Spiritual Growth

Lord told us to love our fellow faithful, especially the fellow faithful. Lord told us to take care of the fellow faithful, especially the fellow faithful. If they are sick, we have to be there; if they are hungry, we have to be there; and if they are in prison, we have to be there. This is a mandatory requirement of every faithful. But we don’t do that because we don’t know them, if we know who they are, it would serve us better. Lord also told us to love our enemy, to pray for those who hunt us, and to bless those who curse us. Lord told us to feed our enemy when s/he is hungry, to give him/her water when s/he is thirsty, and to comfort him/her when s/he is in pain. We don’t do that because we don’t know them and we don’t know ourselves, either. Lord hates pride and told us to be humble. Lord did not want us to take a higher sit but to take a lower sit. Lord wants us to serve the most, to demand the least, and to have no pride except in our knowledge of God. Yet we are very proud a...

Paul tried to establish one primary fact that salvation is by grace, not law. The single requirement for salvation is to believe that Jesus is lord. If you believe Jesus is lord, you are saved by grace through faith, not by work. Does this mean that we have to sin because salvation is by grace? Paul established that we are purchased by Jesus, for a price, and we are the temple of the Holy Spirit, as a result, we are dead for sin and we cannot live in sin. Grace is not a blank check to sin; it is a blank check to holiness. When we are holy, the spirit of truth and comfort, the Holy Spirit, will lead us to all truth and godly ways.   God is Holy and cannot live in a sinful body. We, therefore, are made holy by the blood of Jesus through grace by faith, so we can be a temple of the Holy Spirit. The existence of the Holy Spirit will connect us with Jesus, as we are one spirit with the lord. The role of the lord is to lead us to all truth and to spiritually grow us to be like him. I...