed from Jesus' mouth... There are 2 judgments...one for the house of God and one for...

You can't discern the holy from the carnal. There is no power in the positional ideology. The "I get all the glory and Jesus gets stuck with all the mess" approach to the servant-hood of God.

It is ingenious because men invented it. The blood of Christ does not cover up unrighteousness. 1Pe 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

Agreed! It is modeled on the clergy system from Roman times. The Pontiffs made sacrifices and were "bridges (mediators) for the common folk. Then there was the Pontifex maximus...the pope...the head of all the pontiffs. All this was in place for hundreds of years BEFORE Jesus came to earth.

...as a side issue! We will all be judged by what we did, what we said, and what we thought. The light exposes everything. The grace of God empowers us to live in such a way as the closer scrutiny brings MORE glory to God. Joh_3:21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds...

Another excellent treatise!

A most excellent post! Thank you!!!! Rep added!

Amen! We NEED to fear the Lord. It does happen in the Lord. God's judgments are perfect. God impartially judges all men. God also WANTS us to succeed and equips us to that purpose. So then yes, the love of God has fear in it.

In other words what works of the law could not accomplish in the doing of the law...faith does! With God all things are possible.

Yes! They are a part of the saints. The saints are in the first resurrection. The second resurrection is for the world at large both righteous and wicked. Those not written in the book of life in the second rez are killed in fire. The first resurrection is actually for Israel, the people of God...

Php_2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Paul is saying this because he wants none to be lost through becoming lax, or being drawn away from the new life through...

Do you think the Holy Spirit makes us irresponsible? This is not about trying to justify oneself...it is about walking by faith. So as we walk by faith we fulfill the law. Rom_3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. Faith keeps the law. We...

Rom 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.