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Results from: Answers On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: retxar Ordered by Verse |
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141 | Please tell me: What does "filled" mean? | 1 Cor 12:13 | retxar | 3565 | ||
Joh 14:17 "the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and WILL BE IN YOU. (disciples will recieve indwelling of HS) Joh 20:22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. (disciples recieve indwelling of HS) Act 1:5 "for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now." (promise of filling of HS) Remember the diciples already have HS living in them, but they are not FILLED. Act 1:8 "But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; (promise of filling of HS) Act 2:4 And they were all FILLED with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. (filling of HS) | ||||||
142 | why desire faith, healing, miracles, etc | 1 Cor 12:30 | retxar | 29010 | ||
I think it would be wise to accept any gift God desired to give us, and not turn our nose up at any, even tongues. To do otherwise is to say we know more than the Holy Spirit, as it is His determination, not ours (1Co 12:11). retxar |
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143 | Are the gifts of the spirit for today? | 1 Cor 13:8 | retxar | 8764 | ||
Yes, Joel 2:28, Joel 2:29, Acts 2:17, Acts 2:18, 1Cor 1:7, 1Cor 1:8, 1Cor 12:7, 1Cor 12:28, 1Cor 13:10, 1Cor 13:12, Eph 4:13, 1John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. Until this is fulfilled, the gifts of the Spirit are vital and required and no scripture suggest they will cease before this time. God bless! retxar |
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144 | Is tongues a matter of fact? | 1 Cor 14:5 | retxar | 55847 | ||
For the record, the definitions I gave were from the American Heritage Dictionary, not something I made up. Anyway, to answer your question: "Do you believe it is a fact that someone has received the Holy Ghost because they spoke with tongues?" No, I believe it is a fact that someone speaks with tongues because they have been filled with and are enabled by the Holy Ghost. I can't see the Apostles teaching anything different according to Acts 10:45-47. retxar |
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145 | WHAT DOES PRAYING IN THE SPIRIT MEAN? | 1 Cor 14:15 | retxar | 55031 | ||
In the 1Co 14:15 reference Paul is saying he will use the gift of tongues in both prayer and song and that it was important for him to us it often and religiously, along with praying and singing with understanding. Therefore praying in the sprit is praying in tongues in this instance. I am not saying that praying in the spirit is always exclusive to praying in tongues only, but I don’t know of any scripture that uses that term where praying in tongues would be excluded. retxar |
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146 | Meaning of "Praying with our Spirit" | 1 Cor 14:15 | retxar | 93950 | ||
I think what the churches you are referring to are saying is that scripture simply refers to praying in tongues as praying in the spirit. This is exactly what Paul said and taught, so I don’t see how this could be considered wrong. As you have said 1Co 14:14 says ‘if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays’ How hard is that to understand? Just read what it says and then read it again for the interpretation! Here is a verse by verse commentary by David Guzik that is an honest interpretation of what Paul said without all the twisting and squirming that some commentators must resort to in order to get things to fit in with a pre-conceived theology. (1Co 14:14) My spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful: speaking in tongues is communication with God on a spiritual level, by-passing our understanding. My understanding does not benefit when I speak in tongues (is unfruitful), but my spirit prays. (1Co 14:15) Paul gladly proclaims: I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, I will also sing with the understanding. Paul will use the gift of tongues, both in prayer and in song, and he will use it often. (1Co 14:16) Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who occupies the place of the uninformed say "Amen" at your giving of thanks: if no one understands my blessing of the Lord, if no one understands my thanks to God, they can’t say "Amen" with me. When I am gathered together with other believers, I can’t just do my own thing and say, "Well, it blesses me." I must have a concern for others also. (1Co 14:17) You indeed give thanks well, but the other is not edified: Paul is completely consistent in his emphasis on tongues being directed to God. Just in these verses, he points out what we do with the gift of tongues: we pray, we sing, we bless, and we give thanks. All of these we do unto the Lord, not unto man with the gift of tongues. (1Co 14:18) So, Paul saw great value in the gift of tongues for his own devotional life before the Lord: I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all. Yet, when he gathered with other Christians, his concern was to be a blessing, not with getting a blessing. (1Co 14:19) Yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding . . . than ten thousand words in a tongue. Therefore, Paul’s use of tongues was pretty much focused in his devotional life with the Lord. God bless! retxar |
