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141 | John 17:2 Use of third person? | John 17:2 | stjohn | 216113 | ||
Hi Pkbldr, Welcome to the forum! Personally, I wouldn't spend too much time on it, there is so much more in this chapter to dwell on, It holds so much hope for believers, it's one of my favorite chapters of the whole Bible! John thinks it's just Jesus speaking in the third person, nothing more or less than that, and he wouldn't make too much of it. :-) John says: Sometimes, a horse, is just a horse. Thats John's 2 cents. :-) John |
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142 | Does a baby go to heaven | NT general | stjohn | 215888 | ||
Hi Prince... Babies are not capable to understand that they are sinners and in need of a saviour. So we can say that it is posable that God will apply saving grace and the payment that Christ payed on the cross to those who are not capable of understanding what that means. The Bible is not explicit on this so we shouldn't be dogmatic about it, but we do know God is loving kind and just in all things he does. The best place in the Bible that addresses this issue is 2 Samuel 12:21-23. King David's child was very sick and David fasted and prayed for his baby, asking God to be geacious. But when the baby died, David stopped fasting and cleaned himself up and eat a meal. His servants asked him what was going on and, David said the baby was dead and could not come to him but he would go to the baby. This would seem that David believed that the baby was in Heaven and when David went to Heaven he would see that baby. But again the Bible is not explicit about this so we really don't know for sure, though we do know for sure that God will do what is right just and loving in everything He does. John |
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143 | Does God lead us to sin? | Ex 4:21 | stjohn | 215863 | ||
Hi chosen one, God is soveren in all things and berings about all things for his purposses to compleat His plan for man and the ultimate salvation of His elect. His sonergin hand can and does goveren the actions of men without jeprodizing the free will that he gives to them. "how can man, limited by a sin nature, ever choose what is good? It is only through the grace and power of God that free will truly becomes “free” in the sense of being able to choose salvation (John 15:16). It is the Holy Spirit who works in and through a person’s will to regenerate that person (John 1:12-13) and give him/her a new nature “created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness” (Ephesians 4:24). Salvation is God’s work. At the same time, our motives, desires, and actions are voluntary, and we are rightly held responsible for them." http://www.gotquestions.org/free-will.html We must remember that all men are oposed to God and "desperatly wicked" (Jeremiah 17:9) and do not chose to obay Him unless He leads us to do so by the gift of faith and the leading (presence) of the Holly Spitit in the heart of the believer. Pharaoh's heat therefore was already predisposed to disobey God. "Ex. 4:21 I will harden his heart. The heart refers to the whole of the intellect, will, and emotions from which a person acts. The various Hebrew verbs used to describe the hardening of Pharaoh's heart all refer to a desire to act contrary to the Lord rather than in accord with him. (See chart.) The hardening of Pharaoh's heart is referred to throughout chs. 4–14 with the implication that Pharaoh is answerable for his own actions (e.g., 8:15). However, the Lord states here that it is his sovereign hand that ultimately governs the events. This is also indicated by the recurring “as the Lord had said” (see 7:13; 8:15, 18; 9:12, 35). Though one might conclude that, if God hardens someone's heart, the latter is not answerable for his actions, this is not the biblical view, and certainly here the narrative is also careful to point out that Pharaoh also hardened his own heart (8:15, 32; 9:34). The sinner remains responsible for his sin. Cf. Rom. 9:16–18." ESV study Bible notes John |
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144 | Do we understand suffering in delighting | Ps 37:4 | stjohn | 215837 | ||
Dear Momma, Sorry, Sister, I didn't understand you question before, thanks again for clarifying and your kind words. Yes, I'd say so, It's been my experience, and, in hearing testimony after testimony that, to a person, everyone who suffers greatly for and in the Lord, would not trade that suffering for the lesson in reliance it teaches them in, bringing them so much closer to Him. Again though I'd say those who do, are given a special anointing, in that God would not give so much pain and suffering, that His Spirit in us would not be sufficient to bare it. By the way, John 17 is one of my all-time favorite chapters, especially V's 20-26, it's such a lovely prayer of total assurance for the believer, to read the words of so wonderful a prayer of our Beloved Savour, there is so much Joy and peace found there. "O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me; and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them." John 17:25-26 John |
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145 | Do we understand suffering in delighting | Ps 37:4 | stjohn | 215829 | ||
Dear Mommapbs, Do we dare say that, any human born to sin, that very sin, and His love for those imprisoned by it that, impassioned our Lord to suffer for all the horror of sin, for all the world and for all time, past present and future, in our stead, could ever be understood or even imagined? Please forgive, but to say that we could in our tinny human imagination, compare, or even begin to understand is, patently ludicrous. I believe C. H. Spurgeon said it well -as well as any mere human can- in his passionate depiction of Christ's suffering on the cross. That cross that has become such sweetness to those who know that they have been saved by and through what He did there to redeem us from the unimaginable horrors of eternal hell. " Having all his life long carried their sicknesses and sorrows, he bore the burden of sin to the place of its annihilation, and by his death he made an end of it. Apart from the atonement, the chosen of God, like other men, lay under sin; the black cloud was over all the race, but Jesus took the dense mass of all the transgressions of his people, past, present, and to come, and obliterated the whole, even as a cloud is blotted out from the face of heaven. Jesus took the whole incalculably ponderous load, all charged with tempest as it was, and bore it all upon those shoulders, which must have been crushed to the earth had they not been divine: on the tree he bore that sin and the wrath which was due to it, feeling all its crowded tempests in his own soul, until in that moment when he had borne all, and ended all, he sent up the victorious shout of "It is finished." C. H. Spurgeon John |
