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Thanks for the encouraging reply! I know what you mean, and there's a lot of Scripture I've been learning more clearly since using a couple of certain classical (circa 1600-1700) Bible commentators for the last 30 years or so of my 45 year Christian walk (John Gill, Albert Barnes).

Hi! Like your reply and comments! It reminds me of God separating us from the sin source (old man; flesh or sin nature). Desiring after "the old man" is the dominion of sin (Ro 6:14), and God's power brings us out of it, and yet allows it to remain within. What a demonstration of control!

Believers are not to over-concern themselves with the evils of the “old man” (sin nature). Identifying what it is and “walking circumspectly” (Eph 5:15; 2Co 2:11) of it is sufficient contemplation of it and its works! The more we are shown of it evils within, the more we are to think of the...

What is meant by, “Ye are not in the flesh” (Rom 8:9)? What is “the flesh”? There are only two meanings of the word “flesh”: 1) a living creature (because possessed of a body of flesh) whether man or beast; 2) denotes mere human nature, the earthly nature of man apart from divine influence, and...

Upon rebirth, believers are eternally positioned in heaven; and can live and pray as coming from heaven to the earth! NC “Come and Dine” (2014 repost) Love delights in the one it servers. This is illustrated in the fifteenth of Luke in a wonderful way in which it unfolds the Father. The...

Was the outcome wrong? Did you intend it to be right? Thankfully the latter is more is significant than the prior, because it demonstrated that—regardless the outcome—you wanted to please God (Phl 2:13). What we do is not as important as why we do it; and of course there will still be times of...

Desire and love are two very distinct things. Desire supposes the capacity of enjoying the thing which one desires, namely, the spiritual affections which as to the root of their nature, have God for their Object. Love, on the contrary, is in full possession of the object of desire. It is no...

The “law of sin” dominates mankind and I believe it is summed up in “the soul that sinneth, it shall die” (Eze 18:4, 20). This is “the law” all are under unless reborn. Additionally, to the people of Israel was given “the Law of God,” especially seen in the Decalogue, which only the Jews were...

Heavenly beings living in an earthly realm! Angeles? No, believers in the Lord Jesus! Angels are in the earthly realm; they do not live but work here. Every true saint knows their destiny, which is where they are presently positioned in heaven. NC Hidden On High (Col 3:3) God’s...

What a so-often-missed advantage it is to be short of realizing that everything a believer thinks, says and does is used “for good” to him (Rom 8:28). Evil is seen and used to contrast and manifest that only God is good (Mat 19:17). His goodness is witness against unbelievers, and blessing to...

The harder the trial in deed, the greater the love in need! It adds quite a bit to the difficulty of the believer, that most of mankind will not choose to be right with God (Mat 7:13, 14), but He is not interested in numbers—and neither should we be. It’s not what happens to us, or all which we...

All that occurs is this life since its beginning is due to the fact that God allows it to transpire! Before creation He foreknew of everything that will happen, being omniscient! Thus, whatever comes to pass is supposed to happen, or He would have allowed something else to happen. Such is the...

What sense and worth could there be if one truly received salvation and then truly lost it? Can it be rightly said that God can give “eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him” (Heb 5:9), while knowing they will eventually lose it? Such a situation would have no value at any time, but only...

It is continually encouraging to know (esp. the more we see the “old man” at work in us) that God knows our most important desire is to “please” Him, because there are often times when this can be difficult to express, but yet ever remains true to those reborn (Phl 2:13). It’s when we are...

The goal of life is God’s love possessed, and the means by which it is received is “through faith” (Eph 2:8). Why does God desire only through faith for us to reach Him? Because “faith works by love” (Gal 5:6); and in my estimate, the stronger the faith in Him, the greater the manifestation of...

Though our Lord Jesus Christ is not here in presence He is in essence, for His essence is everywhere, esp. in His angels (e.g. Exo 3:2; Heb 1:7), and He has given us His Spirit, not only to be in this life but in our lives. It is not the Life of the Spirit that is in us, but the Spirit Himself...

The three Nazarites, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego walked with God in the king’s palace; and God walked with them in the king’s furnace. Is it not worth passing through a fiery furnace to enjoy more of the presence of the Lord Jesus, and the sympathy of His loving heart? Is not a furnace where...

Amen, not interfering but always using everything to cause us to exercise our faith in the facts of God's Word!

For the Christian, once we have learned that all of God’s chastisements (trials) are for learning, and never for punishment arbitrarily (Heb 12:10), believers can ever rest assured in “the peace of God, which passeth all understanding” (Phl 4:7). We, knowing that our path is often difficult...

Presently, the Church and Body of Christ is without guilt, but not without the old man and sin. For now, grace suffices us, as we are no longer considered “in the flesh” (sin nature, old man – Ro 8:9)—but “in the Spirit,” and in the Father and the Son! But at the resurrection we will no longer...