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161 | What does heaven look like? | 1 Cor 2:9 | Aixen7z4 | 145185 | ||
"Heaven is where God is". Yes! John heard a great voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God". We usesd to sing, "Where Jesus is, 'tis heaven there" and it seems appropriate, because he said, "I go and prepare a place for you, (and) I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also". Whereas some say that hell is here, we may counter that heaven is here as well, because Jesus is with us, and in us. See Luke 17:21. I trust those who read this are his and that you find a heaven in his presence, as in Psalm 16:11, for in his presence is fulness of joy; at his right hand there are pleasures for evermore. We may describe heaven by listing what and who will be there, primarily Jesus. We may aslo describe it by listing what and who will not be there: No sin, no sorrow, no pain, no death; but primarily, no devil. Amen. |
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162 | DENOMINATION | Eph 4:4 | Aixen7z4 | 144724 | ||
We can only imagine the grief that it brings to the Lord’s heart, to see division in the body, the church. What does he think about it? In his eyes, we who belong to him are one. He said, “There shall be one fold, and one shepherd” (John 10). Of course, Jesus knew all things, including the future, and he foresaw the state of the church of today. Yet he prayed to the Father that we should be one (John 17). We believe the apostle Paul was speaking for him when he said there should be no division in the body (1 Corinthians 12). Now this I say, that every one of you says, “I am of Paul”; and “I of Apollos”; and “I of Cephas”; (and "I of Luther” and “I of Wesley” and I of “Menno Simons”) and “I of Christ”. Is Christ divided? Many will be motivated to justify the tradition that has nurtured them. Some will say that their sect is not a sect. But we should answer the question: Is Christ divided? And then, we should refrain from trying to justify wrong and endeavour to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling. One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. Where then does the Bible support the idea of denominationism? Or can it do so without contradicting itself? |
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163 | request for money is a false teacher? | 2 John 1:10 | Aixen7z4 | 143552 | ||
I do believe you may be thinking about a passage in the third epistle of John. The message seems to be positive, that we should support those who preach the Gospel. The reason is that they do not accept anything from unbelievers, and it is the place and privilege of the believers to give them hospitality and support. The passage says (3 John vv. 5-8 NLT): "Dear friend, you are doing a good work for God when you take care of the traveling teachers who are passing through, even though they are strangers to you. They have told the church here of your friendship and your loving deeds. You do well to send them on their way in a manner that pleases God. For they are traveling for the Lord and accept nothing from those who are not Christians. So we ourselves should support them so that we may become partners with them for the truth". I wonder if that is what you are remembering. |
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164 | Speak from the midst of the fire to you? | Acts 9:4 | Aixen7z4 | 142243 | ||
Sometimes, a simple schema helps to make a point, and in this case I will simply say, let us remember where X marks the spot. If we wanted to go beyond our own personal sense of comfort, we can think of the cross, where the Lord brings all of us together. Mercy and Truth, Righteousness and Peace do meet. If we follow them to the point, I think we will find we have settled this matter. I take the questions you have asked to be rhetorical. God is sovereign and he can do what ever he pleases. But it has pleased him to give us his Spirit and his word as guides so we can know what to expect from him. That’s how he leads us in paths of righteousness, and there is much comfort in having them both, together. Once again: Dear friend, we are praying for you, and trusting that all will be well with you, and that your body will be as healthy as I know your soul is. |
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165 | Speak from the midst of the fire to you? | Acts 9:4 | Aixen7z4 | 142229 | ||
I would like to interject, if I may, to make a point that I hope will be conciliatory. Personal experiences are so precious to us, and they should be respected. But in the scheme of things they are but anecdotal evidence, and subjective evidence simply cannot prove a point in God’s economy. They must be coupled with something else. This I say, my sister, not to discourage you entirely, but to discourage you from depending on personal experience entirely in any situation. I hope in the end to encourage you to hold your personal experiences tightly coupled always with the word of God. The problem is that there are always personal experiences to the contrary. One young lady once told me that God had told her he wanted her to be my wife. She was so sure, she wrote in all bold letters. She was wrong. She is not. She also said that God had given her the gift of speaking in unknown language. She later acknowledged she did not know