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21 | How do you know you have the Holy Ghost? | Acts 19:2 | bartay | 5651 | ||
If you are still living in sin, you have not the Holy Spirit dwelling within you. For to still be a sinner and proclaiming the power of God through His Spirit living within you, is claiming the Spirit is a sinner also. To become “born anew,” is to be born into a new family, the family of God. God becomes our Father, Father in the real sense of the word; we must have a close relationship with Him as we do our own fathers, at some stage of our lives. And this relationship is the basis of, “being born again”; for to be, “saved from our sin”, (Matthew 1:21) which is what Christ came to save us from, and not, “saved in our sin”, which many believe as the truth. The sin, which Christ came to save us from is, being unable to follow God, and His ways, in our own human nature; it is not possible in our own strength to follow God, but He, God, made this possible through the relationship we become to Him, through Jesus; for we must put off of our own fleshy desires, to be self- sufficient, and instead put on the flesh of Jesus, (Galatians 3:27) which makes us rely on God completely, because it is only through this mystery of Spirit, accomplished by God for us, that is obedience to God even unto death. (Hebrews 5:7-10) For obedience is the key of a relationship with God, as Adam and Eve’s story so amply portrays it to us, so as we put to death our old man of sin in sacrifice to God, we are raised up as a new creature of God; for he who is willing to be dead to the old nature of following the Devil, is set free from the penalty of the sin of following Satan and not God. Romans 6:4-8 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. For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be [one with Him in sharing] His resurrection [by a new life lived for God]. We know that our old (unrenewed) self was nailed to the cross with Him in order that [our] body [which is the instrument] of sin might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin. When we put on the Lord Jesus, (Romans 13-14) we become, in the eyes of God, His only begotten Son, as we are hid in Jesus before God. (Colossians 3:3) bartay |
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22 | How do you know you have the Holy Ghost? | Acts 19:2 | bartay | 5324 | ||
It is not possible to be saved without the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Jesus said ye cannot enter the Kingdom unless you are born anew. Born of water and Spirit. The born again experience is witnessed by the fact of the Holy Spirit working in ones life to produce the fruits of the Spirit, or righteousness. If one's life has not changed from the old life, then there has been no grace extended, and without grace you haven't been saved. bartay |
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23 | Were Eve's desires sinful? | Gen 3:6 | bartay | 5322 | ||
The sin the pair in the Garden committed was not so much eating of the tree, this was the end result of the sin, the sin was disobedience to God's command. Thou shalt not eat of the tree, and their disbelief in the consequences that God said would happen. They disbelieved the Lord, but believed the Serpent that they would not die, and in fact would be as great as God if they did eat. Using their own self willed wisdom, they believed the Serpent, and so rebelled against God. The only sin man can commit against God is disobedience. The other things man sees as sin are but the end result of disobedience. Jesus temptation was different because he believed God and his word, and so was not rebellious by deciding his own free willed thoughts. He in fact controlled his natural desire to save his own skin, knowing that God's word is undisputable. Not my will but thine. bartay |
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24 | what God says about divorse/remarriage | Matt 5:31 | bartay | 2304 | ||
Matthew 5:31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: 5:32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. Jesus said that there was no excuse for divorce except adultery being committed. If you both are Christians then you must believe that it is God who has joined you together and no man must put that joining asunder. Paul spoke of one other reason for divorce which is if a believer is married to an unbeliever, and the unbeliever wishes to leave the marriage then it is alright to do so. 1 Corinthians 7:11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife. 12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. 13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. 15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace. I am quite sure that God would not have instructed your wife to obtain a divorce, and for her to say so goes against all scripture relating to marriage instituted by God. |
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25 | Is Lucifer Satan? | Is 14:12 | bartay | 2301 | ||
Isaiah 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! King James relates this star of the morning as applying to Lucifer. It appears to support the theory that before the rebellion in Heaven Lucifer was the top Angel. His transgression earned him banishment from Heaven to the earth, where because of his adverse conflict with God, he was renamed Satan, or an enemy of God. There is another portion of scripture from 2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: All of these verses seem to indicate that Lucifer, who was banished to the earth with a third of the Angels, and Satan, or the Devil, are one and the same character. |
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26 | Is Isaiah 14:12 relating to the fall of | Is 14:12 | bartay | 2297 | ||
King James relates this star of the morning as applying to Lucifer. Why hasn't the other versions also named this morning star as Lucifer? |
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