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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Unanswered Bible Questions Author: Robert Nicholson Ordered by Verse |
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21 | Is the Work of Christ Sufficient? | Rom 6:23 | Robert Nicholson | 68250 | ||
Dear friends: I have posted the following statement several times and feel that new Christians should understand what Christ has done for them. "Our security is anchored in the worth and work of our Lord Jesus Christ who paid the ultimate price for our redemption. The eternal life which is ours when we trust him is a gift which is given to us the moment we rest in the finished work of Christ by faith. (Romans 6:23) In Eph 2:8-9 "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works lest any man should boast" God's word does not support faith in the work of Christ plus the works of man equals salvation. In fact to add works is an insult to the work of Christ which he purchased with his own precious blood. Robert |
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22 | Romans 10:9: is it too simple? | Rom 10:9 | Robert Nicholson | 36378 | ||
Greetings dear friends: Does this verse make salvation too easy? Or is there truth here which will cause all other truth about the person of Christ to fall into line? What does it mean to confess Jesus as Lord? How does belief in the resurrection of Christ fit into all of this? Or does my belief in the bodily resurrection of Christ mean that I have also accepted other things relative to the gospel? Peace in his name Robert |
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23 | How can we be more like Jesus? | 2 Cor 3:18 | Robert Nicholson | 32929 | ||
Dear friends More like Jesus? Am I, are you, after many years do others see that we have changed to be more like him? This is not some arrogant man made boast, but a gift from God himself as we continue to behold the glory of the Lord in his precious word. I love the words by Max Lucado in his book "Just like Jesus" "God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you there...His plan is nothing short of total transformation" The grace of God is awesome, to think that he can save a power sinner like me, change me by his spirit and give me the opportunity to grow into the image of his Son! |
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24 | How did you become a new creature ? | 2 Cor 5:17 | Robert Nicholson | 51058 | ||
To all: How did you become a new creature in Christ? Is this a permanent position? |
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25 | Can we be uncreated? | 2 Cor 5:17 | Robert Nicholson | 75649 | ||
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." I quote the words of C.H. Spurgeon "I am an old creature by nature; God creates me into a new thing, he makes me a new creature. I cannot go back into an old creature, for I cannot be uncreated." |
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26 | How do we test ourselves? | 2 Cor 13:5 | Robert Nicholson | 33417 | ||
brother Karlos: What is the test to see if we are in the faith? I do not think it is presumptious for a Christian to have confidence in the word of God regarding eternal life. I love the words of Paul "I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day." John in 1 John 3:13 writes "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God: that you might know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God." Karlos, Is 1 John 4 a guide for testing the reality of our salvation? As a Christian I cannot boast anything of myself, however, I am thankful that God brought me to himself through Christ. I am only a sinner saved by grace. In Christ Robert |
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27 | Why do you wait? | Phil 3:20 | Robert Nicholson | 51059 | ||
Why do you do this? Do you truly wait eagerly? Why? | ||||||
28 | One Mediator between God and Man? | 1 Tim 2:5 | Robert Nicholson | 36915 | ||
Is it not amazing that God has cut out all the red tape and made a permanent way whereby humans could be brought to God by or through Christ? The triumphant words of Jesus "finished" resulted in the inner veil of the temple being torn in twain from the top to the bottom. No longer did humans have to come to God through a priest, because our Lord Jesus Christ has enter within the veil for us with his own precious blood? |
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29 | Eternal Security is it possible? | 2 Tim 1:12 | Robert Nicholson | 54069 | ||
Eternal Security reflects God's ability to save us first of all and to keep us for eternity. Paul could say with a note of triumph: "I know whom I have believed" Paul does not cite his own personal faithfulness as the reason he feels secure; No! rather he focuses on "I have believed" A statement was made on another post "that only the faithful go to heaven" this suggesting that those who have believed could through their own unfaithfulness somehow be denied the eternal promise of the living Christ "I give unto them eternal life and they shall never Perish" John 10 Peter reminds us "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot" ( 1 Peter 1:18-19) Redeemed ! how I love to proclaim it. Only those who are redeemed will be in heaven. We were sold under sin, we were sinners by birth, by practice and by choice. We could not free ourselves from sin except through the precious blood of Christ. The work was absolutely his; nothing I could do before I was saved or after