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    ECT Matthew 24:3ff is spoken to the very elect of God

    . . . . that they might understand to be continually on guard by having a "sustaining" message within them that they be not deceived and led astray to perdition: Beginning at Vs 3 where prophecy given His Disciples shifts from explaining the near future to explaining the end times we presently...
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    ECT The conditions of discipleship

    The conditions of discipleship "If any man come to Me, and hate not …, he cannot be My disciple". Luke 14:26, also 27, 33. If the closest relationships of life clash with the claims of Jesus Christ, He says it must be instant obedience to Himself. Discipleship means personal, passionate...
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    ECT Re Romans 3:10-18

    As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their...
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    ECT Sorting out the issue of sons by adoption

    Using these scriptures it should not be difficult to understand what God is after when He created Adam: "But as many as received him [Jesus], to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name" John 1:12 (KJV) "Having predestinated us unto the adoption of...
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    ECT Acquaintance with grief _ a Holy Spirit insight

    A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isaiah 53:3. "We are not acquainted with grief in the way in which Our Lord was acquainted with it; we endure it, we get through it, but we do not become intimate with it. At the beginning of life we do not reconcile ourselves to the fact of sin. We...
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    ECT "I am dead in Christ" __ What does that mean?

    Are you really understanding what you so "glibbly" claim? Whose first?
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    ECT How accurate is this?

    The installation of the Body of Christ upon earth can readily be understood to have occurred by reading John 20:22 KJV: "Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive...
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    ECT Given the nominal but accepted understanding of these two verses:

    "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:" Romans 3:10 (KJV) And: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9 (KJV) How would you reconcile those 2 passages with these 2? "Stand in awe, and sin not: Commune with...
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    ECT Haven't we been given to believe in a rapture of the "elect"?

    So how come this by Jesus that speaks of great tribulation for Christians: "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's...
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    ECT "The Gospel" A Short Story

    ". . . all souls are mine". Exe.18:4. In the beginning: God came unto the 'world' [alienated souls by sin] who eventually couldn't recognize Him, causing Him to repent. More narrowly the next time around, He came unto His own nation of souls, born of Jacob [Israel], and they, for the same...
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    ECT Definition of "Works Salvation"

    1. Average Christian Pastor who is trying to hold on to his job. 2.
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    ECT What "Law" is this that Paul refers to?

    "Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in...
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    ECT If you are a Christian, what is the significance of this passage?

    "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you". Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to...
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    ECT Because of Adam’s transgression

    Because of Adam’s transgression, man was sealed to a vain life and there was nothing he could do about it. All that was left him were instructions by God on how to overrule it to avoid damnation/missing out on His blessings. These instructions came originally from God directly but later by way...
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    ECT Concerning the OT Pachal Lamb

    What did it accomplish when sacrificed? What were it's limitations as a sin offering? Why?
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    ECT Jesus, The Man part of Him

    While on Earth and before His glorification, Jesus was the Christ of the Word of God He was given to protect; the Word of God who was equal to the Godhead Who would subject Himself the humanity of a man, a human body prepared for Him. While now being one in the same, both were subjected, for a...
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    ECT Why??? How come???

    If God has given us, by Jesus Christ that which enables us to make our souls and our hearts clean, why do we keep saying, as by an exercise in unbelief, “Jesus did it all” with the attitude and that though enabled by him, we can do nothing to make ourselves clean and if we were even to try it...
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    ECT Are you a Christian if . . .

    . . . . . . you are still the same Christian name tag wearing self-centered fraud, set on your own way, then it is a lie to say that God has saved and sanctified you. You shame Him by wearing that tag __ however you wear it.
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    ECT Is being sealed by the Holy Spirit a conditional security?

    "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage". Galatians 5:1 (KJV) What was the fear that motivated Paul to warn the Galatians of such a danger? And would this not be an exercise of man's free will should he choose...
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