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161 | Beware False Teachers | 2 Pet 2:1 | Scribe | 86249 | ||
I agree we must beware of false teachers, but there is also something else we must beware of, and that is the leaven of the pharisees, which think they are the only ones that have the correct interpretation of the word and the only ones "trained" to teach it. I am not saying you believe this way, but I have noticed that many people are quick to label anyone that does not agree with their interpretation as a false teacher. There are indeed false teachers but we should make sure we are applying that term to what the bible says is a false teacher. I have heard people calling others false teachers for their views on pre tribulation rapture. That is far from the definition of being a false teacher. Someone may say they think someone is not accurately interpreting a scripture without calling them a false teacher. Too many people are thinking in terms of "if you are mistaken in your interpretation then it is "false" and so you are a "false teacher" But that is not the definition of a false teacher according the biblical use of the term. Look up all the references to false teachers in the New Testament and you will see examples of what they teach. If someone is teaching one of these examples we would be biblical in calling them a false teacher. If someone is just wrong, then they are just wrong. I rarely hear anyone say.. I think you are wrong about how you are interpreting that, Instead the accusation of false teacher and false prophet is hurled so quickly that all dialogue and any chance of communication is shut down. There is a time to call someone a false teacher, but we should be very careful and know that God has told us to do that, otherwise we will be judged by the same measure we dish out, and I am sure we have some error somewhere in our teachings waiting for the light of the Lord to expose it. | ||||||
162 | Why angels are not forgiven? | 2 Pet 2:4 | Scribe | 86478 | ||
Very good scriptures and thoughts pastor Glenn. Thank you for your insights into the Word. Especially the idea that angels are created one at a time. | ||||||
163 | being clean escaped | 2 Pet 2:20 | Scribe | 63515 | ||
These scriptures you have given are very encouraging. Thank You. I am in need of keeping these before me everyday. The battle rages and the stakes are eternal. I know I have a promise He will perfect that which concerns me, and complete the work He started, but I fear the Lord too much to allow that to make me light and flippant about the strategies of satan against me, my family, and my fellow saints. | ||||||
164 | 1 day is 1000 years, why? | 2 Pet 3:8 | Scribe | 39774 | ||
Dear Love Fountain, You stated "Regarding Psalm 90:4, a thousand years in thy(mans) sight are but as yesterday sure sounds like 1 day is a thousand years to me" The statement by David is to God when he says "a thousand years in thy sight" he is referring to God. In God's sight or from God's Almighty and eternal view, a thousand years is as a day. No "less than that" It is like a "watch in the night" that is a three hour period. So now which is the 'formula' is it a day or a watch in the night? See the point of David is that of Isaiah and repeated by Peter.. All flesh is grass and as the grass withers and passes away so is man and all his history and man accomplishments. The point of David in Psalms 90 is the frailty of man.. that indeed as you stated, we 'are no one'.. " we spend our years as a tale [that is told " ps 90:9. So when Peter uses this text he is reminding those that were well read "remember how little this passage of time really matters to God" and do not say "all things continue as they have since the beginning". I have heard the 7 day theory and frankly I like it. But I do not see that this verse supports it the way it is often used. It may help to allow us to speculate about the 7 day prophetic time table, but we should do so with the attitude of "it could be" not "it is written" May God Bless you in your study. | ||||||
165 | 1 day is 1000 years, why? | 2 Pet 3:8 | Scribe | 39776 | ||
Good point CDBJ, but what about the idea of being in the Last Days. If as Peter stated in Acts 2 we are in the Last Days since the day of Pentecost at least, becuase he said this is that spoken of by the prophet Joel, 'that in the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh' then we have to be getting to the very end of the end days. This is why. If you draw a time line of earth history and place the day of Pentecost on the time line you have some 4500 years before it and some 2000 years after it. Now if Jesus comes again soon and wraps things up you can see how the day of Pentecost began the last third of man's history thus calling it the last days applies. But if you go too much further in the future say another 1000 years added to the one we are in, you see that the day of Pentecost was in the middle of the time line and thus it would be more like the middle days of man's history on the day of Pentecost when peter called it the Last Days. Now we could get all mentally indifferent to logic and just say, something like "who cares" but I think God's word is written with logic and understanding and that if Peter said that that was the Last Days and we are still in it, it HAS to end soon. God bless you. | ||||||
