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Unbelief is an active work, not the absence of belief. You will not find the word nonbeliever or nonbelief in the scriptures. Unbelief is a willful posture of resisting God. Man may, in his own strength, resist God. This includes denying what he sees in the natural world. The laws of creation...

I've put away several people. Some examples include: One woman who argued that her affair, against her believing husband, was simply because of her brokenness. Another saw no issue with her sexual immorality. Another, a married man, tried to "get with" the first woman mentioned after seeing her...

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Sorry, missed this. This closes out the passage: "Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin." So, the passage includes anyone who has "flesh".

No. He has authority only over the mind of his soul and his flesh. This is why man cannot save himself through the will of his soul or flesh. He can only cease to resist God. Thus his spirit can then respond to the Holy Spirit.

11But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person. 12For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not...

Or godly sorrow. "Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the...

Perhaps. Although this was said of the Jews "You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit". So, God simply working in someone's life doesn't equate to understanding. In fact, one could say that creation itself ministers God's truth to everyone so...

Sometimes fatigue. Suffering may be part of it. God may arrest people personally.

Only man's spirit can do spiritual things. Natural man may resist God. If he stops resisting God, the Spirit of God will connect with the man's spirit causing him to be "born by the Spirit". This is why predestination is not about salvation but about conformation: "predestined to be conformed...

You are allowed to remain in your Sunday School level of understanding.

Oh, I’m not a Calvinist either. Men’s spirits belong to God who gave them. Every man and woman has a spirit, an endowment of God’s being, in them. It is what God breathed into Adam and made him a “living being”. But man’s spirit becomes the sources of his life only by the empowerment of the Holy...

From a purely Kingdom of God perspective we should be neither pro- nor anti- Israel. The relevance they have today is that God works where people are looking. The natural nation of Israel is simply not our business. Jews and Arabs and Persians all need Christ. Consider: If you prefer one group...

There is no such thing as "eternity past". Both are true: the price for sins was paid in eternity and about 2000 years ago. If not, then by what administration could Jesus forgive sins before His death and resurrection? He COULD forgive the sins of others because He was the ladder connecting...

One last note: to be reconciled is to be brought back to God's original intent. Many in the church practice conciliation: whereby they accept a lower order, believing the glory Christ had with God at the beginning of creation is out of reach. They often cite this verse to "prove" their...

Yes. Since the price of righteousness was paid "from the foundation of the earth" by our High Priest, Christ, one may simply operate in the covenant to receive the imputation. "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness". In short, Abraham was a son of God, his Father...

Racism is winked at in a lot of church circles. That's why we have black, Ukranian, Greek, Asian - and many other kinds of- churches and no one bats an eye. The Body of Christ unites all into One, regardless of race. The delusional promote such divisions.

Right. The Law of God, before Sinai, was simply "Believe what I tell you". Adam walked with God. As did Abel, Seth, Enosh, Enoch, Noah, etc. Abraham believed God and was found righteous in God's eyes for doing so. Shem was likely Melchizedeck, "Priest of God Most High", who blessed Abraham after...

Right. The old covenant would require the existence of the Levitical priesthood. The Sinai Law could not annul the promises God gave to Abraham. God swore by Himself to ratify the covenant. It required no participation of man to vest for the benefit of man.