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181 | Can anyone explain? | 1 Cor 12:13 | WalkingTalkingBible | 120769 | ||
"Everything we will know about God will be revealed to us by the Holy Ghost." In elaborating on this statement, I will use Scripture, keeping in mind that God is His Word. Matthew 11:27 says, "All things are delivered unto Me of My Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him." This verse shows us that no man knows the Son (or the Word), but the Father. The Son is Jesus, Who is the Word in the flesh (John 1:1, 14). The Word is only revealed by the Father through the Holy Ghost: John 16:13 says, "Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will shew you things to come." The second statement I made is about those who lean to their own understanding of the Word; those who are not filled with the Holy Ghost and led by Him. Those who read the Bible and "teach" themselves. Those who don't know God, but know of Him. 1 Corinthians 2:12-14 says, "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." Proverbs 3:5 says, "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding." No, be comforted to know that I'm not suggesting neither that the Word of God doesn't teach us, nor that we don't learn by it, I'm saying that we can't teach ourselves. It is the Holy Ghost that teaches us all things (John 14:26). Although, everyone preaching is not preaching sound doctrine, the fivefold ministry is very important to the spiritual growth of the believer. God knows every heart and if one wants to really know the truth, He will guide him to a church where the truth is being taught. But if one just wants to be self righteous, then he will search for a place that is saying what he wants to hear. It's so important to be filled with the Holy Ghost and learn because after hearing the preacher/teacher, one needs to be able to study and meditate on the Scriptures learned so they can be put into action. Ephesians 4:17-18 says, "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:" Does this help clear those two statements up? WalkingTalkingBible |
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182 | Do our works keep us saved? | 1 Cor 12:13 | WalkingTalkingBible | 120770 | ||
Faith keeps us saved: "But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6)." Notice that "seek" is in the present tense which means that we are to continue to seek Him. It's more to this walk with God than to say, "I believe," and that's it, the devil believes, too. Faith is an action word. Our works which we do, being led by the Spirit of God through Jesus, show our faith. "What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?" (James 2:14-20) These works are not to be confused with works that the unsaved do. For example, there are many who take care of the poor and homeless, feed the hungry, and adopt the fatherless, but they are not saved. They won't go to the Kingdom of God just because they did those good works. Unless they repent and become part of the body of Christ, those works are in vain. It's the same when some professes to be saved, and you can't tell them from someone who is unsaved. Sometimes, people who call themselves saved are only justified by what they think the Bible says. The Holy Ghost is the teacher and without Him, the Gospel remains "hidden." If one falls away from faith, will he/she still be considered saved because of a so-called "belief?" Only in his/her eyes. God says that we are to remain saved until the end. It's not a one time deal. If there is unrepented sin in the heart of a believer, God let's us know that He is able to save us from it - we have to take responsibility and repent. "For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins" (Hebrews 10:26). And if you say you no longer sin, you are a liar! (1 John 1:8-10) But we know that if we sin, we have Jesus Who will forgive us if we repent (2 John 1:1). WalkingTalkingBible |
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183 | Do our works keep us saved? | 1 Cor 12:13 | WalkingTalkingBible | 120771 | ||
Thanks for the English course on nouns and verbs. . . You are too technical for your own good ;). Thanks, but I understand faith. Without faith, it is impossible to please God. You never heard of backsliding? Do you think that unrepented sin is somehow overlooked once you say you believe? I know that no sin is allowed in the Kingdom of God. Didn't say anything about a person being saved by his good works or that faith and works are the same. WalkingTalkingBible |
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184 | Can anyone explain? | 1 Cor 12:13 | WalkingTalkingBible | 120772 | ||
We are with one accord! WalkingTalkingBible |
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185 | Can anyone explain? | 1 Cor 12:13 | WalkingTalkingBible | 120773 | ||
What happened to you? Were you filled with the Holy Ghost or do you disagree? WalkingTalkingBible |
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186 | The ransom - God or man? | 1 Cor 15:21 | WalkingTalkingBible | 132209 | ||
Hi, alienresident, most definitely the Messiah had to be God for man's redemption. Who else is worthy to die for the sins of the world? Who else is sinless besides God? Understanding that Jesus is God in the flesh (John 1:1, 14; 1 John 5:7, 1 Timothy 3:16), the ransom is God. Through humanity, the relationship between God and man was lost and through Humanity (divine), man was redeemed back to God. Being a God who does everything decently and in order, He didn't redeem man via the Spirit (God is a Spirit - John 4:24) because man wasn't lost as a spirit. Also, see Acts 4:10-12. WalkingTalkingBible |
