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21 | From whom does faith originate? | Eph 2:8 | 10ECPreacher | 34170 | ||
Greetings, John. I am leaving for San Antonio, Texas, and checked this as I was about to walk out the door. I will respond when I get back home--Saturday, Feb. 16, at the earliest. Sorry for the delay! Kind regards, Tim D. Cormier Tennessee Preacher |
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22 | The measure of death? | 1 Tim 4:1 | 10ECPreacher | 33474 | ||
Greetings, charis! Your reasoning is very sound. I, too, cannot find in the Scripture a clear-cut and concise way of knowing exactly and precisely when a person has lost his or her salvation. You are exactly right--we do know the measure of life, but only God knows the measure of death. I think of it like the "line" that separates day from night. Obviously, at the two extremes may be found light and darkness; yet, between them lies a pretty big area of gray--in varying intensities (some call this the "twilight zone"). Who but God really knows at what point the one that wanders from the light into the twilight zone actually crosses over into gross darkness? All I can say assertively is what the Scripture says. "Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?" [Hebrews 10:28-29 NASB] Only God knows how long he will allow someone to "insult grace" before visiting them with judgment. May the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Tim D. Cormier Tennessee Preacher |
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23 | 491 Club? | 1 Tim 4:1 | 10ECPreacher | 33424 | ||
Greetings, charis. I will be the first to admit that there is MUCH misunderstanding concerning just how great is the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. I consider this to be one of the most tragic of all observable phenomena in the entire arena of Christianity. I am convinced that there are very many who consider themselves irretrievably lost when they are really just a prayer away from reconciliation. We probably agree more than we disagree on this point. I simply would like to point out that there are far too many scriptures warning the believers against "apostasy" for it to be only a "theoretical possiblity." Why would automobile manufacturers repeatedly post warnings against the dangers of approaching the speed of light in a vehicle, for example? It is "theoretically possible" to do so, but "practically impossible" in our vehicles. Yet, we have repeated warnings against apostasy in the N.T. If it were only a "theoretical possibility," then many, many passages could be argued to have little or no practical value. One more passage for consideration: "But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in." Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear; for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either. Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off." [Romans 11:17-22 NASB] Kind regards, Tim D. Cormier Tennessee Preacher |
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24 | Some will depart from the faith | 1 Tim 4:1 | 10ECPreacher | 33400 | ||
Greetings, zach†. Here are a few addtional scriptures that show unequivocally that it is possible to depart from the faith--which is another way of saying "lose your salvation." "SINCE ALL this is true, we ought to pay much closer attention than ever to the truths that we have heard, lest in any way we drift past [them] and slip away." [Hebrews 2:1 Amplified] "[Therefore beware] brethren, take care, lest there be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to cleave to, trust in, and rely on Him], leading you to turn away and desert or stand aloof from the living God." [Hebrews 3:12 Amplified] "For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through [the full, personal] knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are overcome, their last condition is worse [for them] than the first. For never to have obtained a [full, personal] knowledge of the way of righteousness would have been better for them than, having obtained [such knowledge], to turn back from the holy commandment which was [verbally] delivered to them. There has befallen them the thing spoken of in the true proverb, The dog turns back to his own vomit, and, The sow is washed only to wallow again in the mire. [Prov. 26:11.]" [2 Peter 2:20-22 Amplified] "[My] brethren, if anyone among you strays from the Truth and falls into error and another [person] brings him back [to God],Let the [latter] one be sure that whoever turns a sinner from his evil course will save [that one's] soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins [procure the pardon of the many sins committed by the convert]." [James 5:19-20 Amplified] "For if we go on deliberately and willingly sinning after once acquiring the knowledge of the Truth, there is no longer any sacrifice left to atone for [our] sins [no further offering to which to look forward]. [There is nothing left for us then] but a kind of awful and fearful prospect and expectation of divine judgment and the fury of burning wrath and indignation which will consume those who put themselves in opposition [to God]. [Isa. 26:11.]" [Hebrew 10:26-27 Amplified] I would like to point out that there is a vast difference between a Christain that merely "falls down" and one that "falls away." The latter is apostasy, for which I can find no Biblical antidote. I have personally dealt with many Christians who were in despair because they had fallen down, and someone had misapplied the Scriptures concerning "falling away" to them. To "fall away" is to completely abandon the faith. The book of Jude addresses this problem--it is called by some "The Acts of the Apostates." I note with interest the admonition of Jude: "Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe." [Jude 3-5 NASB] Beginning with the Children of Israel, Jude gives example after example of those who had been "saved" by God (in the O.T.), only to ultimately "lose their salvation." This warning he gave to N.T. believers, lest we should wind up in a similar shape. Kind regards, Tim D. Cormier Tennessee Preacher |
