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Appreciate your comments! Morality is important when not attempting to use it as effecting godliness (salvation), but rather as a means to promote godliness.

Thanks for the reply! Amen, it's to make a way for those who are coming to Christianity.

I know what you mean and thanks for your comment!

Wisdom calls for differentiating between morality (the physical) and godliness (the spiritual); the former pertains to the horizontal relationship between mankind; and the latter, the vertical relationship between God and mankind! Of those regenerate there are two classes; those who are...

Hi, and appreciate the encouragement from letting me know you found it useful!

Amen, we are where He wants us, and are ever growing from there!

Does it at times seem you’re missing something? Often, it’s the desires after “the old man” to which we were so accustomed to following that is missing, which can produce an uneasiness due to the lack of a familiar sensuality. Though all that the sin nature performs is impure, it yet moved us...

There are three types of tribulation or dealings of the Father in the way of discipline in the wilderness for us. First, tribulation in which we may glory; for instance, suffering for Christ in this evil world (considered evil due to most will remain in unbelief – Matt 7:13, 14—NC). This is...

Is pride, even unknowingly, delaying our growth in Christ’s image (Eph 4:15)? If so, it’s only because we may not be as open as we should to the Spirit’s teaching (1Co 2:13). Of course pride for all believers, in some degree or another—regardless of how humble—is always effecting us in what we...

Hi and thanks for the instructional reply! You're right about God not needing proof. As you've mentioned, He knows. Works are for others to see and assume with the advantage of not doubting that He is in us and so be used of Him (Mat 5:16). And you're right that just because the fruit of the...

I believe it’s not commonly understood that an “apostate” is one who only professes to be in the faith but in truth has yet to be saved, i.e. reborn. Of all who profess to “confess Jesus is Lord” (Ro 10:9), there will always be some (“a little leaven”) who only “honor Me with their lips...

Amen, and thanks for the chime-in!

It’s just the “old man” (Adamic-sin nature), so don’t let it trouble you (Jn 14:1, 27; Phl 4:6)! Yes, if at times you seem to be bothered, even in a somewhat significant degree and it appears that you are uncertain as to the direct cause of it, just remember that it can always be traced back to...

After being reborn, believers have only to continue to grow in the strength of their faith—which is manifested in their works—for salvation does not admit in degrees. Thus all saints are saved at the one and same position of redemption, but “walk” at varying levels of discernment, understanding...

Thanks for the reply. God bless!

Thanks for your input, but I'm not sure of what point you are trying to express. God bless!

Paul was admonishing the Galatian Churches by informing them that the admixture of the Law with the Gospel of Christ was an attempt by the false teachers to “pervert” the Gospel of Christ (1:7), and nowhere in this Epistle does there exist any conclusions that suggests the Galatian Christians...

For believers, everything encountered, even all that is self-originating is used for their good (Ro 8:28); which is for the purpose of being continually “conformed into the image of His Son” (v 9), via growing in their faith. Thusly is all that transpires in the lives of the saints which is...

It’s not so much as what we are doing but why we are doing it; and how it is done will determine the effectiveness of its delivery! While in a babe-in-Christ stage we are not able to know much of what God’s desires are of many things, and until there is sufficient knowledge and comprehension of...

It’s not so much as what we are doing but why we are doing it; and how it is done will determine the effectiveness of its delivery! While in a babe-in-Christ stage we are not able to know much of what God’s desires are of many things, and until there is sufficient knowledge and comprehension of...