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201 | Lionheart do you know this site better? | Matt 6:9 | Tamara Brewington | 203781 | ||
Lionheart, perhaps you would know this site better than I since I am a new comer... Where do I go to find the users profiles? And is there a way to veiw all the answers given to other's questions (I viewed answers to my own questions and found that all the answers I received were not there, only one of several). Also I noticed that one saint was able to talk back and forth with me, but I don't know how they did this. Perhaps you can help me learn how to use this site better. Thanks, Agape, Tam | ||||||
202 | Lionheart do you know this site better? | Matt 6:9 | Tamara Brewington | 203803 | ||
OK Azure, I hope you weren't offended I mistakenly though that if my answer was a question, I should say question... I am just learning how to use this site, but doesn't the blog page keep going and going, there is room, I just didn't understand about notes and questions... For instance I notice you have perhaps more blogs here than anyone else and I keep trying to find out how to follow the threads to see both the string of questions and the answers. Perhaps you can help me. whatdoyoubelieve@hotmail.com I am praying that you are not being persecuted for your faith over there and that you are allowed to actualy worship Jesus in church and hear the gospel for real... God bless you. | ||||||
203 | The Father Gives The Holy Spirit | Matt 6:11 | Tamara Brewington | 205460 | ||
Prayer is prose and we find a composition of three petitions as prose, Mathew 6:11-13 up to part a1, sandwhiched in between praise of the Father God in Mathew 6:9,10 with a parenthetical verse, part 2 in Mathew 6:13 of adoration. "The Penteteuch contains some of the earliest examples of Hebrew poetry in all the Old Testament" (SURVEY OF THE OLD TESTATMENT, by Hill and Walton, pg. 50, par. 2). There is an Aaronic benediction which bears the marks of praise as being the entire context of the prayer. The Lord God gives Aaron a benediction which serves as a model of prayer, Numbers 6:22 - 27. There is a lot to be said in the Old Testament about prayer, the Hebrew concepts are rich, the terminology for prayer, along the lines of the different types of Hebrew words used in prayer, is varied and specific to the context of each model of prayer. The context of prayer in Deuteronomy 4:29 is to seek the Lord, :29 But from there you will find Him if you search with all your heart and all your soul, Deuteronomy 4:29. The word Bagas in Hebrew, means seek and is the type of prayer which appears in Deuteronomy 4:29. What is the nature of the Lord's Prayer, is it a petition, a praise, an intercession, a request, a cry for help, a beesching, a weapon, a tool, a desparate cry, an adoration, a charge, an entreaty, a declaration, or a promise? What compels prayer, it is need, or adoration, or the desire to be close to God, or is it sheer desperation. The Lord God in His infinite mercy has provided a place for us to find Him in the conversation of prayer. The Lord God is the one who initiates the conversation, Jesus said in John 10:3, :3 To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear His voice, and He calls His own sheep by name and leads them out. Jesus initiates the relationship, the sheep hear His voice and they respond to what He says and He leads them. Just as Jesus proclaims that He speaks to us and we hear His voice so too Jesus lets us know that if we abide in Him, He abides in the Father, so we may ask Him whatever we wish, John 15:7. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. The one aspect most people miss about the statement, "ask whatever you wish, is that the disciples needed nothign that the Lord was not aware of; they had already given up everything in the world we might think to ask for when He sent them out without homes, extra money bags, extra sandals, or even a cloak. The Lord Jesus Christ was telling the disciples to ask for whatever tools they needed to perform the ministry He was leaving them to do. He tells them in John 14:16 that they will be given the Holy Spirit. Whey in the Lord's Prayer in Luke 11, are the disciples told in part of Luke 11:13 "how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him". Apparently the point is being made after Luke's rendition of the Lord's Prayer was that Jesus was saying that seeking, and knocking in persistence to the heavenly Father would bring the result that the Holy Spirit would be given to the disciples, not material needs. |
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204 | Can we enter the Kingdom now? | Matt 6:33 | Tamara Brewington | 204123 | ||