166 | Heavens pass away and earth destroyed ? | 2 Pet 3:10 | Scribe | 88184 | ||
The Bible is not written as a riddle. It does take a diligent study to mine the deeper truths, but even those deeper truths follow a logical progression of foundational truth and what I like to call "truth streams" that run through out the whole bible. There are many prophesies in the OT that were literally fulfilled and so we would be safer to apply literal fulfilment to all prophesy. If there are spiritual fulfilments then there will be something obvious written to make us understand that. For instance, we do not really think that there are two olive trees in the Heavenly Holy Place but that they are symbolic representations of something the Lord has purposely hidden and only revealed what he wanted to reveal. We do not think that Jesus will appear as a bloody lamb sacrificed for the World, but understand that John was given this view as a temporary vision to explain a deeper truth. Previously John had seen Jesus as a glorified Son of God whose face shone as the sun. Both are true, both are symbolic. We do not comprehend the heavenly things that are not of this world. However when we read of 100 lb hailstones falling to the earth and men cursing God because of the plague of the hail we do NOT feel a necessity to interpret it as a deeper meaning of something else becuase it has more to do with judgement on the earth and we can understand earthly things. Some would attempt to spiritualize the hail, but the logical mind usually does not feel it necessary to do so. However we all feel the need to harmonize the Glorified Son of God John saw in Rev 1 with the Lamb slain he sees in Rev 4. When we read that the earth will dissolve with a fervent heat, and we are told to live soberly and holy in the light of that coming day.. this tells us it is a literal cataclysmic judgement of literal fire, The Holy Spirit is not seen as the Judge, Jesus Christ is presented as the Judge, the Holy Spirit is the Convictor, the Convincer, The Holy Spirit Judges only as it relates to conscience, He Convinces us.. Convicts us.. Judges us concerning that which is pleasing to God or not.. Jesus has been given the task of Judging the World for sin, which Jesus did not do at His first Coming but will do at His second Coming. The saints will partake with Him in judging the world in some manner. May God Bless You as You Study His Word. |
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167 | Will we be here once anti-Christ appears | 1 John 2:18 | Scribe | 85873 | ||
Part 1 of 2 1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. 1 John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. 1 John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. 2 John 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. If John were the only one that had ever mentioned the antichrist then these scriptures would be sufficient for telling the whole story. Since that is not the case you have to look at them all to understand. John did not say they were wrong for believing a long established doctrine from the prophets of a coming antichrist, but simply reminded them that the doctrine that this antichrist would teach was even now being taught by many antichrists. John is simply reminding them that this stratedgy of satan (which will give his authority to the antichrist) is what is behind these false teachers. John never says.. "you are wrong for thinking there is a one antichrist.. I tell you there are many" but that is the way people keep quoting him. He says, "ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists;" that is not a contradiction of the doctrine that One particular Antichrist will come. This doctrine that John knew they were familiar with is in many prophets. They grew up understanding it. Only they called it The Wicked Prince and names like The Man of Sin. It is in Ezek and Dan and also in other prophets. Daniel says much about him. Paul spoke of it as something the Thessalonians already knew about and reminded them that the falling away associated with the Man of Sin and the revelation of the Man of Sin (That Wicked) was something that we can mark as the sign that we have entered into the day of the Lord that final outpouring of judgements. We are in the last days and as a result there are many antichrist teaching that Jesus is not God in the flesh, but the final Day of the Lord has not began yet and we will know that it is upon us if the man of sin is revealed standing in the holy place, the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet. The book of Revelation goes into great detail about the Antichrist and does not spiritualize him as many but as one man. They began calling the prophecy of the man of sin or wicked prince the antichrist becuase they had more revelation after learning Christ that this man of sin would attempt to oppose the Second Coming. Ezekiel 21:25-27 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him. Mark 13:14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains: (continue on next post) |
