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101 | Please, a straight answer!!! | Is 53:5 | Asis | 84703 | ||
Hank are you saying that Jesus' instructions to the disciples (and I think I am included) were not for now but only for the short time that the 12 were alive. Mark 16:15-18 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. [16] He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. [17] And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; [18] They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. [KJV] It seems to me that the "they" are the "them that believe". If it is "them that believe" then that is us. Are you saying that Jesus didn't mean what he said? Or are "them that believe" only the 12. Isaiah 53:4-5 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. [5] But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. [KJV] In verse 4 the word "grief" is sickness, maladay, calamity according to Strong. In Isaiah 1:5 the Hebrew word choliy (the same word translated grief in 53;4), is translated "sickness", also in Isaih 38:9. I guess I'm not following your connection that the word translated grief, which means sickness, is about spiritual healing and not physical, and that God does not heal today like He healed in the days the 12 were alive. The reason for my confusion is that God touched me after my last heart attack and healed my heart. I admit that Benny Hin was not in the room at the time and I was not dressed all in white, but the same God was in my room that was in the arena with Benny Hinn when my wife was touched by God. I have experienced the work of the Holy Spirit as outlined in 1 Corinthians 12:9. Could you explain your exegesis. Brother Jeff |
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102 | Why are you attacking Christians? | 2 Tim 4:3 | Asis | 84596 | ||
You missed the most important verse. The one I should have read before I submitted my note. As Hank rightly points out I judged you as closed minded. That was an error. Romans 2:1 should have been my guide. I should have known better. I am, after all, still having my mind renewed. There I was complaining about the speck in your eye without removing the plank from mine. Therefore I ask your forgiveness for calling you closed minded. | ||||||
103 | Was the wine alcoholic or not | John 2:10 | Asis | 84476 | ||
Matt Where was the last Passover Seder you attended held. The wine used in the Seder of Passover is in fact a alcoholic wine. Even though the bread which is the bread baked on the backs of the Hebrews as they left Egypt has no leaven. If it was just grape juice then it would be grape juice now. |
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104 | Is Hell Burning Today? | Bible general Archive 1 | Asis | 84451 | ||
Watch out how you talk about God's wife. Jer 3:14 14Return, backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you, and I will take you, one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion. 15And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. JER 31:30 31Behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 32not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of my taking them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah. 33For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and will write it in their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will pardon their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more. Remember the first believers were Jews. "To the Jew first. . ." |
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105 | faith or doubt which one is God talking | Mark 9:14 | Asis | 84227 | ||
Hank Jesus chastisement of those gathered in this episode is for unbelief. We also tend to picture the scribes and pharasees as going around always trying to trap Jesus. Now they did do that but some were looking for the truth. Is Jesus in deed the Messiah? Remember that Nicodemus was a pharasee and He sought out Jesus. It seems to me that the disciple's inability to remove the demon was because of their unbelief. The king James has this verse Mark 9:28-29 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out? [29] And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting. [KJV] There is a debate about the words "this kind." Is it the demon or is it the subject of the story unbelief. I know that in the past I would pray for people to receive healing and I would not doubt that God could and wanted to heal them. I believe God heals. Then I broke my leg and laying on my couch, I prayed for my healing and my unbelief was exposed. I believed with my head not with my heart. I think this is the condition that the disciples found themselves in. Over and over Jesus gets on the disciples case for unbelief a lot. In fact every time I find myself in a trial it comes down to believing what God has said He will do or what He has already done. Trust in the Lord with ALL your heart and lean not on your own understanding. He calls out to us BELIEVE. Hebrews 11:6 --Jeff |
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106 | Does the Law still stir up sin? | Rom 7:5 | Asis | 84215 | ||
As a believer in Christ we only sin when we choose to. James show us the way sin starts is with a thought. The thought is a temptation and 1 Cor. 10:13 (NASB) 13No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it. This is a promise of God that through experience has become a reality in my life. I choose God when temptation comes. He has said that any temptation that comes I can handle. Choose God. Paul writes all his letters to the "saints." If his letters are written to me along with the Galatians and the Corinthians I must be one of the saints (beleivers) he is writing to. I have been redeemed. Eph. 1:7 through Eph. 1:10 (NASB) 7In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace 8which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight 9He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him 10with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. REDEMPTION: The purchase back of something that had been lost, by the