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301 | Isn't believing Christ for salvation suf | John 3:3 | Ken hepting | 91332 | ||
I can accept a great deal of what that states but what I read in it speaks of something that relieves me of responsibility and the having to do anything but show up at regular church hours for the purpose of doind penents-sp?- and to to ask forgiveness for continuing to do my own thing. I see no need to seek anything with the way that catechism is written. Just pay my tithe and show up. That's not something I can embrace. | ||||||
302 | Supposed to "DO" something? | John 3:3 | Ken hepting | 91335 | ||
"Not sharp shooting, just looking for clarification. I would still say that grace is a gift, but we must co-operate with it." God's Grace can be equated with God's love. God's name is LOVE. His Kingdom is a Kingdom of LOVE. A simple deduction would be to say Grace is God, in the sense we speak. Therefore it is He we must cooperate with. Grace is a then a matter of His LOVE extended to us especially when we please Him by living by the Faith of Christ. In living this way Grace becomes a given because Christ had the Mind of His Father and Now we, who abide in Christ, also have it, though it be a learning and an overcoming of "self" process for us. Now the infusion of things in Him is a given for us, according to His will. Ask anything in My name, He says, and the Father will give it to you. Imputing is at salvation. Imparting begins when we choose to follow. Thanks. Please forgive me for my remark. |
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303 | Isn't believing Christ for salvation suf | John 3:3 | Ken hepting | 91336 | ||
That be well be but I've read and had conversations with Catholic friends that has caused me to see the distinctions. I can agree on much they teach but I sense it to be from a wrong perspective; an earthly one instead of a kingdom one. | ||||||
304 | Isn't believing Christ for salvation suf | John 3:3 | Ken hepting | 91357 | ||
I can understand that. I find myself in that position much of the time ...;']. It takes a great deal of effort to put our thoughts together to express scripture that is made fresh to you by the Holy Spirit that explains the inconsistancies and other matters we take for granted as being "normal". They aren't normal; more like average but not normal. Today when we don't have prayer answered we say, oh well, and move to the next difficulty or strain. We may pray about it, we may even have the whole assembly in the church pray about, and nothing again happens and piously repeat, Oh well, God works in mysterious ways, and again move to the next stress or problem not really interested anymore nor expecting God to answer especially after the whole church prayed. We go through the motions thinking now that the motions is what it's all about. Not many any longer are bothering ask "Why is that", we're supposed to have answers from God"? He said we are to have power in our lives and be disciples unto Him! Is this discipleship? Is this the result of what we are taught discipleship to be!? Is this what following Christ means?! Apathy!? This is pitiful! My conclusion to the matter is, if a Christian IS NOT making his home in the Kingdom of God he has NO right to expect his prayers to be answered or expect to have power for living; making the beattitudes an actually in ones life. Be assured that if today's modern Christian acidentally picks up a poisonous snake and gets bitten He's going to DIE! If he acidentally drinks poison, he's going to DIE! If he is not residing in the kingdom, he is none of His. You're on your own. Jesus said that many times. The hedge of protection is the kingdom of God. Death isn't there. Many will say, well how about the missionary's that have fallen, what about their deaths? I ask, What about the death of Jesus upon a cruel cross!? Was there a purpose in that we now see and understand? Of course we know the answer, God has made it plain to us. But the missionary in the foreign land who dies sacrificially? One day we'll know as we are known. In the meantime be assured if it was a disciple of Christ He/she died with understanding in their mind and heart concerning the issues of discipleship. When Paul say's "And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ."-Rom 8. We take that as applying just to the unsaved or backslider. I don't read it any longer that way because Paul was speaking to born again Christians. Paul saw the kingdom! Study Paul. If we saw the kingdom we would NEVER backslide, our churhes would be vibrant in their teaching and experience in the presence of God! Ergo, we have not seen the kingdom; we don't know how to Love God the way He wants to be loved. Seek first the kingdom of God.........and all things will be added unto you" If one is a Christian, hungary for God, begin to look at circumstances in life to be opportunities to learn. It will be a wilderness experience to be sure. |
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305 | Saved apart from Christ? | John 3:3 | Ken hepting | 91564 | ||
Lets give this alittle nodge and see what happens. #1. Jesus died to set the captives free. Question: Who are they who were set free and where were they that they needed to set free? #2. Consider what is mentioned in Mal. 3.16,17,18. "Then those who feared the LORD talked with each other, and the LORD listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the LORD and honored his name. "They will be mine," says the LORD Almighty, "in the day when I make up my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as in compassion a man spares his son who serves him. And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not." This certainly must apply to everyone on earth who never has the opportunity to hear the "Good News", who says in his/her heart. "there must be a God somewhere and I will live my life in the fear of that possiblity". Many poeple in the Earth live righteous lives but according to simple primitive ignorant teaching by jungle indian priests and the like. God's grace is to be sought in this, to be sure. I believe Mal 3.16-18 satisfies it. |
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306 | Tares/wheat | John 3:3 | Ken hepting | 91647 | ||
