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The majority of these posts are my replies to emails, text messages, or other questions brought up in various settings. Any names or personal information have of course been removed.

Aug

28

Justification and Condemnation

In the course of our Christians lives, experiencing judgment and recognizing what God condemns in man, is so far from being a bad thing, that it can truly be called an incredible gift of God’s love. The reason for the many misunderstandings and wrong views on this point is quite simply because man wants to be free from condemnation without experiencing a freedom from the nature that is condemned.

Aug

20

Why Christians Don't Change

One of the primary reasons that Christians don't experience true inward change is because they simply do not love and submit to the Light of Christ in its first and smallest manifestations. Expecting something bigger or grander, they overlook the convictions of Christ's light that expose the true current condition of their heart.

Aug

13

The Nature of Man's Freedom

Man has NO power in himself to leave his fallen condition. BUT, man has total freedom to join his heart and his will (in love and submission) to the power that comes from God, or to the power that comes from Satan. Again I say, man is NOT the source of this power, life, or righteousness. He can no more produce it than he can create the moon. But when the power of God appears, stirs, and reveals a measure of truth in him, then man is entirely free to “love His appearing,” (2 Tim 4:8) love the light, agree with what is made manifest, and so RECEIVE power to be made a new creation.

Aug

13

The Conscience vs. the Light of Christ

Man has a conscience, an inward faculty of feeling or finding good and evil, and this can be influenced either by God’s Spirit, or by a number of other things—like how we are raised, what we see and experience when we are young, what our society thinks is appropriate or taboo, etc. But the light of Christ (the living Truth or Perspective of God) that shines IN the conscience, gives us a sense or sight of TRUE righteousness and wickedness. It breaks through our opinions and cultural norms, and often gives us to feel things that are directly against what we have been taught or have wanted to believe.

Aug

13

WHAT IS Your Relationship with God?

Your relationship with God is the reality of God living in you. It is the very life of God—a seed of His nature, light, power—planted in the soul of fallen man, given in order to grow, and fill, and reign in your fallen soul, transforming it into a clean temple for His presence and glory.

Aug

13

The Implanted Word

It's one thing to know that Christ is the Word of God, it's another thing to experience the implanted Word of God (that is to say, the living communication and manifestation of God) actually putting off from us everything in our heart, mind, and thoughts that is contrary to Him, and clothing us with an entirely new nature. Christians often fall very short here, satisfying themselves by confessing and professing what they do not really possess.

Aug

13

Losing Sight of Your Guide

Christ comes to transform you, not to inform you. Many people adore His words, but hate His nature when it appears (little by little) as a judge and teacher in their hearts. They love what He said, but they crucify who He IS when His light demands a conformity to His image. And when we won't love, follow and submit to His light, then it moves on without us, always heading to the Promised Land, and we are left behind, doing circles in the wilderness, arguing about His words.

Aug

13

Two Births in Man

Here is your condition. This is what you currently feel, and what everyone can feel if they are willing to turn to the Voice that reproves them. You feel something stirring and moving in you that is good, and pure, and living, and is excited to know and really find and follow Christ. And yet you feel something else in you that is very different, very contrary, big, and well-fed. What are these two things? And why are they wrestling within you?

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light. - John 12:26