what had come over her. It never happened again. My father once ran home not knowing why, to find his house on fire. He was there on time to save it. He ran home another time with a nurse for my mother. He was not on time, and she died. A patient thought she heard God saying everything would be fine. From that moment, everything went wrong. It was not the voice of God she had heard. If we took all of the stories, we would find that many seem to have been God talking and just as many were illusions or delusions. What is the solution? I hope it is this simple: Combine your personal impressions with the word of God. How do you do that? When you think you hear God saying, “I say you should do such and such”, ask him, “Where Lord?” I do believe that the Lord guides us by his Spirit. He also guides us by his word. What I am suggesting here is that he always uses both, together. I chose the last word over its cousin Simultaneously, because I believe he starts with one and brings in the other, for explanation, or for confirmation. When I think of doing something, I look to see where God said so, in the Bible. Sometimes I remember, or may I say the Spirit brings it to my remembrance. I may have to look it up, or ask someone. But, sorry for the bad picture this conjures, the body and the eagles must come together. Dreams are not God’s communication with us. They are essentially no different from our other thoughts and with some guidance you can easily explain them. And our thoughts are not God’s thoughts. Even when our thoughts are godly thoughts we’ll find that he will lift them higher. Let us take our thoughts to God and let him tell us yes or no, by his written word. He did it for Paul (See Acts 16:7, 2 Corinthians 12:8,9). He did it for our Lord Jesus Christ (See Luke 22:42). Long ago God did speak to people in isolated situations in those manners, but he has taught us not to depend on them. There are reasons: the fact we now have the word of God in writing, the fact that Satan mimics God, etc. Please consider that God has two lines: personal impressions from his Spirit, and his written word. Where the two lines meet, there is safety. Without the Spirit, we do not know what the word means. Without the word, we cannot give rein to our thoughts. I think I’ve said enough on that. God does not want to take this sense of personal communication from us, but he also wants it coupled with word. Always. Please consider what I say, and the Lord give you understanding in this thing. One quick word on the other side, our communication to God, in prayer. I was impressed again recently with the fact that we should keep praying and not give up. Suddenly, it seemed the respectful thing to do, and I could do it without being fretful. If I felt he was taking long, I could tell God so, but I would respect his position as God and keep on asking. So, when I fell sick a few days ago, I prayed a million times that God would heal me. And it happened while I was praying. This day I was able to keep my speaking engagement, because the Lord answered my prayer. And if you would, I’d like to pray for you. I’d also like to encourage others who might have read this to keep on praying concerning your physical problem. Let us let our voices rise like a fountain night and day for you. We need not multiply words. We can say the same words, as Jesus did. If we would bombard his throne with our requests, he’ll notice. And we should not stop until he tells us no. And we will only know he’s saying no when he directs us to some passage such as 2 Corinthians 12. Otherwise we’ll let the ones like Luke 18:1 and 3 John v. 2 encourage us. Somehow there comes to mind the thing about the rod and the staff in Psalm 23. We can’t get into that now, but we also have two things to be very thankful for: the Spirit and the word. |
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166 | Never did a Man speak...? | John 7:46 | Aixen7z4 | 142196 | ||
The translators of the Bible use capital letters when they wish to show respect to Lord in the names that refer to him. But I wonder what those soldiers would have written had they made a written report to their commanders rather than a verbal report. It is my impression that they would have been at a loss to know what to write in the second case. They had heard many someone speak, but they were thinking now, based on what they had heard, that Jesus was not a mere man. Comes to mind what some said about Herod when he had made his great speech (Acts 12). “The people gave a shout, saying, ‘It is the voice of a god, and not of a man’”. And yet, this was so different. It was not the mindless shout of a groveling crowd before a tyrant. This was a report from trained professionals, sent to make an arrest. And what had they heard from him? Jesus had said unto them, “Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me. Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come”. He had also stood and cried, saying, “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water”. Many others had marveled at his words before. Some had said that he spoke with authority, and not as the Scribes. Some had recognized his authority to speak to unclean spirits and to the winds and the waves, and the wonder of it, and the authority seen in it, was in the fact that they obeyed him. Some had wondered at the graciousness of his words. What was the effect of his words on those officers? Had they actually come to believe on him? We do not know. They seem to have reported that Jesus was unlike any other man, or maybe, that he did not seem to be a man at all. And now I would like to venture a statement, that Jesus should not be thought of as a man. He was God inhabiting a human body. This I say, aware that there have been many debates on the nature of Christ, where his humanity stops and his divinity starts, etc. I do not believe this is what you want to get into at this time. I think how Peter refused worship because he was only a man. Jesus received worship because he was more than a man. Paul refers to him in Acts 13:38 as a man and then says in 2 Corinthians 5 that he no longer regards him as a man. Jesus himself refers to himself as the son of man but never as a man. When his opponents said (in John 10) he was a mere man, Jesus responded that he was in fact the Son of God. His disciples did not refer to him as a man but as “that which was from the beginning”, “the Word”, “the life”, “the Word of life”, etc. (See 1 John 1). The rules of capitalization I have never understood, so I do not know the difference between a Man and a man. Again I would wonder whether such capitalization should represent the attitude of the speaker(s), in this case, the officers, or the person transcribing or translating what they had said. Could the listener(s), in this case, the chief priests and Pharisees, tell whether the speakers were reflecting the capitalized form in their speech? Should the word “Fellow” (in John 9:29) be capitalized. A quick look shows that one translation uses the word “One” and does capitalize it. I do not know about those things. So my answer here is to say that Jesus is not a man. God was found in fashion as a man and they called him Jesus. I know to capitalize his names and his titles. Lord. God. Jesus. Christ. Whether to capitalize “man”, especially in a phrase spoken by others, a phrase such as “never man spake as this man”, I cannot tell. |
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167 | Does anyone still beleive that God talks | Acts 9:4 | Aixen7z4 | 142188 | ||
The fact that we are discussing the subject says a lot. The fact is the Lord does talk to us, or John 10:27 is not true. But there are also people who talk to us, and we find it important to consider what they say. Any believer may know that God talks to them. He has not left us alone. He walks with us and he talks with us. But it is also important to us to know what others people say. The fact is, other people are always talking to us. Our task is often to decide whether or when to listen. Some of what we hear is solidly true, but very short on substance. The word of God is true, they say, and we agree. But what does it say? Some try to add substance and utility and they say, “God told me to go to …” and they lose us then because we have no basis for judging whether it was God. We also know of cases where it was apparently not God because the action in question was contrary to (our understanding of) the written word of God. There is, somewhere on this forum, the question whether Satan talks to us, and it might be interesting to review that. We know at least that he has ministers (2 Corinthians 11) and they are not reticent to talk. They may say that they have heard from God, but then they do not tell the truth. There is also a question as to whether true prophets always tell the truth. See 1 Kings 22. The truth is not always what we want to hear. The story of Micaiah is one that we can learn from (Romans 15:4). Even if we speak the truth, there are still those who would say, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace”. But we can know when God is speaking. For one thing, it is in the word of . For the other thing, God what God says will happen will happen. So, when a preacher says, “I have a message from the Lord” and the message is: “Look to Jesus now and live”. The Lord is speaking, the message is true, and those who accept it know it from past or present experience. One can very well report: “I heard the voice of Jesus say, ‘Come unto Me and rest;…” I came to Jesus as I was, … I found in Him a resting place, … I heard the voice of Jesus say, “Behold, I freely give The living water; ...” I came to Jesus, and I drank of that life giving stream; My thirst was quenched, my soul revived, and now I live in Him. “I heard the voice of Jesus say, ‘I am this dark world’s Light;…’ I looked to Jesus, and I found in Him my Star, my Sun; And in that light of life I’ll walk, till traveling days are done”. Many references have been made to Hebrews 1:2 where it says that God has spoken through his Son. Now we might ask ourselves, what have we heard the Son to say? And are we giving earnest heed to those things (Hebrews 2:1)? It may be that some of us are listening for other messages such as “Go to Chicago” or “Buy this car”. Now, since neither “Chicago” not “car” is in the Bible, we cannot detect the voice of God in such utterances. And since neither good ourcomes nor bad show that God directed we cannot tell even in hindsight whether God had spoken. What this piece means to say is that God spoken so loudly on so many things! God is light and we should walk in the light. We should worship God. We should preach the