'Thread' might be a better name than 'tree'. 'Tree' is the name this forum gives it. This forums software is very frustrating. I apology for offending you, Dave. Apparently I did. Seems very few sign their name in this thing and when someone comes in from the side one, well it's like getting caught off guard. I really don't have an attitude but do get frustrated. Sorry. Regards...Ken |
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307 | Born Again - Mind Change - Repentance | John 3:3 | Ken hepting | 101709 | ||
Consider this: [and I don't necessarily think I'm correct, but I don't think I'm all wrong if, at all] "Many are called, but few are chosen" Who are the called but the "saved", i.e., those who believe Christ as savior, for eternal life, because of the cross and the blood that was shed for everyone. They are now called up to something. That something is to become a "son unto the Father" ergo, a "son brought into glory". [Jn 17] Freewill, being an unchanging factor, in the thing must still be considered when God, in His wisdom God chooses those who He reveals Himself to to become a son since they have chosen Him; They want to KNOW Him. But, "Let him who builds, count the cost...." Jn. 3.3,5. These are they that want to know Christ as more than just savior. The Beatittudes are now the thing that come into focus especially the one "Those who hunger and thirst...". Do you want to know God? Enter the great commandment. Learn how to. |
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308 | Titus 3:5 regeneration help please | John 3:3 | Ken hepting | 101753 | ||
[As to the nature of the change, it consists in the implanting of a new principle or disposition in the soul; the impartation of spiritual life to those who are by nature "dead in trespasses and sins."] The word "impartation" implies a gradual process. It would be supposed that we have something to with that process of regeneration, don't you think? Not unto justification but unto sanctification, innocence to purity. |
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309 | Born again. Giving or receiving? | John 3:3 | Ken hepting | 101754 | ||
[Before I received Christ, I had a dire need of a new heart........] But how did you know you needed a new heart? What events lead up to this discovery? |
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310 | No wedding garment | John 15:5 | Ken hepting | 91837 | ||
Yes! But care to elaborate just a little more as to what we must do, His way? Maybe make the comparison between your faith and His faith; your garment you demand to wear and His garment that must be worn. Since the whole "scene" is His, in your estimation, which one will more carry more weight with the Bridegroom when He sees you sitting at His Table? | ||||||
311 | No wedding garment | John 15:5 | Ken hepting | 91864 | ||
Sortta makes me think of what I witness on any given Sunday morning service. Coffee in the sanctuary, people dressed like their going to the beach, no reverence for where they are. Even the 'wordship teams' dressed like hoodlums. No, I don't believe we can do our own thing and say we honor God at the same time. There should be exortation from the pulpit to be your best for Christ and never believe you going to win people over by making yourself look like the world in your mannerisms and dress code. It's true that Christ saves you like like are but He doesn't want to leave you that way. I believe that and if you profess and confess Him, people should be able to make distinctions easily. We should put into practice and display, our wedding garment at all times. |
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312 | Does speaking in tongues come naturally? | Acts | Ken hepting | 91935 | ||
"If one was alone, I don't know if there was a need to use any of the gifts, since it is for the one body ... if together, we should exercise our gift(s) and not try to exercise the gifts we do not have (vv 12-31)." Can't agree, Searcher. Tongues for the church is always to be accompanied by interpretation, of should be----unless you are moved to just pray in tongues, quietly in church, which is different and no interpretation is needed. Tongues is most used in an interccessory way. If you think about, when asked to pray, you really don't how to for a given situation, but the Holy Spirit does. I know folk who pray aloud, in tongues, moved by the Holy Spirit, for hours. Many times the Lord reveals what He is going to do to that one who is obediently yeilded and stands in the gap. Many times there comes presence to wonderful to express in english. Paul experienced such a thing in 2 Corth 12.2 "I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven..... and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter." I realize this is not tongues speaking but lets just not dismiss the supernaturalness of the Holy Spirit out of hand in the matter of tongues speaking just because we look for an excuse not to participate in something we're told is extremism/extrabiblical. Get a better teacher, it's not. It should be normal for the Christian experience that requires power to mature unto 'sonship'. |
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313 | Does speaking in tongues come naturally? | Acts | Ken hepting | 91960 | ||
Justme ... My point was we would have a hard time exercising our spiritual gifts if alone ... it is for the benifit of the body. If we pray in a another tongue, unknown to us, but known to another ... what benifit is it to our mind (1 Cor 14)? Searcher --------------------------------- Why does it have to benefit your mind? Isn't it sufficient to know the Holy Spirit is praying through you for the benefit of the Father's purpose? His business is what it is all about. If you have the mind of the Father why is your mind an issue here? That's part of what people don't understand about praying with the Spirit and in the Spirit. |
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314 | Searching for the truth | Acts | Ken hepting | 92014 | ||
What is the "spirit man", Joann? Is it the same as the 'spirit of man'? | ||||||
315 | Does He pray thru us, or us thru Him? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92084 | ||
