Standing and State – Series 1-10

This complete ten-essay series provides a thorough KJV Bible study of the difference between the believer’s standing in Christ and his changing state during his earthly walk. It explains how every saved person is accepted in the Beloved, justified by faith, positionally sanctified, eternally secure, and seated in heavenly places while still needing practical holiness, confession, spiritual growth, correction, and daily victory over the flesh. The series carefully distinguishes positional sanctification from practical and final sanctification, the new man from the old man, relationship from fellowship, condemnation from parental chastening, salvation from discipleship, and the finished judgment of sin at Calvary from the future judgment of Christian service. It also examines spiritual maturity, Israel’s wilderness journey as a practical example, the Judgment Seat of Christ, Christian rewards and loss, and the believer’s final glorification at the Rapture. Readers will understand why a poor state cannot undo a perfect standing, why eternal security never excuses careless living, and how the Christian’s heavenly position should increasingly govern his earthly walk.