payment of a ransom. The Greek word so rendered is apolutrosis, a word occurring nine times in Scripture, and always with the idea of a ransom or price paid, i.e., redemption by a lutron (see Matt. 20:28; Mark 10:45). There are instances in the LXX. Version of the Old Testament of the use of lutron in man’s relation to man (Lev. 19:20; 25:51; Ex. 21:30; Num. 35:31, 32; Isa. 45:13; Prov. 6:35), and in the same sense of man’s relation to God (Num. 3:49; 18:15). There are many passages in the New Testament which represent Christ’s sufferings under the idea of a ransom or price, and the result thereby secured is a purchase or redemption (Compare Acts 20:28; 1 Cor. 6:19, 20; Gal. 3:13; 4:4, 5; Eph. 1:7; Col. 1:14; 1 Tim. 2:5, 6; Titus 2:14; Heb. 9:12; 1 Pet. 1:18, 19; Rev. 5:9). The idea running through all these texts, however various their reference, is that of payment made for our redemption. The debt against us is not viewed as simply canceled, but is fully paid. Christ’s blood or life, which he surrendered for them, is the “ransom” by which the deliverance of his people from the servitude of sin and from its penal consequences is secured. It is the plain doctrine of Scripture that “Christ saves us neither by the mere exercise of power, nor by his doctrine, nor by his example, nor by the moral influence which he exerted, nor by any subjective influence on his people, whether natural or mystical, but as a satisfaction to divine justice, as an expiation for sin, and as a ransom from the curse and authority of the law, thus reconciling us to God by making it consistent with his perfection to exercise mercy toward sinners” (Hodge’s Systematic Theology). Understand that we are not complete until we are in our resurrected bodies. But until then we live in Christ. Oh oh here comes some of that bizarre and wierd stuff . . . In Him I'm Him In Him. |
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107 | Who will inhabit the earth? | 2 Cor 5:8 | Asis | 84180 | ||
Go figure? We, who die before Jesus returns, will go to heaven we just won't stay there. I don't know what the Jehovah's Witnesses talk about. I'm too busy understanding what God is talking about. The problem today is we have been involved with religion for so long that its doctine has been accepted as truth. So when the truth comes along we call it heresy. Here is a for instance. Jesus said in John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. [KJV] We believe that Jesus is going to build us some houses in heaven where we will live. We sing about it with hymns. A popular song by Eli said "that is all the lumber you sent." Yet we will live on the new earth in the new Jerusalem. Jerusalem will have many rooms, apartments, mansions in it. It will come down from heaven. Could that be what Jesus went to prepare? When we say that we won't live in heaven we are called bizarre and wierd and the defenders of religion attack. The seekers of truth look to the word of God and ask the Holy Spirit to instruct them in the truth. The truth needs NO defending. After all it is TRUTH. Mark 4:22 [Things are hidden temporarily only as a means to revelation.] For there is nothing hidden except to be revealed, nor is anything [temporarily] kept secret except in order that it may be made known Mark 4:24 And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure [of thought and study] you give [to the truth you hear] will be the measure [of virtue and knowledge] that comes back to you--and more [besides] will be given to you who hear. [Amplified] The reference to Galations 1:10 is about responding to questions in the forum. My life is to please God. I have offered it as a living sacrifice to Him. I therefore respond to questions and comments (notes) with the truth, the Scriptures as God has revealed them to me.God reveals the knowledge of Christ to us, individually and that knowledge is always true to the scriptures. Regardless of how others respond, I know that God talks to his children and reveals that which is a mystery to them. If others don't believe then Romans 3:3 applies. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? [KJV] I will not allow their unbelief to affect my belief. God knows me and I know that He is talking to His people today. Scripture in context bears witness to His intent, His will. Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? [KJV] I do not believe that God has made His word so complicated that it takes a degree from the hermenutical exegesical theological technical institute and semenary to understand it. There was a time when laymen led the church and it functioned just fine. Our relationship with God is a heart relationship. If ALL you do is done to please God, then when you are doing something that is displeasing to God He will let you know it. We call that conviction. If your heart is after God the conviction will lead to repentance and you will be right back where you were before. Pleasing God is the desire of your heart. You should not be concerned with your motives because your motive is to please God in all you do. yours in Christ, Jeff |
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108 | Who will inhabit the earth? | 2 Cor 5:8 | Asis | 84179 | ||
