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If you were to look up on most Christian websites what a “legalist” is, you would find someone who believes that their law-keeping, behavior, good acts have some benefit in their salvation. But, true Christianity is not about legal claims, written records, payments, or legal status changes. Then what IS salvation?

Why is Christianity so divided? Why are there so many factions? The answer to that depends completely upon one’s understanding of how God’s law, kingdom, methods, and principles function. Let’s discover more in this two-part blog!

Why is Christianity so divided? Why are there so many factions? The answer to that depends completely upon one’s understanding of how God’s law, kingdom, methods, and principles function. Let’s discover more in this two-part blog!

Do you believe God is love? If so, then do you rejoice knowing God is patient and kind, that He is not envious and doesn’t boast, that He is not proud or rude, that He is not self-seeking or easily angered, that He doesn’t delight in evil but rejoices with the truth?

Moses, like all of us, experienced the temptation from within, that fear-generated, self-protective desire that justifies, in such moments, lashing out. However, he did not lose His faith in God; he momentarily allowed his feelings, originating from his inherent spirit of fear, to cause him to act outside of his faith.

What does it mean to fix our eyes on Christ, to keep our minds stayed on him? Is it possible to loose the peace He gives us, while still looking to him?

What is interesting about how God created us is that our individuality, our consciousness, emerges from the living operations of our brains. Our consciousness and thinking, which is our minds, react back upon the brain, causing it to change, to structurally alter to align with what our minds and hearts choose, conclude, and internalize.

The day when all of God’s children are healed, restored to unity, and at-one with Him again was most potently revealed in the heart of that symbolic system by the “ark of the covenant.” Notice the name, the ark of the covenant—what covenant?

When our spiritual life declines, our tendency is to stop advancing in truth and to rest confident in established systems of belief and doctrine, on tradition, and previously uncovered truths. Why?

How did God build our hearts and minds to function, and what happens to us in our minds, brains, motives, and hearts when we delay making important, life-changing decisions?

If we are going to influence people for good, we need to get to know them. They need to know we care about them, and genuinely have their best interest at heart. However…

Have you ever experienced being overly dirty or grimy? What did you do to get clean? Did you ask your brother to go bathe in your place? It’s time to recognize the reality of how God actually cleans you of sin!