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Being ever “circumspect,” esp. of “the old man,” is one of the spiritually healthiest commands to maintain (Eph 5:15), it being the closest enemy; and the doorway for distraction to believers from Satan and the unsaved world! We ever stand victorious in the Lord Jesus concerning salvation, but...

It is in the conscience of believers that the guiltless-position of their souls manifest how well they know completeness in the expiation of the Cross. There is an ingredient of legalism if there is insufficient understanding that their spiritual condition involves the perpetual forgiveness of...

We must be in the light (“the light” i.e. anything that reveals truth - Eph 5:13) in order to walk in it. The light is the full revelation of the Father; the truth as now unfolded in the Son, and Christians are before the Father according to what He is. To be in the light is to be in the...

“Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform (Greek: epiteleō – accomplish; finish) it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Phl 1:6). “Until the day of Jesus Christ” needs no interpretation, as it obviously refers to His second coming which is known as...

At the Cross there has been the greatest moral revolution that can possibly be conceived. The revolution is, that now the glory, instead of repelling (Exo 20:18-21; 1Ki 8:11; 2Ch 5:14—NC), attracts (2Co 3:18—NC); the glory is the expression of God, the thing of all others that invites you, and...

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True, and thanks for your comment! God knew He would be using the sin nature for good, as all things (Ro 8:28)!

As a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, I’ve found the worth of it all is in coming to the knowledge and understanding (got to have both) of God’s holiness, which to me has some to do with revealing His love for us. Though He knows most will not choose to desire it, His love and justification in...

I believe the “hardness” (2Ti 2:3) saints endure is the Father’s primary instrument of “conforming” us “to the image of His Son” (Ro 8: 29). Even those who choose to remain unbelievers must endure hardness, but theirs is a witness “against” them, not “for them” (Deu 30:19; Ro 8:28). How we...

I agree, all that God does in the life of the believer is but wonder of awe, and not wonder of doubt. I believe the point is that He no longer allows proof of His existence via the senses as before, for the sake of increasing faith to its optimum ability, because we will not be using faith in...

Thanks for the instructional reply! It wasn't just Thomas because the others didn't understand either about His resurrection until they saw Him (Jhn 20:8, 9). Thomas just didn't happen to be with them when He appeared to them. But now, instead of physical proof to the senses, it's proof...

Significance is not so much in wondering about the reality of God as much as it is in knowing what His Word says of Him, because our reasoning is at times inaccurate, it being effected by our senses and “the old man.” The “wondering” for the believer isn’t doubt of the Word but of self in...

The purpose of the Father is to glorify the Son, and bring us to the Son (Jhn 6:44). The purpose of the Son is to glorify the Father and bring us to the Father (Jn 14:6; Eph 2:16, 18; 1Pe 3:1; Rev 5:9). NC His Special Blessings “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who...

In our relationship with the first Adam we had no freedom at all, the members of the old Adam being under obligation to furnish personal righteousness before God, as moral beings responsible to Him (in doing all he was told to do, e.g. “dress and keep” the Garden – Gen 2:15; avoid the Tree of...

Hi, and thanks for the reply and comments! I see the point of 2:9 is that relating to Christ's incarnation, which was much disputed, esp. in ancient times and answers to the essentiality of receiving salvation, that one must believe He became flesh (1Jo 4:2, 3).

The epistle to the Ephesians has already carried us to the height of our Christian position. Consequently, we have no further step to take in this direction; but as ever, the carrying out of the truth thus revealed is now to be proved in practice. Hence Colossians gives us, in fact, if not...

Even knowing for certain that God—without fail—always brings us successfully through every discouraging and discomforting difficulty, it doesn’t ease much of the “hardness” in what the trial brings. It can often shorten the soak-time when remembering all of this, but nothing is supposed to...

In Romans Eight we get the believer escaped from sin as a master, and the Law as a husband (concerning the Jew), in his new place in the Lord Jesus Christ. Being in Him, the believer is a spiritual person, no longer in the flesh (Ro 8:9), and the flesh is discharged as well as sin and the Law...

As babes-in-Christ in the outset of receiving salvation (whom this article addresses), it is normal and acceptable to be preoccupied with appreciation for the blessings. But as we grow in our faith and in the image of Christ we learn the goal of becoming more occupied with the Blesser than the...

I want to address the title before it’s mistaken. The intention of “responsibility” has to do with the fact that man has no part in effecting nor retaining salvation, only in receiving and manifesting it in the obedience of its doctrines! I suspect that the understanding of many in Christianity...