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What Solomon wrote regarding study, even study of the scriptures, in our flesh alone is a weariness. What Apostle Paul wrote admonished us to read and to study, but the purpose shown is to meet with God's approval by our obedience, NOT in order to learn. God provided another way to learn. A...

Some people who claim to be on the Lord's side may insist on bypassing childhood or that other bypass it. Spiritual childhood, I mean! No one, even with the best of parents, is ready to take his place as a functional profitable adult in the world of men at the age of 2 months, or 2 years or 9...

Yes, and God preserved much of those things in the written scriptures for our benefit. How much good we receive from what is there is dependent upon us: "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled." Matt 5:6 And who is to decide who qualifies to...

Well one might say that the natural children of Israel had their opportunity for a new start [a new birth?] when they crossed the Red Sea out of Egypt [sin-death], but perhaps even more so when they left the wilderness [beastly life] and entered the Promised Land [into the Spirit to overcome and...

It is not so much that God directly hates anyone. Rather it is that He spoke His Word with regard to this before the foundation of the world. Men by their own actions or inactions invoke the spoken curses of the Word. God, the God who is Love, does not change. It is the man who has changed, by...

"And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." I Sam 15:22

Even if your assumption were true, would not some people would kick hard at the pricks? [See Acts 9:5] [Does that happen to people who have received the Holy Spirit?]

This "born again" thing really does hang people up at times. Instead of the ones claiming to be among the "born again" coming quickly and often together in His name, they seem often to butt their heads together even harder. This is not my imagination, is it? I would start a thread on the issue...

I understand perfectly. Say hello and God bless for us in any case!

When you talk to her, tell her she is missed. If she were to arrive here, she would be welcome as you are welcome my friend!

We had our slightly larger family get together at my daughter's house the Sunday before the designated day. At the instigation of my wife and my daughter-in-law instead of a traditional dinner, we had nachos and some other things that went well along with that. We being the oldest and tiredest...

In the context of a circle consisting of me and God and Jesus, my opinion ultimately may not make a difference to anyone else but to those in the circle it certainly would. Someone else's opinion not in that circle with regard to my opinion should matter to whom? Does anyone on the outside...

Amen!

Still in spite of some of the good things you say you neglect the importance of God in the solution. If we have everything else, but God is missing, our final result is ultimately worthless. "I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil...

But, on the other hand, some people lean too much on their study of the written scriptures without the balancing Life giving Holy Spirit. The best of Bible students is still dead in the eyes of God without the quickening of what he has consumed with his mind by the Holy Spirit!

While I do agree with much of your OP, the title gave me a different impression. Too much study without the Holy Spirit is as bad as too much emotion without the Holy Spirit, which is as bad as knowledge without charity/love!

May God richly bless you my friend. Your words are full of wisdom!

Even so! Long ago now I tried for the first time to discuss an issue with the writer of the OP. Rather than do so, he put me on "ignore". I have read a few of his many OPs but rarely do I respond to them anymore since he cannot see what I write. Is God in that? Hmmm?

As husband and wife, in the flesh, we are also supposed to be equal. Each one before God is to have a proper role, but on both sides of the physical union the errors abound among those who call themselves followers of Christ! But... as Jesus grew, so must we grow if ever we are to become like...

Give God the glory, old friend! Good to see you again among us!