Living by Grace
Grace does not only save; it teaches. The believer who is complete in Christ grows by the renewing of his mind with sound doctrine, not by keeping rules or chasing signs. These articles deal with the daily walk under grace: sanctification, the law of sin, liberty and its limits, prayer, and knowing the will of God from Paul's epistles.
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Sanctification Under Grace: How the New Creature Actually Grows
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Grace teaching clears the believer off the law's treadmill — but then what do you actually do? This study builds Paul's constructive mechanism of sanctification: know the finished fact, reckon it, yield your members, and let the mind be renewed — distinguished from both law-keeping and let-go-and-let-God passivity.
The Law of Sin: What It Is, How It Works, and Why Grace Is the Only Answer
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Paul named the force that causes believers to do what they hate the law of sin. This article explains what it is, why more law makes it worse, how it differs from the Mosaic law, and why the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus is the only governing principle that overrides it.
Can I? Should I? Will I? Answer to Questions
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Liberty, grace, and the leading of the Spirit answer the three questions a believer faces in every decision — Can I? Should I? Will I? Paul gives the Body of Christ plain, practical footing for daily choices, grounded in grace rather than law.
The Will of God for the Body of Christ: Found in Paul, Not in Signs and Fleeces
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Believers leaving experiential Christianity are still taught to find God's will by signs, fleeces, open doors, and inner promptings. Paul knows none of it. This study lays out the grace believer's real path to God's will: largely revealed and plainly stated, the rest proved by a renewed mind walking in wisdom, the outcome trusted to providence.
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What to Do When You Sin: Grace, Godly Sorrow, and Secured Fellowship in Christ
Posted by Edward R. Cross on May 4, 2026
Because the Body of Christ is already forgiven of all trespasses, the believer does not confess sin to regain standing before God. This article shows what Paul actually teaches about godly sorrow, reckoning, and yielding as the proper response to sin under the dispensation of grace.
Tithing, Grace Giving, and the Believer's Liberty in Christ
Posted by Edward R. Cross on May 1, 2026
The tithe was a specific agricultural obligation under the Mosaic Law for Israel. Paul never commanded it for the Body of Christ. This article shows tithing's proper context in Israel's program and what Paul actually teaches about cheerful, grace-based giving with no percentage and no curse.
Paul's Obedience to Suffer for Christ's Name Sake
Posted by Edward R. Cross on April 19, 2026
Paul did not stumble into suffering by ignoring the Holy Spirit's warnings at Tyre and Caesarea. Those were prophetic predictions of what would happen, not prohibitions against going. Acts 23:11 records the Lord's own commendation of Paul's Jerusalem testimony, settling the question of obedience.
Can I? Should I? Will I? Answer to Questions
Posted by Edward R. Cross on October 7, 2023
Liberty, grace, and the leading of the Spirit answer the three questions a believer faces in every decision — Can I? Should I? Will I? Paul gives the Body of Christ plain, practical footing for daily choices, grounded in grace rather than law.
Church Traditions
Posted by Edward R. Cross on October 7, 2023
Man-made church traditions have no authority over the believer's conscience when they conflict with Paul's epistles. This article calls the Body of Christ to stand fast in the liberty of grace, reject the yoke of religious tradition, and hold fast to the things Paul delivered for this dispensation.
Christian Crap
Posted by Edward R. Cross on October 6, 2023
Self-righteousness based on externals and man-made standards is exactly what Paul counted as dung. This article challenges the tendency to measure spirituality by outward performance and calls believers to rest in the new-creature identity they already have in Christ, accepted in the Beloved.
