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1 | Spreading the gospel | Not Specified | 4givn | 89519 | ||
Based on the great commision, what do you find to be the most effect personal tool for spreading the gospel of Christ? | ||||||
2 | Is not God inside of each of us? | Bible general Archive 1 | 4givn | 89508 | ||
If by "us" you mean born-again believers, then "yes", God's Spirit does live within us. But the Lord said that not everyone who says to Him "Lord, Lord" will enter the kingdom of heaven. With that in mind, please consider Eph 2:2. Who is the "spirit" in this context? In other words, there will really be "tares" coming up with the wheat, and therefore since they are indistinguishable from the real thing, then not everyone in this forum will actually know God - some just think they do. Pray for them. In the meantime, try not to be critical and instead prayerfully ask the Lord how he wants us to interact within this forum. Try to remember we will be judged one day for every word and deed that we do. | ||||||
3 | Spreading the gospel | NT general Archive 1 | 4givn | 89529 | ||
Based on the great commision, what do you find to be the most effect personal tool for spreading the gospel of Christ? | ||||||
4 | Spreading the gospel | NT general Archive 1 | 4givn | 89682 | ||
Thanks. It does help. | ||||||
5 | Spreading the gospel | NT general Archive 1 | 4givn | 89684 | ||
Thanks. I think one of the main things that keeps me from witnessing alot is a past chock full of hypocrisy and back-sliding, filled with conviction and sorrow, and eventually embraced by true repentance. Through all that, I feel somewhat at a loss to witness to others when alot of my life has been full of compromise. It truly can be a miserable existence. The older I get, however, the more gracious God seems to be to me to let me understand that I don't have to feel condemned by my past, but I do have to do something about the present. And that something is trying to live by the light that has been revealed to me. | ||||||
6 | Spreading the gospel | NT general Archive 1 | 4givn | 89770 | ||
Thank you for the thoughtful and insightful reply. Your response has blessed me and given me much to ponder. I suppose I have know all along the "tactics" of the enemy that the Apostle Peter mentioned. The main one, for me, I suppose has been a "condemning spirit". I think another has been to doubt my salvation, even though I have been through this eternal security thing enough to know better. I believe John 5:24 with all my heart, but it's easy to get tripped on it it if I have allowed anything unholy into my life, and then have the Lord graciously help me root it out after much conviction and sorrow of spirit. I think I know I have really "grieved the Spirit of God" at various times and in various ways. And also have "quenched the Spirit". Thank you for your thoughts and prayers! | ||||||
7 | Noah's Ark | Genesis | 4givn | 90486 | ||
Based on the information in Genesis 6 and 7, he could have built the ark and it began to rain in a period of about 150 years or less. | ||||||
8 | Why would God do that? | Gen 2:7 | 4givn | 89516 | ||
His thoughts are higher than our our thoughts. His ways are higher than our ways. We can not possibly begin to intellectualize why God would or would not do a certain thing based on our own finite minds and our limited perspective. We must be careful not to "judge" God for what He does. When we do not accept by faith ALL that He has said and done, then where do we draw the line for ANY of it? Do we then get to pick and choose? | ||||||
9 | Why would God do that? | Gen 2:7 | 4givn | 89673 | ||
That's right. I was not "attacking". I wonder why, though, that he perceived it that way. | ||||||
10 | Why would God do that? | Gen 2:7 | 4givn | 89674 | ||
I'm sorry you perceived me as "attacking". I only try to speak what I know God's word says. My own thoughts or "opinions" are not of much consequence. The Lord jesus Himself even said that He did not speak on His own authority, only what the Father revealed to Him. | ||||||
11 | Why would God do that? | Gen 2:7 | 4givn | 89676 | ||