I am saved could contribute in any way to the work which Christ accomplished on the cross. Three words from the cross from our saviour summerized it all "It is Finished!" A lamb without blemish would remind us of his purity when he came into this world. Without spot reminds of the life which he lived before his father and humankind, a perfect life with no sin. This was the one who paid the debt that was required to redeem us. He satisfied God by his sacrifice and when we place our faith in him we are forgiven and we are set free. Eternal security, does it exist? Absolutely it rests upon the work of Christ and his promises regarding those who will accept his work as the only way to be saved. He is the keeper of our souls. To suggest that we can lose such a gift is an insult to God himself. Fellow Christain rejoice that your sins are forgiven. Robert |
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30 | Is Time a Dressing Room for Eternity? | Heb 9:27 | Robert Nicholson | 38946 | ||
Would we not understand from this verse that we die only once and that after that death the judgment? We know that this is an appointment which we will keep. After death there is no room for appeal. Robert |
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31 | Why do you love him? | 1 Pet 1:8 | Robert Nicholson | 51061 | ||
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32 | Why Should we not Praise him? | 1 Pet 3:18 | Robert Nicholson | 68193 | ||
Dear fellow believers: This verse causes me to praise God "For Christ [the Messiah Himself] died for sins once for all, the Righteous for the unrighteous (the Just for the unjust, the Innocent for the guilty), that He might bring us to God. In His human body He was put to death, but He was made alive in the spirit," (1Peter 3:18) Substitution! To think that he Son of God was willing to take my place in the cross and to bear in his own body our sins is a truth beyond comprehension. He was the one who was without sin, who knew no sin and did no sin; and yet made sin for us that we might be the rigtheousness of God through him "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (2 Cor. 5:21) Imagine, lost guilty, hell bound sinners, clothed in his righteousness for all eternity. Why should we not praise him for he is worthy? Robert |
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33 | Is God's Word Complete ? | Rev 22:18 | Robert Nicholson | 32928 | ||
Is the Cannon of Scripture complete? Or should we be looking for new truth today? I have been following the discussion on prophets. I find that when I hear of someone claiming to have a special revealation from God, the caution lights go on and I think of this warning in Rev. 22:18 In Luke 24:42 The risen Lord said to his disciples: "These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all the things which are written of Me in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled. In other words the Lord Jesus accepted that the old Testament was complete under the three catergories. The Prophets of the old testament according to Peter in 2 Peter 1:20-21 he writes "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." In other words the old testament prophets were simply vessels of the Holy Ghost and were forth-tellers of the word of God. In the New Testament we have those who were chosen by Christ as stewarts of the truth which he gave to them while he was with them. How could they remember such detail. Jesus told them " But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance , whatsoever I have said unto you" (John 14:26) This is comfirmed again in John 16:12 "Jesus said I have many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now. Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himselfl but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speakL and he will shew you things to come" We find from these verses that the Lord Jesus did not leave what we call the New Testament to the memories of those who loved him, but by the Holy Spirit gave them his mind and will which was presented to the church and the world. Other New testament prophets of course where John the Baptist and the greatest of all the Lord Jesus Christ himself. The Apostle Paul was also a choosen vessel through whom God presented great truths to the new testament church. In Strong's Concordance, the transliterated word from New Testament Greek as "Prophetes" is defined as: a) an interpreter of oracles or of hidden things. b) one who moved by the Spirit of God solemnly declares to men what he has received by inspiration"... It would appear that New Testament prophets is not ordinarily a "foreteller", but rather a forth-teller (1 Cor. 14:3) whose gift enabled him to speak to "edification, and exhortation and comfort". If we take Rev. 22:18 seriously than we would propose that the mind and truth of God is in his Word and by his Holy Spirit through his word. Present day prophets would then be known as forth- tellers of the truth revealled to them by the Holy Spirit from the word of God. Men do not interpret scripture. Scripture interprets scripture since "no scripture is of private interpretation" God has been careful to provide us with the whole word of God and if we prayfully ask the Holy Spirit to guide us, he will in the light of the whole word of God. I do not believe that God is about to add to his word through modern day prophets. If all truth was suffcient for the apostles, why would it not satisfy us? |
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