Bible Discussion Thread

By this then we must know, that they who will not be led by the Holy Spirit, cannot be sons of God! And therefore it can only mean, that "the sons of God who saw the daughters of men..." could have in no wise been fallen angels! but fallen away disobedient men! So too, it was the turning away from the conviction and guidance of the Spirit, in the world of the beginning, that resulted in the whole world's corrupting beyond possibility of repair or reformation. For we read with those things, how the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh..." showing unmistakably, a rejecting of the Spirit, for taking to satisfy the lusts of the flesh, and their portion in this life, without God: as the Apostle wrote "...having a form of godliness, but denying i.e. disowning, renouncing its power FROM SUCH WITHDRAW YOURSELF!" There is a very important sign for warning in understanding these things just as the Lord said, for a sign and warning that "as it was in the days before the cataclysm, so shall it be in the days when the Son of man shall be revealed." We saw what happened when they paid no attention to the word of God then it is the same today, that many having a form of knowledge and godliness, are denying it power and authority as to themselves and shall not escape the coming cataclysm of the Day of the LORD. To be led by the Spirit means, taking a course in life after the Words of Christ, in all things. To be led by the Spirit means, that we can expect trouble and temptations to beset us, and harass us, and seek to wear us down but we stand on the scriptures as Jesus did, and do not sin! To be led by the Spirit means, that we walk in this world as strangers and foreigners and not looking for setting up a permanent residence. To be led by the Spirit means, to take the way of faith without stage-playing of love out of a pure heart and of a good conscience toward God and men, in all our affairs and encounters in life. To be the sons and daughters of God means, to be made in His image and likeness, in the inner man, after the heart and nature of our Father in heaven.