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    Faith’s Strength

    How strong your faith is, will be determined by three primary elements: how much you study the Word of God, how you understand the Word of God and proper application of the Word of God! Knowing God’s Word is what can save a soul if “rightly dividing” (2Tim 2:15 - understanding) the Word, and...
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    Truth Be Said

    One can know God casually and be saved. But He needs to be known intimately, so a Christian can grow in the image of Christ (Rom 8:29; 1Co 15:49; 2Co 3:18). How do we get to know God intimately? Through enough church attendance and Bible study. There’s no way He would allow a believer to grow...
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    Love’s Loveliness

    Hi, and amen to that! The love "God has to us" is unconditional, and is the same as God loves His Son (Jhn 17:23); our's is conditional, according to how we love ourselves; "love others as you love thyself" (Mat 22:39).
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    Love’s Loveliness

    It may seem a strange thing to say, but I say it after considerable thought, and some years of experience in talking to people of all kinds, that there is hardly anything so little understood by Christians generally as the love of God When I say “the love of God,” I do not mean His love to the...
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    “It Became Him”

    “For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing people unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them...
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    In The Meantime

    Hi! You can think the old man or sin nature is gone, but that would mean we cannot sin any more. One has to have the old man to sin, and it's not true that we do not sin any more. Thanks for your reply!
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    In The Meantime

    We left the Cross and ascended with the Lord Jesus, but the sin nature is still present; we just don't want it, but God left it in us so we would continue to exercise our faith against it. The "old man" or sin nature is the closest enemy to us. Just like God uses His Holy Spirit in us to do...
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    In The Meantime

    You can think what you want of course but it doesn't say gone, just "destroyed" (Ro 6:6). The KJV says the old man "is crucified," not was crucified. It's still on the Cross concerning the Christian, and is retrained from the ability to cause us to desire sin. The unsaved cannot avoid the old...
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    In The Meantime

    The only word possibly meaning the sin nature is gone is "destroyed" in Ro 6:6. "Crucifixion" does not mean "gone." If so that would mean one no longer sins. There's nowhere Scripture refers to the old man being gone, just we dead to it, i.e. no longer desiring it. It's nice to think it means...
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    In The Meantime

    Some say Paul wasn't converted until Roans 8, but he was converted in Romans 7, for nobody unsaved could write what he wrote. He merely demonstrated that the Christian still sins. Nobody lives without sinning; but now it's never what Paul wants nor desires (Rom 7:15-21). One of the most...
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    Truth Personalized

    The essence of a Christian is that, although he is upon the earth, he is heavenly; and how could he know and grow in that, unless by the revelation of a heavenly Man who is his Life (Col 3:4)? Who is or could be that heavenly Man but the Man Christ Jesus, Who, after having put away sin by the...
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    In The Meantime

    To me, "drawn away of his own lust, and enticed," is manifesting his desire for sin. Jam 1:14,15 is showing one still in sin and not yet reborn. Some say it's not sin until it's "conceived, and bringeth forth sin." The devil cannot tempt a Christian to WANT to sin! WE sin "willfully" if we do it...
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    In The Meantime

    Amen, our sins are no longer willful (Heb 10:26)! Appreciate you reply.
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    In The Meantime

    Hi, and thanks for your reply! To me, the phrase "when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed," manifests that it is always the persons "own lust," that causes to be "drawn away." It's my understanding that "his own lust" is indicative of his own desire.
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    Test Run

    Some Christians believe that God can “Test Run” the soul. God doesn’t save you, then test you to see if you’re going to stay saved. I heard once that “everyone that should be saved, will be saved”—for there is a Book of Life “from the foundation of the world” (Rev 17:8—we were saved when the...
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    Already Delivered

    Hi Maria! A Christian is one who is reborn of the Holy Spirit (Jn 5, 6, 8). The primary attribute of rebirth is that it's eternal, and there cannot be much spiritual growth without understanding this.
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    “Once For All”

    Hi, and your ID is so funny! Yes, Many believers do not think on the truism of Phl 2:13. It means that God "works" in every person saved, without fail! Appreciate your reply and comments. God bless!!
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    Already Delivered

    Many Christians are unaware that they are forgiven for all their sins! Otherwise Scripture could not state that we are already like Jesus (1Jo 4:17). Not in His sinlessness but in His guiltlessness! He knows you don’t want to sin, as Paul was delivered from desiring sin (Rom 7:15, 16, 19, 20...
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    “Once For All”

    The Christian's “forgiveness” is “once for all,” meaning that God’s forgiveness needs applied only “once” (Heb 10:10, 14), and which is never withdrawn, so it is continually unending and needs not to forgive over and over (unlike the Popish mass supports Christ sacrificing again during...
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    In The Meantime

    Hi, and appreciate your replies! Looks like we differ in our understanding but that of course is ok. To me, being tempted just means something is attempting to get you to do wrong, and that's as far as it goes with Christians because we do not give into temptations.
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