Gospel. We should love one another, not in word but in deed. Are we listening to those, or are we looking for other messages? It may be that we are looking for something secret and personal, spoken in our own individual ears. But isn’t God saying the same thing to all of us? We look at his Son. We look at his word. The Holy Spirit touches the word of God and it roars to life in us. When we read John 3:16, don’t we “hear” God saying, “I love you”? When we read Deuteronomy 6;5 or Matthew 22:37, don’t we “hear” God saying we should love him? When we read 1 John 3:16, don’t we “hear” God saying, “Love one another”? Or are we looking for something more mysterious and personally satisfying or just something more selfishly personal? Two passages of Scripture have meant so much to me in times when it seemed God was not speaking. “And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, ‘This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left’” from Isaiah 30, and “I being in the way, the LORD led me” from Genesis 24. Blessed are those who can hear the voice of God in the word of God, even a paraphrased version of it, and who find no need for an audible, possibly counterfeit voice. When there was no written Bible to go by, a man such as Samuel was blessed to hear the audible voice of God. But now, now that we have his word in writing, blessed instead are those who hear no audible disembodied voices, but who “hear” the word of God and do it. |
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168 | What is the difference between believing | 1 John | Aixen7z4 | 142013 | ||
Not sure what the statement means, that Satan believes in Jesus. The first responder seems to be referring to the fact the devils believe there is one God (James 2:19). Though language may seem to equate “I believe in God” with “I believe that God exists”, it is doubtful that “I believe in Jesus” is ever spoken to mean “I believe that Jesus exists”. It seems to me that believing in Jesus and believing on Jesus are exactly the same thing. The words seem to be exactly the same in the original language, and they mean to trust in him, not to believe that he exists. I write this to encourage us to keep the message of the Gospel as simple as it is given us and not to complicate it unnecessarily. Not everyone that says “Lord, Lord” believes in or on the Lord. Those who do the will of the Father enter the kingdom of heaven. But what is the will of the Father? They said they unto him, “What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?” Jesus answered and said unto them, “This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent”. Again he said, “This is the will of him that sent me, that every one who sees the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day” (John 6). And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ (in order to have everlasting life -- as in John 6 above, Acts 16:31, etc.) and love one another (after we are saved -- as in 1 John 3:16) as he gave us (believers, his disciples -- John 13, 15) commandment. We are saved when we believe in (Romans 10:14) or on (1 Timothy 1:16), or trust in (1 Timothy 4:10) the Lord Jesus Christ. Thereafter, we do good works, not in order to have salvation, but because we have it (Ephesians 2). The Holy Spirit guides us (Romans 8) and the love of Christ constrains us (2 Corinthians 5). |
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169 | Where is God? | 1 John | Aixen7z4 | 142008 | ||
It is perhaps the most important question. God complained when his people did not ask it (Jeremiah 2:6,8) and he responded positively when Elisha asked it (2 Kings 2:14). It is his desire that we seek after him and find him (Acts 17:27). He asks directly that we seek him (Isaiah 55:6). We understand that the Lord is someone we will find when we seek him (as in Matthew 7:7). But you seem to need some more information, since you have been seeking and not finding. God says that you will find him only when you search for him with all your heart (Jeremiah 29:13). It is evident that some of us seek God while neglecting to deal with the question of sin. Sin is like a cloud (Isaiah 44:22) that separates us from God (Isaiah 59:2). God hides his face at the sight of sin (Deuteronomy 31, Ezekiel 39, etc.). But we cannot get rid of sin by ourselves. We need forgiveness. And we should know that in Jesus Christ we are offered forgiveness of sins (Acts 13:38). Now, in regards to the steps you have taken is seeking God, you have mentioned reading the Bible, attending church, and baptism. Some churches place a strong emphasis on baptism, even suggesting that our sins are taken away in the water. They wrestle with passages like Acts 22:16 and 1 Peter 3:21 which seem to say or not say that. But in this case it seems clear that baptism did not take away sin, which is the thing that separates us from God. And why would baptism take away sin? What if the person has not repented? How could baptism take away sin if the person has not believed on the Lord Jesus Christ? What we find is that a person draws nigh to God when he turns his back on sin (Isaiah 55:7). When he turns to God like that and he will have mercy upon him, and he will abundantly pardon him. This pardon is necessary in order for us to have fellowship with a holy God. And again, this pardon is possible because of