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147 | What's Jesus' position? | 1 Cor 15:27 | retxar | 56123 | ||
Joh 8:24 Therefore, I said to you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins. Joh 8:25 Then they said to Him, Who are You? And Jesus said to them, The Beginning, what I also say to you. Joh 8:26 I have many things to say and to judge concerning you; but the One sending Me is true, and what I heard from Him, these things I say to the world. Joh 8:27 They did not know that He spoke to them of the Father. Joh 8:28 Then Jesus said to them, When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM; and from Myself I do nothing; but as My Father taught Me, these things I speak. Submissive in service, complementary in function, equal in position retxar |
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148 | Old testament | 2 Cor 9:1 | retxar | 13275 | ||
Did you not answer your own question when you asked for a verse in the bible of Jesus saying tithing is important? You quoted Mat 23:23. When Jesus said "not to leave the others undone" was not tithing included? I think it was. Jesus must have thought tithing was important, otherwise He would not have said to not leave undone. In Christ Jesus. retxar |
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149 | How can we bear another's burdens? | Gal 6:2 | retxar | 3841 | ||
Gal 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." The law of Christ is the law of Love. |
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150 | Is there an 'online' study guide | Ephesians | retxar | 20975 | ||
Try http://cf.blueletterbible.org/commentaries/ The commentaries there that include Ephesians are: Jamieson, Fausett and Brown, David Guzik, Matthew Henry, Chuck Smith, and Ray Stedman. Of these, I would recommend the David Guzik commentary for Ephesians. God Bless, retxar |
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151 | Where can I find a scripture to validate | Eph 5:2 | retxar | 38745 | ||
Rom 5:8-11 (NLT) Rom 5:8 But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. Rom 5:9 And since we have been made right in God's sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God's judgment. Rom 5:10 For since we were restored to friendship with God by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be delivered from eternal punishment by his life. Rom 5:11 So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God-all because of what our Lord Jesus Christ has done for us in making us friends of God. retxar |
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152 | Submit . . . unless it hurts? | Eph 5:33 | retxar | 66543 | ||
To insist that a wife submitting to a physically abusive husband in a life treating relationship is God’s intent and meaning, is a real twist and abuse of His WORD. The scripture you give (Eph 5:22) to justify your position, no where suggest or implies in the least that abuse is the “tough pill women are required to swallow”, as you put it, in order to comply withe THE WORD. What an insult! Eph 5:22 says for wives to submit to their own husbands, as unto the Lord. Enduring abuse, pain, injury, and death, is not “as unto the Lord”, but rather, is as unto the devil. Rightly divide the Word of truth, retxar |
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153 | what is meant by work out your own salva | Philippians | retxar | 54433 | ||
1Co 1:18 says "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God." Just as those that are perishing have not actually perished yet, those of us who are "being saved" are not yet completely "saved" from sin. We have been saved from the PUNISHMENT of sin. We have been saved from the POWER of sin. But we are yet to be saved from the PRESENCE of sin. I think that is the context and meaning of the phrase "work out your own salvation" found in Phi 2:12 that you were questioning. retxar |
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154 | Churches | Phil 3:3 | retxar | 69158 | ||
One difference is church government. Baptist are more of a congregational run fellowship where major decisions are voted on by the congregation and they also determine church policy. The Presbyterians are more of a Elder run fellowship where the board of Elders make the major decisions and determine church policy. retxar |
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155 | Relationship between "faith" and "fear"? | 1 Thess 3:5 | retxar | 16071 | ||
Faith and fear requires us to do the same thing. We must react now to a future we cannot see. We chose to react to fear or act on faith. We chose to walk in the fear of the flesh, or walk in the faith of the Spirit. When we are really under attack from the enemy, our flesh wants to draw back in fear but the Spirit wants us to reach out in faith. Jesus Lives! retxar |