"You said "all sorts of stuff totally unrelated, some of it filth? That's Satan" Well, I agree that the filth is Satan ... however, when I pray, I am open to the Holy Spirit and the Father, for they may prompt me to pray for someone. I let the person know and they weer standing in a need of prayer." But your mind is also open to the prompting and intrusion of Satan. I'm sure if you pray you are aware of that. Praying in the Spirit blocks him out. You are giving your reborn spirit complete access to the Father for the Holy Spirit to pray what really needs to be said in the prayer. And not just what YOU think the prayer should be all about. In the process of being yeilded like that to the Holy Spirit something happens in you that edifies and builds you up in your faith. A deposit of God Himself is made manifest in you for you to become more than what you were. This is the change He makes in us and that is to make us more accute to whats happening around us in our circumstances that we be made perfect in Him, having His mind as Jesus did and be sustained by it. --------------------------------- "Both Isaiah and Joel are prophecies for Israel ... lokk at the context." And? So who do you suppose would be there on the day of Pentecost but Jews? "But the promise-Acts 2.39--is for you and your children and for all who are far off--for all whom the Lord our God will call."-------That means you and me. --------------------------- "By the way, Satan started the "language" spoken in some churches." Some churches? Sorry, but you'll have to be more specific than that. That's been unfound except maybe in his own and used by many as an excuse for unbelief held in pride. |
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316 | Does He pray thru us, or us thru Him? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92108 | ||
"Satan does not get interfere with my prayer, for I am focused on my God. If you pray in a tongue, your mind is unfruitful ... so how do you know (using your mind) if Satan is intruting?" You mean to the best of your ability, correct. You being 'totally focused' is untrue. You aren't capable in your humanity to do that. Too much interferes with what we'd like to do, i.e., cares of life and pressures.. Re-read Roms 7 and 8 again, for the first time. ---------------------------- At Pentecost, Peter spoke only to the Jews ... therefore, it applies to them. Their children are Jews, too. Gentile belivers are not children of Jewish belivers ... they are children of God. And who are the children of God but the promised seed of Abraham. i.e., all those in Christ? Are you not a child of God? Is that what you are saying? ----------------------------- "The "language" spoken in some churches was not copied by Satan ... but, the church copied it. I have posted this several times." ---Really? I should like to have been around when you posted it serveral times. Tell me what I missed that is, no doubt, very wrong. ------------------------------------ "Moreover, I wonder if anyone has taken the time to do a linguistic study on the "language" ... if not, is it just babbling?" Wrong again! That "babbling" you speak of has been understood by the specific hearer to whom the word OF GOD was spoken. I personally know of too many instances where this is true. Even to my myself has the word of God come that I completely understood though the speaker of that word had no understanding at all....sometimes even to whom it was meant for. So you see the one who speaks is the yielded one in obedience to the Holy Spirit's leading and prompting. It's not the speakers business to know what the word is or to whom it is meant for except as the Holy Spirit permits. So I would be REAL CAREFUL as to what I attribute to Satan. I have had my mail read to me many times. I also know from a brother who couldn't write his own name 'intellectually', who gave a prophetic utterance in an unknown tongue in a congregation of 5-600 that was received by the hearer clear across the room it was meant for as something spoken to him in German. He understood it, yet could not speak German himself. ......Unknown tongues to both. So the one who prays in the Spirit doesn't need to know what the Spirit is saying and the hearer, well he just has to "hear". Excerising yourself in the Spirit of God should take place after you have thanked Him for the priviledge, made your petitions, and then begin to worship Him in adoration/praise and thanksgiving with the mind and with tongues, 'praying in or 'with' the Spirit'. Remember your needs are already known to Him. |
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317 | Does speaking in tongues come naturally? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92138 | ||
Who said it was worship? Seems like you are bent on distorting what others say here. If you had understanding about tongues and interpretation and how they are different from ones private prayer life that the Lord Jesus ordained, you wouldn't be asking unlearned questions. So be more hard on yourself than others for the answers you require at their expense. |
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318 | Does speaking in tongues come naturally? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92140 | ||
Speak for youself, Joel, and not me. You assume too much. I've lived long enough to make the distinctions. ------------------------------------- "I don't see a lot of description of the activities of those 120 individuals prior to the events of Pentecost. My guess is that there was far less theatrics than we see on your typical TBN fare. What passes for "praise and worship" in many circles bears a lot of similarity to what one would find at your typical secular rock concerts today. Mindless and empty and sensationalistic. --------------------------------------- Point is you see nothing of what transpired in the upper room on the day of Pentscost and suppose a lot you can't support. Never mind about TBN. They'll have to answer for their lawlessness. You do know what I mean by that, of course or do you need a verse of scripture? I'm in much agreement with you but I'm not about to throw the baby out with the bath water. I know what can and cannot be supported with the word of God. That's what good Bible study will do for one. What happened at Pentecost, i.e., the supernatural, is still happening today around the world in spite of denominational "hangups". Get over it and get going in becoming a son. |
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319 | Does He pray thru us, or us thru Him? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92155 | ||
BTW, Think a little more about Cornelius and what he was. | ||||||
320 | Does speaking in tongues come naturally? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92156 | ||
Good point | ||||||
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