Go figure? We, who die before Jesus returns, will go to heaven we just won't stay there. I don't know what the Jehovah's Witnesses talk about. I'm too busy understanding what God is talking about. The problem today is we have been involved with religion for so long that its doctine has been accepted as truth. So when the truth comes along we call it heresy. Here is a for instance. Jesus said in John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. [KJV] We believe that Jesus is going to build us some houses in heaven where we will live. We sing about it with hymns. A popular song by Eli said "that is all the lumber you sent." Yet we will live on the new earth in the new Jerusalem. Jerusalem will have many rooms, apartments, mansions in it. It will come down from heaven. Could that be what Jesus went to prepare? When we say that we won't live in heaven we are called bizarre and wierd and the defenders of religion attack. The seekers of truth look to the word of God and ask the Holy Spirit to instruct them in the truth. The truth needs NO defending. After all it is TRUTH. New American Standard Bible Mark 4:22 through Mark 4:25 (NASB) 22“For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light. 23“If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” 24And He was saying to them, “Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it will be measured to you; and more will be given you besides. 25“For whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.” The reference to Galations 1:10 is about responding to questions in the forum. My life is to please God. I have offered it as a living sacrifice to Him. I therefore respond to questions and comments (notes) with the truth, the Scriptures as God has revealed them to me.God reveals the knowledge of Christ to us, individually and that knowledge is always true to the scriptures. Regardless of how others respond, I know that God talks to his children and reveals that which is a mystery to them. If others don't believe then Romans 3:3 applies. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? [KJV] I will not allow their unbelief to affect my belief. God knows me and I know that He is talking to His people today. Scripture in context bears witness to His intent, His will. Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? [KJV] I do not believe that God has made His word so complicated that it takes a degree from the hermenutical exegesical theological technical institute and semenary to understand it. There was a time when laymen led the church and it functioned just fine. Our relationship with God is a heart relationship. If ALL you do is done to please God, then when you are doing something that is displeasing to God He will let you know it. We call that conviction. If your heart is after God the conviction will lead to repentance and you will be right back where you were before. Pleasing God is the desire of your heart. You should not be concerned with your motives because your motive is to please God in all you do. yours in Christ, Jeff |
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109 | Who will inhabit the earth? | 2 Cor 5:8 | Asis | 84178 | ||
Go figure? We, who die before Jesus returns, will go to heaven we just won't stay there. I don't know what the Jehovah's Witnesses talk about. I'm too busy understanding what God is talking about. The problem today is we have been involved with religion for so long that its doctine has been accepted as truth. So when the truth comes along we call it heresy. Here is a for instance. Jesus said in John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. [KJV] We believe that Jesus is going to build us some houses in heaven where we will live. We sing about it with hymns. A popular song by Eli said "that is all the lumber you sent." Yet we will live on the new earth in the new Jerusalem. Jerusalem will have many rooms, apartments, mansions in it. It will come down from heaven. Could that be what Jesus went to prepare? When we say that we won't live in heaven we are called bizarre and wierd and the defenders of religion attack. The seekers of truth look to the word of God and ask the Holy Spirit to instruct them in the truth. The truth needs NO defending. After all it is TRUTH. New American Standard Bible Mark 4:22 through Mark 4:25 (NASB) 22“For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light. 23“If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” 24And He was saying to them, “Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it will be measured to you; and more will be given you besides. 25“For whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.” The reference to Galations 1:10 is about responding to questions in the forum. My life is to please God. I have offered it as a living sacrifice to Him. I therefore respond to questions and comments (notes) with the truth, the Scriptures as God has revealed them to me.God reveals the knowledge of Christ to us, individually and that knowledge is always true to the scriptures. Regardless of how others respond, I know that God talks to his children and reveals that which is a mystery to them. If others don't believe then Romans 3:3 applies. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? [KJV] I will not allow their unbelief to affect my belief. God knows me and I know that He is talking to His people today. Scripture in context bears witness to His intent, His will. Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? [KJV] I do not believe that God has made His word so complicated that it takes a degree from the hermenutical exegesical theological technical institute and semenary to understand it. There was a time when laymen led the church and it functioned just fine. Our relationship with God is a heart relationship. If ALL you do is done to please God, then when you are doing something that is displeasing to God He will let you know it. We call that conviction. If your heart is after God the conviction will lead to repentance and you will be right back where you were before. Pleasing God is the desire of your heart. You should not be concerned with your motives because your motive is to please God in all you do. yours in Christ, Jeff |
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110 | Who will inhabit the earth? | 2 Cor 5:8 | Asis | 84177 | ||
