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Results from: Answers On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: 2 Ti 2:15 Ordered by Date |
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1 | PLEASE EXPLAIN MATTHEW 19:8 | Bible general Archive 1 | 2 Ti 2:15 | 82892 | ||
My brother, May the God of Peace and Wisdom be with you. Jesus told the Pharisee's that divorce was never his plan however becuase man is hard hearted he allowed for it. God would rather us forgive 7 times 70 and reconcile our differences. However, it takes two in marriage so you may have the best motives, but without the other spouses help you cant do it. You can't go back and change everything in your life either. Sometimes it would be more destructive and confusing. Consider this: A man is married and divorced he then remarries another woman who has never been married. He has 2 children. Would God have him to leave her (this is his current wifes 1st marriage remember) and go back to his 1st wife? Then his current wife would be alone with 2 children. Would she be left out of the loop and as she can't back to her 1st spouse.? This would leave a mother and two children who havent done anything wrong without a father and husband would that be Gods will? I don't know if that was more confusing than helping... If possible you are better to get back together if the both of you can reconcile. If she is not willing or there are just unreconcilable differences God allowed for divorce. (you just have to be sure you aren't the one pushing for the speration if she is willing to work on it) I agree with what everyone else has noted, you need to search your heart and decide for yourself. Do you feel God wants you to try and get back together? Only you and God know your heart so this is a matter someone else can't really tell you what to do. I pray God would lead you into what is right. I believe you are on the right track my friend as you are questioning. It's a hard subject God be with you. Casey |
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2 | Am I saved until Christ returns? | Phil 1:6 | 2 Ti 2:15 | 82780 | ||
I believe when you truly have "accepted Christ" as your saviour he will keep you. The problem is, if you turn back. Heb. 10:26 says there will be no more sacrifice for our sins. In other words if you deliberatly leave him and choose to sin Gods mercy will no longer cover you. At that point you would have to come back to God with a repentant heart. The really important question is what do you have to do to be saved. Many people say all you have to do is believe. And there are some scriptures which would seem to support this theory... such as Eph 2:8 "For by grace are ye saved through faith..." and others. Ultimatly we are saved by faith as no works we do can save us it is by our trust in him. The bible tells us to verify everything out of the mouth of 2 or 3 witnesses, line upon line, precept upon precept. Take the whole bible and put it together not just a couple versus. There are some signs that follow true believers. Ja. 2 tells us that faith or believing without any works or evidence is not TRUE faith. Mk 1616 states "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not, shall be damned." Why becuase it's through our faith in him and his sacrifice that gives us access to God. Read on it talks about some of the characteristics of a believer. NOTE it says these signs SHALL follow them that BELIEVE.... In my name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new tounges;... Acts 1:8 says you receive power after you receive the Holy Ghost. If you read Acts 2 they spoke with other tounges after receiving the Holy Ghost. Every account of receiving the Holy Ghost that actually goes into depth tells of them speaking in other tounges. Jn. 3:1-8 Jesus speaks to Nicodemus telling him what we must do to be saved. Be born again of Water and of the Spirit. Baptism of the water, and baptism of the spirit he goes on states you cannot enter heaven unless you are born again baptized and receive the Holy Ghost ... he goes on in verse 8 saying the wind blows where it listeth and thou hearest the sounds thereof, but canst not see whence it cometh.... the wind blows where it will and we can't see it however!!! HOWEVER! you can hear it! so is everyone that is born of the spirit. When you recieve the Holy Ghost people wont be able to see it but they will hear it when you speak with other tounges. Many people choose to say it isn't essential ecspecially those who haven't experienced it. They want to say it's not necessary to speak in tounges to receive the Holy Ghost. Why? because they don't want to admit they may be wrong and may not have that relationship they proclaim. In Mt. 7:21 it says many will say to Jesus Lord Lord.... they will call him Lord and say weve done many wonderful things all in your name. They are people that went to church and did many things in the church. It goes on to say he turned them away because he "never knew them" ... there was never the intamacy that comes through the Holy Ghost. God requires a relationship. It's a must. This is what separates the wheat and tare. Those that aren't truly hungry for God won't receive the Holy Ghost becuase their motives are directed elsewhere. It's not hard or difficult. It simply requires a true hunger to know God. This is something you can't fake to God as he knows your heart. I would encourage anyone who believes all you have to do is believe, to double check it. It is your soul and don't just believe because thats what you've been taught and because you havnt experienced speaking in tounges. Maybe no one you know has. The disciples came to a group of believers in Acts and askd if they had the Holy Ghost ... they said we have not so much have heard whether there be any holy Ghost. Faith alone in Jesus doesn't give us the Holy Ghost or these believers would have had it. They already believed in Jesus enough to be baptized. There is so much more that many people don't experience and I would encourage anyone and everyone to look further into this with an open heart and mind. God bless and may you excell in wisdom and in Love. Casey |
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3 | Question #5 for tremere123 | Exodus | 2 Ti 2:15 | 67843 | ||
In Heb. chapter 6:1-6 Talks about leaving the principles of the our doctrine which ultimately came from Jesus. Then it goes on to tell what our principle doctrine is. "Not laying againt he foundation repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of the doctrine of babtisms (Jn3:3-5 we see is babtism of water and babtism of spirit) etc... then, after explaining the foundation and basic beliefs of our salvation, it goes on to say It is impossible for those who were ONCE ENLIGHTENED and have experienced all these things, to renew them AGAIN unto repentance seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame. They knew and then turned their back on the truth of God blaspheming the Holy Ghost. In Ro. chapter one it talks about the sinners who knew God or at least knew what was required of themselves (vs 32) but went ahead and sinned because they loved sin. Verse 28 states God finally just turned them over to a reprobate mind. In 2 Thes. 2:10-12 it says God sent the people a delusion that they should believe a lie becuase they had pleasure in unrighteousness and didn't receive a love for the truth. Then in verse 15 he warns the church to hold fast to their traditions. If we commit the only unforgivable sin which I believe is to be turning our back on God and leaving the principles of the Doctrine Jesus taught, having pleasure in sin, we become like the man who began to work in the feild and turned to look back. It's a scary thought but Jesus said he was unfit for the kingdom of God. I believe it is more than a mere sin but a actual turning from the foundations and basics of Truth. I believe if a person goes this far and loves sin so much they leave the principles of the doctrine of Christ it is impossible as they have become blinded and there would be only one way for them to come back. God would have to open their eyes to the truth and draw them back to himself as no man come to God unless God draws him. Thus this person is Lost as God does turn people over to themsleves. Anyhow you can interpret it any way you want but I feel it is farther then just blatent sin becuase many of us have played the role of the prodigal son and God has brought back. I believe blasphemy of the Holy Ghost is an actual rejection of the truth which you once experienced and knew for yourself. God bless |
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