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168 | Will we be here once anti-Christ appears | 1 John 2:18 | Scribe | 85874 | ||
Part 2 of 2 Daniel 11:31-35 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries. And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed. 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Revelation 13:4-8 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. There are many others and too many for me to post. Taking into consideration that the readers of Johns letters were well aware of the doctrine of the coming wicked prince John is simply reminding them that even though there is an antichrist that will come, even now there are many antichrist of which they needed to be on their guard against. And by stating what they taught he gives us divine insight into what the Antichrist to come will teach. It appears that the main underlying hallmark will be a denial of Jesus Christ as God in the Flesh. |
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169 | Will we be here once anti-Christ appears | 1 John 2:18 | Scribe | 86179 | ||
Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, This verse has nothing to do with the sabbath. I think it makes more sense to view it as John saying that He was translated by the Spirit into that Day of the Lord. And so he is just introducing to us what the whole series of visions had to do with.. THE DAY OF THE LORD .. the prophesied Day of the Lord to come in which the wrath of God is poured out on the world and all that is prophesied concerning the Day of the Lord will come to pass. THIS MAKES IT 100 percent Crystal Clear that what follows is future and begins when the DAY OF THE LORD begins. Because the Day of the Lord is still future, we know Revelation is future. And just so no one would be confused as to what time these things would take place he begins with "I was translated by the Spirit into the Day of the Lord" My paraphrase Actually I really did not paraphrase it because the Greek words hear translated The Lord's Day can be translated the Day of the Lord as well. Just as The Lord's Table and the Table of the Lord. I am not a Greek scholar but Joseph A. Siess has presented this at length in his book The Apacolypse and he has done it in a way that all Greek scholars will enjoy. There is no reference to the either the sabbath or Sunday being called the Lord's Day. When you take a step back and think about it, it makes sense that we messed it up along the way because of our church denominational filters. I think the first church thought John meant the Day of the Lord, and much later someone interpreted it as Sunday and it was repeated that way often until many have never heard it interpreted any other way. But the scriptures no where speak of Sunday or sabbath called the Lord's Day. But we read often of The Day of the Lord or the Lord's Day in that sense. This is what John is saying. I was taken by vision into the "Day of the Lord". May God Bless You as you stay humble to the Word and allow the Word of God to transform you into the image of Christ. |
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170 | Will we be here once anti-Christ appears | 1 John 2:18 | Scribe | 86243 | ||
Maybe it was Ignatius, that first applied it to Sunday, at least it would be one on good authority as to the dates about 100-110 AD. This is from his epistle to the Magnesians, "Consequently, if the people who were given to obsolete practices faced the hope of a new life, and if these no longer observe the Sabbath, but regulate their calendar by the Lord's Day, the day, too, on which our Life rose by His power and through the medium of His death--" We all know many of the things the Early Church writers had to say revealed that they were no authorities on perfect interpretation, many things hindered the earliest writers such as not even being decisive about which books were canonical, that would take time due to seperation from each other geographically, so if an early church writer is quouted as applying it to Sunday it does not make it the final authority. That could have been their interpretation of what John meant. But that could have been because of a first impression upon reading the words. I am not 100 percent sure it does not mean Sunday but based on the whole bible I feel more comfortable with applying it to The Day of the Lord and just another way of saying it, such as The Lord's Table and the Table of the Lord. The Day of the Lord and the Lord's Day. But I am open. :) |
