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Results from: Answers On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: EverLearning Ordered by Date |
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1 | Why little sign of power in our churches | Mark 16:17 | EverLearning | 92744 | ||
I have struggled with the same question for many years and can offer only what I believe that the Spirit has taught me: 1) The Church in America is blind to her love of money, pleasure and self. 2) There is a high degree of unbelief present. 3) We are commanded to go and tell the Gospel to those in darkness and most believers are comfortable just showing up on Sunday morning for a status quo service. 4) The above grieves the Spirit of God and quenches His movement. 5) We are a spiritually lazy people, who prefer to be taught by man rather than the Spirit Himself. 6) We tend not to yield to the Spirit of God, but persist in our own desires. 7) We seldom ask and keep asking that the Father would give us His Spirit and send the fire into our lives to burn up whatever is not of Him. But you, dear one, hunger and thirst for righteousness and you will be filled. |
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2 | Did Jesus use the word perfect as transl | Matt 5:48 | EverLearning | 92574 | ||
You may need to restate you question to obtain the response you seek. It is unclear. | ||||||
3 | Who are these removed branches? | 1 Tim 3:6 | EverLearning | 92515 | ||
Christians. Many buy into this idea of "once saved alwayed saved." I believe in eternal security, but not when the believer choses to go his own way after having originally surrendered to Christ. For this reason Jesus commands, "Remain in me..." and He instructs, "If you remain in me..." with several rewards mentioned, but He also warns, "If a man does not remain in me..." and implies mega consequences. Check out Paul's instruction concerning what can happen to young leaders. "He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil." 1 Timothy 3:6 |
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4 | Do you have a private hot line to God? | Deut 18:22 | EverLearning | 92507 | ||
You are right on! I too am a Charismatic, who does prophecy according to 1 Corinthians 12-14 and I agree whole heartedly with you that never are we as believers to put a personal revelation on par with the authority of Scripture. If Churches do not enforce the clear teaching of Scripture on this point where 'prophets' are expecting people to hold to their word as though it were the Bible, then they will quite soon come into heritical ideas and practice. "We know in part and we prophecy in part..." | ||||||
5 | Do gays and lesobians go to hell? | 1 John 2:1 | EverLearning | 92506 | ||
While Christians are forbidden to judge the eternal destiny of any other human being, the Scripture sets forth plainly that those who do not repent of their sin will not be with God in heaven. God has already judged that all of mankind is worthy of wrath. That the sin here is homosexuality makes no difference. Unrepentant sinners will be cast into hell for not having believed on Christ and for not obeying His commandments (cf. John 3:16-18). They remain under the wrath of the holy God for not having believed in God's provided way of escape. A passage of Scripture that will help you to know the mind of God concerning the destiny of the unrepentant sinner is found in 1 John 2:1-6. I encourage you to get your Bible and read it several times then consider the following comments as they relate to each verse: (1-3) In the first verse John speaks of authentic believers committing a sin - “will not sin” and “does sin.” The verb tense in Greek is important here because it does not mean continual practice of sin, but rather an act of sin. This is in contrast to the early Gnostics, some of whom believed they were free to engage in sexual immorality throughout their lives w/o suffering the eternal consequences. This belief is heresy and it is what John is addressing in this book. Continual sinning as a lifestyle is what your Aunt refers to when she says men who live this way will go to hell. If they don't eventually repent, they in fact will go to hell. There is much Scripture that teaches this in both the OT and the NT. Another contrast is seen between believers and nonbelievers having to do with forgiveness of sin. Believers have a remedy for the sin which they commit. "He is the atoning sacrifice.." The blood of Jesus is the only thing that takes away our sin. The phrase, “also for the sins of the whole world” cf. John 1:29 where John the Baptist said the same thing. This does not imply “universalism” – all will be saved because of Christ’s atonement. The atonement is offered to all, but is received individually by faith (cf. John 3:16). The nonbeliever has no advocate, no one to represent him before the God who has already declared him guilty (Cf. again John 3:18) (3-6) Here John contrasts genuine believers with those who are not in the faith. Obedience to God is the "proof" of conversion. The Gnostics did not obey and claimed to have a ‘special knowledge’ leading to their salvation w/o repentance. (3) “to know Him” – Gr. “ginosko” – an experiential knowledge of Christ. John is saying that obedience to Christ evidences the authenticity of one’s experiential knowledge of Christ - or as we more commonly say, "Having a relationship with Him." Therefore a believer can have confidence that he is “in Christ” as opposed to simply being religious because he doesn’t go on sinning. (4) "The man who says 'I know Him' but does not do what He commands is a liar, and the turth is not in him." A perfect application of this verse is seen in current events where the practicing gay man has just been voted in by peers as an Episcopal Bishop. (5) Those who lives are characterized by obedience to God demonstrate that they have a relationship with Christ. (6) Believers in Christ are not given an option concerning the truth of God's Word. We either submit to it and live in obedience to Christ, or we persist in making up our own belief system. The latter are not in the faith of Christ and if they do not repent they will suffer unimaginable pain for eternity. |
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6 | A question for false teachers | NT general Archive 1 | EverLearning | 92495 | ||
There is no mention of the need to have a "great amount of faith," but Jesus repeatedly indicates that there are varying amounts of faith in His teaching in six different Gospel passages including the very verse to which you refer in your question: "Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you" (MT 17:20). I believe that quantity of faith is not the issue when desiring healing or anything else from God; quality or purity of faith is. By "quality of faith" I mean that one must be able to "hear what the Spirit is saying" and "see what the Spirit is doing." Once we perceive God in a matter, then we can align our prayers with His will and see miraculous things come to pass. This perceiving the Spirit comes from our relationship with Him. We must know Him well in order to "see" and "hear" what He is up to on any given moment. Jesus said of His relationship with the Father, "Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it" (John 14:10-14). When we do perceive Him and His will on specific situations then we can act under His authority to see His Kingdom come on Earth as it is in heaven. |
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