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156 | Is Archangel Michael and Jesus the same | 1 Thess 4:16 | retxar | 61864 | ||
Read and study Hebrews 1 and you will find many, many, examples of why Jesus is no angel. This false teaching was created by the J.Witness as a insult to the deity of Jesus Christ. Jesus is Lord! retxar |
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157 | Should I resign from the Forum? | 2 Thess 1:3 | retxar | 65690 | ||
I reviewed the thread and it seems to me you asked a reasonable biblically based question that deserved a biblically based answer, not an opinion based attack. You did not say, mean, or imply anything you were accused of. You were not out of line, so don't give it another thought. Move on and keep up the good work! retxar |
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158 | The Restrainer - Revisited! | 2 Thess 2:7 | retxar | 17530 | ||
I agree that the restrainer is the Holy Spirit or the Church. I lean very much toward the church because vs7 says "taken out of the way" not "gets out of the way". The church would have to be "taken out of the way", but the Holy Spirit would need no help. Also, the Holy Spirit cannot remove His presense from the Earth as some have said, because: 1. He is omnipresent 2. There will be a great work of the Holy Spirit done on earth after the a-christ is revealed. However, "taken out of the way", does not have to mean the Holy Spirit's presence would be removed from Earth, just that His restraining power upon the a-christ would be lifted. Anyway, I'm staying with my first answer (c). Good teaching, bro retxar |
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159 | Women teaching or in authority | 1 Timothy | retxar | 21631 | ||
Because women in church must be under male leadership, they would be restricted from teaching doctrine and correction but would be allowed to teach exhortation (the way I see it). God made men and women different, so this is a good thing! 1Ti_2:14 says Eve sinned because she was deceived and that Adam was not deceived. He was not deceived because he knew what he was doing! He sinned with full knowledge of the consequences. Because of Adam's sin, not Eve's, judgement came to all mankind (Rom_5:18), even tho Eve sinned 1st. God confronted Adam in the garden, not Eve (Gen_3:11), because God held Adam responsible. Therefore, men are the ones that God holds responsible for church leadership, not women. hope this helps! Jesus Saves!! retxar |
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160 | Female pastor? Attending wrong? | 1 Timothy | retxar | 21740 | ||
Welcome Singer. Are you a singer? My son (www.christanraxter.faithweb.com) is a singer, songwriter, and piano player. There is a place he plays at a couple times a month that has a lady there that brings the message on a regular basis. She usually brings a short message between sets on Friday and Saturday night. They also have Sunday morning services and I think she usually brings the message then also. This place is a Christian club and not your traditional church setting. However, I think the spiritual leadership guidelines set forth in the Word still applies, because the church is the body of Christ, not a building. She does not have the title “pastor”, but she is filling that role non the less. I know God’s blessing is on this ministry because I have saw the fruit firsthand! I not telling you all this to rescind what I have already said. This lady would be the first to tell you that she thinks God has a man in mind as the spiritual leader of this fellowship. But until that happens, she will continue to feed the flock as God has called her to do. I think that the submissive attitude she has had while filling this role, is the reason God has blessed this ministry. The ideal family, as the Word teaches, is a husband and wife who love each other, with the husband as high priest and spiritual authority of the home. We all know that this is not always the case. God can, and does, use women to fill this role when the husband is not around, not willing, or not able to step up and assume his God given charge. I think God has to do the same thing in the church sometimes. I know I have not answered your question, and have probably only raised more, but I hesitate to be dogmatic on the issue, as I don’t really know the whole story in your church and have no clear cut answers. I would certainly pray diligently for the Holy Sprit’s gift of wisdom in this matter. Personally, if I attended your fellowship, I would want to see a lady who was filling in as pastor only if she was expecting God to place a man in that spiritual authority position as His Word teaches. I would also want to see her willing to submit and not hinder it happening. In the mean time, I think she should teach and train, not set doctrine and discipline. Hope this helps! God Bless you and you family!, retxar |
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