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101 | Wisdom - Salvation in Christ? | James 1:5 | Rowdy | 121057 | ||
In answer to your question about whom James is addressing I can only quote the following for context: James 1:16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. 18 In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures. 19 This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God. Generally, I'm thinking that ALL the epistles and the Book of Acts are written to christians during the first century, but were intended for all christians to the end of the world. Now the basic message of the Gospels was directed to the world of unbelievers so they would believe in Jesus and become christians. But remember, this is a generalization on my part and I could be mistaken. Of course, a person could argue that the whole NT was written to those interested in Godliness, hungering and thirsting after righteousness. What do you think? God bless. --Rowdy |
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102 | Who can stand before envy? | Luke 4:28 | Rowdy | 121047 | ||
You make several good points but let's not forget the tremendous capacity of compassion and mercy from our God as reflected in Jesus' ministry here on earth. He showed a huge amount of mercy, forgiveness and compassion on a large number of people like the woman caught in the very act of adultery. I would also refer you to a previous post 120739. We must remember the devil is the perfect opposite of our Lord, Jesus as the perfect teacher and ideal High Priest, with the devil as the ultimate deceiver. He can paint a bald face lie like that in the Garden of Eden and make it appear pleasing and attractive in spite of its being in direct disobedience to our Father. Also, we must practice the guidance given by Jesus Himself in Matt 13. If we're not certain as to the motivation of the people we see in the world, we must treat them with care, allowing both the strong in faith (wheat) and all the others (possible tares) grow together and let God sort us out upon His final Judgment. But that doesn't mean we can't teach them from God's Word for we must if we're going to obey the Lord. Hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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103 | Saved or hoping to be saved? | Eph 2:8 | Rowdy | 121042 | ||
In response to your question, I can only quote the following John 12:50 "I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me." John 17:3 "This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. 1 John 5:13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. 1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. BUT although we can KNOW we are saved it's a growth process, one in which we mature, we are refined by the trials and tribulations of this world. Peter sums it up very nicely in 2 Pet 3:14 Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; 15and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation--as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, 16as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures. 17You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; 18but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen. For you see, we all start out as babes in Christ as cited in 1 Cor 3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. 2I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able. Some of us grow very quickly, apparently endowed with a generous blessing of talents and put them to work in our ministry to the Lord early in our christian walk. Others never mature to their full potential or anywhere close. Some lose their faith altogether. Concerning your posts, with reference to Matt 25 and James 2; it's rather difficult that any really serious student of the Bible would put any belief or faith in your special interpretation, especially Matt 25. In the vast majority of Christendom, this passage is very, very clear and means exactly what it says. We must see ourselves as branches being grafted into the Lord's family or vineyard and we MUST be found fruitful or we'll be cast into the fires of Hell. Now, I'm not saying that this fruit has to meet a certain standard of quality; what I AM saying is we MUST give it our best shot. When it's obvious a person isn't really giving his ministry an honest effort, we should approach that person with love and encouragement, showing him/her how it can be done and let them grow at their own rate of speed. I agree with you as I've stated many, many times on this Forum, we CANNOT and MUST NOT consider our works as commanded by James to be "our earning" salvation. NO, it can never be and hope to be successful for it will certainly fail. Instead, we must see ourselves as humble servants (read as slaves) that owe our very lives to our Lord and Master. Since He is such a wonderful and loving Master, we should be willing and anxious to perform these acts of ministry throughout the balance of our lives and indeed we must. As a matter of fact, I've stated before and I repeat it would be a good idea if the word works weren't even used in this discussion for it does seem to give the idea of earning something. Maybe it has something to do with the translation of these passages of James but clearly he was not trying to say that we can earn our way into Heaven. And again, I repeat I don't know how the actual mechanics of Grace and our fruitful ministry of works in the Lord's vineyard work together. I simply see them both in God's Word and have resolved I must do my part if I want to accept God's gift of salvation. I sincerely hope this is clear to all who read and participate on the Forum for to you and me, our salvation depends on ALL of God's Word. God bless all those who read, study and obey God's Word. --Rowdy |