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171 | Will we be here once anti-Christ appears | 1 John 2:18 | Scribe | 86273 | ||
Part 1 of 3 I think there are many scholars which would say that The Didache date of A.D. 70 is not likely. Excluding that as the propre date of The Didache, and reading through Ingatious we will find many things that we (most of us protestant evangelicals) would think differently about, not saying it is false teaching but just a slightly different take on things than we might have when we read the same scriptures. Ignatius being closer to the original author (in this case John) does not convince of taking Ignatious words as infallible anymore than you would take mine or I yours. We consider only the scriptures the inspired Word of God and therefore are willing to accept as very possible that Ignatius could have made the same mistake others might make today when reading "the Lord's Day" and just assumed Sunday was meant. But I cannot proove that and I understand your argument as a very good one that such references to "The Lord's Day as Sunday in the early writers is strong evidence that that is what John meant. However I believe that God did indeed watch over the Word but not the words of Ignatius, so that If all I had was a bible and no Ignatius or any other early writer, would I come to this conclusion that it meant Sunday or would I have strong evidence from other scriptures that it meant the Day of the Lord? I wish I was scholar enough to take credit for the post below but it is the work of Joseph A. Siess as I mentioned before in a previous post. With this also agrees the statement of John as to the circumstances under which he came to the knowledge of the things which he narrates. He says he "was in Spirit in the Lord's day," in which he beheld what he afterward wrote. What is meant by this "Lord's day"? Some answer, Sunday, the first day of the week; but I am not satisfied with this explanation. Sunday belongs indeed to the Lord, but the Scriptures nowhere call it "the Lord's day." None of the Christian writings for 100 years after Christ ever call it "the Lord's day." But there is a "Day of the Lord" largely treated of by prophets, apostles, and fathers, the meaning of which is abundantly clear and settled. It is that day in which, Isaiah says, people shall hide in the rocks for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty; the day which Joel describes as the day of destruction from the Almighty, when the Lord shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake; the day to which the closing chapter of Malachi refers as the day that shall burn as an oven, and in which the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings; the day which Paul proclaimed from Mars' Hill as that in which God will judge the world, concerning which he so earnestly exhorted the Thessalonians, and which was not to come until after a great apostasy from the faith, and the ripening of the wicked for destruction; the day in the which, Peter says, the heavens shall be changed, the elements melt, the earth burn, and all present orders of things give way to new heavens and a new earth; even "the day for which all other days were made." And on that day I understand John to say, he in some sense was. In the mysteries of prophetic rapport, which the Scriptures describe as "in Spirit," and which Paul declared inexplicable, he was caught out of himself, and out of his proper place and time, and stationed amid the stupendous scenes of the great day of God, and made to see the actors in them, and to look upon them transpiring before his eyes, that he might write what he saw, and give it to the churches. (continued on next post) |
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172 | Will we be here once anti-Christ appears | 1 John 2:18 | Scribe | 86274 | ||
Part 2 of 3 “ This is what I understand by his being "in Spirit in the Lord's day." (NOTE: And so Wetstein, Zullig, Dr. S. R. Maitland, Dr. Todd, and B. W. Newton.) I can see no essential difference between [hee] (grk 3588) [Kuriakee] (grk 2960) [heemera] (grk 2250)-- the Lord's day,-- and [hee] (grk 3588) [heemera] (grk 2250) [Kuriou] (grk 2962)-- the day of the Lord. They are simply the two forms for signifying the same relations of the same things. (NOTE: Our English translators have frequently used both these modes of expressing the genitive case of the same noun, both in Hebrew and Greek. Compare (Gen. 28:17) and (Gen. 28:22), where "House of God" and "God's house" mean precisely the same. So "Lord's law," (Ex. 13:9), and "Law of the Lord," (2 Chr. 12:1); "The Lord's people," (1 Sam. 2:24), and "People of the Lord," (Judges 5:11). In all these instances, the Septuagint presents the same forms as the original. So in the New Testament we have the same variety of expression to signify exactly the same relations. In (1 Cor. 10:21), for the same grammatical form in Greek, we have "the Lord's table," and "the table of devils"; in 2 Cor. 2:12, "Christ's Gospel" for "Gospel of Christ"; in 2 Pet. 