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Various could be the imaginations of what man’s life might have been without the fall, but I believe one concept may be fairly certain. Man would not have known, nor partaken of God’s Son and Spirit in the presently needed capacity. There would be no need of being one in spirit with the Trinity...

Hi and thanks for your reply and expressing your opinion on this article. Please do share anything I post as much as possible! Concerning this article, it's on my highest rating because it's applicability for spiritual growth! God be blessed and His blessings to your Family! Hid With Christ

For a saint to have solitude is of the deepest importance, because it is then the heart renews its acquaintance with the Lord Jesus, who only has entrance into our most solitary retreats. When we are thoroughly alone and apart, He loves being our sole companion; it is, so to speak, the time for...

The most confirming evidence in my life that “the Spirit of God bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God” (Rom 8:16), is seeing the ever-present desire in me to please God. If this is not always what means the most to you, it’s most likely you have yet to be reborn, for in...

The most effective service is to stand openly for God when the opposition is at its height. “When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him” (Isa 59:19). To stand for God when there is no one to help, when everyone is opposing, manifests my...

“I live by the faith of the Son of God.” Meaning, not that faith which Christ, as man, had, but that of which He is the Author and Object, by which the just man lives; not upon it, for the believer does not live upon any of His graces, no, not upon faith, but by faith upon Christ, the Object...

“I live by the faith of the Son of God.” Meaning, not that faith which Christ, as man, had, but that of which He is the Author and Object, by which the just man lives; not upon it, for the believer does not live upon any of His graces, no, not upon faith, but by faith upon Christ, the Object...

Thank you for the encouraging comment, and I always appreciate your replies and input! Your correct concerning the "last instruction," because this can only be done by walking in that which is mentioned before it. We cannot "cast our care" on God if we are not already settled in these growth...

It’s commonly known that nobody can avoid the problems of this life, but what is uncommon is knowing that those who are reborn can avoid allowing problems to escalate into “trouble” (Jhn 14:1, 27). If our walk is in obedience to His command here, it will manifest we are exercising our faith in...

Hi Brother, thanks for your reply, and I find it a mutual blessing being in fellowship with you in the Word! The purpose of works are to manifest and glorify God (Jhn 15:8), thus they are used to identify those who are His. The difficulty is not in knowing this but in discerning (via God's Word...

Hi and appreciate your instructional reply! I agree, as James Chapter 2 designs the intention that faith without works means there is no faith, because works manifests faith, therefore no one can have faith and no works (true lasting works). Verse 26 equates no works with that as a nonexistent...

Note: It's my opinion that the intention of the title of this article does not mean the Christian's walk will be without works, but rather that the obtaining of salvation is without works, and that any works intended otherwise are work-less (vain labor). Scripture often plainly testifies that...

My position is in heaven, and my path upon earth is that which belongs to, and is consistent with, this place I have in the Lord Jesus in glory. My path ought to be the expression that. What was the Lord Jesus’ path in this world? Even as the Son of Man upon earth, He was ever “the Son of Man...

Amen, God's Word either witnesses for us or against us. I believe we either choose His drawing ("therefore choose life" - Deu 30:19), or "resist" it (Act 7:51). Though, this is not to say God can be resisted concerning His "work in you" after choosing conversion (Phl 2:13), which would be to...

Hi and thanks for your input! Amen, there is nothing inactive concerning consistency with Word study. It will teach now and latter, and never goes unused.

Have you ever been so busy desiring to do for others (admirable and honorable in its proper place) that its undertaking has often inadvertently reduced your time of fellowship with them, which detracts from keeping up with knowing them? We all continue to change in our lives concerning what we...

Believers are to be independent of one another, yea, of all others, even of self and our present condition (pleasant or difficult) when it concerns dependence on sustenance. This is that on which we rely the most to keep us upheld in all things and at all times—which should be God Himself, and...

The veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom. I see the holiness of God; but the very stroke which has thus unveiled His holiness has put away my sin that would have hindered my standing in the presence of that holiness. I see what my Father, in His holiness, has done for me in the...

Hi OTN! Thanks for your reply. Are you referring to the prologue or the author's article? If the latter, its theme is knowing permanent deliverance. When one enters union with God its permanent, and He keeps working in us how to fellowship with Him. In the prior Covenant with Israel only those...

How much dissatisfaction and disappointment do we allow when there is seemingly at times a lack of spirituality, which is common to all believers? This is merely one manifestation of the ongoing presence and effects of the old man. Just as one cannot “take fire in his bosom and his clothes not...