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Romans 6:1-2 is talking about sinning generally that grace would abound more, kind of tempting the Lord by willful sin. Romans 7:19-20 talks about the sin that lives in me that does the sinning, sin that hasn’t properly crucified yet. I used to see a counselor who would tell me I’m in Romans...

It might have to do with the linen cloth - maybe it was the cloth they used to wrap Jesus's body after they took him off the cross. I don't know.

Yeah that's how I've decided to interpret it too. Sometimes I worry that in my past I may have (who knows??) been a really dangerous influence on someone of faith. I hope not. I know I was kind of traumatized myself as a young believer by someone outside the faith. And I struggle with...

Mark 14:51-52 What is the significance of this in the account of Jesus’s arrest

Matthew 18:6-9 6 “But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the open sea. 7 Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but...

6:2 is so prophetic!

I grew up in a very legalistic fundamentalist type of religion/denomination, where every single parable Jesus told was directed squarely at the Church. I'm not so sure anymore about that. But churches still do it today. I believe though we will be saved by grace, and not by our stewardship or...

The beatitude Matthew 5:7 says blessed are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy. Saul was merciless. But he was shown grace and mercy because of his faith in the risen Lord. Paul was a Jesus follower after that, as a new covenant Jewish believer who preached grace to the believing...

You can know Jesus Christ without thinking about doctrine. Do you think the blind man who was healed from John 9 knew anything about doctrine?? He didn't even know if Jesus was a sinner or not. He ended up worshiping Jesus after Jesus spoke to him later on. He then knew Jesus. Jesus is a...

In God's timing, I've been saved by grace. It's not by my effort I can be enlightened, only by the Holy Spirit. So don't make me look dumb or lazy. Praise God for saving someone who has spent most his life only learning doctrine and not learning to know the Person.

You've really made a mountain out of a mole hill on this topic. I don't dislike theology. What is true though is sometimes too much thinking about how everything works and how everything fits together is not as effective as simply crying out in faith, "I don't know it all. And You don't...

I can tell you've learned, in your "grown up" maturity a lot about love, and building up a new believer. not. I am a new believer, and I've studied the doctrine for a long long time but just recently have found Christ in a new way - his love and grace for me, which I believe for myself now...

Do you ever get to that point when you want to lay aside all the theology and "deeper truths" and mysteries of God and just cry out to Him and say, "Save me, God!" That's where I'm at today. Theology is great, but I could name some things that are a lot more important: honesty, faith and hope...

by the way, after careful consideration, knowing these posts are permanent and can be seen by people everywhere, I want everyone to know something important about my original post and these others: I am not preaching or instructing in these posts necessarily, even if I use the terms you and we...

The meaning of grace has more to do with God’s grace to forgive sin than grace to overcome sin. It does both, but the most unadulterated form of grace is forgiveness for sin. The meaning of grace is always scandalous. People get in each other’s grill over being scandalous. They did with Jesus too.

Galatians 3:5 in the KJV says the Holy Spirit ministers to us and works miracles among us. The Holy Spirit is who empowers us to overcome sin - not our hardcore obedience and effort. Man's obedience is just that. Man's effort. Mix it with grace and you're mixing law and grace. I'm talking...

The biggest deception in Christianity today is addressed by Paul in Galatians. In particular, Galatians 2:21-3:3. Galatians 2:21-3:3 I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die. Foolish Galatians...

I've been in the church for a long, long time. I always knew that if Jesus was who he said he was, I wanted to believe he was exactly like he was described in the Bible. If that makes sense. My problem is that I had DEEP wounds and it affected my ability to trust. So I was believing in...

This isn't a new view, and I know this is not a popular view in modern Christianity. But I'm going to propose that we may not be looking at marriage biblically now that we are a new creation under grace and not law: I really believe marriage vows from the heart should be recognized in the...

I challenge you all to read 2 Chronicles 20:1-30. It's about Jehoshaphat and how he and the whole land of Judah trusted God to fight for them against the Moabites, Ammonites and the Meunites. They were too powerful for the armies of Judah, and so King Jehoshaphat and the people of Judah prayed...