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Yes! It is the works of the flesh which are condemned.....not all works. We are in fact created to work in the Spirit.

Salvation is not in our hands but God's. He will decide who will end up where. The wise fear the Lord...the foolish are over-confident. Many who call themselves Christians today will be rejected into outer darkness. If God did not spare the natural branches, why would He spare the wild branches...

I will pray for you! When we are already filled even to overflowing with God's Spirit then we can stop looking for more filling in the world around us. :) Lord have Your way with Doug! <><

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I am attempting to bring the truth into the false reality we see so much these days. Jesus' atonement on the cross was followed by His resurrection...which is conveniently left out of our equation. Rather than just die for our sins Jesus was raised in order that WE might be God's righteousness...

Psa 119:142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. If we love the truth then we love the law...they are the same. In these end times many do not love the truth and they rail against the law... 2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only...

A paradox to be sure. The very greatness of God....together with His eternal judgments affecting us completely means we literaly tremble at His words.

The truth goes beyond our human experience. So when we try to understand the bible from our previous experience, we will ALWAYS be wrong. We need faith to break out of the chains that bind us to our present reality. The israelites reasoned in their own minds that the God who could part the sea...

It means to tremble...with fear.

I agree that the truth is always a dialectic...two seemingly contradictory statements that together frame the truth. Like fearing the Lord and yet perfect loves casts out all fear...like not being under the law yet abiding in the fulness of the law. Unless someone already understands the truth...

Paul is speaking of the law of righteousness...doing what is pleasing to God. It is obvious that the sacrificial system is done away with in Christ. If you look carefully you will see that even Judaism is unable to continue in the holiness part of the law. It has been superceded by the sacrifice...

..against SUCH there is no law. My body heals itself when I get a cut. When I have no cut...I don't need that healing. But the healing abiblity is still there. That is the way it is with the law. When we walk by the Spirit we are not under the law. But the law is still there if needed. If we...

"The fear of God and the peace proceeding from the love of God need to coexist in the believer's heart because the peace of God by itself cannot induce repentance in the sinner's heart and thus, no salvation. And on the other hand, the fear of God without His love creates despair.Therefore, a...

The love of other things will choke out the word so that we will read something in the bible while totally ignoring the implications. For instance Jesus tells us we must hate our families and even our own lives compared to Him. This is thrown aside as we care for our families first and seek to...

We are already doing the calf thing. Idolatry is rampant in the church. We do not live in a vacuum. It is just that idolatry is not SEEN as idolatry because there are no literal golden calfs about. We are careful about that! ;) A partial list of idols...nationalism (flag)...the pursuit of our...

The means of salvation is finished, but we still have to walk it out by faith. The law is no more abolished than gravity has been abolished. But God has made men to fly, so to speak, by giving him the wings of faith. We are not saved by the elimination of the law.....but by it's fulfillment in...

But the law is still in place because the judgment has not yet come. Jesus said that heaven and earth would pass away before the slightest point of the law was taken away. Until the SEED Jesus Christ came men were under the condemnation of the law they could not keep. They were in bondage to a...

Gal 3:15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. Gal 3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is...

The law is for the lawless...but that doesnt mean we get away with more for our beliefs. The opposite is true. To whom much is given MORE is required. So the resurrection grace of Christ given to us enables us to walk in perfect accordance with the law in all righteousness. The Holy Spirit...

We don't have faith in Christ in order to avoid the law...but in order to empower us to fulfill it.