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The "old man' still indwells the believer for the same reason it was there in the first place--to draw us to God and trust in His Son's propitiation! Though the sin nature is in believers (Ro 7:17, 20), they are no longer in the sin nature (Ro 8:9), but "in the Spirit."

There are times when the believer feels something is wrong; and it seems often related to possibly doing something wrong, but we can’t immediately identify the wrongdoing. Well, something is wrong, and it’s always the same thing which is wrong—it’s just the “old man” again (Eph 4:22; Col...

A girl at a certain college was much admired both for her personal appearance and her artistic abilities. She had very beautiful auburn hair, and seemed to be able to do anything on canvas with her paints and brushes. Her college mates asked her the secret of her lovely hair. She mentioned how...

In Scripture the term “lost” when pertaining to people is always used for those who will be saved (Mat 10:6; 15:24; Mat 18:11; Luk 19:10). Thus those who will never be saved are not the lost but just unbelievers, because their names aren’t in the “Book of Life,” as God knows they will never...

The difference between learning sin in God’s presence and learning by falling into it is very great. One may feel sin deeply, because one has committed it, but this never gives one God’s sense of what sin is. The Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ is the measure of what sin is in the sight of the...

Amen, adjust to His song! God bless!!

Have you noticed that the most important work of Christ—our eternal salvation—is one of the doctrines becoming increasingly misunderstood? Until this all-important issue is settled and established properly, there can be no real spiritual growth, for all growth truths are based and supported in...

A girl at a certain college was much admired both for her personal appearance and her artistic abilities. She had very beautiful auburn hair, and seemed to be able to do anything on canvas with her paints and brushes. Her college mates asked her the secret of her lovely hair. She mentioned how...

I believe you're just misunderstanding me, but that's ok.

Not sure what you mean. Where did the idea of three years come from? Thanks!

The Lord Jesus had to teach three different dispensations: the OT (Law); the NT (Gospel); the coming Kingdom (eternity). He gave that model prayer only to the Jews under the Law, before it was "taken away" (Heb 10:9).

Jesus was teaching Law when He gave the Jews the model prayer; it's conditional, that only if you forgive others. Christians will always forgive, because the Lord commanded it; and this forgiveness is conditional on the Lord Jesus Himself. Big difference between the two methods.

It's my belief that a believer doesn't sin on purpose. If we sin ignorantly the Spirit will convict until we know about it, confess, i.e. admit we sinned, and repent of it.

Yes, but a genuine Christian desires not to sin intentionally (Heb 10:25). Believers no longer desire to live after the sin nature (old man), because we are "not in the flesh" (Ro 8:9; 6:14). If anyone continues in willful sin, they have yet to be reborn. Immature believers are eventually...

When John wrote that we "cannot sin" it is in reference to desiring after sin, sinning "willfully" (Heb 10:26) or "presumptuously" (Num 15:28, 30). The sins of one reborn are never intentional. What believer would ever want to purposely offend God? The whole point is that the "old man" can no...

Does God need to repeatedly forgive His children? What would such a need be, seeing He knows all we desire is to please Him; and this He assures (Phl 2:13). There is allowance for babes in Christ, who may yet have a habitual sin to give up, but He eventually brings all to the same knowledge...

“The doctrine of preservation does not guarantee the preservation of the autographs, for they perished within a few years after their writings. Neither does it guarantee the accuracy of the copies, because errant men copied them. It does guarantee that the complete contents of the infallible...

It’s my understanding that the word “perfect” concerning a translation is mostly in reference to being complete, entire, and plenary. Thus, only translations derived from that majority of extant manuscripts contain all of Word of God (Mat 4:4)! Studying a translation which has much less...

Not to challenge you in any way, just wanted you to know that the ASV is also a translation from the Critical Text, or as I like to call it, the "Briefed Text."

It can be trustingly assumed that God's Word would be contained in the right translation, as He would not withhold any of His Words to us. It just has to be plenary first (Mat 4:4), even though the translation isn't perfect; this is how God works--using the sinful for good. He uses believers for...