the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross. When we repent of sin and come to God through him. That is when we find him. There are many people in church who feel the way that you do, that they are seeking and not finding God. They may try then to create the feeling of nearness to God by being with the people of God and doing many things for God. One can hear them crying out with words such as “I’m desperate for you”. But God says he is not far from any one of us. But to find him we must come to hate sin, and we must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Baptism comes after that. Now, who among us will say that they found God in a pool of water? The statistics say that most people find him and get saved in a place other than church. We tend to find him in some quiet place, on our knees, with the help of one friend or family member who knows him, and sometimes alone. But it does seem, when you get to know God, that he leaves no doubt about it as he floods your life with his presence. In your place I would seek the Lord in his prescribed way. But those of us who know him must seek him yet, just to see him. “One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple”. For protection: “For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock”. He invites us to seek him. He says, “Seek ye my face”, and we accept. Our heart says, “Thy face, LORD, will I seek” (Psalm 27). For direction: He will show us the path of life. For the joy of it, because “in his presence is fullness of joy; at his right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Psalm 16). |
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170 | How do we know that we are truly saved? | 1 John 3:24 | Aixen7z4 | 141640 | ||
I think that 9 verse 9 is talking about our spirit, the inward man, as in 2 Corinthians 4:16. With that in mind, I would also have to choose the NASB version for verse 10. But these are deep things of God, and I think we would do well to keep both versions in mind. It is a fellowship between God and us, between his Spirit and our spirit, that is in view here, and it is perhaps that dynamic relationship we should be thinking of and in no way seeking to think of ourselves as separated from him. I can only imagine the dilemma the translators had in choosing the words to place here. I find a need to change even my favorite translation slightly so that it makes sense to me. We are not controlled by your sinful nature. We are controlled by the Spirit. And this can only happen because the Spirit of God is living in us. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them are not his people at all.) Since Christ lives within us, we have this situation: although our body is slowly wearing out because of sin, our spirit is vibrant and alive because we have been made right with God. |
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171 | How do we know that we are truly saved? | 1 John 3:24 | Aixen7z4 | 141639 | ||
I must say "Amen" to the response that Pastor Glenn gave. Those are the words of Scripture, and an expression of the heart of God. He loves us, and he wants us to love him. Love is the motivation for our obedience. As for feeling the presence of God, I agree as well. Whether or not we feel him, he is with us. Fact is, he is in us. Whither shall I go from his spirit? Or whither shall I flee from his presence? If I ascend up into heaven, he is there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, he is there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall his hand lead me, and his right hand shall hold me. It may be that we feel alone when we are closest to him and cannot see him from afar. It may be we should rejoice in those moments and say, “I am hid away with Christ in God”. |
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172 | How do we know that we are truly saved? | 1 John 3:24 | Aixen7z4 | 141588 | ||
Hi, Angel. I did not realize before now that there are those who think that to trust in the Lord means we quote His Gospels! And I was not aware that many Christians trust in Jesus in the sense that we trust in one another. It is obviously important that those of us who call him Lord should do what he says. But here is the point, and I hope you do not miss it: It is not doing good works that makes us saved. It is because we are saved that we should do good works. Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us (Titus 3:5). Not of works, lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:9). We are new creatures (2 Corinthians 5:17) created in Christ Jesus unto good works (Ephesians 2:10). In saving us, God changes us, and thereafter we are expected to do good works. We do not do them automatically, and that is why the epistles are given to encourage us in that regard. Now, there are some other interesting quotes in your post. “If you do not abide in me you will be removed”. Yes, John 15 records Jesus saying that. But I encourage you to consider that he was speaking of being removed from a place of service. That happens (See revelation 2:5). It may involve being removed from this life (1 Corinthians 11:30). Yet the soul that trusts in Jesus will be saved (1 Corinthians 3:15). Jesus will say, to use your wording, “Begone from me you children of iniquity!” But I note it is not they had worked iniquity (we’ve all done that, as Romans 3 