Trying to retrace your steps here... Jesus was preaching all over the place that the kingdom of God is at hand. What He meant by that is that He was the ruler of the kingdom of God and that the kingdom was present with them in their here and now. A little history is in order here. Point one, people were getting saved while Jesus was walking around by repenting of their sins to God and believing that Jesus was God(Jews understood that Son of Man meant the Messiah and that the Son of God meant equality with God the Father as Jesus being also God)and they were entering directly into the kingdom of God. Point two, Jesus told Pilate that His kingdom was not on earth, that means it was a spiritual kingdom. Point three, therefore whoever gets saved is entering a spiritual kindgom. Point four, where Jesus says seek first His kingdom and all these things will be added unto you He was referring back to Mathew 6:24 where He talks about serving not serving two masters and wants believers to be devoted to God and unbelievers to come to God. Point five, seek first to be saved and to enter into Jesus spiritual kingdom is the point of Mathew 6:33 and if you do that all your needs that would have come from serving wealth will be added to you because you forsook wealth and chose God. Point five, this is one way to walk in faith, there are so many ways in which we are to walk in faith it would be too long to go into here. Point six, obeying God can't get you into the kingdom because that would be following the law. But if you meant seeking salvation (the kingdom), then yes that could be called one of several types of how to walk in faith. God bless, Tamara | ||||||
205 | Can we enter the Kingdom now? | Matt 6:33 | Tamara Brewington | 204231 | ||
No problem about the time frame answering a post, most people are working stiffs. Working backwards here; 1)Ephesians 1:13,14 In Him, you aslo, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation - having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory. Contrary to popular belief based on Acts 2:38, this scripture states that as soon as you hear the message of the gospel, having believed, you are sealed in the Holy Spirit. Try this one as well; Acts 10:34-48 in this passage Cornelius and his whole household hear the gospel and even before Peter can finish preaching it everyone is saved having believed and the Holy Spirit entered them before they were able to be baptized in water. So according to these two scriptures it is possible to receive the Holy Spirit because you believe the message of the gospel without first being baptized. 2)There is the kingdom of the devil composed of demons and this earth which he rules. And there is the kingdom of God which is composed of every angel that did not fall who serve God and every saint who got saved, both OT and NT whether dead or alive. Both kingdoms are spiritual kingdoms, on this I believe we agree. 3)Pilate was asking Jesus if He was king of the Jews because the only legal king was Ceasar and to claim another king was treason. So Jesus says His kingdom is not of this world (inhabitants #2889, world) and at the end of verse 18:35 it does not say realm actualy it says hence (not from either side, #1782, hence). You seem to be pointing out a difference between earth and world as making a difference about where Jesus kingdom was while He was walking around on earth. Luke 17:21 says that behold the kingdom is in your midst because Jesus is the ruler of the kingdom and where ever He is is where the kingdom resides. His kingdom is spiritual, yes and we enter it when we get saved and the Holy Spirit enters in, but it goes with His where ever He goes. Right now at this very moment the whole world or earth, I am using them interchangeably, belongs to Satan, the world as it is now is ruled by Satan. Jesus even says Satan is the king of this world. This world does not become the part of the kingdom of Jesus until He comes back and sets up His kingdom, which He took with Him to heaven. This is what I meant by when Jesus was walking around the kingdom was in their midst and that Jesus was preaching the kingdom is at hand, it means He is in their midst as the ruler of that kingdom and their salvation has come. John said John came baptizing with water, but that Jesus would baptize with the Holy Spirit. We enter into the kingdom through the baptism of the Holy Spirit of Jesus, not water by John. We get baptized in obedience to Christ as an outward sign of our death and resurrection in Christ. Not everyone sees John 3:5 as that the water is referring to water baptism, some of us see it as the water of the womb becuase Nicodemus had just asked if one has to go second time into his mother's womb. Remember Jesus baptism is not with water but with the Holy Spirit. Jesus even goes on to say in John 3:6 that that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Some of us take that to mean that the water of the womb only births flesh but that the spirit births spirit. 4)The Israelites were well familiar with the term Son of Man (see a commentary or two an exegetical one not a devotional one) and understood it to mean the Messiah. The Pharisees, scribes and Sadducees understood the Son of God to mean that Jesus was saying He was equal to God and was therefore also God, see John 5:18-23 and that is why they killed Him for blasphemy. The Jews had no concept of their Messiah also being God, to them Messiah was called the Son of Man and they were expecting him. They were not expecting the Son of God a human equal to God because He was of the same material and nature as God. The fact is the Jews were fighting the idea that Jesus was their Messiah and rejecting the idea altogether that He was God. See Mathew 16:13,14 for who the crowds were saying the Son of Man was the commentators say that the reason for this is becuase some though Elijah was coming back to establish the kingdom and some thought that John the Baptist had come to establish the kingdom and others were waiting for one of the prophets to come and establish the kingdom. God Bless, Tamara |
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206 | Can we enter the Kingdom now? | Matt 6:33 | Tamara Brewington | 204232 | ||
no problem, you were't cold; whatdoyoubelieve@hotmail.com tamaratamarino@aol.com use either one, its ok... Tamara |
