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Galatians 5:25 (NASB20) If we live by the Spirit, let’s follow the Spirit as well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A question, if the answer is in the affirmative, then follows, an encouragement to the deepening of that answer… This deepening of the answer, being just another way of saying ‘let the...

Galatians 5:16 (NASB20) But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ‘You will not carry out’, it does not say, ‘you will not have’, but you will not carry out’…. For as long as one is in the body one will have desires that are not...

1 Corinthians 15:46 (NASB20) However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As with all God’s dealings with fallen man, that which is of the outward must come first; it being, one believing that Christ did sacrifice Himself on the cross for...

Ephesians 5:16 (NKJV) redeeming the time, because the days are evil. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What is righteousness…? The question every heart that would want to redeem one’s time should be constantly asking oneself….. For in the asking of this question is one asking for and looking to the...

Hebrews 12:2 (NASB20) looking only at Jesus, the originator and perfecter of the faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Looking only at the Originator and the Perfecter of...

1 John 2:4 (NASB20) The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scripture puts forth a rather severe ultimatum with this truth; ‘if one does not, one does not’…. For regardless of what one...

1 John 2:3 (NASB20) By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scripture puts forth this by this as a touch stone that one can measure one’s knowing of Him; does one keep His commandments…? Seeing how all His commandments are...

Acts 20:24 (NASB20) “But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of God’s grace. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oh the freedom there is in not considering...

1 Corinthians 2:15 (NASB20) But the one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is discerned by no one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Why is it that scripture says that no one can discern the one that is spiritual….? It is because one can only see into another’s relationship with...

1 Corinthians 11:31 (NASB20) But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How can one judge oneself rightly if regardless of how much one knows of one’s sinfulness, there is a deeper degree of sinfulness still to be exposed…? There is but one way and...

Ephesians 4:24a (NASB20) and to put on the new self,………………………………….. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We are called to put on the change, but this is where many well meaning believers get stuck and can’t find the way forward…. Thinking that self needs to put on the new self, so the effort is made, and...

John 14:6 (NASB20) Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jesus says He is the way, the truth, the life, but what way, what truth, what life…? That would be the way of righteousness, the truth of...

Romans 6:1-2 (NASB20) What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? Far from it! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In these words are put forth the emphatic-ness of our not continuing in sin, and also the reason for it…...

Hebrews 11:25b (NASB20) ………………………………..enjoy the temporary pleasures of sin, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Why does scripture say the pleasures of sin are temporary…? It is because evil is only pleasurable as it misuses the good…. Once the evil and the good have been separated by the final...

John 3:7 (NASB20) “Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The instruction comes that one is to ‘not be amazed’ at how salvation is to come…. For when one recognizes one’s fallen state, the necessity is seen, that salvation must come by way of...

Matthew 5:3a & 4a (NASB20) Blessed are the poor in spirit, ….. Blessed are they that mourn,…… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ But why ,,,, what is this being poor in spirit and what is this mourning that a blessing is being spoken upon…..? For one being poor in spirit and being a mourner...

Psalm 119:160 (NASB20) The sum of Your word is truth, And every one of Your righteous judgments is everlasting. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ‘The sum of Your word is truth’, this truth puts all other truths in their proper perspective, for one truth cannot be separated from the qualities put...

Romans 12:10 (KJV) [Be] kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What truth is being put forth with the words, ‘in honor preferring one another’…… With the added words ‘in honor’ they are meant to put the preferring that...

Romans 6:11 (NASB20) So you too, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scripture reads; “dead to sin”, it does not read that “sin is dead” but that one is dead to it…. This is the understanding that leads to victory and walking in...

Hebrews 12:2a (NASB20) looking only at Jesus……………… Acts 22:16b (NASB20) …………….calling on His name. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ These two truths go hand in hand and can not be in person without a third and most glorious truth being a truth in the life, and that truth is the denial of self…. For...