4:13), "Christ's sufferings," and in (1 Pet. 5:1), "Sufferings of Christ." The same may be seen in (Rev. 11:15), where the kingdoms of the world become our Lord's and his Christ's kingdoms.) And if John was thus mystically down among the scenes of the last day, and has written only what he says he has written, that is "things that he saw;" it cannot be otherwise but that in dealing with the contents of this book we are dealing with what relates pre-eminently to the great Apocalypse and Epiphany of our Lord, when he cometh to judge the world in righteousness. And when we come to consider the actual contents of this book, we find them harmonizing exactly with this understanding of its title. It takes as its chief and unmistakable themes what other portions of the Scriptures assign to the great day of the Lord. It is nothing but Apocalypse from beginning to end. First, we have the Apocalypse of Christ in his relation to the earthly churches, and his judgment of them; then the Apocalypse of his relation to the glorified Church, and the marshalling of them for his forthcoming to judge the world; then the Apocalypse of his relation to the scenes of the judgment, as they are manifested on earth under the opening of the seals, the prophesying of the witnesses, and the fall of Babylon; then the Apocalypse of his actual manifestation to the world in the battle of the great day of God Almighty, the establishment of his kingdom, and the investiture of the saints in their future sovereignties; and finally, the Apocalypse of his relation to the final act of judgment, the destruction of death and the grave, and the introduction of the final estate of a perfected Redemption. What, indeed, is all this, but just what was foretold by all the prophets, by Christ himself, and by all his apostles, as pertaining to THE DAY OF THE LORD? Verily, this book is but the rehearsal, in another and ampler manner, of what all the Scriptures tell us about the last day and the eternal judgment.” Joseph A. Seiss “The Apocalypse” (continued on next post) |
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173 | Will we be here once anti-Christ appears | 1 John 2:18 | Scribe | 86275 | ||
(Part 3 of 3) Considering the Bible as our source and looking no further Seiss has presented a stronger argument for interpreting it as the Day of the Lord. If we have to look outside of the Bible to get one shred of evidence that it is Sunday, so that the only references to The Lord’s Day as Sunday is outside of the Bible then we are on questionable ground. Of course if you take the stand that Early Writers and the Catholic Church is authority enough for your faith then you are comfortable with that. I have to have God’s Word on every article of my faith. So far .. (and I am open ).. Seiss has a stronger biblical basis than those that present their argument for Rev 1:10 applying to Sunday. Now if it were meant here (Rev 1:10) that it meant Sunday, I would only get a lesson that on Sunday John must have decided to pray more than on other days, and this may have been the case with the majority of saints even in the very first generation, but I don’t think it was the case with the apostles, I think they were diligently giving themselves to prayer on all days of the week. This idea that it is Sunday would suggest a more vigorous spiritual activity on John’s part than on other days and as a result he has entered into a “trance” or been taken up (whether in the body or out of the body, we do not know). So it would teach us, that no matter what condition you find yourself, on Sunday you should turn toward God in fervent prayer. I am sure that this has been preached, but I am not so sure that is the correct message of this verse. However if it means that John was translated into the Day of the Lord by the Spirit we then see a foundational truth that enables us to correctly interpret the whole vision to come and all that is written in the book. This seems to make better sense but I am not going to contend for it as the only possible explanation. Let’s just say at this time, taking into account both arguments, I lean toward, The Day of the Lord. May God bless you as you mine the depths of His eternal Word. |
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174 | christians don't sin??? | 1 John 3:9 | Scribe | 41135 | ||
Thank you brother Tim. Amen, I agree. But saying it that way is not as fun as "You will find that the Spirit of God in you as your own thoughts is screaming in your spiritual ears.. "I can't do this, I Can't keep doing this, I can't live this way, This is not what God has called me to., I am never going to be happy doing this, I will never have peace until I repent... etc) " God Bless You. |
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175 | What is the beginning? | 1 John 3:11 | Scribe | 42483 | ||
this was the message that they heard from Christ Joh 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another |