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207 | Can you say no to God too many times? | Matt 7:21 | Tamara Brewington | 205747 | ||
Dear MickysMom, Good question, and welcome to the Forum! Let's start with Lord, Lord; Mathew 7:21 Jesus says many will come to Him saying Lord Lord having done the works of God and performing miracles and Jesus will tell them He never knew them. So some will appear to be Christians due to good works right? Let's look at Romans 3:27 - Paul says where is boasting about keeping the law, essentialy, and then is boasting of works? Then he says no but by a law of faith... You ever heard of once saved always saved? You ever heard of by faith alone by grace alone? These concepts come from reading Romans, the whole book. And these things are true, our salvation is not conditional on whether or not we are able to keep from sinning but on the grace of God who saved us. You raise a most interesting and troublesome point however because there are several schools of thought on how what you are talking about works, the processes that is, and it most of it comes from scripture. So far I have talked about Paul and what he taught on the concept of what is called that one's salvation cannot be canceled out by a next sin, or a series of sin. You have to factor in though that Paul does talk about the process of sanctification whereby you willl visibly get better at not sinning and get closer and closer to being like Christ in your actions. According to Jesus it is possible to do good things like miracles and not make it in, but according to Paul there is not a possiblity of making it in if you are not saved by faith alone, by grace alone, and your works, as he agrees with Jesus is not the measure of your savedness for lack of a better term. Now, let's turn to John's writtings - he sets forth a different concept about being saved and what that consists of than Paul, he does not contradict Paul ever, but sets forth a kind of standard of what a confessing Christians should look like and act like. Let's go to I, II, and III John. There are a number of things to see here. First let's start with I John 2; 1)Do not love the world if any loves the world the Father is not in him. I John 3; 2)Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness and no one who abides in Him sins and no one born of God practices sins. 3)Whoever does not help his brother who is in need does not love God. 4)Do not believe every spirit only those who confess Jesus are of God. II John; 5)Whoever does not acknowledge Jesus as coming in the flesh is not of God. III John; 6)The one who does evil has not seen God. Partial Quote, John MacArthur Study Bible; Fruit Proofs of Authentic Faith Love for God Repentance From sin Genuine Humility Devotion to God's Glory Continual Prayer Selfless Love Separation from the World Obedient Living Hunger for God's Word Transformation of Life The good tree brings forth good fruit and the bad tree brings forth bad fruit, by their fruits you shall know them. There is the possiblity that a person can be saved and be fallen for a protracted period of time, or go back and forth, but at some point before they die if they are really saved, God will convict them and they will turn around, repent and walk holy in Christ Jesus and not live that way anymore. Hope This Helped, Tamara |
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208 | Can you say no to God too many times? | Matt 7:21 | Tamara Brewington | 205910 | ||
Dear MickysMom, Thank you back and you are welcome! God Bless You, Tamara |
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209 | Who are they ? | Matt 7:23 | Tamara Brewington | 205954 | ||
Dear lookin, I have heard two theories on this; I will paraphrase John MacAruthur first - he says that these people have a false profession of faith and that they merely claim to have done works in Jesus name and that the good tree bears good fruit and the bad tree bears bad fruit so what ever they were claiming they did in Jesus name was a false claim to greatness, and that they were making claims to salvation based on these false works, and so Jesus says, depart I never knew you. Now here is the other theory I have heard - Did not Jesus send out the seventy in Luke and to heal the sick, and to cast out deomns, and to proclaim the kingdom of God is at hand in His name. Then in John 6 we find that a large number of disciples desert Jesus because they could not recieve the teaching of eating Jesus flesh and drinking His blood, but some of these same disciples were also of the seventy. And then there is Judas who was sent out to heal, to cast out demons and to prolaim the kingdom along with the twelve in Jesus name, but who was a traitor to Jesus and the faith. Between these two we get those who may have very well gone and done great miraculous wonders in the name of Jesus, but who left off the faith having never believed in Jesus but having used His holy name to perform works which made them believe they were saved, but Jesus says to them, depart from Me, I never knew you. Now, doing the will of the Father would include but not be limited to doing miraculous wonders, and it is possible for an evil doer to perform miracles by the power of the devil according to Revelation and Daniel. And it may, I say may, be possible to make a false profession of Christ and run around spouting His name while actually doing miracles by the power of the devil. Just a last thought there, that was a real head cruncher there that one... you got there Lookin, your brain cognates sometimes there... God's Day To You, Tamara |
