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241 | Is this invitation open to everyone? | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 164543 | ||
Mark, please read the last paragraph first, thank you. The verse means exactly what is says, yes of course it was a sincere invitation. Your sugestion that I might think otherwise is both an insult to Him, and is offensive to me. I asked you a question regarding 3 verses of Scripture, so far you have ignored this. I also made it clear that v 28 must not be considered apart from vs 29 and 30, of which it is a part, for some reason unknown to me you insist on quoting only v 28, and ignoring the other two verses. Our Lord was not in these three verses giving an invitation to His listeners to have their sins forgiven, but is addressing His remarks to those of His hearers that felt that they were "laboring and heavy-laden". Now why do you think that they felt this way. Just read what Jesus had said a short while before as found in Ch 10 fron verse 16 to 39, but especially vs 16-21, and vs 34-36. Is it any wonder that they felt that way.. All that Jesus is doing in refering to "My yoke" is explaining how it is possible to be the sort of servant that God requires. Mark, I know that you had no intention of insulting me, but please do be carefull what you commit to print. The Lord bless you. Edwin. |
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242 | Is this invitation open to everyone? | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 164559 | ||
Thank you Mark for your kind words, they are much appreciated. Christian love. Edwin. |
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243 | Paul had problems? No one acts good? | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 164597 | ||
If as you say Paul is talking of the time before he converted, Please explain why vs 1-13, are written in the past tense, and vs 14-25, are written in the present tense? The word of God does not disagree with itself, the verses you quote refer to man's idea of what is good. When Jesus said "why do you call me good, only God is good" (Mark 10:18) is He saying that He is not God? Please let me have your comments on the verses I quoted in the last paragraph of my post of 10.28 am on the 22nd. |
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244 | Paul had problems? No one acts good? | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 164716 | ||
Hi Atdcross. Thank you for your post. Would I be right in concluding that you do accept that Paul's words in Rom 7:14, and following, refer to problems that he had after, and not before his conversion. That this same problem is also universal with all christians as confirmed at 1st John 1:8-10, which is written to christians, and not the unconverted. Refering now to your 2nd paragraph. In no way am I sugessting any such thing, in fact I am supprised that you should even put forward such a possibility. Jesus is sinless, is Devinely inspired, and is incapable of arriving at a wrong conclusion in respect of a man's deeds, in fact if you look at Luke 11:13, you will see that Jesus says that thoes who know how to give good gifts, are in fact evil. Not that good deeds make you evil, we are all of us evil regardless of what we do, or do not do. When the rich young ruler called Jesus "good master", he had no idea that he was speaking to God, he thought that he was speaking to just another man like himeself, even if that man was in fact a Teacher. I is not supprising therefore to find that our Lords reply is in keeping with this young man's assumption, and in no way can His answer be taken as indicating that Jesus was denying His Devine nature. As far as I can se we do not appear to be in disagreement, I do hope that the above clarifies the situation, and explains my position. May the Lord bless you. Edwin. |
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245 | Paul had problems? No one acts good? | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 164746 | ||
Thank you for your post above, which I find most challenging, I will now address each of the verses you quote in turn. Romans 7, please explain how a person speaking in the first person singular present tense, and doing so at the behest of the Holy Spirit, is not refering to himself? You will be pleased to know that I do not teach "Sinless Perfection". Jesus was only refering to the way in which men think/judge things, and not the way He Jesus (one who is sinlessly perfect),Judges. Luke 11:13. Here Jesus is only saying that evil people are able to give gifts that other evil people think are good, and indeed as I have said before, we fallen sinfull humans do think that we can give good gifts, but this is not what God says. Phil 3:4-6, Paul is clearly refering to the time before his conversion, when he was as v6 says "a persecutor of the church", and why did you leave out veses 7-8, where the above verses are put into there correct perspective. Paul counts what he had refered to in verses 4-6 as gain, now in verses 7-8, as "lost rubbish". Regarding Acts 24:16, you will be pleased to know that I also feel the same way. Must close now due to time, more later. Christian love. Edwin. |
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246 | Paul had problems? No one acts good? | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 164760 | ||