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25 | Did Satan know God's plan for salvation | 1 Cor 2:8 | 10ECPreacher | 33098 | ||
Greetings, wak. Apparently, Satan did not have prior knowledge of God's plan for salvation through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. "But rather what we are setting forth is a wisdom of God once hidden [from the human understanding] and now revealed to us by God--[that wisdom] which God devised and decreed before the ages for our glorification [to lift us into the glory of His presence]. None of the rulers of this age or world perceived and recognized and understood this, for if they had, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory." [1 Corinthians 2:7-8 Amplified] Kind regards, Tim D. Cormier Tennessee Preacher |
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26 | Is there a difference in being baptized | Acts 2:38 | 10ECPreacher | 33095 | ||
Greetings, Tina. Acts 2:38 is the apostolic application of Matthew 28:19. The name (singular) of the Father is Jesus; the name of the Son is Jesus; and the name of the Holy Ghost (Spirit) is Jesus. In Matthew 16:18, Jesus Christ gave Peter the keys of the Kingdom because of his emphatic declaration that Jesus was the Messiah (Christ), the very personification and embodiment (Son) of God. In Acts 2:38, Peter (the man with the keys) preached that we should be "baptized in the name of Jesus Christ." This is the way that the apostles baptized; there is not one recorded instance in the New Testament where the apostles ever baptized using the formula "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Consider the following scriptures: "For He had not yet fallen upon any of them, but they had only been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus." [Acts 8:16 Amplified] "And he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ (the Messiah). Then they begged him to stay on there for some days." [Acts 10:48 Amplified] "On hearing this they were baptized [again, this time] in the name of the Lord Jesus." [Acts 19:5 Amplified] "Are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power] of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in newness of life." [Romans 6:3-4 Amplified] "Is Christ (the Messiah) divided into parts? Was Paul crucified on behalf of you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?" [1 Corinthians 1:13 Amplified] "Is it not they who slander and blaspheme that precious name by which you are distinguished and called [the name of Christ invoked in baptism]?" [James 2:7 Amplified] Kind regards, Tim D. Cormier Tennessee Preacher |
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27 | wh are the witness in Hebrews chapter 1 | Heb 12:1 | 10ECPreacher | 32910 | ||
Greetings, Ray. I presume you are referring to Hebrews 12:1 (given below from the Amplified Bible): "THEREFORE THEN, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us...." I believe the "witnesses" are the heroes of Faith described in the preceding chapter (11). Notice how the 11th chapter ends: "And all of these, though they won divine approval by [means of] their faith, did not receive the fulfillment of what was promised, Because God had us in mind and had something better and greater in view for us, so that they [these heroes and heroines of faith] should not come to perfection apart from us [before we could join them]." [Hebrews 11:39-40 Amplified] Kind regards, Tim D. Cormier Tennessee Preacher |
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28 | verse 10 to 20 | Philemon | 10ECPreacher | 32883 | ||
Tenny, My personal subtitle for the book of Philemon is: "From a Slave to a Brother." Sometimes we, as Christians, have a hard time accepting into the Christian brotherhood those who previously we only knew as slaves and servants to sin. I feel very strongly that this small book is included in our Bible not merely as a historical account of the conversion of a runaway slave and how he was sent back to his former master; instead, I believe we are instructed by it to be very careful lest we allow prejudices and personal bias keep us from accepting into full Christian fellowship certain classes of people. "I appeal to you for my [own spiritual] child, Onesimus [meaning profitable], whom I have begotten [in the faith] while a captive in these chains. Once he was unprofitable to you, but now he is indeed profitable to you as well as to me. I am sending him back to you in his own person, [and it is like sending] my very heart. I would have chosen to keep him with me, in order that he might minister to my needs in your stead during my imprisonment for the Gospel's sake. ... Perhaps it was for this reason that he was separated [from you] for a while, that you might have him back as yours forever, Not as a slave any longer but as [something] more than a slave, as a brother [Christian], especially dear to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh [as a servant] and in the Lord [as a fellow believer]." [v.10-v16 Amplified] Notice these facts: -as a runaway slave, Onesimus was unprofitable to Philemon; -as a brother in Christ, Onesimus, upon his return, was considered to be profitable (hence his name). "Yes, brother, let me have some profit from you in the Lord. Cheer and refresh my heart in Christ." [v.20 Amplified] Apparently, the Apostle Paul was trying to draw an analogy between Onesimus' rise to profitability (by virtue of his conversion experience) and Philemon's rise to profitability (by virtue of his spirtual growth and maturity in accepting Onesimus back, no longer a slave, but a brother beloved in Christ). Kind regards, Tim D. Cormier Tennessee Preacher |