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210 | Purposes of Jesus healing people? | Matt 8:8 | Tamara Brewington | 204518 | ||
What was the purpose or purposes of Jesus healing people? God Bless hat lady |
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211 | Purpose of the parables? | Matt 13:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204516 | ||
What was the purpose of Jesus preaching the parables? God Bless, hat lady |
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212 | Purpose of the parables? | Matt 13:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205004 | ||
Dear Lookinforacity, Jesus had reasons that I could tell to preach the parables, but I am not too sure that He was preaching the kingdom. I think when He preached the Sermon on the Mount He was preaching the kingdom, but when He preached the parables there was something esle going on. Mathew 13:10 And the disciples came and said to Him, "why do you speak to them in parables?" :11 Jesus answered them, "to you it has been granted to know the mysteries fo the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted. :13 Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. See Mathew 13:14-17 Jesus was revealing the the mysteries of the kingdom to the disciples and to hide the truth from unbelievers. I agree with what you said about unbelief. Not many churches are preaching the kingdom because the apostles switched up and began preaching the crucifixion instead, which is the same thing. Christ revealed Himself in a lasting and final way after the crucifixion, where as before the crucufixion the only thing to be preaching about was the kingdom is at hand and repent. I don't know what you think? God's day to you, Tamara |
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213 | WHAT WAS THE SUBJECT OF JESUS PARABLE | Matt 13:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205915 | ||
Dear d, Jesus says in Mathew 13:11,13 To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted. Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while the seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. There are two parts to the audience, those who were His disciples and the those in the crowds who were not believers. It was appropriate to the disciples to reveal to them how the mystery of the kingdom works - Jesus used this parable about seeds not to illustrate seeds and farming, but to illustrate that when the word of God fell in the way of life something came and destroyed it. The subject of this parable is about what happens to the word of God in accomplishing salvation. Jesus reveals this in verse 15 where it says that if they would hear and see He would heal them, He means save them. The explanation of the parable is in verse 18-23; When one hears the word of God and does not understand it Satan comes and takes it away, the man who hears the word and receives it with joy but without a firm root falls away when persecution comes, the man who hears the word and worries about the world and wealth and has the word choked in him and is unfruitful, but the man who hears the word and understands it brings forth other believers some a hundred fold, some sixty, some thirty. Then Jesus says who has ears, let them hear because only to the disciples was it granted to understand the parables, but to others it has not been granted. It was appropriate to the unbelievers in the crowd because in verse 15 it says that the heart of the people has become dull and they scarcely hear and have closed their eyes and that He is speaking in parables, veiled mysteries lest they understand and be saved "heal them". With the parables sometimes Jesus explains it sometimes He doesn't, you always have to read further to find out if He did. Parables are all about the mysteries of the what the kingdom of heaven is like according to Jesus. They are stories about Biblical truths about Jesus and us, the word of God and us, and our relationship to Him and to God and His relationship to God, and the nature of the kingdom itself - what characterizes it the preciousness of it. Hope this helps, Tamara |
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214 | Purpose of the parables? | Matt 13:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205951 | ||
Dear Stone, I was looking at what you have said here and I would say that the vast majority of this scene was for the benefit of the disciples and us by attrition and for the detriment of those whom Jesus new would never turn around and believe. I have been thinking about something that Doc posted as a stand alone and how God's sovereignty works through the parables. Here is what I thought about it all after reading his post; although it is true that the crowds had already rejected the message and then it appears as if Jesus then takes action to seal their hardness of heart by speaking in parables lest they turn and understand... But from eternity past it was already a done deal, they were never going to be foreknown, predestined, or elected - so from the finite mortal point of the crowds rejecting the message and then Jesus sealing their fate, it actually from an infinite eternal stand point is that Jesus was merely carrying out the divine sovereign plan. It took some thinking but I did get there in a few minutes. That is one. Two is Jesus is