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187 | The ransom - God or man? | 1 Cor 15:21 | WalkingTalkingBible | 132227 | ||
Hi, alienresident, the Scriptures do support the fact that the ransom had to be God. Isaiah 43:11 "I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour." Isaiah 49:26 ". . . and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob." Luke 1:47 and 2:11 "And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Mark 10:45 "For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." 1 Timothy 2:5-6 "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time." What kind of basis are you looking for? Are you suggesting that any man could have given his life for the sins of the world? The other Adam, or man, is the Man Jesus Christ who is God in the flesh. He is the only One worthy to be the sacrifice/ransom for man's sin. WalkingTalkingBible |
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188 | The ransom - God or man? | 1 Cor 15:21 | WalkingTalkingBible | 132359 | ||
I really don't understand what you're trying to say. Please help me to understand. Are you saying that any other man could have been the ransom for sinful man? I really don't understand what you're getting at. WalkingTalkingBible |
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189 | The ransom - God or man? | 1 Cor 15:21 | WalkingTalkingBible | 132425 | ||
No, thanks, I'll stick to the fact that the ransom could only be God and leave this thread in the hands of God. WalkingTalkingBible |
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190 | Can a satanist invade my dreams? | 2 Cor 10:4 | WalkingTalkingBible | 130871 | ||
Hi JumpingBum, I see that the old dragon is up to his same old tricks again - FEAR. I'm glad you are a praying soul. Satan can invade your dreams - ONLY with your permission! Of course he told you he can invade - to put up a stronghold of fear. I understand you gave the satanist permission to try to invade your dreams, but realize, Satan, who wants to kill, to steal, and to destroy, will use this an opportunity to control your mind. Remember, you are a child of God. God says to pull down the strongholds, cast down imaginations! If God be for you, who can be against you??? You're are ministering to this person to win his/her soul from the devil and he, of course, is not going to easily let go. Mininster to this person with much love (for love is of God and God is Love) - it a weapon that Satan cannot bear. Stay strong in the Word, It also is a fatal weapon to Satan. Know God and know who you are in God because Satan will use any available 'door' to enter and attack your faith. Put on the whole armour of God, and walk in the authority that God has given you as His child and win that soul. DON'T let Satan scare you; fear is his most powerful weapon. I will be praying with you. "Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee]; because he trusteth in thee." Isaiah 26:3 "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." 2 Timothy 1:7 (Elijah challenged the devil when he and Baal prophets built altars to see the true and living God bring fire - you have to be spiritually confident when dealing directly with the devil) WalkingTalkingBible |
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191 | Speaking in tongues? Use by women? | Gal 3:28 | WalkingTalkingBible | 122388 | ||
Hi, Sheila, I agree with you. The Holy Spirit is God and He can do so much more to win souls than "give a word" which is what seems to be popular in today's churches (not the Church - the Church does things God's way).The enemy is a liar and have blinded the minds of some - I'm very concerned and I pray for those because I hate to think what else he's lying to them about. "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." - Matthew 7:6 WalkingTalkingBible |
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192 | Speaking in tongues? Use by women? | Gal 3:28 | WalkingTalkingBible | 122389 | ||
"But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:" If I may ask: so, you don't believe that someone else has spoken in tongues as a gift or as the Spirit gives utterance because you haven't? How do you praise God? When (or if) you're praising Him, do you stay poised and dignified? Remember King David? When he brought the Ark of the Covenant back home how he danced and praised God until his clothes fell off? Remember how God handled David's wife because she talked him down for being given over to the Spirit? Have you ever praised God like that? The people in the upper room and the others on whom the Holy Spirit was poured, weren't they drunk with the Spirit? How can you give totally over to God and not let Him have His way? Isn't that quenching the Spirit? Or are todays s-aints too dignified for that type of praising, worship, and thanksgiving regardless of what Jesus did? God tells us to be "drunk with the Spirit" and if you're drunk, you're out of YOUR mind. I admonish you to do more than know what the Bible says and all of the legalisms that comes with theology and get to know God. You'll do more than sing "Amazing Grace" and "What a Friend" every Sunday - you'll also find He's much more than some words in a book. WalkingTalkingBible |
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193 | Speaking in tongues? Use by women? | Gal 3:28 | WalkingTalkingBible | 122390 | ||
He said to ask for the gift of prophesy, so that's one we can choose :-) | ||||||
