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Hi, and appreciate your comments! I suppose it would depend of what one means by "the law." If the meaning is that it refers to the general desire of God's will for holiness, then I think the word "law" is eternal and means "principle of God." But if referencing to the "Law of Moses," as...

If you take the law as your rule of life—and holy, and just, and good it is—remember that as many as are of its works, upon that principle, are under the curse, as the Apostle Paul said (“of its works” i.e. trusting its works or any works for forgiveness - Gal 3:10; “under the curse,” because...

Appreciate your greeting, but I'll need more than that if you would like a reply. God bless!

Like your reply and comments, and God bless!

As the Lord Jesus walked on earth, He was a circumcised man, debtor to do the whole law (who only could do so because it was required to be kept perfectly, which required One without a sin nature—NC). He was made, as we read, “under the law” (Gal 4:4), and to the utmost tittle of it was obedient...

Are those reborn still associated with the old man or, sin nature? Though it is yet indwelling, in what way could they ever again be related? One might think that sinning confirms a continuous relation to the old man, but what would that say of being under the Blood of Christ? Can it ever become...

The Secret of Strength The more we consciously know what the eternal life is, and the more assured we are that the only liberty of this life is in the Lord Jesus Christ in glory, the more we shall feel that the enablement for our daily walk and service must be outside ourselves. Our flesh...

It is essential to distinguish between the faith that asks and the faith that takes. There is a close association in Paul’s Epistles between prayer and thanksgiving; prayer being the faith that asks, and thanksgiving the faith that appropriates. It is only too possible for us to go on asking...

I agree, until we are completely separated from the old man and the decaying body, we will remain imperfect in our condition. But we are in that which is perfect (Christ's nature) because He is in us, and it's my belief that the believer's path to Him will be certain and unhindered.

Yes, with me, it's once repentance has begun it is a way of life until we leave here.

It’s acceptable to take “trials” difficultly because by now it should be realized that God’s school of growth in Christ (Eph 4:15) is maintained by the method of sowing and reaping, of which process requires time traversed according to the amount the Timekeeper has predetermined; and the major...

Amen! To me it would mean you're not reborn (saved), because everyone genuinely redeemed eventually receives the will and ability to put God first (Phl 2:13). Thanks for the comment and God's blessings to your Family!

Can there ever be genuine unrest with believers in God concerning their being “accepted in the Beloved” (Eph 1:6)? When there is, it’s solely attributed to the unlearned believer concerning the completeness of Jesus’ efficacy in His once-borne Cross, for Scripture makes it repeatedly clear that...

It is a given that there is greater ease in exercising self-dependence than dependence in another, and such is the difference between the two dispensations; and is also why the prior is so often acquiesced to (in ignorance) and the latter so misunderstood in many of its operations. The prior...

The message of the Cross is full of paradox on its experiential side, and this paradox can only be understood as we progress in experience. There is what is called the “objective,” or positional side, which means the finished work of the Lord Jesus in His death upon the Cross as a work complete...

After entering into the gifts of Grace and Faith (Eph 2:8), we begin to learn the most important attribute of God—His love! As time progresses we eventually realize that all is contained in and by His love, which makes it the center point of concentration concerning everything eternal, and that...

Roger that on the lesson of loneliness, which all believers will repeatedly encounter in one degree or another (and it less discourages us more all the time). It's definitely one of various lessons of the believer concerning being "partakers of Christ's sufferings" (1Pe 4:13); of which...

Thanks for the comment! I like your use of the word "isolated," because that's part of the reason for the article, to spurn any unbeliever possibly seeing this, and for believers dealing with loneliness.

The more one enters into understanding (via the Spirit and His Word) the presence of the enmity God has placed between believers and unbelievers (chiefly between Christ and His, and Satan and his, which are unbelievers - Gen 3:15), the more potential there is for the tendency of loneliness, due...

I am devoted to the Lord Jesus as I learn, first, how He meets my need, and secondly, how superior He is to everything and everyone. The heart likes to be devoted to the one who commands (i.e. attracts—NC) its affections. Thus there are two kinds of devotedness, both true, but the one greatly in...