not so much winking at us in the future in giving us a secret as He is sincerely giving the disciples then a secret, a true mystery, which according to Jesus is what all parables are, the mysteries of the Kingdom. We always have to remember that the historical context and the grammatical content is drives the meaning of the text. Jesus was specifically addressing the disciples in that day and age primarily in the parables and the crowds in that day and age secondarily. Where we come in is in the application for us today based on that we too are disciples and all parables are to reveal the mysteries of the kingdom to Jesus' disciples. I am trying to click with your understanding of why the crowds were following Him because we are talking about parables in general here and not one specific parable. Each situation was different and they had different reasons sometimes to be following Him; to get fed more food, to see more miracles, to get more healings, to hear more of the teachings of Jesus, He had a huge number of disciples following Him as part of the crowds until they became angry and confused and left off of Him at one point. This points to that a lot of them were at one point disciples but that they deserted Him when they no longer like what they heard about eating His body and driking His blood. We still only have two groups here, disciples and unbelievers, which is always true of the parables... That is what I think, God's Day To You, Tamara |
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215 | Wisdom of Jesus functions in Gospels? | Matt 13:44 | Tamara Brewington | 204512 | ||
How does the wisdom of Jesus function in the 4 Gospels: God Bless the hat lady |
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216 | Binding and Losing? | Matt 16:19 | Tamara Brewington | 205974 | ||
Dear forum members, What is Jesus talking about here? Is this talking about verse 18 where it says the gates of Hades will not prevail over the church? I am thinking here about Revelation 1:18 where Jesus has the keys of death and of Hades, meaning He has triumphed over them and how in Mathew 16:19 Jesus says I give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. It seems like He has two sets of keys, all the power over Hades and death and over heaven. So is Jesus saying we have the power over things on earth, those things in the power of the devil to bind them and lose them because Jesus triumphed? Or is this talking about the same principle of Mathew 18:15-20 to bind (not to forgive a sin) or to lose (to forgive a sin)? I am looking at the text here and trying to see here what the scope of the actions of the church is here in "binding and losing", and trying to see if that is what is meant in Mathew 16:19. God's Day To You, Tamara |
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217 | Researching a questionable verse | Matt 17:21 | Tamara Brewington | 203753 | ||
The translators were working with older manuscripts and later manuscripts. When the King James Bible was written they only had the later manuscripts, when the other translations got written in the past century they used the older manuscripts that got discovered after the King James was written in 1611 or so. There are altogether 5,300 Greek manuscripts, mostly fragments which are in bits and peices of the scriputres and what they did was to reconstruct accounts by trying to find the oldest ones with as many copies as possible saying the exact same thing. The originals don't exist any more, the manuscripts are all copies and copies of copies, but there are so many of them saying the same things that they are sure they are correct. What you should notice is whether or not the versions of the Bible that include the addtion have it in brackets, if it is in brackets that means that it was found in some manuscripts but not in others, but the translator used the best evidence to determine that it belongs. | ||||||
218 | what did jesus do in the tomb | Matt 17:23 | Tamara Brewington | 205416 | ||
Dear John, See this is part of why I love you my good fellow! Oh it is all so simple to a humble man like your self, but oh what you said is too true too true John, the man Jesus definitely dead as a dooor naaill. Your intent was not to be funny but I had to laugh John...... Tam |
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219 | Day of the Lord Rev. 19, I Thess.4? | Matt 24:30 | Tamara Brewington | 204505 | ||
Ok I searched dilegently first through site by various means but can't find it. Help me out guys. Mathew 24:29-31 But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other. Ok so this is talking about that great and terrible day of the Lord right? As prophesied in Joel. And everyone will mourn and see the Lord Jesus coming on the clouds with power and great glory. And He will send His angels to gather His elect from the four winds. Does this mean that the rapture, parousia, what ever you want to call I Thessalonians 4:15-18, will happen when Revelation 19 happens? Thanks the hat lady |
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220 | Day of the Lord Rev. 19, I Thess.4? | Matt 24:30 | Tamara Brewington | 204554 | ||
Ok Doc so I am game what is yours? I have searched diligently through every commentary I could access and most of em gloss right over this verse and neglect to commentate on it my dear good man. Help a gal out won't you? I look forward to whatever take you go on it. hat lady |
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