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104 | Does it say anywhere about blood transfu | Acts | Rowdy | 120973 | ||
These two verses are about the same story. It recounts the first major decision settling controversy in the first century. Very interesting story, I recommend your reading it. Acts 15:29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell." Acts 21:25 "But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote, having decided that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication." In direct answer to your question, there is no such prohibition concerning blood transfusion. As a matter of fact, I think our Lord would be proud of us if our action in this regard were to save someone's life. God bless. --Rowdy |
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105 | Saved or hoped to be saved? | Eph 2:8 | Rowdy | 120885 | ||
I see your reference to Eph 2:8 and I agree most emphatically, but what I'm NOT seeing is your scriptures in response to all the many scriptures I've cited in the past on this subject, other posts. Briefly, those would be James 2, branch and vine parable of Jesus in John 15. Yes, indeed it is most definitely only by the Grace of God that any of us make it to Heaven but these scriptures and others clearly depict that we must have a faith that produces fruit or it's dead and useless to both us and our God. By the way, I DO trust in God's Grace. I trust that It's going to cover up for my poor performance in producing the fruit alluded to above. His Grace will continue to cover for us in our sins if we repent continually and put our faith in the fellowship of God as cited in 1 John. Looking for your response with scriptures to these specific points. God bless. --Rowdy |
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106 | How did fresh and salt fish live? | Genesis | Rowdy | 120874 | ||
Since the Bible doesn't address the subject, we have to conclude the Lord God Almighty took care of them the same way He took care of the carnivorous animals, (lion, tigers and bears, oh my) by not having them destroy their hosts. Who knows Noah may have even brought on board a pair of every fresh water creature. Without guidance from God, we're all left to conjecture which is questionable at this point, especially since it doesn't impact us in today's world at all. God bless. --Rowdy |
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107 | Is Jesus "least" in kingdom of heaven? | Matt 11:11 | Rowdy | 120766 | ||
I'm not certain who Christ is referring to in the latter half of the verse above but it does seem very clear that He's referring to Himself in verse 19, and it appears he's in the same topic. In contrast to this thought I can only quote from Luke 11:29 As the crowds were increasing, He began to say, "This generation is a wicked generation; it seeks for a sign, and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah. 30 "For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation. 31 "The Queen of the South will rise up with the men of this generation at the judgment and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here. 32 "The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. Here, we can clearly that Christ didn't consider Himself to be the least but I'll let draw from the comparison what you will. God bless. --Rowdy |
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108 | what is worship,what is praise | NT general Archive 1 | Rowdy | 120764 | ||
When you insert the word worship into the search function, you get a multitude of verses so take your pick. I'd like to emphasize the following: Rom 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. Here we see much more is meant by Paul and generally the other Apostles as well, than the traditional thought of a worship service on Sunday. As we grow and mature in our spiritual relationship with God our Creator, we grow to realize how important it is to see our whole lives, all 7 days per week and 365 days per year. God is looking for us to convert ourselves into a total christian lifestyle. That's the ultimate sacrifice, our worship. Praise on the other hand is a slightly smaller subset of activities under the broader umbrella concept of worship. Hopefully, in the same vein as worshipping God all week and all year, we can see ourselves singing praises to God during our performance of our jobs, doing chores around the house, etc. Of course, we're commanded to sing in Col 3:16 but we're also directed to make melody in our hearts. So in other words, we should look like and act like we're headed to Heaven to be with our God and be happy about it. Then, God truly gets the glory He deserves. These are my thoughts on the subject. How about yours? God bless. --Rowdy |
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109 | Is water baptism necessary for salvation | 1 Cor 12:13 | Rowdy | 120739 | ||
You bring up a perfectly valid point: Why is there so much disunity in the christianity we see in our world when there was perfect unity and harmony in the christianity we see in the NT? Copied from your post for reference: "If that were true, why are the denominations so divided over it? Some believe in sprinkling an infant for its eternal salvation, others believe baptism is necessary for salvation, still others that baptism is not necessary but certainly advisable after a statement of faith. God is not a God of confusion and yet the very people who profess faith in Him seem to have so much confusion." I'm slightly biased toward water baptism, I guess I've already shown that BUT I'll attempt to be truly objective and look at this matter with an open mind. First of all, to be truly objective, we have to admit even in the first century, the christians there