reminds us). It is because “I never knew you”. We need to make sure that he knows us. The best way it seems to ensure that he knows us is that we introduce ourselves to him. Come to him, admit that we are sinners, ask him to change us, and he does. It is only then that we can do good works that are not filthy rags, after he has changed us. You refer to people learning scripture and memorizing passages and chanting hymns and enunciating prayers, and I agree that those things will not save them. But neither will their attempt to love their enemies, uphold the Sacrament of Matrimony, or otherwise to “obey His commandments”. All those good works come after salvation. You note well that we own a guarantee of salvation which we have done nothing to merit! The fact is, we cannot merit salvation. After you have done all those good words you will still find you have come up short (Romans 3:23). We declare ourselves bankrupt, and then we trust in his merit alone. So, admonish us, but we do not believe you that we can merit salvation. We claim salvation by faith, not by works. We claim that good works come after salvation. We do believe that those who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved, because it says so in Romans 1:13. And yes, we do believe that we have safe passage and a secured place in heaven. Passages such as John 5:24 and 1 Peter 1:3, 4 assure us of that. We who are saved ought to be doing good, as all of the New Testament commands us and encourages us. We are ashamed of our failures and our sins. We are encouraged to abide in him and to follow his way so as not to be ashamed at his appearing (1 John 2:28). But please do not insist on condemning us, because God may ask you who are you (See Romans 8:33,34). Yet I do believe that you mean well in all that you have said. If we are not concerned about our behavior it may well mean that we are not saved. Since we have been forgiven and cleansed and saved, we should not return to sinning. God forbid (Romans 6). To the extent that we do sin after we are saved, please correct us. But please leave us the right to know that we are saved. Our salvation is our motivation to do good works (2 Corinthians 5:14). We know we could have done nothing to merit our salvation. Finally, I find myself in agreement with your last statement. We should boast in Jesus, and Him Crucified for our Salvation. It is He who secures our salvation. Without Him we are nothing! Amen. |
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173 | How do we know that we are truly saved? | 1 John 3:24 | Aixen7z4 | 141586 | ||
The witness in ourselves is not between our spirit and our flesh but between our spirit and the Holy Spirit who is given to us to indwell us, the same witness that you referenced in Romans 8. The witness that we get from communicating with God is greater and more important than what we may get in communicating with other men. What God says, in his word, and by his Spirit, is more important than what other people say. This may be related to the comments made by Angel on this day. Men may look on the outward appearance. They may see our failures. But God looks on the heart. He knows whether we have repented and put our trust in his Son. He knows whether we are his, and he lets us know. The witness of God is great. It is in his word, and he communicates it to us by his Spirit. This communication is to us as individuals, to our hearts, if you will, so that we can know for sure that we are saved. |
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174 | How do we know that we are truly saved? | 1 John 3:24 | Aixen7z4 | 141566 | ||
He came to save us, Angel, and when you trust in him, you're in (1 Corinthians 12:13; 2 Corinthians 5:17). You have eternal life (John 5:24). You will never perish (John 10:28). You have the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9) and he lets you know you are a child of God (Romans 8:16). His presence in you is a guarantee of your salvation (Ephesians 1:13,14). If you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, then you have this assurance (2 Timothy 1:12). Jesus guarantees salvation to those who trust in him. God is willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, so he confirms it by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast (Hebrews 6). And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life (1 John 2:25). |
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175 | How do we know that we are truly saved? | 1 John 3:24 | Aixen7z4 | 141565 | ||
Anyone who believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself. Anyone who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he does not believe the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record: God has given to us eternal life. This life is in his Son, and anyone who has the Son has eternal life. Anyone who does not have the Son of God does not have eternal life. These things have I written to you who believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that ye have eternal life. |
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176 | What is your favorite Bible version? Why | 1 Cor 3:22 | Aixen7z4 | 141019 | ||