Go figure? We, who die before Jesus returns, will go to heaven we just won't stay there. I don't know what the Jehovah's Witnesses talk about. I'm too busy understanding what God is talking about. The problem today is we have been involved with religion for so long that its doctine has been accepted as truth. So when the truth comes along we call it heresy. Here is a for instance. Jesus said in John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. [KJV] We believe that Jesus is going to build us some houses in heaven where we will live. We sing about it with hymns. A popular song by Eli said "that is all the lumber you sent." Yet we will live on the new earth in the new Jerusalem. Jerusalem will have many rooms, apartments, mansions in it. It will come down from heaven. Could that be what Jesus went to prepare? When we say that we won't live in heaven we are called bizarre and wierd and the defenders of religion attack. The seekers of truth look to the word of God and ask the Holy Spirit to instruct them in the truth. The truth needs NO defending. After all it is TRUTH. Mark 4:22 [Things are hidden temporarily only as a means to revelation.] For there is nothing hidden except to be revealed, nor is anything [temporarily] kept secret except in order that it may be made known Mark 4:24 And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure [of thought and study] you give [to the truth you hear] will be the measure [of virtue and knowledge] that comes back to you--and more [besides] will be given to you who hear. [Amplified] The reference to Galations 1:10 is about responding to questions in the forum. My life is to please God. I have offered it as a living sacrifice to Him. I therefore respond to questions and comments (notes) with the truth, the Scriptures as God has revealed them to me.God reveals the knowledge of Christ to us, individually and that knowledge is always true to the scriptures. Regardless of how others respond, I know that God talks to his children and reveals that which is a mystery to them. If others don't believe then Romans 3:3 applies. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? [KJV] I will not allow their unbelief to affect my belief. God knows me and I know that He is talking to His people today. Scripture in context bears witness to His intent, His will. Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? [KJV] I do not believe that God has made His word so complicated that it takes a degree from the hermenutical exegesical theological technical institute and semenary to understand it. There was a time when laymen led the church and it functioned just fine. Our relationship with God is a heart relationship. If ALL you do is done to please God, then when you are doing something that is displeasing to God He will let you know it. We call that conviction. If your heart is after God the conviction will lead to repentance and you will be right back where you were before. Pleasing God is the desire of your heart. You should not be concerned with your motives because your motive is to please God in all you do. yours in Christ, Jeff |
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111 | Who will inhabit the earth? | 2 Cor 5:8 | Asis | 84176 | ||
Go figure? We, who die before Jesus returns, will go to heaven we just won't stay there. I don't know what the Jehovah's Witnesses talk about. I'm too busy understanding what God is talking about. The problem today is we have been involved with religion for so long that its doctine has been accepted as truth. So when the truth comes along we call it heresy. Here is a for instance. Jesus said in John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. [KJV] We believe that Jesus is going to build us some houses in heaven where we will live. We sing about it with hymns. A popular song by Eli said "that is all the lumber you sent." Yet we will live on the new earth in the new Jerusalem. Jerusalem will have many rooms, apartments, mansions in it. It will come down from heaven. Could that be what Jesus went to prepare? When we say that we won't live in heaven we are called bizarre and wierd and the defenders of religion attack. The seekers of truth look to the word of God and ask the Holy Spirit to instruct them in the truth. The truth needs NO defending. After all it is TRUTH. Mark 4:22 [Things are hidden temporarily only as a means to revelation.] For there is nothing hidden except to be revealed, nor is anything [temporarily] kept secret except in order that it may be made known Mark 4:24 And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure [of thought and study] you give [to the truth you hear] will be the measure [of virtue and knowledge] that comes back to you--and more [besides] will be given to you who hear. [Amplified] The reference to Galations 1:10 is about responding to questions in the forum. My life is to please God. I have offered it as a living sacrifice to Him. I therefore respond to questions and comments (notes) with the truth, the Scriptures as God has revealed them to me.God reveals the knowledge of Christ to us, individually and that knowledge is always true to the scriptures. Regardless of how others respond, I know that God talks to his children and reveals that which is a mystery to them. If others don't believe then Romans 3:3 applies. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? [KJV] I will not allow their unbelief to affect my belief. God knows me and I know that He is talking to His people today. Scripture in context bears witness to His intent, His will. Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? [KJV] I do not believe that God has made His word so complicated that it takes a degree from the hermenutical exegesical theological technical institute and semenary to understand it. There was a time when laymen led the church and it functioned just fine. Our relationship with God is a heart relationship. If ALL you do is done to please God, then when you are doing something that is displeasing to God He will let you know it. We call that conviction. If your heart is after God the conviction will lead to repentance and you will be right back where you were before. Pleasing God is the desire of your heart. You should not be concerned with your motives because your motive is to please God in all you do. yours in Christ, Jeff |
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112 | Who will inhabit the earth? | 2 Cor 5:8 | Asis | 84175 | ||
