Dead In Christ
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009What change occurs at regeneration?
At regeneration one is adopted by God as His child. At regeneration one is adopted by God as His child. During regeneration a change in ownership also occurs. And there is a loosening which occurs, the shackles are removed and the way of escape is made possible.
Monday, February 23rd, 20093 Types: Hebrews 12
There are three (3) types which are used throughout the scriptures. They can be found as early as Genesis and are elsewhere in the Old Testament, especially in Israel and the tabernacle. They are found in the teaching of Christ and in Paul’s epistles. This study demonstrates how Paul uses them in Hebrews 12.
Thursday, February 19th, 20093 Types: Romans 7
There are three (3) types which are used throughout the scriptures. They can be found as early as Genesis and are elsewhere in the Old Testament, especially in Israel and the tabernacle. They are found in the teaching of Christ and in Paul’s epistles. This study demonstrates how Paul uses them in Romans 7.
Thursday, February 19th, 20093 Types: Romans 6
There are three (3) types which are used throughout the scriptures. They can be found as early as Genesis and are elsewhere in the Old Testament, especially in Israel and the tabernacle. They are found in the teaching of Christ and in Paul’s epistles. This study demonstrates how Paul uses them in Romans 6.
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008John 6:46 Not that any man hath seen the Father
In this passage Jesus teaches that not just any man has seen the Father. He points out that only those which are of God have seen the Father.
Wednesday, November 28th, 20071 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them
Paul says that without the Holy Spirit, a person cannot know, understand, comprehend, or make any sense of things that are spiritual. Jesus taught the very same thing when He said that unless a man is born again this is not possible.
Wednesday, November 28th, 20071 Corinthians 2:11 even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God
Paul teaches that only the Holy Spirit is capable of discerning things that pertain to God. Nothing of a man is able to do this.
Saturday, November 10th, 2007Genesis 3: The fall of Man - a shadow of Regeneration and Conversion
When Adam ate of the fruit of the forbidden tree, the result that occurred is often referred to as the “Fall of Man“. This is an appropriate name and for the most part is correctly taught. However, many specific details concerning this event are over looked and because of this, error abounds and truth is [...]
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007John 6 - I am that bread of life
When Jesus is tempted in the wilderness, he reveals a great truth in his rebuke of the tempter as He proclaims, “It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Ephesians 1:13-14 In whom ye also [trusted], after that ye heard the word of truth
Having been given the greatest inheritance of eternal life and eternal salvation; if the person will put his trust in this gospel message and believe, he will receive the earnest of it.
Tuesday, October 16th, 20071 Corinthians 3:13-15 Every man’s work shall be made manifest
All will suffer loss, for all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God, and continue to do so every day. They are all sinners, there is none righteous. But our loss is limited by our obedeince.
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Hebrews 12:11 unto them which are exercised thereby
Not all of God’s children are excercised by His chastening, not all are affected and learn to be obedeint.
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Hebrews 12:6-8 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of God. If you think your earthly father punished you, be even more affraid of the hand of God, when in His wrath He punishes His disobedient children.
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Matthew 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner
There are two types of children, those who are obedeint and those who are disobedient or rebellious. God deals with each of these types in different ways. The obedient are regarded as precious, and the disobedient are chastened. That is the proper teaching of these passages.
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Romans 8:33-34 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect?
Once God’s elect have been translated into the dominion of Christ, only Christ can judge them, and this is done constantly for a single purpose.
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Matthew 3:11 He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and [with] fire:
There are several passages where fire is used by God in chastening His children, and is described as a purification, such as removing impurities from gold. It is this fire to which John makes reference in this passage. John makes reference to two possible outcomes for the children of God. If they believe and are [...]
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Romans 11:15-25 For if the casting away of them [be] the reconciling of the world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], but life from the dead?
These trees are only capable of bearing good fruit, and as in John 15, are threatened to be removed because of unbelief and/or an absence of good works. If they do not start bringing forth fruit meet for repentance, as John warns them, they will be removed from the root.
Thursday, July 26th, 2007Matthew 3 - The winnowing fan and threshing floor
Traditional teaching attempts to persuade one to believe that this passage is that of separating the unregenerate from the regenerate, but that cannot be possible since both the grain and the chaff are derived from the same plant, which in this passage, is a child of God. Compare this to the parable of the “Wheat and Tares” where two distinct types of plants exists, each being derived from two different types of seed. In that parable the wheat is gathered together and placed into the barn. This would be customary prior to threshing and winnowing.
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007Ephesians 2:8 For by Grace are you saved through faith…
The obedient children of God are presently saved by grace through faith, because the reward which they receive presently, is an earnest of the gift given freely from God.
Monday, May 7th, 2007Dead in sin and trespass
Those who are “dead in sin and trespass” can only describe those who are born again, yet are living in disobedience to God.
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007John 3:5 Except a man be born of water and [of] the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God
In John 3:5 Jesus reveals that a person must meet two conditions before he can “enter into” the kingdom of Heaven. The first condition, which he discusses in John 3:3 is regeneration and must be performed by God and is the washing of regeneration. The second condition, being born of the Spirit is known as conversion and is accomplished when a person repents and walks after the Holy Spirit.
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007Regeneration and Conversion explained using the life cycle of a tree
Yet another attempt to explain the difference between regeneration and conversion. This time I have used the life cycle of a tree in hopes that the differences will be more readily identified. Also identified are the three possible conditions of man, unregenerate, regenerate (non-converted), and the regenerate (converted).