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If Adam, Eve and their progeny would have continued without the sin offence, there would be no intermingling of the spirit of man with God, that indwelling of the Life of His Son, Spirit, New Heaven and an endlessness of other blessings; such is what God would desire of nothing less! NC...

Hi and thanks for the reply! It comforts me to know that believers at rebirth are given "all things that pertain unto life and godliness" (2Pe 1:3). This will be seen as the saint continues to mature in Christ's image or "walk" (Ro 8:29), for our lifestyle will continually be manifesting all...

When the believer is passing through a difficulty, regardless the degree, it is never salvation that’s being tested, but faith—which manifests salvation; and the test does not determine pass or fail but is always faith-strengthening. Other than asking to receive, regeneration is never effected...

Appreciate the humor, God bless!

The worldling cannot understand how the growing believer lives. Both his life and that which sustains it lie entirely beyond the range of nature’s keenest vision. The Lord Jesus Christ is his life, and in Him he lives. He feels by faith, upon the powerful attractions of One who, though being...

Thanks, and God's blessings to your Family!

There is only a onetime deliverance from sin’s guilt and condemnation, but an on-going promised deliverance from sin’s “dominion” (Ro 6:14); in which dominion is the fact that one wills to follow sin with disregard unto God’s holiness and righteousness. Nobody realizes and understands the “law...

Believers presently being raised with Christ is in the sense of His physical resurrection imputed to them spiritually, denoting the certainty of eventually being with Him. "Raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus" (Eph 2:6). This is the spiritual...

There is no greater exhortation, nor any lasting encouragement or sufficient growth in Christ other than being assured of eternal life in God; and that we are now vicariously with Christ in heaven through the union of the Holy Spirit in us—awaiting His return (Tit 2:13; Col 1:7; 3:4; 1Th 2:19...

Appreciate your reply and comments! Important mention about the "world." If by the "world" you mean the majority of mankind—which are those who will never choose to believe and love God (Mat 7:13,14)—from such there is no hope, but as you know are rather to be “overcome” (1Jo 5:4 , 5), by...

There is a hopeful-hope, which does not involve certainties but possibilities or even probabilities. Then there is a knowing-Hope, which involves only certainties; and such is Christianity, within which all is certain and permanent. Otherwise there would be nothing on which to truly depend...

All that believers do for God is the result of His “work” within to enable them (Phl 2:13)! What He did under the Old Covenant between Himself and Israel was “a shadow” (Col 2:17; Heb 10:1) of what He is doing with Christians in the New Covenant between Himself and the Lord Jesus (“Covenant of...

Thanks for the reply and God bless! Light and Life of me

The light of the Gospel displays all that has been accomplished by the Lord Jesus Christ. It takes its rise from the glory of the Father, from the consummation of the Savior’s work—not from the beginning of His work, but from the climax of it. The light from thence, sent of the Father into the...

All reborn eventually realize the invaluable paces in the Father’s school of learning, which is most understood through traversing its difficulties, hardness and trials. We white-knuckle the paces initially, but progressively learn that the lessons are rigged, for none of them can escape the...

I believe Christ desired us to be able to identify one another, not to condemn others, but to beware of false teachings.

There are types of people who profess to be in Christ; those who are truly in Him and those who are not in Him. This has always been the situation since the beginning of Christianity, and the false professors are the hypocrites who will inevitably manifest that they do not truly believe by...

I like much of what you've replied, but it's my understanding that one who is truly reborn will have permanently lost the desire to follow the sin nature (old man, or "flesh" - Ro 8:9; Phl 2:13).

New Testament Scripture's scheme of everything is persistently in that of identifying genuine Christians from the false, which is an ongoing issue through the entirety of the NT, and our walk. These passages, like Heb 6:4-6 are hypothetical in the sense that "if" one who is saved manifests...

“If we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins” (Heb 10:26 KJV).” “If we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins” (NLT). If...