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For the Christian, the primary ongoing need will be “deliverance!” No, not deliverance from sin’s guilt, as this will never again be an issue with the Father, considering He gave all to establish this. I think is bears repeating, that it has been wisely said that “the lost need saved, and the...

I have learned the Christian life is not a changed life, though an outward change in a believer will evince God’s inward working. It is more accurately described as an exchanged life, in that the outcome is not us trying to live a life like Christ, but rather it is Christ Himself living His...

There was never a time that God did not bring Israel back to Himself for fellowship after chastising them, due to His promises to Abraham (Deu 7:8). They often fell out of fellowship with Him, and are presently “fallen” out of fellowship with Him (Ro 11:11), but have never been out of union with...

An inclination for service to the Lord, however commendable, is no index of my fitness or ability for executing it. Our activities must be determined by our bodily ability, and not by inclination, and there is a great principle in this for everything. It is necessary to be subject to the Lord...

Hi, and appreciate your site, but my retirement has found me disadvantaged to financially help. If I could help any of the dozen or so site I've been sharing on for ten years now I would help them all, thus I would have to help them all if any. God's blessings with your ministry, and God be...

Thanks for the reply, and like your comments! Concerning "circumcision of the heart" (Rom 2:29), it typifies God's work of separating the believer from the sin nature upon being saved or reborn; "Ye are not in the flesh" (Rom 8:9). Though it is in the believer we are not in it concerning its...

Hi and thanks for your reply! I would need you to be specific concerning what you mean "these things," because many in my church believes what I share.

To me, the term denotes that which relates primarily to the nature of the soul. Apart from rebirth it remains after the image of Adam and the sin nature ("old man") of all his prodigy (mankind). Some are of the notion it refers to a changed nature, but "exchange" never involves the original...

Hi and appreciate your reply! Often the word "flesh" is misunderstood. In the OT it refers to the physical body, but in the NT it nearly always refers to the nature of man's soul. Thus, believers not being "in the flesh" (Rom 8:9) means we are no longer after the sin nature, though it yet...

How often is it mistakenly seen that obedience is the way to Christ, instead of the fact that being in Christ first is the way to obedience. It’s God Himself that we’re after, then the obedience, or one can miss Him altogether, finding only a casual desire to be in Him and not the actual union...

Appreciate the reply and God's blessings to your Family!

Among the variations of administration between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant, the primary difference is the position one has in God. Before Christ is was “people of God.” Now, following Christ’s resurrection it is “children of God.” This is the difference between being with God, and...

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Amen! We've been delivered eternally from the damnation of guilt, and are constantly being delivered through the infirmities of this life and the sin nature's harassments!

It has been well said that “the lost need saved and the saved needs delivered.” The Christian’s battle (Eph 6:12) is not over redemption “once” secured, but over oppositions to our walk, e.g. the old man, Satan and the world. Believers do not wait for deliverance from the guilt of their sin, it...

Let us continue to be encouraged by using our permanent union with God and His “work” (Phl 2:13) in us to be our primary sources of supplies for enduring patiently (Heb 6:15; 1Pe 2:20). Since He, for us, “works everything together for good,” it’s always just a matter of waiting out our trials...

Scripture has always demonstrated that the union of God with believers establishes a permanent relationship with Him; and unbelievers who claim union with Him (for whatever reason) are always soon seen to be false, exemplified in those who perished in the past (e.g. Heb 3:17-19; Jude 1:5). There...

Christianity is characterized for us largely by two things, which are implied in the rent veil. God dwells no more in the thick darkness (Exo 20:21; 1Ki 8:12; 2Ch 6:1). He is in the light. He is able to come out to man; man is able to go in to Him. In fact, both things are accomplished: God has...

Gill is the one I use the most, about 95% of the time when referring to commentators. https://www.christianity.com/bible/commentary/john-gill/ https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/bnb.html