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146 | are we born into a sinnful world | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 215807 | ||
Hi sllnjb, Welcome to the forum! Did we inherit sin are we born into a sinful world? --"Answer: Yes, all people inherited sin from Adam and Eve, specifically Adam. Sin is described in the Bible as transgression of the law of God (1 John 3:4) and rebellion against God (Deuteronomy 9:7; Joshua 1:18). Sin had its beginning with Lucifer, the “shining star, the son of the morning,” the most beautiful and powerful of the angels. Not content to be all this, he desired to be the most high God, and that was his downfall and the beginning of sin (Isaiah 14:12-15). Renamed Satan, he brought sin to the human race in the Garden of Eden, where he tempted Adam and Eve with the same enticement, “you shall be like God.” Genesis 3 describes their rebellion against God and against His commandments. Since that time, sin has been passed down through all the generations of mankind, and we, Adam’s descendants, have inherited sin from him. Romans 5:12 tells us that through Adam sin entered the world and so death was passed on to all men because “the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). This is the condition known as inherited sin. Just as we inherit physical characteristics from our parents, we inherit our sinful natures from Adam. esis 5:3). When Adam fell into sin, that resulted in every one of his descendants also being “infected” with sin. David lamented this fact in one of his Psalms: “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me” (Psalm 51:5). This doesn’t mean that his mother bore him illegitimately; rather, his mother had inherited a sin nature from her parents, and they from their parents, and so on. David inherited sin from his parents, just as we all do. Even if we could live a perfect life, we are still sinners as a result of inherited sin. Being born sinners results in the fact that we all sin. Notice the progression in Romans 5:12: sin entered the world through Adam, death follows sin, death comes to all people, all people sin because they inherit sin from Adam. Because “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23), we need a perfect, sinless sacrifice to wash away our sin, something we are powerless to do on our own. Thankfully, Jesus Christ is the Savior from sin! Our sin has been crucified on the cross of Jesus, and now “in Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace” (Ephesians 1:7). God, in His infinite wisdom, has provided the remedy for the sin we inherit, and that remedy is available to everyone: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9)." http://www.gotquestions.org/inherit-sin.html John |
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147 | To whom did God speak directly? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 215794 | ||
Hi Estabon, You've been given some very good answers Estabon, but when we are considering that Jesus is God too, well then, we would have to say we don't really know how many people God spoke to directly, but it would be in the many, many thousands. Luke 6:17-18 is just one place in the New Testament where we see Jesus speaking to a very great crowd of people. "And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases." Luke 6:17-18 ESV John |
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148 | can you pray directly to God | Matt 6:9 | stjohn | 215770 | ||
Yes, of course you can! Jesus instructed us to pray like this: "Pray, then, in this way: 'Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 'Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. 'Give us this day our daily bread. 'And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 'And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.]' Matthew 6:9-13 So you see Jesus tells us to pray directly to the Father God who is in Heaven. Welcome to the forum, by the way. John |
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149 | ... | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 215718 | ||
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150 | should we pray to god in the name of jes | John 16:26 | stjohn | 215591 | ||
John93, Jesus is God, as much as the Father is God and, the Holy Spirit is God. They are all 100 percent God. Praying in Jesus' name, doesn't mean to just say His name at the end of a prayer, but to pray for what is revealed to us by Jesus and the Scriptures as the will of God. Many believe that we can and should pray for just about anything we want. But the Bible does not teach that at all. Jesus gives us an example for us to fallow in how we should pray. He says for us to, acknowledge the Father as holy, to have a desire to see Him come in glory to restore the corrupt world, to ask for our daily bread [which is probably referring more to Spiritual food] forgive our sins, as we forgive others, and to lead us away from evil. Prayer is not a grab-bag, as some would have us believe. So what we pray for is what is meant by praying in His name. That would be anything that advances the kingdom of God and His Gospel of Salvation or to edify and protect the saints, keep us from danger, etc, etc. Not praying for stuff, that would not in my opinion be praying in His name. John |
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151 | what does it mean????? | John 16:26 | stjohn | 215587 | ||
Hi John93, The amplified pretty much explains it, where in brackets is says: [for it will be unnecessary] meaning in that day, believers, [those who are called son's of God] will be able to pray to the Father directly. In that day, probably means the day of Pentecost and thereafter, or it could mean, after His resurrection. John |
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152 | An Enemy Has Done This! (Matt 13:24-30) | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 215554 | ||
Hi Humility, Just an added note: you may also want to read Doc's well done post, #157835 on understanding the parables as a good "teaching tool" for all of God's disciples. You will note that point 7. shows us the "Parables are intended to teach faithful disciples." John |