My answer: All of them. I do believe that most Bible translations are the honest effort of hardworking believers endeavoring to give us the word of God in an accurate and readable fashion. The problem is that accuracy and readability often do not go well together. Literal translations (Young's, for example) sound awkward. Readable translations (The Message, for example) are often wildly inaccurate. The New Living Translation seems to be a good combination of accuracy and readability, and it has become a personal favorite. However, I believe the best choice is to use all available translations. Individuals may choose to leave off their list the ones they find dishonest and unfaithful to the originals. |
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177 | Can Satin read our minds?Chaser. | Bible general Archive 2 | Aixen7z4 | 138640 | ||
You seem to have good intelligence and good study skills. You also seem to have the ability to do critical analysis. So you should be able to figure out all of this by yourself. I commend you for recognizing that the Bible does not focus extensively on the person and work of Satan. You should also be commended for the insight that his influence in the Old Testament is pointed out and explained in the New Testament. With that, I am confident that you are able to do some searching and that by so doing you will be able to answer your own question. When it is all done, I trust you will be able to recognize and resist his influence. |
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178 | Can Satin read our minds?Chaser. | Bible general Archive 2 | Aixen7z4 | 138623 | ||
It is evident that Satan cannot read our minds. But I will say that, for all practical purposes, Satan does not need to read our minds. He knows how we think and how we are likely to act and react. Like God, he knows or frame, and he remembers we are but dust. But unlike God, he has no pity on us. Satan seems to know how the average human being will react. But he seems to also badly underestimate the power of God in us, and to have no clue what it does to our minds when we are yielded to the Spirit of God. That was the mistake he made with Job and with Jesus. Someone asks also if Satan can speak to us, and I say he does not need to do that either. He can dangle enticements in front of us and he can move other humans in their flesh to talk to us. Again, he underestimates our power to resist him. But we can, with the sword of the spirit, and he flees from us. God can read our minds (Psalm139; Jeremiah 17:10; Amos 4:13; Matthew 9:4;12:25, etc.) but there is no indication, that I am aware of, that he has given a similar power to Satan. He has not given that power to other human beings (1 Corinthians 2:11). Isn’t interesting though, that we seem to be almost able to read each other’s minds? There is a certain predictability in human behavior, and Satan is aware of it (Job 2:4). But we can fool him and defeat him by inculcating and exhibiting the mind of Christ. |
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179 | It's in the Book of Psalms | Ps 37:25 | Aixen7z4 | 138621 | ||
One would beg to know why you are interested in that verse at this time. We look for it sometimes when we wonder if God has forsaken us. But those who read that passage might also want to read Hebrews 13:5. Stay away from the love of money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, "I will never fail you. I will never forsake you." Sometimes, when we look at the prosperity of those who seem to be less righteous than we are, we can stumble (Psalm 73). Please note that the passage in question is an observation on the part of David, and it does not reference a promise made by God. The writer had never seen it, but it does not mean it does not happen. Some righteous people do suffer want (1 Corinthians 4:11; Philippians 4:12). But that does not mean God has forsaken us (Romans 8:35). The promise is that he never will (Isaiah 49:15). |
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180 | Can Satin read our minds?Chaser. | 1 Cor 2:11 | Aixen7z4 | 138615 | ||
Someone who is smarter than I am will answer the question more directly. But I will say that Satan does not need to read our minds. He knows how we think and how we are likely to act and react. Like God, he knows or frame, and he remembers we are but dust. But unlike God, he has no pity on us. Satan seems to know how the average human being will react. But he seems to also badly underestimate the power of God in us, and to have no clue what it does to our minds when we are yielded to the Spirit of God. That was the mistake he made with Job and with Jesus. Someone asks also if Satan can speak to us, and I say he does not need to do that either. He can dangle enticements in front of us and he can move other humans in their flesh to talk to us. Again, he underestimates our power to resist him. But we can, with the sword of the spirit, and he flees from us. God can read our minds (Psalm139; Jeremiah 17:10; Amos 4:13; Matthew 9:4;12:25, etc.) but there is no indication, that I am aware of, that he has given a similar power to Satan. He has not given that power to other human beings (1 Corinthians 2:11). Isn’t interesting though, that we seem to be almost able to read each other’s minds? There is a certain predictability in human behavior, and Satan is aware of it (Job 2:4). But we can fool him and defeat him by inculcating and exhibiting the mind of Christ. |
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