Go figure? We, who die before Jesus returns, will go to heaven we just won't stay there. I don't know what the Jehovah's Witnesses talk about. I'm too busy understanding what God is talking about. The problem today is we have been involved with religion for so long that its doctine has been accepted as truth. So when the truth comes along we call it heresy. Here is a for instance. Jesus said in John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. [KJV] We believe that Jesus is going to build us some houses in heaven where we will live. We sing about it with hymns. A popular song by Eli said "that is all the lumber you sent." Yet we will live on the new earth in the new Jerusalem. Jerusalem will have many rooms, apartments, mansions in it. It will come down from heaven. Could that be what Jesus went to prepare? When we say that we won't live in heaven we are called bizarre and wierd and the defenders of religion attack. The seekers of truth look to the word of God and ask the Holy Spirit to instruct them in the truth. The truth needs NO defending. After all it is TRUTH. Mark 4:22 [Things are hidden temporarily only as a means to revelation.] For there is nothing hidden except to be revealed, nor is anything [temporarily] kept secret except in order that it may be made known Mark 4:24 And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure [of thought and study] you give [to the truth you hear] will be the measure [of virtue and knowledge] that comes back to you--and more [besides] will be given to you who hear. [Amplified] The reference to Galations 1:10 is about responding to questions in the forum. My life is to please God. I have offered it as a living sacrifice to Him. I therefore respond to questions and comments (notes) with the truth, the Scriptures as God has revealed them to me.God reveals the knowledge of Christ to us, individually and that knowledge is always true to the scriptures. Regardless of how others respond, I know that God talks to his children and reveals that which is a mystery to them. If others don't believe then Romans 3:3 applies. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? [KJV] I will not allow their unbelief to affect my belief. God knows me and I know that He is talking to His people today. Scripture in context bears witness to His intent, His will. Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? [KJV] I do not believe that God has made His word so complicated that it takes a degree from the hermenutical exegesical theological technical institute and semenary to understand it. There was a time when laymen led the church and it functioned just fine. Our relationship with God is a heart relationship. If ALL you do is done to please God, then when you are doing something that is displeasing to God He will let you know it. We call that conviction. If your heart is after God the conviction will lead to repentance and you will be right back where you were before. Pleasing God is the desire of your heart. You should not be concerned with your motives because your motive is to please God in all you do. yours in Christ, Jeff |
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113 | Who will inhabit the earth? | 2 Cor 5:8 | Asis | 84174 | ||
Go figure? We, who die before Jesus returns, will go to heaven we just won't stay there. I don't know what the Jehovah's Witnesses talk about. I'm too busy understanding what God is talking about. The problem today is we have been involved with religion for so long that its doctine has been accepted as truth. So when the truth comes along we call it heresy. Here is a for instance. Jesus said in John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. [KJV] We believe that Jesus is going to build us some houses in heaven where we will live. We sing about it with hymns. A popular song by Eli said "that is all the lumber you sent." Yet we will live on the new earth in the new Jerusalem. Jerusalem will have many rooms, apartments, mansions in it. It will come down from heaven. Could that be what Jesus went to prepare? When we say that we won't live in heaven we are called bizarre and wierd and the defenders of religion attack. The seekers of truth look to the word of God and ask the Holy Spirit to instruct them in the truth. The truth needs NO defending. After all it is TRUTH. Mark 4:22 [Things are hidden temporarily only as a means to revelation.] For there is nothing hidden except to be revealed, nor is anything [temporarily] kept secret except in order that it may be made known Mark 4:24 And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure [of thought and study] you give [to the truth you hear] will be the measure [of virtue and knowledge] that comes back to you--and more [besides] will be given to you who hear. [Amplified] The reference to Galations 1:10 is about responding to questions in the forum. My life is to please God. I have offered it as a living sacrifice to Him. I therefore respond to questions and comments (notes) with the truth, the Scriptures as God has revealed them to me.God reveals the knowledge of Christ to us, individually and that knowledge is always true to the scriptures. Regardless of how others respond, I know that God talks to his children and reveals that which is a mystery to them. If others don't believe then Romans 3:3 applies. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? [KJV] I will not allow their unbelief to affect my belief. God knows me and I know that He is talking to His people today. Scripture in context bears witness to His intent, His will. Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? [KJV] I do not believe that God has made His word so complicated that it takes a degree from the hermenutical exegesical theological technical institute and semenary to understand it. There was a time when laymen led the church and it functioned just fine. Our relationship with God is a heart relationship. If ALL you do is done to please God, then when you are doing something that is displeasing to God He will let you know it. We call that conviction. If your heart is after God the conviction will lead to repentance and you will be right back where you were before. Pleasing God is the desire of your heart. You should not be concerned with your motives because your motive is to please God in all you do. yours in Christ, Jeff |
