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1 | Are you a follower of Jesus or a church? | Matt 10:32 | michelleH | 108881 | ||
I have known good......I mean very very good Christians tend to lose hope and committed a terrible sin like murder or sucide! Believing is just not enough. Faith with out good deeds (or obedience) is dead! | ||||||
2 | Are you a follower of Jesus or a church? | Matt 10:32 | Aixen7z4 | 108914 | ||
I can agree. Imust agree because you mentioned hope. We have the hope of eternal life and I must consider, is it possible to lose that? It is not a wishful-thinking hope, but a hope which is firm, and steadfast, and sure. It is a hope based on the promises God has made. Is it possible to lose that? Hebrews 3:6 We belong to him and we have confidence and we rejoice throughout our lives because that hope is firm. Hebrews 6:11 And we want every one of you to show full assurance because of the hope we have. Hebrews 6:18 God cannot lie, and he has taken an oath and he has made a promise. These two things can never be changed. Those of us who have taken refuge in him have confidence because of the promises we have been given. Hebrews 6:19 The thing which we call hope is really an anchor of the soul. It is both sure and secure. It is steadfast and unmovable. Hebrews 7:19 We just couldn’t get this by keeping the law. That was hopeless. We knew we would always fail. But this “hope” that we have now makes everything perfect. It causes us to keep close to God. Can hope fail, the hope that God gives us when we fly to him for refuge? Do we lose confidence because we think that God tells lies or that God can fail? No. We have confidence in Him that he tells the truth and He cannot fail and He is able to keep us. I’ve found a friend, O such a Friend All power to Him is given To guard me on my onward course And bring me straight to heaven Are there sometimes when we lose confidence in the pilot and want to take over the controls? We shouldn’t do that, and it is not good to do that, and on the aircraft called Salvation, God does not allow that. We sit back and trust in Him. Are there times when we are too fearful to go to sleep? We should pray the Lord our souls to keep, and sleep. When we lose hope, we should go to him and to his word. The God of hope gives hope. It is true that faith does not stand alone. Now abide faith, hope, and love; these three. If we ever lose one, we can go back to God and find it. May God help us in the times when we feel hopeless that there would be Christian fellowship and counsel and teaching to sustain us. God forbid that we should turn away from him to murder or to suicide. If we turned to Him and to His word we might find that He fills us with hope. And we can pray for God’s children who lose hope, and allow Him to use us to help them. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. That’s Romans 15:13. |
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