Continuation of my last post. Once again you are misquoting Scripture. you say that Romans 6:11, says "that christians are dead to sin". This is clearly nor the case, what in fact this verse is requesting us to do is "to consider ourselves dead to sin". An unconverted person only has one nature, which we refer to as "the old nature", however, when one becomes a christian one is delighted to discover that one now has a "a new nature", this nature only desires to do the will of God, and is incapable of sin. We are, however, horified to discover that the old nature is still with us, and very much alive, this is made clear by Paul, where yet again once more back in Romans 7, at verse 25, he says "I myself with my mind (new nature) serve the law of God, but with my flesh (old nature) I serve the law os sin". This statment by Paul helps to reconcile the apparant contradiction of 1st John 1:8-10, with 1st John 3:9, which should be translated as "cannot sin", and not "cannot keep in sinning", as some modern versions read. Remember it is not just a case of overcomming His reluctance, but rather laying hold of His willingness. Edwin Brain. |
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247 | Paul had problems? No one acts good? | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 164897 | ||
Hi Lelah-ann, and welcome to this forum. It is concluded that Paul had poor eyesight, possibily myopia, this is arrived at in the following way. If you read Romans 16:22, you will see that Paul did not write this letter, but dictated it to Tertius his Secretary, who wrote it down for him. Now have a look at Galatians 6:11, where Paul indicates that this last part of the letter was written by him personally, "large letters", might indicate myopia. Regarding the additional problems to which you refer, other contributors to this website will I am sure be able to help you. May the Lord bless you Lelah-ann, and keep you safe. Edwin. |
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248 | Paul had problems? No one acts good? | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 164964 | ||
Thank you for Jihetrick your kind words. In answer to your question, Paul did, see 1 Timothy 1:15. In Him. Edwin. |
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249 | Is "come as you are" in the bible? | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 165098 | ||
Have a look at Matt 19:14, "come as a little child", innocent, trusting, open hearted, without preconcived ideas. I think this is probably what you had in mind. Welcome to this Forum, and may the Lord bless you. Edwin Brain. |
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250 | Paul's physical description | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 165245 | ||
No it would not be incorrect. The question asked, and the answer given were academic only, and in no way could the information sent be considered as detrimental to a persons standing before God. Please explain what was your reason for asking this question?. |
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251 | His Yoke? | Matt 11:29 | ebrain | 159869 | ||
He refers to the attitude that He allways adopted to His Father God, ie "not my will. but thine be done". In John's Gospel you will find the following verses of help Ch 1 v 18, Ch 5 vs 19 and 30, Ch 7 vs 16-17, Ch 11 vs 41b-42, and in particular Ch 14 vs 8-10. Also of help will be Acts Ch 2 v 22, and John Ch 15 vs 4-5. I hope that this will be of help. ebrain. |
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252 | Did you always believe in Jesus? | Matt 12:31 | ebrain | 186905 | ||
Hi M.Royal. As you can see from the extract given bellow, the words, to which you refer do not appear in some manuscripts. however, if we accept them as being true, then, Jesus would be refereeing to the Roman soldiers, and not the Pharisees Luk 23:34 And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”[fn2] And they cast lots to divide his garments. 23:34 Some manuscripts omit the sentence And Jesus… what they do ebrain. |
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253 | Why is it not relevant today? | Matt 12:31 | ebrain | 186912 | ||
Hi again M.Royal. Mat 12:31 "Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. Mat 12:32 "Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come. It is relevant today.. You will note that at the end of verse 32 Jesus says, " either in this age or in the age to come." in other words, not only would it not be forgiven then, but not in the future either.. Again in verse 32, this unforgivable sin is described as, "whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit". Now speaking of the Holy Spirit, it is written of Him,, Jhn 16:8 "And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:" Now I would say that "speaking against the Holy Spirit" is the same as calling Him a liar. The only way in which a person can be saved, is as a result of accepting the Holy Spirit's conviction that he/she is a sinner, and in desperate need of God's forgiveness,, if the person in question says, "No I am not a sinner", then that is the same as calling the Holy Spirit a liar, and as a result that individual will not be forgiven. |
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254 | Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit and punishm | Matt 12:32 | ebrain | 160129 | ||