didn't have absolute 100 percent unity as shown in Acts 11 with the controversy about "to circumcise or not" in order to be a christian. We see Peter get a special revelation and thus christianity is forced out of the Jews' hands and given out throughout the whole world and Peter has to be reminded of this fact afterwards as recorded by Paul in Gal 2. But now to deal with the controversy at hand, your question. First of all, let's look at the history of sin and this art of deception as perpetrated by Satan. We all know he is the master at deceiving human beings as we see in the Garden of Eden. He took the statement from God Himself "Eat of the fruit from the tree and you'll die," and inserted one single word NOT. He sold this crock of lies to Eve and then to Adam through Eve, and thus got mankind kicked out of the Garden for all time. So he is the perfect opposite of our Lord and Savior, the perfect teacher, taking a simple command from God to abstain and perverting it to something so horribe. So here's my point, the devil tempts mankind to accept God's Salvation on man's terms. We want to worship on a day of our choice. We don't want to submit ourselves to God's Plan in every detail so we just modernize it. Then we modernize the elements of worship with all kinds of innovations and we walk away feeling great about our worship assembly because we have praised and glorified God. BUT have we? Does a son honor his earthly father's wishes when he looks for loopholes in his father's last will and testament? Does he the son really fulfill the actual intent of the father when the son skillfully dodges the intended milestones and standards of measuring that fulfillment? I would humbly submit to you that is not my idea of true love and devotion to that father. Why would we think differently of our Heavenly Father? He offers the gift of salvation but as I understand His Word, our Bible, we should comply to the best of our ability with His terms and conditions. Now, true enough many people sincerely study God's Word and conclude their own particular interpretation of that guidance. And then they follow that guidance to the best of their ability. For that I would commend them except they must continue to study God's Word. We must see ourselves as the Ethopian enuch, study with an open mind and pray for guidance. We should read God's Word with the idea that It does speak plainly to our hearts as much as possible, especially about elementary subjects like those as salvation and elements in worship. To do anything less can be compared to idol worship, fashioning the church we read about in the Bible to our liking in this modern age. Please understand, I write this post for the vast majority of those participating on the Forum so that's why I bring in so many tie-ins. It all boils down to whether or not we're going to submit ourselves to the authority of God's Word or dare we to think we can alter just a little bit, to modernize it. We must see Perfection can't be improved upon; we can only strive to match it. As human beings, we can never hope to match what we see in our Bibles, happening in the first century. But God expects us to strive for that and "draw closer to Him so He can draw closer to us." I sincerely do hope this helps in your study and understanding. I'd be interested in your response. God bless. --Rowdy |
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110 | Why would we be undone? | 1 Cor 11:30 | Rowdy | 120390 | ||
Sorry, I just now noticed your other question, apparently quoting from my previous post. Surely, you're not thinking of defending the idea of being able to retire from the Lord's Army and put our cross in a corner somewhere. The Lord gives us all a cross to bear and we must bear it until death, just like marriage. (Rev 2:10) Either it's to the death or a person might as well throw it down and should never have picked up that cross. Please tell me, you're not of that opinion. God bless. --Rowdy |
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111 | Why would we be undone? | 1 Cor 11:30 | Rowdy | 120388 | ||
In my mind, the things I would be afraid of would be "Am I truly in God's family?" and "Are there any on-going sins in my life for which I have failed to repent?" Would you be completely ready if you knew the Lord would be coming in the next hour? I must admit when I'm doing my thing on this Forum or I'm sitting in church, I don't have any fear. It's when I doing other things in my life like arguing with my wife or my kids, or my other friends and neighbors. How about you? I appreciate your up fron honesty in your posts to this Forum. God bless. --Rowdy |
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112 | The unproductive vine? | 1 Cor 11:30 | Rowdy | 120382 | ||
Your suggestion sounds very plausible but not all inclusive. For instance there are those who start out as good, productive christians but then reach a point in their lives where they think they can retire. There is no such thing as retirement from this vineyard except in the grave. Now, true enough once a person reaches a certain level of maturity, he/she should feel free to be more of an encourager like Barnabas than a worker bee and preach and teach like someone much younger. But we must never think we can retire from following our Lord and Master, for during that timeframe, we might die or the Lord might return for Judgment Day, then we'd be undone. Hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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113 | Grace AND? | Matt 6:20 | Rowdy | 120228 | ||
