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Blind obedience to what your mind has reasoned out is not what God is looking for in us. What He is seeking is what is in our hearts, ultimately with little, or even no regard, to what we do or do not understand of the details. A rich man can scarcely make it because he cannot see the forest for...

I do believe that the scriptures were written by men as they were inspired by God to write. I also believe that without the same inspiration from God no man, not you or me or anyone else, can understand what he reads in the scriptures. He is like the Ethiopian eunuch who needed a man, Philip...

I did explain to you what that verse means. You ignored my explanation and forged ahead with your carnal deduction. You may not agree with me, but that really does not make you right. God is the One who decides even He is the One who gives any increase.

@BARNEY BRIGHT You say Bible counsel can guide us, but is it not God who needs to guide us? There are a whole bunch of churches and people out there teaching and preaching the Bible who contradict each other often based on their interpretation of the what is written in the Bible. What is the...

I was speaking of 'essentials', but you added the word, 'doctrines'. Is this necessarily the same thing? Can something be essential to a person's walk with God without being a doctrine describable to every person using exactly the same words?

Thanks for the correction!

"No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day." John 6:44

For Jesus personally it was finished indeed. He was ready to die. Are we? Only if we lean on Jesus continually will he be the finisher of our faith. We must hold to Him by faith until He has finished also the work in us: "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy...

In the wilderness there was no self help available so God provided the necessary food. In Promised Land people had to plant and harvest their own crops in order to survive. That physical food was a type of the spiritual food today.... which is the flesh and blood of Jesus which we are to...

@DoveSpirit05 Amen! The things we need to overcome are those things which when followed lead us to sin. Bad habits cannot be continued indefinitely once we have met the Master. If we really follow Him, He will help us to overcome those as well. By our power alone we will continue to sin...

And then again, any heir who dies before the end of his course cannot inherit because he is dead.

Yes, everyone who endures to the end is entitled to his penny... and what is the penny? "And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved? Matt 10:22 Some work the long day and some only begin to work in the very last hour of the day... It...

Yes, it is all "free" , but if we simply bury what He has provided instead of continuing to eat and drink of Him so it [we] can grow, should we be surprised if in the end He takes it away from us?

I started doing this as well many years ago to help keep up my German and Spanish pronunciation, but then I went ahead with the English too as it really blessed me all the more. Thank you for sharing this here.

Keep on dear sister with that unconditional praise! Good to see you here even if only for a little bit.

Not to me! Sometimes I wonder if some have been conceived but either remain in the womb or are stuck in the birth canal unable to break forth to the Light! They only think [or hope] they have been born of God. The fruits of course tell the story, but who can discern the good fruits from the evil...

I recall one such a number of years ago on another forum who thought it was OK to lie about me and others who disagreed with him so as to further his agenda because he believed it was also God's agenda. He said it was OK to lie because he had been born of God and could not sin. His final...

Indeed, and some [all?] who have been born of God [born again or born from above] have also not completely killed their own old man [their beasts]. While the old man lives at all we are double minded. "Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify...

So then have people, [me too], at times in error stated that they were born of God when they still at times still do succumb to the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life? See here the example of Peter and then the explanation of Jesus with regard to how to determine who...