Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds

We Take What We Think Are The Tools Of Spiritual Transformation Into Our Own Hands And Try To Sculpt Ourselves Into Robust Christlike Specimens. But Spiritual Transformation Is Primarily The Work Of The Holy Spirit. He Is The Master Sculptor

Justified" Is Even Better Than "just As If I'd Never Sinned." It Is Also "just As If I'd Always Obeyed.

How Then Can We Deal With Our Tendency Toward Worldliness? It Is Not By Determining That We Will Not Be Worldly, But By Committing Ourselves To Becoming More Godly.

This Is The Secret Of Being Content: To Learn And Accept That We Live Daily By God's Unmerited Favor Given Through Christ, And That We Can Respond To Any And Every Situation By His Divine Enablement Through The Holy Spirit.

God's Grace Is Not Given To Make Us Feel Better, But To Glorify Him... Good Feelings May Come, Or They May Not, But That Is Not The Issue. The Issue Is Whether Or Not We Honor God By The Way We Respond To Our Circumstances.