Newness of Life

 Tale o f Two Cities: Which city shapes our desires, and drives our conduct?  Are we fighting for Babylon and conformed to its image, or the eternal city of God? The harvest is all about separation-scripture speaks of trouble and shakings through time that purge and separate the leaven from God's people in a refining process, but those who have no appetite for God remain unchanged and unable to discern that it is God Himself calling them near through the trouble. "I counsel you to buy gold tried by fire." Trouble is God knocking, but the wicked come forth without any gold, says the prophet.  We are shaking. Babylon is falling. I keep hearing, "He will keep thee in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee" so looked up some commentary on it this morning.  The commentary was powerful and instructive for our time. The more that I study the symbol of Babylon, and Mystery Babylon, the more I am concluding that it is the fullest expression of man's sinful appeti...

  This aspect of our faith, the full redemption, was hard for me to see. I have strong views, and sometimes those views are just wrong, or partially wrong. I like to think about that when I get to fastened to a viewpoint just to remind me that I have thought one thing only to realize that it was wrong later, and this is one of those things. This is how it was regarding the truth of our full redemption. I had attended a Bible study class that taught on a proper understanding of our full redemption, and I got into an argument with the man teaching the class. (Well, he did say that he was ok being challenged. I may have taken him too seriously, but I do need to see the pathway to a conclusion if I am going to amend my views.) The difficulty that I ran into regarding the truth of our full redemption that most of Churchianity has removed from the equation, was my understanding of the power and redemption available to us right now.  As you will see in this blog, I believe in pressin...