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176 | eternal security | 1 John 5:11 | Scribe | 43073 | ||
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177 | eternal security | 1 John 5:11 | Scribe | 43158 | ||
Thank you. Once again you are saying the same thing that I am. You are saying that those that LIVE that way habitually do NOT have the promise of eternal life. And this is true. I cringe when I hear doctrines that for anyone listening or reading sound as if the speaker is saying a 'christian' can sin like the world and still go to heaven but loose rewards. I am glad you know that is not true. I agree that no saint can be plucked from the Father's hand. I do wonder sometimes when I hear this quoted why the context is not mentioned His sheep hear his voice and follow him and no man can pluck them from His hand. It seems that if the sheep are not hearing his voice or following him they are not His sheep at all. I suppose my main point is never to cast doubt on the eternal security of the believer, but rather to warn the froward. The coming of the Lord draws nigh and I tremble at the idea of what will happen to some I know who have no sense of danger for their soul and who claim salvation while walking in all manner of sins of the flesh. I see a night and day difference between repenting of sin (and all sin was paid for at the cross) and living in known sin without repenting. If people comfort themselves in their imaginations that they can "fall and repent later" then they are nigh unto cursing. If they are sincere in their repentance, even if they fall a thousand times God will lift them up. Of course what really happens is if they are sincere in their repenting they will get victory over sins a lot sooner than they may think, or it will not take a thousand falls if they are crying out to God to be avenged of their adversary as the widow before the judge in Jesus' parable. The Lord will avenge them and that speedily. It is all about the condition of the heart and that we do have a choice in. Yes we have free will and we can cry out to God this day. And God has established it so that He will not do anything for us unless we ask in faith. Oh I know HE does many things for us that we did not ask for, but this verse still means something and what it means is that we will not fulfill our true destiny until we rise up in fervent faith. James 1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. I am convinced based on the reading of the Bible that there will be many that will say they are sheep that they cannot be plucked from His hand and Jesus will say, you are a goat and I never knew you, you worker of iniquity. So for argument's sake I agree with all my baptist (and other denominations) brethren that say Once a saint is converted they cannot be lost. But I also hope they will preach to those unconcerned and indifferent souls they see living a life that is wicked that they have not right to claim they are saved or that they are a sheep or that they are in the Father's hand. Why is that important. Because without holiness no man shall see the Lord. God bless you and God bless this forumn for mutual edification and not for fleshly strife. |
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178 | we only barely get into heaven by Jesus | 1 John 5:11 | Scribe | 43162 | ||
1 Peter 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Consider it like this. The storm of the century is on the way. Nay the storm of the Millenium. And this storm is the Wrath of an infinitly Holy God. Only those that cleave to Christ with the desperation of man tossed on the sea with only a life float to cleave to will survive. The idea is that of the surety of our shelter in this storm but only for those that put their faith in it as it were a desperate clinging to for life. Do we need to fear that God will let us drown if we get slack? Yes. Heresy you say? NO it is called faith! Faith in God must not relax, lest you find your faith shipwrecked. Does that put the emphasis on you? NO it puts it on Faith. The Faith that comes from God is already given, you do not have to ask for more faith or fear you do not have enough. BUT YOU DO HAVE TO USE WHAT YOU HAVE. God bless you in your study of His Word. |
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179 | eternal security | 1 John 5:11 | Scribe | 43411 | ||
