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Our Father would have us to “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2Pe 3:18). He lovingly carries this out by delivering us “unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the Life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh” (2Co 4:11). The natural tendency of...

Hi, and thanks for the involved reply! Guilt is the primary result of not being reborn, but willful sin is the cause of guilt; and this shows we have yet to experience rebirth. Right! One cannot sin if void of the old man, which of course is an impossibility; as we are still learning God's...

Not a cloud of guilt, nor any evil power of control remains for the believer in the Lord Jesus! The "old man," at rebirth, has lost both its "condemnation" (Ro 8:1) and "dominion" (Ro 6:14) on the believer. The guilt is gone because Christ has taken its curse; and its power to cause the believer...

This article demonstrates the two levels of maturity in Christ; living on Him here via the “manna,” which indicates Christ’s Life when He was here. Or living on Him on the “corn of the land,” which indicates living on Him where He is now—big difference! NC There Is A Difference! The corn...

To be exalted (1Pe 5:6), we must first be aware that the “flesh” (old man; sin nature) is always a haughty and evil thing. There must be an experience of going through to know our evil before we can know the good, yea, the holiness of God; and there’s no doubt that this experience is worth the...

It may be one of the least interesting of things, but there is much growth in knowing God’s concerns for us when we are troubled, especially when in great difficulty! It is when we are going through a trial—regardless the size, that our spiritual growth increases the most. To know that God is...

Believers are either always forgiven for all sins, or not forgiven for any sins; Of course, the latter is never the case, and the prior is a truth of which there is no greater encouragement! A great truism is that God keeps believers in constant and continuous forgiveness (1Jn 1:9), and it’s the...

Romans 5:1-11 sets forth the terms on which God is with you. Chapter 8 is how you are in Christ before Him. Many are occupied with chapter 8 who are not yet established in chapter 5. They must be taken in divine order. When you look up to God you see everything gone to His satisfaction; but when...

Hi, and appreciate your comment! The Millennial Kingdom doesn't begin until Christ's return, because it includes many differences, one being the primary difference is the binding of Satan (Rev 20:2). Plus, the inhabitants of the earth at that time will all be in submission to the Lord Jesus...

There is nothing like retirement for the soul, if one is occupied with the Lord Jesus, and not with himself. Occupation with Him results in my being more like Him, and more apart from myself. Occupation with myself is like the serpent’s eye that lures its victim to destruction. The more I am...

“He shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers” (Rev 2:27). Albert Barnes: “There is an allusion here to Psalms 2:9; “Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.” There is a slight change in...

Some Israel Eschatological Passages Isa 4:2, 3; 26:19 Dan 12:1-3 Eze 20:33, 34; 37:1-4, 11-14 “It requires no profound study to observe that the earthly, Messianic, Davidic kingdom was offered by John the Baptist, by Christ and by His disciples, that it was rejected even to the murder of...

There is not much concern, nor much direct Scriptural reference (but a great amount of Scriptural inference by the OT prophets and NT passages) to the Eschatology of Israel; so it is expected that not many believers will find much interest in the theology relating to this subject. But when will...

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Hi, and appreciate the reply! Each in the Trinity have the same goals but They each have some things to say more important than other things. Like the Son mostly speaks of the Father, and the Spirit mostly speaks of the Son.

It is only in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ that we have truth fully brought out. I will learn truth through the Holy Spirit, and He is the only power of my knowing the truth, and is therefore called “Truth” in 1 John 5:6 (and is “the Spirit of Truth; Jhn 14:17; 15:26; 16:13; 1Jo 4:6)...

“Put Off … The Old Man” (Eph 4:22) God always takes the initiative in salvation. Before He asks or expects man to act, He has acted. The work of the Lord Jesus in salvation is a completed work. What the Father has made true for us positionally, He longs to make real in us experientially...

God knew they would partake of the "Tree" and then be able to see what evil is. They didn't know what evil was, just what was right and wrong, until the sin (Gen 3:11). To know God's holiness you have to know what evil is. It's all part of His plan of salvation. When they sinned, one cannot...

This is seen in Paul's Dichotomy in Ro 7. Some mistakenly think chapter 7 is Paul's life prior to conversion. Rom 7 and 8 parallel this struggle of the Christian when he declared he was "free from the law of sin and death" (8:2). We are free from the law, sin and death (second death - Rev 2:11)...

I think we still have the "old man" (sin nature) so we can continue to learn from it, and continue to exercise our faith in Christ's expiation for or sins.