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153 | scripture on why we go through trials | 2 Cor 12:10 | stjohn | 215540 | ||
Hi LovemyLord, "Why go through them?" Thats a good question. I would say because Jesus want's to build strong Christians characters with strong Christian character. We seldom learn anything of great value when things are going smoothly. We tend to just sit back and enjoy the ride. But God want's us to grow and learn to be fighters for truth and His Holy Word, and in spreading His Gospel of Salvation to the lost world. This is a tough job that takes mentally and spiritually tough people to do and do well. Paul writes in his 2nd letter to the Corinthians: "And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong." 2 Cor 12:9-10 And in Romans 15:1: "Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves." John |
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154 | An Enemy Has Done This! (Matt 13:24-30) | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 215532 | ||
Dear Humility, First of all we need to be very careful not to read into Scripture that which is not there. This passage does not intimate that they are necessarily yoked together. Though they may be in consort by some social connection. And too, that we often see unsaved people in Churches who are not yoked to the true believers though they may sit next to them in the same pew. Also that we would not necessarily be those doing the uprooting. That will be left to the Angels (Matt 13:39) at the end of the Church age. In the Church, and indeed other social entities, such as family's, and the workplace etc., it is sometimes very difficult to discern who is wheat and who is not; unless you know them very well and over many years of keen observation to see and thereby know if they are indeed fruit-bearers or true wheat. This can sometimes be very difficult and can take a great deal of discernment. So there can be tares that have gained the affection of true saint's, saint's that could be offended if the tares were uprooted, and even may leave with them, causing dissension, and divisions in the body of Christ, thus damaging the wheat. So Jesus instructs us to "leave them alone". This of corse, does not mean we should tolerate obvious heresy in the Church, which should be dealt accordingly and with rapidity. I hope that helps. John |
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155 | books that are not pauls | NT general | stjohn | 215512 | ||
Hi LJ... Vintage has given you a good answer, but you can probably count-out the book of Hebrews. The author of Hebrews does not name himself as Paul does in his writings. Several of the most astute Church fathers, also recognize a distinct difference in writing stile between the book of Hebrews and Paul's writings. In Hebrews 2:3b the author, (speaking of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, spoken by Jesus Christ) says: "it was confirmed to us by those who heard" Clearly, the author was not a witness of Christ's teaching and heard it from others who were, and, Paul was a witness. So it could not have been Paul. Most scholars today, agree that the author of Hebrews is anonymous. John |
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156 | MEANING OF ON THE VERGE OF A BREKTHROUGH | 2 Tim 2:15 | stjohn | 215487 | ||
HI Job... Brother BradK, is correct in saying that Scripture doesn't say anything about a, "Breakthrough" or being on the "verge" of a Breakthrough. Forgive me for being presumptuous in my asking: But maybe you are having trouble with the word "verge"? Or perhaps it is that you are having trouble with the word "Breakthrough"? To be on the "Verge" of something, is like being on the edge of something, or just outside of something and, about to enter into it. Like a new way of thinking, or, a new way of believing. A Breakthrough, is like going through something, something that has perhaps been holding you back, and into something else. Sort of like if you are having trouble understanding something, and, suddenly you hear or read or think about it, in a new way and, suddenly, (the light goes on) you can understand it. Or perhaps you are trying to invent something, and lets say some technical problem has been holding you back from finishing the job; and then you think about it, in a new way, and then you finally figure it out. That would be a breakthrough. I hope that helps. By the way, Job, that's not a Bible question and, this is a Bible study. Hence the name: Study Bible Forum. So please keep your questions and notes focused on things on and or about the Bible in the future, okay? Thanks! John |
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157 | when did moses send his wife and sons | Exodus | stjohn | 215485 | ||
Hi Fayea, Welcome to the forum! It is not known precisely when he sent them away, but I believe that it was some time around or before, when he went down to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. Maybe someone else has a better answer? John |
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158 | what does god say about taking ones life | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 215483 | ||
Hi Donnie, Welcome to the forum! This question is asked quite a bit. One of the best answers I have found is at: http://www.gotquestions.org/suicide-Bible-Christian.html I hope that helps John |
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159 | Hank is wainting, are you ready? | 2 Cor 1:10 | stjohn | 215481 | ||
Dear Mike, (Justme) Thank you so much for your encouraging and uplifting words about our dear brother, Hank. I know that the SBF will not ever be the same without him. As I read through some of Hank's 6,800 plus posts, I'm very impressed by the kindness, the grace, and the profound wisdom that our Lord blessed him with. We can do no less then to strive to study harder, pray harder, and live our lives with more of a Christ-like attitude, to show our gratitude for God allowing us to spend some time with our dear brother. Let us follow Hank's godly lead and, honor his memory by doing the best we can to show the kind of love and respect for God's Holy Word that he did. And also strive to show each other that same respect and love as well. I would encourage everyone who reads this to read through some of Hank's posts. I can guarantee you will be the better off for it. John |
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160 | War declared on Benjamin | Judges | stjohn | 215480 | ||
Hi NikH, Welcome to the forum! That story can be found in the 19th 20th and 21st chapters of Judges. John |
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