Thank You farout. I appreciate your testimony. God is so good to us and so full of Mercy. I like this verse. Exodus 34:7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. To know the Heart of our Father is to Know the Son. The Fullness of His Grace and Truth has been revealed to us through the Son. And in the light of the Justice and Righteousness of God we appreciate what the Son has done for us. As many great writers of old have preached concerning the balance of the LAW and the GOSPEL, it is a wonderful thing to understand the balance between the Judgement of a Holy God and the Mercy extended toward us through Christ. I appreciate the precious price He paid that I might be made clean. The greater the degree of appreciation the less likely a man will go back to wallowing in the mud. I do not have to be reminded of my past sins because we know it is completely forgiven. I do not have to fear falling if I do what Christ has commanded. Then my house is built upon a rock. And faith trusts the Lord to help me continue doing what He has commanded until the final day. There are at least two kinds of fear in the Bible. The fear that is of man, or the powers of darkness, and the fear that is of GOD. I embrace the fear of God for it is a positive fear. Some would rather call it Reverence. OK but to Revere God is not quite strong enough for me. Maybe if they said. Trembling Reverence. Or Awesome Holy Reverence. Or how about the rest of the passage from Exodus 34:7-8 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. “And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.” If fear of God is something a person feels compelled to explain every time they say it for 'fear'(the negative kind) that someone might think they are afraid of God like they are afraid of a Rothwielder then it would be acceptable to say we should have the ..."make haste, and bow your head toward the earth, and worship Him" kind of fear. This fear Comes to God, not runs from God. This fear does not treat God as your bud that is like you, but reverences God with Love and adoration and Wonder that such a Glorious Holy, Awesome, Unlimited God has allowed you to be His Friend and Fellowship with Him because of what Jesus has done. Since I have been born again and read the Bible and lived my life by faith in Christ receiving of His grace and renewal day by day, I have never lived in fear. I used to be afraid before I was saved. Afraid of many things. But since I was saved I have lived in peace and joy and fear of nothing. However I have had episodes of fear of God as you stated. The negative fear. The fear that I was in danger of hell fire. It has been when I have backslidden. And I was so miserable I could not last more than two weeks without breaking down in repentance. I am sooooooo grateful to God for that fear and dread and feeling that I was in danger of hell fire. I often pray that I would never be so calloused as to pass off sin lightly, that if I were to backslide into a sin or lust of the flesh (of the sort that christians should be rid of within 2 months of their salvation,) that if I should ever go back to those sorts of works of darkness, that I would be so afraid of dieing in that state of sin that I could never find any fun in it. Woe to the man or woman that can backslide into the lusts of the flesh and stay there and not feel the hot breath of hell at their neck. Woe to the man who can call light darkness, and darkness light and say 'may the Lord come again soon' while dragging a wagon load of sin behind him. My prayer for all saints is that their conscience always be tender toward everything that is not pleasing to Christ so that with Joy they are instant to repent as soon as the Lord makes it known to them and if they think for a moment ‘they will hold on to it for a little while longer’ that they will get sick to their stomach at the thought of such a henious act and that they would repent of even the thought of that. This is true christian faith and anything else has been constructed by men of corrupt minds. I say these things to edify not to say you are saying anything different. I am convinced that you would agree with me as most here would. May God Bless you in your study of His Word. |
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180 | Why did Satan want Moses bones? | Jude 1:9 | Scribe | 85230 | ||
No, this is the fulfilment of the prophesy, death is swallowed up in victory. Paul saw a mystery revealed by illumination (and divine inspiration) concerning many old Testament prophesies about the resurrection from the dead. He saw that the prophesies speak of a people that would be alive and changed immortal. 1 Corinthians 15:51-56 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? There is a generation of saints that will not see death. Paul believed he could be part of that generation, so he said "WE". No man knows the hour, and God could have made it come to pass in Pauls day so Paul was not wrong, for God is not subject to time but time is subject to God. So we can say the same.. When WE that are alive are changed, our corruptible body is changed to incorruptible. You see that is the change spoken of. Changed from mortal to immortal, not that we die, but that we will not all see death, but some will just be changed. The dead in christ rise first, then we are changed in a twinkling to glorified bodies and rise. Our bodies are not left behind, they are changed and made glorified and eternal. Now when this occurs we also shine like the sun, and like the glory which Christ had on the mount, and we rise in glory. The world will see it in my opinion. |
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