194 | Speaking in tongues? Use by women? | Gal 3:28 | WalkingTalkingBible | 122401 | ||
BradK, I hate that you judge that I am arrogant and spiritually superior, just because I stand for what I know. I'm not better than any other human. But what you are saying - and I don't think you mean to be this way - is that what we (ones who are operating in the gifts and experiencing God) are lying. I only asked you questions - I really want to know the answers! Also, I see you as my brother in Christ and sometimes we learn from each other, this is a learning way. I've said before, there are no diplomas in holiness - only God knows it all. I don't mean to be ugly when I say this, but if you are only reading and studying the word and going by what well known theologists are saying, you ARE missing something. Please don't think that I am lying or some false teacher just because I have a personal relationship with God. I asked you before in another post - Do you KNOW God (felt His presence, heard His voice, as a healer, etc)? I'm concerned because there are going to be a lot of souls that will not enter into God's kingdom because they don't know Him, but only of Him. Would I be right if I knew something was bad for someone and didn't tell them? No way! I'd be no better than the one that laid the trap. There's a popular phrase that says, "don't knock it until you've tried it." God has a purpose for you too, just ask Him to show and I guarantee, He will. He will show you the signs and gifts if you really desire to know. I want to share this with you - then I'll shut up. Before I spoke in tongues, I was very skeptical. I wasn't allowed to teach Sunday School because others hadn't heard me speak in tongues (and we're not even Pentacostal!). I started to look for ways to justify myself (also, I used to hate prophetic nights - just didn't seem real) and believe it or not, I found them in the Bible! But when I asked God to show me the truth, He did! One of the gifts I so badly hated in my ignorance and selfishness, He gave it to me. So, I'm not just talking out of what words, orthodoxy, and what theologists say, the Word is operating in me. We all have a purpose. WalkingTalkingBible |
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195 | Speaking in tongues? Use by women? | Gal 3:28 | WalkingTalkingBible | 122404 | ||
BradK, I have to thank you for your response and your clarification! No need to apologize, I think we are just learning the different ways that God uses us! I'm glad to know I have a "real" brother in Christ. WalkingTalkingBible |
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196 | Speaking in tongues? Use by women? | Gal 3:28 | WalkingTalkingBible | 122458 | ||
Thanks for the snippet of "Attributes of God" it is SO true!! WalkingTalkingBible |
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197 | Speaking in tongues? Use by women? | Gal 3:28 | WalkingTalkingBible | 122468 | ||
The bible doesn't say "ask" but uses the word covet (have earnest desire) in 1 Corinthians 14:39. (Let me save you some time by saying - I know, I know, "don't write stuff that's not in the bible"). Does one have an earnest desire without asking for the object of desire? I don't believe that asking for the gift of prophesy is ruled out. WalkingTalkingBible |
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198 | Speaking in tongues? Use by women? | Gal 3:28 | WalkingTalkingBible | 122485 | ||
(". . .yet ye have not, because ye ask not." James 4:2) Hi, following him. I love to hear His voice too! And I agree, even in rebuke, He's loving. I remember when I hated prophetic nights because they'd never prophesy to me and God spoke to me (although not through the prophet) and said, "You're selfish!" It didn't "feel" good but it was so true. I was examining myself and had just asked Him to show me where I was coming up short at that particular time - and He told me with His own voice! The one gift I asked Him for I've received it. He has also given me a gift that I didn't ever think to have (it manifested again this morning at work!). He's knows what it takes to draw the unsaved. He is greatly to be praised! "So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase." - 1 Corinthians 3:7 I give God all the glory, because without Him, I am nothing. Thank you for the encouragement, WalkingTalkingBible |
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199 | God is one | Gal 4:4 | WalkingTalkingBible | 121857 | ||
Hi, ucmenew! John 1:1-2,14a says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. . ." 1 John 5:7 says, "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." God uses US because there are three functional manifestations of Him. Jesus, God's Word in the flesh, is whose image man (human)is made in: Hebrews 1:3a says, "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person. . ." We weren't made in the image of the Father, He's a Spirit (John 4:24) and we weren't made in the image of the Holy Spirit, He's also Spirit (John 14:17). Man was made in the "likeness of God" in that man was made without sin and death (eternal). When man ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, sin entered and so did death (Isaiah 59:2; 1 Corinthians 15:21) making man very "unlike God and in need of a Savior. Your Sister in Christ, WalkingTalkingBible |
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200 | spiritual or physical? | Gal 6:1 | WalkingTalkingBible | 181535 | ||
Are you referring to spiritual healing for physical or mental illness or for a wounded spirit? WTB |
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