No one can become a Christian untill they are aware of their sin, and their need to be saved. This is the work of the Holy Spirit, see John Ch 16 vs 7-11. If a person so convicted refuses to believe what the Holy Spirit is telling them, then that person is calling the Holy Spirit a liar, ie Blasphemy, that person will go to Hell. Again, the only people who will be saved are thoes who believe exactly what the Spirit tells them, thoes who do not, will suffer eternal damnation. One who has become a Christian, has therefore gone past the point in time where he/her could possibly Blasphem the Holy Spirit. I hope that this is of help. God bles you. ebrain. |
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255 | What is meant by 'age'? | Matt 12:32 | ebrain | 160254 | ||
He means "now (the time when He was speaking, and in the future" | ||||||
256 | Blasphemy against the Spirit | Matt 12:32 | ebrain | 160331 | ||
Allow me to add a litle to what I have allready said on this subject. Have a look firstly at John Ch 3 v 13, "no one has aascended into heaven except he who decended from heaven, the Son of Man" Now look at Hosea Ch 5 v 15, "I will return again to my place,untill they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me". The Hebrew word translated "guilt" is singular and refers to one national sin only, the rejection by the Jews of their anointed one, Jesus the Christ. Up to the end of Matthew Ch 12, Jesus had made it quite clear that He was that person, after His rejection, He told His followers to tell no one that He was the Christ. The Pharisees had taught that anyone could perform miracles who was empowered to do so by the Holy Spirit, but that there were certain miricles that only the Christ when he came would be able to perform. One of these was to cast out a mute/dumb spirit. When He did this as shown at Matthew Ch 12 vs 22-32, the people said to the Pharisees "is not this the Son of David", in other words this man has just done what you have allways told us could only be done by the Christ?. The Scribes and Pharisees knew full well who He was, but they enjoyed their position of power, and authority too much to "allow this man to rule over them". The unforgivable sin, the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit was their rejection, and thereby the nations rejection of the one who God had sent to save them. As a matter of interest, other miracles that they maintained only Christ would be able to perform were, opening the eyes of one born blind. healing lepers, and raising back to life a person who had been dead more than 3 days. I hope that this is of some help. Christian love. ebrain. P.S. If you wish I can explain just why the Pharisees selected these 4 miracles. |
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257 | Why did Jesus at some times, after doin | Matt 12:41 | ebrain | 163106 | ||
Read Matthew 12:22-32,and you will see that He was rejected by the Leaders of the Nation, up to that point He had clearly indicated to all that He was indeed their prommised Messiah. After they had rejected Him, and had even said that He was working for the Devil, He withdrew His offer, and told His disciples to tell no one who He was. That is the reason for His change of attitude to the Jewish Leaders. |
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258 | calling all sinners | Matt 13:11 | ebrain | 160785 | ||
In support of what Doc has posted, let me add John Ch 6 vs 44, and 65, also Romans Ch 8 vs 28-30. This is a difficult subject. It is not my intention to explain what I believe these verses teach, but rather allow the Holy Spirit to do that for you as you read them. Make sure that you allways read Scripture verses in their context, and allways do what Jesus told you to do as revealed at John Ch 7 vs 16-17. If when you read, it is your will that God's will be done, and you really mean it, then you will know exactly what God is saying to you. Not "you will find out" as NIV translates, but you will "know" there and then as you read. God is awesome, boy is He awesome. Praise His Holy Name. ebrain. |
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259 | calling all sinners | Matt 13:11 | ebrain | 160813 | ||
Thank you WOS for your post. I am well aware that God has apointed teachers in the church, (1st Cor Ch 12 v 28), and what's more I have been greatly blessed by such teachers. I was in no way implying that we don't need teachers, in fact the verses I refered to by way of trying to help some one to understand the written word, were in fact spoken by the Living Word, when teaching in the temple, See John Ch 7 vs 14-18. May the Lord bless you abundantly. ebrain. |
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260 | calling all sinners | Matt 13:11 | ebrain | 160816 | ||
Thank you Doc for your post. As you will see from my post to WOS, if the greatest teacher the world has ever known, or ever will know needed to say what He did at John 7:17, then it goes without saying that all other teachers will need to do the same.. What we must not forget is that it is the same Holy Spirit who gives ilumination to both the reader, and the listener. May the Lord bless you, and keep you safe. ebrain. |
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