• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

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The most significant understanding concerning “being made free from sin” (Rom 6:18, 22) is the fact that those reborn are ever free from the guilt of sin. Forgiveness is not a single occurrence but an unchanging and permanent status! Being free from sin can only mean freedom from the guilt of sin. If the “old man” was expelled from the saint it would mean freedom from sin. But Scripture confirms the continued indwelling of the sin nature in the saint (Rom 7:17, 18, 20).

Thus, being free from the guilt of sin is a meaningful and all-sufficient truth. God knows the sincerity of the individual and already sees the one eventually understanding and choosing to live for God, as He “works” within (Phl 2:13). Believers need to learn the permanency of everything God does within them if they desire to live victorious.

Let us not continue in the ignorance of the freedom and joy of the Lord Jesus, and not offend the love
that the Father has for us!