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114 | Who will inhabit the earth? | 2 Cor 5:8 | Asis | 84173 | ||
hello lovly2me1 Go figure? We, who die before Jesus returns, will go to heaven we just won't stay there. I don't know what the Jehovah's Witnesses talk about. I'm too busy understanding what God is talking about. The problem today is we have been involved with religion for so long that its doctine has been accepted as truth. So when the truth comes along we call it heresy. Here is a for instance. Jesus said in John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. [KJV] We believe that Jesus is going to build us some houses in heaven where we will live. We sing about it with hymns. A popular song by Eli said "that is all the lumber you sent." Yet we will live on the new earth in the new Jerusalem. Jerusalem will have many rooms, apartments, mansions in it. It will come down from heaven. Could that be what Jesus went to prepare? When we say that we won't live in heaven we are called bizarre and wierd and the defenders of religion attack. The seekers of truth look to the word of God and ask the Holy Spirit to instruct them in the truth. The truth needs NO defending. After all it is TRUTH. Mark 4:22 [Things are hidden temporarily only as a means to revelation.] For there is nothing hidden except to be revealed, nor is anything [temporarily] kept secret except in order that it may be made known Mark 4:24 And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure [of thought and study] you give [to the truth you hear] will be the measure [of virtue and knowledge] that comes back to you--and more [besides] will be given to you who hear. [Amplified] The reference to Galations 1:10 is about responding to questions in the forum. My life is to please God. I have offered it as a living sacrifice to Him. I therefore respond to questions and comments (notes) with the truth, the Scriptures as God has revealed them to me.God reveals the knowledge of Christ to us, individually and that knowledge is always true to the scriptures. Regardless of how others respond, I know that God talks to his children and reveals that which is a mystery to them. If others don't believe then Romans 3:3 applies. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? [KJV] I will not allow their unbelief to affect my belief. God knows me and I know that He is talking to His people today. Scripture in context bears witness to His intent, His will. Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? [KJV] I do not believe that God has made His word so complicated that it takes a degree from the hermenutical exegesical theological technical institute and semenary to understand it. There was a time when laymen led the church and it functioned just fine. Our relationship with God is a heart relationship. If ALL you do is done to please God, then when you are doing something that is displeasing to God He will let you know it. We call that conviction. If your heart is after God the conviction will lead to repentance and you will be right back where you were before. Pleasing God is the desire of your heart. You should not be concerned with your motives because your motive is to please God in all you do. yours in Christ, Jeff |
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115 | Who will inhabit the earth? | 2 Cor 5:8 | Asis | 84172 | ||
hello lovly2me1 Go figure? We, who die before Jesus returns, will go to heaven we just won't stay there. I don't know what the Jehovah's Witnesses talk about. I'm too busy understanding what God is talking about. The problem today is we have been involved with religion for so long that its doctine has been accepted as truth. So when the truth comes along we call it heresy. Here is a for instance. Jesus said in John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. [KJV] We believe that Jesus is going to build us some houses in heaven where we will live. We sing about it with hymns. A popular song by Eli said "that is all the lumber you sent." Yet we will live on the new earth in the new Jerusalem. Jerusalem will have many rooms, apartments, mansions in it. It will come down from heaven. Could that be what Jesus went to prepare? When we say that we won't live in heaven we are called bizarre and wierd and the defenders of religion attack. The seekers of truth look to the word of God and ask the Holy Spirit to instruct them in the truth. The truth needs NO defending. After all it is TRUTH. The reference to Galations 1:10 is about responding to questions in the forum. My life is to please God. I have offered it as a living sacrifice to Him. I therefore respond to questions and comments (notes) with the truth, the Scriptures as God has revealed them to me.God reveals the knowledge of Christ to us, individually and that knowledge is always true to the scriptures. Regardless of how others respond, I know that God talks to his children and reveals that which is a mystery to them. Mark 4:22 [Things are hidden temporarily only as a means to revelation.] For there is nothing hidden except to be revealed, nor is anything [temporarily] kept secret except in order that it may be made known [Amplified] Amplified Mark 4:24 And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure [of thought and study] you give [to the truth you hear] will be the measure [of virtue and knowledge] that comes back to you--and more [besides] will be given to you who hear. If others don't believe then Romans 3:3 applies. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? [KJV] I will not allow their unbelief to affect my belief. God knows me and I know that He is talking to His people today. Scripture in context bears witness to His intent, His will. Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? [KJV] I do not believe that God has made His word so complicated that it takes a degree from the hermenutical exegesical theological technical institute and semenary to understand it. There was a time when laymen led the church and it functioned just fine. Our relationship with God is a heart relationship. If ALL you do is done to please God, then when you are doing something that is displeasing to God He will let you know it. We call that conviction. If your heart is after God the conviction will lead to repentance and you will be right back where you were before. Pleasing God is the desire of your heart. You should not be concerned with your motives because your motive is to please God in all you do. yours in Christ, Jeff |
