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1 | Food for thought. | Acts 16:31 | lionheart | 152796 | ||
Goodmorning to all,It's still morning here. Just a little food for thought.This is not meant to stir the pot but to get us to think and evaluate where we are at with God.If Jesus is not Lord of ones life did that person ever really accept him as savior? Simply put can Jesus be Savior without being Lord? Your brother always, lionheart |
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2 | Food for thought. | Acts 16:31 | Searcher56 | 152797 | ||
lionheart, God's day to you .................... Some say one can believe in Him as their Savior ... then can make Him Lord. But, I see this verse as saying we need to do both at the same time. If we wait who is Lord until we do? Searcher |
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3 | Food for thought. | Acts 16:31 | lionheart | 152824 | ||
Well put brother.I heard somone say a number of years ago that if Jesus wasnt Lord of our lives then in all likelyhood he wasnt savior either.At first I found this quite disconcerting.But as I began to look at my life I had to admit that I wasnt saved.I was perfectly willing to have Jesus as my savior,but that was as far as it went.I came to realise that all I had done was to make God a convenience in my life.At that time God was a justication for me to continue in the things that had ruined my life. It took me 43 years to figure out that Jesus salvation and his Lordship go hand in hand and that I couldnt have one without the other. Makes a whole lot more sense today. In Christ, lionheart |
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4 | Food for thought. | Acts 16:31 | mark d seyler | 152827 | ||
Hi Lionheart, Heb 5:8-9 "Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation," The way I read this, Jesus is not the source of eternal salvation to those who do not obey Him, just to those who do. I also was one of those who proclaimed faith but continued to live my own way. Only when I committed myself entirely to Him did I experience a real transformation in my life. Obviously God had His hand on my life from a the beginning, but I only count the beginning of my salvation from when I actually began to serve Him. God bless you my brother! Love in Christ, Mark |
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5 | Food for thought. | Acts 16:31 | lionheart | 152834 | ||
Hey Mark, Good to hear from you brother.He definitly had his hand on my life for sure. I'm grateful that he gave me the time to finally get it straight. God wants all of us.Not just the part we decide we wanna give him. In Christ, lionheart |
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6 | Food for thought. | Acts 16:31 | javelin | 152965 | ||
Good doctrine friends ! You cannot cut Jesus up into little peices and pick and choose the ones you like. "Oh now let me see, I want healing, heaven, joy and peace but not that obediance and suffering stuff" - it'll never work ! He is who He is and if you choose Him you get Him entirely in all His awesome love AND holiness. He will be no man's fool and is never fooled by human conniving to get out of hell without any holiness or cost! "If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. Luke 14:27 "Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. Luke 14:33 "So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions." Seems terribly clear - but if true then a large put of the xtian church is not really saved at all !! Frightening thought indeed ! But I perceive it to mean that you must be entirely His to the measure of your own knowledge of yourself - otherwise very very few are really His since we all have many areas in our lives that need His pruning and dealings. Which is why you were probably "saved" even when you had parts of yourselves out of obediance - unless your disobediance was willful and known and habitual. "He that sins is of the devil." "Whoever is born of God does not commit sin, for the seed of God is in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God" but also - to bring balanced doctrine -, "If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us..." and "If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father" with "there is a sin which is not unto death" Thankfully there is grace and forgiveness - otherwise no one would ever make it! But then grace must never be used as a "cover up" for sin or as a "clean glove on a filthy hand"! Those who are habitually, knowingly disobediant are none of His. All from 1 John - after which John Wesley tried to model his own preaching. blessings |
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7 | Food for thought. | Acts 16:31 | lionheart | 152974 | ||
Greetings javelin, Welcome to the forum.No such thing as cheap grace is there.Our salvation cost God his dearest blood. I would think it quite logical that we are either all of his or we are none of his. When one makes a decision for Christ it's all or nothing. To bad I didnt realise that about 43 years sooner,but fortunatly God is patient and kept me around long enough to get the trash out of the grey matter and truly see what I had to do.What we may endure in this life will be nothing compared to what awaits us if we will just do it Gods way. Your right,it is clear my brother.Now the question is,are we gonna be willing to stay the course and trust God no matter what the world may dictate. Your brother in Christ, lionheart |
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