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29 | A fool has no reason to err. | Gen 50:20 | 10ECPreacher | 32811 | ||
Rhema Logos, "As for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring about that many people should be kept alive, as they are this day." [Genesis 50:20 Amplified] This sounds like the source for the first statement you mentioned. The brothers of Joseph thought to do him harm, but God turned it around and worked good from their evil plot. "And a highway shall be there, and a way; and it shall be called the Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for the redeemed; the wayfaring men, yes, the simple ones and fools, shall not err in it and lose their way." [Isaiah 35:8 Amplified] This is indeed a reference to the simplicity of the Gospel Plan of New Testament Salvation. Hope this helps. Kind regards, Tim D. Cormier Tennessee Preacher |
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30 | Proverbs ,wisdom,and growth? | Ps 111:10 | 10ECPreacher | 32786 | ||
Friends, The book of Proverbs is truly one of the greatest books of the Bible, in my opinion. It shows us the very nature of God. By understanding God's nature, we are able to draw closer to Him. If we draw close to Him, He will draw close to us [James 4:8]. Throughout the book of Proverbs we get insights into the mind of God--the Wisdom of God. It is this Wisdom of God that John spoke of in the first chapter of the Gospel of John--the Logos: "IN THE beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. [Isa. 9:6.]" [John 1:1 Amplified] "The Lord formed and brought me [Wisdom] forth at the beginning of His way, before His acts of old. I [Wisdom] was inaugurated and ordained from everlasting, from the beginning, before ever the earth existed. [John 1:1; I Cor. 1:24.] When there were no deeps, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains laden with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth, While as yet He had not made the land or the fields or the first of the dust of the earth. When He prepared the heavens, I [Wisdom] was there; when He drew a circle upon the face of the deep and stretched out the firmament over it, When He made firm the skies above, when He established the fountains of the deep, When He gave to the sea its limit and His decree that the waters should not transgress [across the boundaries set by] His command, when He appointed the foundations of the earth--Then I [Wisdom] was beside Him as a master and director of the work; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing before Him always, [John 1:2, 18.] Rejoicing in His inhabited earth and delighting in the sons of men." [Proverbs 8:22-31 Amplified] The book of Proverbs has provided practical, personal instructions to me for many years. It tells how to treat and get along with your spouse; it instructs parents how to discipline children; it warns youths about the dangers of sexual immorality; it admonishes lazy people to get up and work; it challenges the rich and the poor alike, the young and the old, the wise and the foolish, the good and the evil, the honest and the dishonest, the worker and the thief. Perhaps the best advice anyone could ever be given is found in the following passages from the book of Proverbs: "My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent." [Proverbs 1:10 Amplified] "Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding. In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths." [Proverbs 3:5-6 Amplified] "Buy the truth and sell it not; not only that, but also get discernment and judgment, instruction and understanding." [Proverbs 23:23 Amplified] Truly my life has been greatly shaped and influenced by the wisdom contained in the book of Proverbs. Kind regards, Tim D. Cormier Tennessee Preacher |
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31 | Any biblical corrolation Atlantis? | Bible general Archive 1 | 10ECPreacher | 32780 | ||
Friends, I don't know much about the "myth" of Atlantis, but I do believe that the flood of Noah's day was the last time the earth was flooded, not the first. "For they willfully overlook and forget this [fact], that the heavens [came into] existence long ago by the word of God, and the earth also which was formed out of water and by means of water, Through which the world that then [existed] was deluged with water and perished. [Gen. 1:2,6-8.] But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been stored up (reserved) for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly people." [2 Peter 3:5-7 Amplified] I'm sure this has been discussed elsewhere; I simply offer this here because I am aware that some people believe that the Lost Civilization of Atlantis existed and perished between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. Kind regards, Tim D. Cormier Tennessee Preacher |
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32 | Where is verse about man casts lot, but | Prov 16:1 | 10ECPreacher | 32636 | ||
Prov 16:33 The lot is cast into the lap, But its every decision is from the LORD. [NASB] This verse is dealing with "casting lots," i.e., using something like dice to get a random or "chance" answer. Even though it is not dealing specifically with a person's "lot" in life, it does show that the LORD ulitimately has control of things that are often perceived to be mere coincidence or "luck." May the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. --Tennessee Preacher |
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