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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: teddyhcraig Ordered by Date |
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1 | christians practicing good church attend | Heb 10:25 | teddyhcraig | 202178 | ||
I stand by exactly what I said. I do not go to church because I have to go to church, I go because I want to go to church, because I know that it is good for me. You can beat someone over the head with the word and guilt them into going; but if they are not there because they want to be there, they probably will not get much from it, and they probably will not continue to attend in the future. People who do not want to attend will not do so for the long term out of fear or force, that has not and does not work, they have to do so out of love; out of a sincere desire to be there. So what we want does fall into the equation; as, we should be in church not out of mandate but out of a sincere desire to be there. And if we do not want to be there, and we are looking for excuses not to be there, then that shows that we have a very serious problem of the heart. So lets look at the commandment for a moment, and see if we are commanded to be at church, because you seem to think so. "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." Exodus 20:7-11 KJV It seems to be a mandate to rest, not a mandate to attend services, as is clearly understood by reading the text itself. Attending services and having fellowship with each other is something we do out of a sincere desire and love and not out of commandment. |
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2 | How do I forgive adultry if it continues | Bible general Archive 4 | teddyhcraig | 202140 | ||
Without knowing a whole lot more about what happened in great detail, and being led directly by the Holy Spirit to answer you, I would not even attempt to answer your question specifically. That would not be wise. However, generally, I believe that we need to be able to forgive those around us when they do us wrong for our own spiritual health and well being. We release it to God, if they refuse to repent, for our own sake; for ultimately they will have to give account to God for their sin. "So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God." - Romans 14:12 The seed of festering anger, Produced a tree of hatred, The fruit of it is murder. Release your anger to God. |
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3 | christians practicing good church attend | Heb 10:25 | teddyhcraig | 202137 | ||
Church attendance is good as it is the time we come together to praise and have fellowship with God. And also with each other in Christ. From the very beginning of the church at Pentecost the believers came together (Act 2:42), to pray and to praise God and to fellowship with God and with each other, it is a good thing. Now not every church is right for every person, you have to go where you feel led to by God, and finding that place may take some time; however, it is worth all the time and energy and effort one expends to find a good church home. I do not go because I have to go. I go because I want to go. Otherwise I would not go! |
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4 | Ecclesiastes 7:23 mean? | Rom 7:25 | teddyhcraig | 202135 | ||
There is a vast difference between having wisdom and being wise. It is the difference between theory and practical application of that theory. He said, I would be wise, not because he did not know; but, because he did not always direct himself wisely according to that which he knew. If you just look at how he married many wifes, and did that which was sinful in the sight of God, you will understand what it is saying more profectly. I think Paul was expressing the same thing, in the book of Romans, when he said: "For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin." (Romans 7:14-25) No matter how wise you are, you are going to make unwise choices at times, just don't let those unwise choices discourage you after you make them. Just be honest to yourself and to God and to those around you, and confess and forsake them (that is repentance), and move on in Christ. Christ loves me enough to receive me just as I am. Christ loves me to much to leave me that way. Amen. I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me. |
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