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An event and a process that makes us ready for the Master's indwelling and use.

I accept that the KJV says what it says...it is the interpretation of what it says that is at issue. :) Hi D. Ironically the verse you quoted showed the ESV version which reads Romans 3:25 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show...

Yet supposedly higher functioning people don't think they need close communities to thrive!

Haz, you have certainly set your sights low. Why is the lowest possible standard important to you? Are there loafers in the kingdom?

The difference is what creates the problem we see among so many. Richard Burger maintains that he puts his entire trust faith confidence in the shed blood of Christ. When we take a God-ward view and turn it inside out to make it man-ward we get an exact subversion of the truth.....same...

I have never both seen and heard at the same time. John's is way more sweeping and "precise". There is never a "sound track" along with the vision for me. The sound comes later (or not at all) as a separate event. :) What have I seen? Many different things...I will pm you!!!! :)

The subtle difference between putting faith in Christ Himself as opposed to His sacrifice has caused many to claim the sacrifice for themselves as if Jesus were offering that sacrifice for men rather than for God. The old sacrifices were again done in obedience so that when GOD saw the blood...

We cannot run away from all human systems in this world. That has already been tried..besides we are still to be IN the world. But we are not to be OF the world. So we must come out of human institutions in regards ourselves (in our allegiances) and the community of faith. We are separated unto...

While the Matrix is a good story that points to a heavenly reality...one should be careful not to miss the truth of this to make the story more important than the message it contains. Like if you take any bible story and make a cartoon out of it...then many will say...that's just a cartoon...

Very good treatise until the final conclusion. We cannot have "faith in His blood". That is a wrong conclusion. Nowhere else in the bible do we see that faith in blood does anything. We are to have faith in Christ ,,,,we are not believers in blood. So the text could also have been written...in...

Haz, a testimony is an ongoing thing we are building on daily. So maybe up to this point you have not experienced the power of resurrection and the effect this has on your behaviour, If you are truly born from the Spirit then that power is latent in you still. Turn to the Lord while offering...

Yes! :)

Actually we can see Him in Zion where He presently is. We don't see Him when we walk in the Spirit...we feel His presence. But we can be taken to Zion in the Spirit so that we see Him the same way we find ourselves in the throne room of God...we are transported. It is like a vision...but while...

Does the name Richard Burger mean anything to you? ;)

The proof of having seen the Lord is a deep holiness in that person. The face of Moses shone after his encounter with God...seeing the Lord in the Spirit causes light to enter into our hearts. So this is my take on it...If a person has never ceased from sin (for any significant length of time)...

Where are we called to believe in the blood?

Imagine a cinema giving out free tickets for a movie. The people rush to get a ticket and then walk away joyful. A very few of those people actually walk INTO the cinema to see the show. The atonement is like this. Although the atonement was made for all men....most just rush to get the ticket...

Agreed! The idea of obedience and pleasing God are not unrelated....in fact they are exactly related. When we obey the Lord He is pleased...when we disobey the Lord He is displeased. Obedience is what pleases Him. So doing what is right is both obedience and to please Him. I see a...

My "attack" on others is, as I've said many times in different ways...the helping hand that a fish caught on dry land tries to avoid. I'm trying to help people in their walk. I may appear as a drill sergeant to some... but a drill sergeant is trying to help you survive in combat. You...

Exactly! :) You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for you have created all things, and for your pleasure they are and were created. Rev. 4:11 1Co_10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.