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116 | Who will inhabit the earth? | 2 Cor 5:8 | Asis | 84171 | ||
hello lovly2me1 Go figure? We, who die before Jesus returns, will go to heaven we just won't stay there. I don't know what the Jehovah's Witnesses talk about. I'm too busy understanding what God is talking about. The problem today is we have been involved with religion for so long that its doctine has been accepted as truth. So when the truth comes along we call it heresy. Here is a for instance. Jesus said in John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. [KJV] We believe that Jesus is going to build us some houses in heaven where we will live. We sing about it with hymns. A popular song by Eli said "that is all the lumber you sent." Yet we will live on the new earth in the new Jerusalem. Jerusalem will have many rooms, apartments, mansions in it. It will come down from heaven. Could that be what Jesus went to prepare? When we say that we won't live in heaven we are called bizarre and wierd and the defenders of religion attack. The seekers of truth look to the word of God and ask the Holy Spirit to instruct them in the truth. The truth needs NO defending. After all it is TRUTH. The reference to Galations 1:10 is about responding to questions in the forum. My life is to please God. I have offered it as a living sacrifice to Him. I therefore respond to questions and comments (notes) with the truth, the Scriptures as God has revealed them to me.God reveals the knowledge of Christ to us, individually and that knowledge is always true to the scriptures. Regardless of how others respond, I know that God talks to his children and reveals that which is a mystery to them. Mark 4:22 [Things are hidden temporarily only as a means to revelation.] For there is nothing hidden except to be revealed, nor is anything [temporarily] kept secret except in order that it may be made known [Amplified] AMPLIFIED Mark 4:24 And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure [of thought and study] you give [to the truth you hear] will be the measure [of virtue and knowledge] that comes back to you--and more [besides] will be given to you who hear. If others don't believe then Romans 3:3 applies. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? [KJV] I will not allow their unbelief to affect my belief. God knows me and I know that He is talking to His people today. Scripture in context bears witness to His intent, His will. Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? [KJV] I do not believe that God has made His word so complicated that it takes a degree from the hermenutical exegesical theological technical institute and semenary to understand it. There was a time when laymen led the church and it functioned just fine. Our relationship with God is a heart relationship. If ALL you do is done to please God, then when you are doing something that is displeasing to God He will let you know it. We call that conviction. If your heart is after God the conviction will lead to repentance and you will be right back where you were before. Pleasing God is the desire of your heart. You should not be concerned with your motives because your motive is to please God in all you do. yours in Christ, Jeff |
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117 | Reading Between the "Lions" | John 11:35 | Asis | 83956 | ||
Comrade Hank I was getting concerned that I had become non sequitur. I hadn't seen anything from you recently and I was wondering. Good to hear from you. |
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118 | Searching for the truth | Matt 24:30 | Asis | 83734 | ||
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119 | Is Satan ruler over the earth? | Ps 24:1 | Asis | 83712 | ||
Psa. 115:16 (NASB) The heavens are the heavens of the LORD, But the earth He has given to the sons of men. Col. 1:13 through Col. 1:14 (NASB) 13For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, 14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Domain according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary means 1 a : complete and absolute ownership of land -- compare EMINENT DOMAIN b : land so owned 2 : a territory over which dominion is exercised Who, I might ask, is the head, the ruler of the domain of darkness and where is that domain located. Jesus says: John 12:27 through John 12:33 (NASB) 27“Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour. 28“Father, glorify Your name.” Then a voice came out of heaven: “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.” 29So the crowd of people who stood by and heard it were saying that it had thundered; others were saying, “An angel has spoken to Him.” 30Jesus answered and said, “This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes. 31“Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. 32“And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.” 33But He was saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die. Who is Jesus talking about when He said "The ruler of this world?" John 14:30 through John 14:31 (NASB) 30“I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me; 31but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let us go from here. Who is it that "finds nothing in Jesus." John 16:7 through John 16:11 (NASB) 7“But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. 