Spoken by Jesus to His Disciples before the cross:
"Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless" I will come to you. . . . "But the...
If Jesus was tempted and the born again are tempted in like manner, what must be the reason; what is God after from ALL who have been conceived, ALL who hold His Own DNA within them by such a Holy conception?
CALVINISM: TULIP
T: Total depravity – Every facet of every person everywhere has been marred by sin.
Actuality:
Though by definition total depravity could be conceived to be reprobation. However, it could be, for one reason of another, a temporary swing in one’s disposition who is without God...
Scripture tells us that.
"But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." Hebrews 11:6 (KJV)
[So much for the interpretation of faith being a gift of God for man's salvation]
So...
The Ultimate Intention . . . . 1974 Introduction
H. J. STANLEY
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD today there is the echo and re-echo of revolution. Surely this is evidence of the crisis hour in which we live. A NEW DAY is on the horizon. We are now in the night—a time of political, social, religious...
Though God may use His ways and means to cause man to be willing, as was the case with Jona, and he was already in God's camp living in the promises of God. When considering man's will for his own life, nowhere in scripture can we find God going against mans own "freewill" will to choose for...
From Websters dictionary
1. Definition of gnosticism:
the thought and practice especially of various cults of late pre-Christian and early Christian centuries distinguished by the conviction that matter is evil and that emancipation comes through gnosis
2.Definition of gnosis
ghosis...
Romans 14:17—"For the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost."
In this text we have the earthly revelation of the work of the Trinity. The Kingdom of God is righteousness; that represents the work of the Father. The foundations of His...
A major Reformed distinctive is the teachings of Scripture as relates to Adam's federal headship of all his progeny such that when he sinned all mankind was plunged into sin and corruption. This is commonly referred to as the doctrine of original sin.
But this is what happened:
When Adam...
The Strength in the Heavenlies
All spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. (Ephesians 1:3)
The unsearchable riches of Christ. (Ephesians 3:8)
God is able to make all grace abound toward you. (2 Corinthians 9:8)
These verses mean that just as the overflowing, omnipotent...
1. Temptation v. Sin (James 1:12-15)
Temptation and sin are profoundly different. Temptation is a pathway to the end desired, but it leads to a perplexing situation, inasmuch as it makes a man decide which factor he will obey in the dilemma. The possibility of sin and the inclination to sin are...
. . . . is for us to understand why faith is not a gift of God for understanding Ephesians 2:8,9.
Substitution
"He hath made Him to be sin for us, … that we might be made the righteousness of God."… 2 Cor. 5:21.
The modern view of the death of Jesus is that He died for our sins out of...
The difference between "abandoning" one's life to the cross of Christ and merely "surrendering" it to, perhaps later on, only pick it back up further down the road of life.
...... THE CROSS ......
Utter abandonment to God is, then, the only way of blessing. The alabaster vase must be broken...