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1 | What is the "reward" ? | Mark 9:41 | CDBJ | 115041 | ||
I think that God will honor His Word no matter how or where it come from. God saves people in spite of us, and how bad we seem to muddy up the water at times. Isaiah 55:10-11 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. The first time I heard anything about the Bible was from an unbeliever, who to my knowledge, isn’t saved to this day but he absolutely captivated me, before I was saved, with stories from the book of Revelation. I wasn’t saved because of what he said but it sure spurred up a Biblical interest that captivated my hunger for God word. Have a great day, CDBJ |
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2 | What is the "reward" ? | Mark 9:41 | Mommapbs | 115043 | ||
Greetings CDBJ: Here is what I just posted to Emmaus - I'd appreciate your input. Thanks for the great tesitmony of the power of God to work through an unbeliever! mommapbs I've been in a dialog recently with a self proclaimed "post-moderist Christian" who asserts that his understanding of following Christ is to respond to the the world's problems of oppression and poverty, etc. Loving God and loving one's neighbor - can we love our neighbor and declare that this is HOW we love God? Or do we love God first and then extend it to our neighbor? Can someone love his neighbor and not love God? When I questioned him about who Jesus is he replied: "Do i think Jesus is God? I dont know. I know it was not important to Mark's gospel, where Jesus is called Son Of Man - a term for the return of King David. I know that in hebrew writing the title 'son of God' was given to those mystics that were thought to have a specil connection to God - in jesus's own time you had Honi Circle-Drawer, Hanina ben Dosa, even Peter and Paul. Greek people with their myths of the Gods fathering people saw the phrase very diffrently. The biblical text has all of this diversity. Remember teh first creed of the Church was 'Jesus Is Lord' and the other creeds only showed up 400 years later when constatine wanted to consolidate his power. Look at the letter writers. No one refers to miracles,virgin birth etc. No one refers to a bodily resuerection (though paul refers to the church as the resuerection). Jesus said 'the father and i are one'. If you start with John 3:16 'for who ever believes in...' and realize that the word for IN can also be translated as LIKE then the context changes. The Father and i are one...the life i live is the life God wants of all of us. 'I am the way, the life and the truth' can just as easily mean 'the life i live is the way, the life i life is the truth, the way i live is the life God demands of us'. 'lord'? It does not mean God or anything about divinity. It means a master of knowledge. To call Jesus lord is to say that he is the master of knowledge of the life God wants of us. And what was that life? To love God and to love our neighbor as ourselves!" (BTW, this chap is an aspiring seminarian! Sorry about all the errors, I copied his text as he wrote it to me.) WELL? Perhaps now you can see the motivation for my questions. I realize that there is another thread going about testing the spirits 1 John 4:2 - since this fellow questions the virgin birth, the Divinity and resurrection of Jesus, what would you conclude? What instruction is there for us in this exchange? Is the counsel of Mark 9:39 applicable here? I'm inclinded to shake the dust off my sandals, what do you advise? |
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3 | What is the "reward" ? | Mark 9:41 | CDBJ | 115078 | ||
Ask them if they have come to the place yet in their walk with God that would suggest that they are good enough to go to heaven and spend eternity with God; have they come up to God’s standard yet? | ||||||
4 | What is the "reward" ? | Mark 9:41 | Mommapbs | 115378 | ||
Greetings CDBJ - thanks for the advice. The root of the problem is that this chap doesn't believe that Jesus is God. He's attracted to His mission to "set the captives free" as he percieves the injustice in the world (which in reality is the result of sin) yet he refuses to agree with God on the authority of Jesus - who He claimed to be and the authority of His Word. So, it is as Hank observed, casting pearls before swine. I do pray for this young man and others like him who persist is going their own way. Blessings, mommapbs |
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5 | What is the "reward" ? | Mark 9:41 | CDBJ | 115384 | ||
Until the Lord shows him the truth he won’t understand it anyway! John 6:45 (A) It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Paul ran into the same problems when he witnessed to Agrippa. Acts 26:28-29 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. 29And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds. We just never know who might be on the sidelines listening that might respond to the message? It sure gets frustrating sometimes though doesn’t it? Isaiah 53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? Tarrieth by the stuff, CDBJ |
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