Exactly right.
So what intrigues me is how you can identify with the madists here who cannot relate to what you've said above. For me this is the sinister element of mad. All the eschatology and dispensational stuff doesn't really matter to me, although I disagree with it, it is this issue that exposes something that I believe is cultish.
That's because this is one those areas where some within MAD hold a different understanding.
Though I have encountered entire Mid-Acts based assemblies where this is taught as I laid it out.
And there are many - in Florida, in Illinois, in Tennessee, in Pennsylvania, in Califorinia, in Puerto Rico, in Southeast Asia, various parts of Europe, etc., and they can be found throughout China.
And there are various of them teaching on YouTube, etc.
The distinction is between Mid-Acts Pauline Dispensational (mostly those ever beating others over the head about how this or that is "not for us" triple exclamation points in red, lol) and what is actually a different group - Mid-Acts Pauline Grace Dispensational.
This latter group will tend to be much more curious about and, greatly emphasize what they refer to as The Grace Life.
Or the Law (or operating principle) of the Spirit - of Life - of living in - Christ Jesus - that the Spirit has enabled the Believer with the ability to, from the moment he was justified, and that He has enabled said Believer access to, by Faith.
Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
In other words, the understanding is get in the Scripture, study out who God has made you in His Son from the moment in which you believed, and then simply believe that, and walk in that by faith.
And being that the Spirit is the one teaching you about all that through The Word, based on how you approach The Word: this is what Walking in the Spirit refers to...
To properly studying these things out, believing them, and then deciding to walk in them by faith, or because that is what The Word says to do.
In other words just as you received His grace by faith...
Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
You access its intended enablement by faith...
Romans 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Colossians 2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Forgive me, this is probably my favorite Pauline subject; I could go on about it forever, as that is the vast majority of the Apostle Paul's focus in Romans thru Philemon.
Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Again, there are many, many like this within Mid-Acts.
Their focus tends to be far more on that then on forever beating people over the head with how that this or that in Scripture "is not for us!!!"
In other words, I'll have to beg to differ with you once more - in actual practice, Mid-Acts is anything but...a cult.
The seeming cult-like "our way or the high-way" of an ever rude and crude individual here and there is far and away more the exception, than the rule.
And such are found even among Pentecostals, which is not only the basic group you appear to identify yourself with, but within which I personally know such rude and crude types can also be found in.
Heck, you and I are not always a picnic with others either :chuckle:
Nevertheless, Romans 14:5 towards you, in memory of Romans 5:8.