To start off with, I'd refer you to one of my previous posts, no 119710. And remember, I believe very strongly in the concept of "better safe than sorry." If you can picture the last day and someone knew the last trumpet blow was about to be sounded, which ends the world and the very last thing on everyone's mind is "Do I know for certain, am I actually saved or not?" John tells us, we can know this and know it for certain in 1 Jn 2:3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. I'm convinced that as long as we know the truth, and we've done everything in our power to comply with those commands of God and His representatives, the Apostles, then we can approach Judgment Day with full confidence. Now as to Grace. What about Grace as you've asked? How does that wonderful Grace and Mercy from God figure into this scenario? God will extend His Grace and Mercy as long as we've done our part, He'll do His. His Grace will bridge the gap between His absolute Standard of Perfection as measured out by His Son while He lived here on earth and our puny attempts to strive for perfection in our lives. The way we've lived our lives, in extending forgiveness to those who've wronged us, and acts of kindness in imitation of our Lord as He describes in Matt 25. Thus, this Grace will cover both the sins of commission as well as those we don't do or omission. Let me emphasize these should NOT and CANNOT be considered by us to be acts or works and thus earn our way to Heaven. No, we should see this kind of activity as proof of the Holy Spirit of God living within us. Just as we must prove our identity when we go to an exclusive club or a special ball in honor of a great VIP. Before we can enter Heaven on that fateful day, we must prove to God Himself, we really do have the name of Christ in our hearts. We must be clothed with the attributes of our Lord and Savior. We can't expect to enter into our Heavenly mansion merely by claiming to belong to Jesus as cited in that same passage, Matt 25. We must prove it. This discipleship of Christ, our Lord cannot be just a shallow thing, one of straddling both Christianity and the world. It must be a lifestyle, one that dominates our lives. It must so dominate our life that our neighbor, friends and fellow employees should notice the difference in us, especially when we experience a crisis in our life. How do we handle that crisis? Do we curse or wish something bad on an individual? Do we worry about things in our lives to excess instead of giving our cares to our God and Father? This kind of faith, saving faith must be through and through, completely overtaking us. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying I'm there or yet. I'm saying I'm striving for that wonderful stage of maturity. I hope and pray that I'm drawing closer and closer to God with each breath I draw into my body. AND I hope and pray He is drawing me closer to Him. If a person is willing to just maintain status quo or tread water and not actively pursuing a life of Godly principles, studying His Word and maintaining a constant prayer life, it just might be that he may be rejected at Judgment Day. That in my mind will be such a tragic thing to happen. For a person to play the odds and take a chance when he/she should have known better. That's what "better safe than sorry," and "err on the side of caution" is all about. Yes, in anticipation of your response, some like me will need a lot more Grace than others. I come from a long line of christians (having no excuse) and see myself as owing a lot for the many sins in my life. Remember Paul's instruction Phil 2:12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. Although the scripture here says "work our your own salvation," it just means we must make our salvation certain, at least as certain as we can, this side of Judgment Day. I do hope this is clear; I can't possibly make it any clearer. God bless. --Rowdy |
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114 | Where is "You shall be known as you are | 1 Corinthians | Rowdy | 120193 | ||
This is one of those places in God's Word where it's paramount to read and understand the passage in question IN ITS CONTEXT. Here it's absolutely crucial. Also, one should remember that the Bible was authored and written without the modern advent of chapters and verses. So I'll quote here from the last few verses of Chapter 12. In this chapter, Apostle Paul has been expounding at length about spiritual gifts from the Holy Spirit bestowed on the Corinthian christians by the laying on of hands, probably and mostly by Paul. 1 Cor 12:30 All do not have gifts of healings, do they? All do not speak with tongues, do they? All do not interpret, do they? 31 But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And I show you a still more excellent way. with 1 Cor 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. So after carefully studying the whole of this disertation from Paul, we must conclude that he is saying in the latter part of Chapter 13, that this era of miraculous powers (spiritual gifts) will soon die out and be replaced with an era without such gifts. This era of miracles (signs) was an endorsement from God and Jesus that the Apostles were acting and speaking with Their blessing as being fully empowered by the Holy Spirit. Now I realize this statement will probably be responded to with various different opinions, proposing we still live in an age of miraculous powers from the Holy Spirit manifested in men. I would just like to encourage everyone to look for and compare these modern demonstrations of such miracles against the standard of miracles as we see in God's Word. Are people able to see after a lifetime of blindness from birth? Are limbs restored to good working order after being severed from the body? Is life restored to a dead body after being absolutely dead for several hours, maybe even days? Are we comparing modern miracles to those we see in our Bible that were unquestionably supernatural feats going against the natural laws of this universe? I would urge you to "test everything" as we're directed by Paul in 1 John 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. I do sincerely this helps clarify mmy previous post on this subject. God bless. --Rowdy |