8“And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; 9concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; 10and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me; 11and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. What is the name of the ruler of this world that has been judged. And come to think about it how did he become ruler of this word since God gave dominion of the earth to man (Genesis 1:26,27). NOW the enemy, the devil, satan is powerless thanks to our LORD and SAVIOR mighty JESUS. Heb. 2:14 through Heb. 2:18 (YLT) 14Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death—that is, the devil—15and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage, 16for, doubtless, of messengers it doth not lay hold, but of seed of Abraham it layeth hold, 17wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people, 18for in that he suffered, himself being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted. Jesus has made satan powerless. I sometimes wonder where that happened. In Hades maybe? The only power that satan has is the power we give him. In my reading of Neil Anderson's books "Victory Over the Darkness" and "The Bondage Breaker," (by the way that is Jesus) I cannot recall reading that Dr. Anderson said that satan has authority over man NOW. satan was ruler but no more. We have a King in absentia who has given His stewards dominion to rule in righteousness until His return. For more information read the BIBLE |
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120 | What were, are, they filled with? | 2 Corinthians | Asis | 83705 | ||
Ray This must start with an understanding of the word "baptism". The following is from, "The Complete WordStudy Bible edited by Dr. Spiros Zodhiates": (IV) Metaphorically and in direct allusion to the practice of water baptism (Matt. 3:11; Luke 3:16), to baptize in or with the Holy Spirit and in or with fire, the baptism in the Holy Spirit being the spiritual counterpart of the water baptism. This Spirit baptism is referred to in 1 Cor. 12:13 as an act performed by God in joining all true believers to the body of the Lord Jesus. To be baptized in fire (Matt. 3:11 [TR]; Luke 3:16) stands in contrast to the baptism in the Spirit. Those who refuse to be joined into the body of Christ through the energy of the Holy Spirit will suffer the consequent punishment (Matt. 3:12; Luke 3:17). In regard to the Spirit baptism, see also Mark 1:8; John 1:33; Acts 1:5; 11:16, where the baptism in the Holy Spirit occurs as a specific phrase indicating what happened at Pentecost in joining the Jews who believed to the body of Christ (Acts 2). This is explained by Peter in Acts 11:15, 16 indicating that the Gentiles of Caesarea were also baptized in the Holy Spirit. A third group was the disciples of John in Acts 19:6. This Spirit baptism was characterized by the phenomenon of speaking in languages never learned by those who were baptized in or with the Spirit (see Acts 2:4 [language], 6, 8 [dialect], 11 [languages]; Acts 10:46 [languages]; Acts 19:6 [languages]). Thus the baptism in the Holy Spirit is Christ’s attachment of those who genuinely believe as members of His body. In 1 Cor. 12:13 the verb ebaptístheMmen refers to all believers of all times. It is something that God did in forming the spiritual body of Jesus Christ or the body of all believers, the Church. It fulfills the promise of Christ to send into the world in a special way the Holy Spirit or the ParákleMtos (3875), the Paraclete, Comforter, Intercessor, Consoler (John 16:7–14). First please reread my note. I do not understand what you mean by a blend of the Holy Spirit and Jesus. Matt 3:11 John the Baptist says:11“I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire." He tells us that Jesus will baptize us in the Holy Spirit. In John 20:22 Jesus breqathed on the disciples and gave them the Holy Spirit. 22And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit." What did they receive at Pentecost -- Power from on high. Jesus, until the day He was baptized by John and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him, had performed no miracles. Luke 4:1 says He was full of the Holy Spirit when He went into the wilderness. Luke 4:14 says He returned in the power of the Spirit. Jesus on earth as a man performed the work of the Father by the power, the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Hence He is call Messiah, the Anointed One. This is why in Luke 4:17 (by the way, the Jews read one scripture section per day so when Jesus was handed the scroll of Isaiah and read the section it was opened to it was the reading for the day. God is so cool) Jesus says He is anointed by the Spirit. . . A Pentecostal believes that we become anointed by the Holy Spirit just like the disciples, when we receive the baptism of the Spirit. Being a man/woman (do I have to be politically correct or can I just use the masculine?) and so use to "doing it my way" we find it hard to get ugly for God. We don't realize He sees us naked, right down to the bone. So we somertimes refuse to do what He asks. We have all experienced it. Quenching the Spirit. God tells us "Don't do it." But sometimes we are embarrased to make gibberish as "tongues" starts. So this HeMan is not about to let his tongue make that sound. It comes down to this if I don't open my mouth then the Spirit can not speak through me in tongues or in the language of man. Young’s Literal Translation of the Bible Acts 19:2 through Acts 19:7 (YLT) 2he said unto them, ‘The Holy Spirit did ye receive—having believed?’ and they said unto him, ‘But we did not even hear whether there is any Holy Spirit;’ 3and he said unto them, ‘To what, then, were ye baptized?’ and they said, ‘To John’s baptism.’ 4And Paul said, ‘John, indeed, did baptize with a baptism of reformation, saying to the people that in him who is coming after him they should believe—that is, in the Christ—Jesus;’ 5and they, having heard, were baptized—to the name of the Lord Jesus, 6and Paul having laid on them his hands, the Holy Spirit came upon them, they were speaking also with tongues, and prophesying, 7and all the men were, as it were, twelve. Ray your openness to discussion is precious never lose it. I'm more than happy to continue this discussion if you have any more questions. Graceful, thank you for the compliment. I am a man. I have enjoyed your remarks also. |
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