Please let me try again. Look at 1 Pe 2:8. I understand it to mean that there are some who are "appointed" to destruction. There are many other verses that talk about election/predestination. I think the trouble comes in when our limited understanding of justice trys to get a handle on the justice of God. I do not believe it to be possible based on the things I mentioned yesterday, i.e., God's thought being higher than our own. Again, I am sorry you perceived me as "attacking". | ||||||
12 | Why would God do that? | Gen 2:7 | 4givn | 89678 | ||
It's ok. You don't know me right now, but maybe one day on the other side we'll remember this time in our lives and be able to lovingly and innocently ask God "why". And maybe that was your whoile intent all along? | ||||||
13 | spiritual healing | Matt 16:6 | 4givn | 90697 | ||
Are you saying that the scripture "by His wounds we are healed" (1 Pe 2:24) is referring to physical healing? Could it be that it is referring to spiritual "healing", especially in light of the same passage referring to living by righteousness? | ||||||
14 | Knocked out by holy spirit | Matt 16:6 | 4givn | 90698 | ||
They are referring, I think, to 1 Pe 2:24, but I believe they may be taking it out of context, since the same passage refers to us having died to sins and living by righteousness. I think the healing mentioned here is referring to a "spiritual" healing. After all, the atonement makes us "whole", since now in God's eyes He sees only what Christ did for us on the cross, and not the awful ugliness of our sin. | ||||||
15 | God limited? | Matt 16:6 | 4givn | 90699 | ||
So in other words, God has to have certain conditions met in order to "minister to you better"? Doesn't that sound like an omnipotent God being limited in some way? And you mentioned "no scriptural reference". Where are the scriptural references for being "overwhelmed" by the Spirit? Didn't Jesus say that the Spirit would bear witness of HIM (Jesus)? | ||||||
16 | Kind of harsh, don't you think? | Matt 16:6 | 4givn | 91077 | ||
Listen to yourself. Why the "attitude"? And who said I did not want "healing, prosperity, etc."? My inquiry said "could it be". Perhaps, madame or sir, that same Word you say you trust God for also says to bear with those whose faith is not the same as your own? There is also instruction for judging others. Only the Lord knows the thoughts and intents of my heart! | ||||||
17 | Kind of harsh, don't you think? | Matt 16:6 | 4givn | 91078 | ||
Listen to yourself. Why the "attitude"? And who said I did not want "healing, prosperity, etc."? My inquiry said "could it be". Perhaps, madame or sir, that same Word you say you trust God for also says to bear with those whose faith is not the same as your own? There is also instruction for judging others. Only the Lord knows the thoughts and intents of my heart! | ||||||
18 | Please explain | Matt 16:6 | 4givn | 91117 | ||
Re: John 18:4-7. Are you saying that those to whom Jesus spoke were, in the same context as your postings, "overwhelmed" by the Spirit. You are using THIS scripture as an example to support your contentions???? I fail to see the connection. Please help me. Re: Rev.1:7. I must be missing something. Please explain. |
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19 | Still not convinced | Matt 16:6 | 4givn | 91128 | ||
It just seems that in the context that it is written, it is referring to "spiritual" healing. And ultimately that will be all that really matters, since we will one day be given a new body. But I think I am just beginning to see what the argument is all about, and I concede that the passage may also refer to physical healing. But I am not convinced. But thank you for the kind and gracious way in which you have addressed my inquiry. It was very Christ-like of you, unlike some of the responses I get sometimes in this forum, by folks, I think perhaps, who are unsure of their positions and feel they must lash out at what they perceive are "attacks". | ||||||
20 | I don't understand your reasoning | Matt 16:6 | 4givn | 91136 | ||
Rom 8:16 to says that the Spirit of God "bears witness" (agrees) with our spirit that we are "children of God". The passage speaks of being dead to sin and alive in Christ. What does this have to do with the spirit "overwhelming" someone? RE: 1 John 1:7. What is your reason for quoting this particular scripture? Please help me to understand your reasoning. RE: 1 Tim 3:16. Please help me out here, too! |
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