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115 | Where is "You shall be known as you are | 1 Corinthians | Rowdy | 120179 | ||
I can only suggest verse 12 of the following 1 Cor 13:9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love. These are some of the most famous verses in the whole Bible. Hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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116 | How to read the Bible | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 120175 | ||
For me personally, I recommend that you start with the NT, starting with Matthew and read on through Revelation. It also helps if you have a good reliable version such as the New King James or the New American Standard. I recommend starting with the NT because it's so important to the modern christian and child of God. Also upon reading the NT, you can jot down notes and/or questions for later study and analysis. In this study of the NT, one must include the OT as a solid reference as many disciples and christians throughout the NT refer to OT concepts and/or principles that can only be fully understood from the ancient Hebrew perspective. The most important item of encouragement I would give you is to remember that it's the Words of Jesus and His official representatives, the Apostles by which we'll be judged on Judgment Day. I say this is contrasted with the guidance from the OT, for there are just a few minor differences between the two. The OT has no place of authority in the spiritual life of the modern christian but let me re-emphasize the word AUTHORITY. So that means in those few areas of contrast between the two, we must give preference to adhering to the NT. Once you start reading the OT, read it all the way through to the last minor prophet. Although some portion of the Bible slows down and gets a little rough to "slog" through, it's well worth the reading. I hope this note encourages you in your study of God's Word and God bless. --Rowdy |
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117 | Treasure? | Matt 6:20 | Rowdy | 120171 | ||
1) It seems pretty clear that Jesus is talking only to those that have a soul with which to go to heaven, so He's talking about us human beings as being the beneficiaries of God's Home after a life of faithful service and obedience to Him. 2) Kind of treasure: I would refer to Rev 2:10 3) How to: Study God's Word as cited in 2 Tim 2:15 4) We must discard the things of this world and think on Heavenly things as cited in Eph 3:8 To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ, 9 and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things; 10 so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places. 11 This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord, 12 in whom we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him. Hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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118 | I can't find any specific answer | Matt 16:18 | Rowdy | 120169 | ||
The description of the church and its start, its history all is provided in the Book of Acts. Since it doesn't describe the actual scenario of the Apostles being added to the church, we're left to draw our own conclusions. As for me, since we are given specific instructions like as has been posted before, we can infer that they too followed the same procedures. I believed they followed the same procedures like they prescribed for Cornelious and his household in Acts 10. We don't have any scriptures providing for an alternate procedure for getting into the Lord's church and we know only He can add us to the church. I would guess that among the thousands of people who were baptized and added to the church that day on pentacost, the apostles were certain to baptize each other until all twelve of them were baptized. Is there any other interpretation that could possibly be inferred from God's Word? In supportof this statement, I would refer you to a previous post no 119710. Since we have no reason to think the Apostles would be treated differently, they should have been expected to follow the same procedure as everyone else. I hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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119 | Who walked with God and ascended above? | Genesis | Rowdy | 120045 | ||
Gen 5:24 Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. and Heb 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; AND HE WAS NOT FOUND BECAUSE GOD TOOK HIM UP; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God. We're in a game of Trivia Pursuit, right? Do I get a prize? Oh, well!! God bless. --Rowdy |
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120 | How dangerous is the Tongue? | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 120023 | ||
In addition to the very good comments from EdB and Angel, I could only add as follows: James 3:8 But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God; 10 from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way. 11 Does a fountain send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water? But somehow, I suspect you already knew about this verse but just in case...Isn't it a wondeful thing? Now we can use our "tongue" to communicate through the telephone, television, radio, mail and now even the internet. Praise the Lord for giving mankind such an intellect. Let's pray we use these for His glory. God bless. --Rowdy |
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