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2241 | Is your salvation genuine? | 1 John 5:13 | Hank | 27511 | ||
Top, I know of no five consecutive chapters in the Bible that shed more light on the assurance of salvation than does the little epistle of 1 John in its five chapters. John uses the word "know" some 40 times in his epistle, generally in the context of knowing or being sure of salvation. Christianity is unique among world religions. It offers absolute assurance of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Other religious systems hang together on good works. --Hank | ||||||
2242 | I wan to YEILD | 1 John 5:13 | Hank | 88651 | ||
Lightman, if you are a regenerate believer, you already have the Holy Spirit dwelling within you. See Post #88648. Salvation is by grace through faith; it is not a 'touchy-feely' thing. It is not subjective. It is not a matter of feeling. It is, in fact, not dependent on our feelings at all but on the work that Christ accomplished on the cross. You make the statement, "I feel that I am a Christian but I just have never yielded to Jesus." That's rather puzzling, and I don't understand how it is possible to be a Christian without yielding to the Lordship of Christ. I would recommend that you read the first epistle of John (1 John) and determine to what extent your Christian walk mirrors the description of the conditions for, conduct in, and characteristics of Christian fellowship that the apostle John lays down in this book. One thing every Christian needs to do every day in addition to Bible study. That is to pray. God speaks to the Christian in His word. The Christian speaks to God in his prayers. James says, "Draw near to God and He will draw near to you" and in the same verse gives some instructions for the double-minded. In Scripture double-mindedness is basically divided allegiance, or failure to yield totally to the Lordship of Christ over one's life. (James 4:8) --Hank | ||||||
2243 | Crying out loud Lord rescue me | 1 John 5:13 | Hank | 200061 | ||
Dear veund stokes :: Galatians 6:2 says, "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." And Ecclesiasties 3:1 says, "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." ..... My dear fellow registrant on Study Bible Forum, your post touches my heart and I pray for a resolution of your personal anguish. ....... Now for a second look at those two quotations from Scripture with which I opened this post. The first was about bearing one another's burdens. There are times in the lives of most of us when we can help others bear their burdens, but there are also times when we desperately need others to help us bear our own, for as Ecclesiastes says, "to every thing there is a season." And on the strength of your post, it does in fact appear that the season has come for you when you should seek help from a pastor or other qualified counselor, perhaps your family physician -- someone who is qualified to help you bear your burdens. I will pray for you and you can feel comforted that other readers of this page will join me in prayer for you also. The Lord be with you. --Hank | ||||||
2244 | Help with a demon possision. | 1 John 5:14 | Hank | 158574 | ||
Tcswl: You ask, "Could you please show me something to use to pray with and for him." ..... Friend, you may wish to use your knees, but you don't need any kind of "something" to pray with! If you are yourself a regenerate believer, simply pray for the healing of your family member. But ask in accordance with God's will: "This is the confidence which we have before Him, that if we ask anything ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, He hears us" (1 John 5:14). Followers of Christ need no mantra or missal, no beads, no apparatus of any kind in order to go to God in prayer. Neither do they need an earthly priest or dead saint in order to get through to God in prayer. --Hank | ||||||
2245 | where is post#6110 | 1 John 5:16 | Hank | 49272 | ||
Go to Quick Search at top right of home page and in the box beneath type in 6110 (or any other Post ID # you're looking for). --Hank | ||||||
2246 | Can we select who gets our hospitality? | 2 John 1:10 | Hank | 74478 | ||
Hospitality and Christian love are not always the same things. One can be socially graceful to another, such as a visitor to one's home, by going through the outward functions of appearing hospitable without any particular feeling of inward love toward that person, as likewise one can love another while at the same time, under certain conditions, denying him outward hospitality. Let me illustrate. The commandment is clear enough: "Love thy neighbor as thyself" -- but the application of it falls short of inviting into one's home every passer-by who seeks to intrude upon our hospitality by gaining entrance in order to poison our minds, rob us of our possessions, or otherwise inflict harm upon us. We can love the robber or the murderer and pray for him, but that doesn't mean we must abet him in his evil deeds by inviting him in to rob us or kill us. Similiarly, one can love the cultist without encouraging him in his error by giving him a favorable and sympathetic audience --Hank | ||||||
2247 | How does one pray in the Holy Spirit ? | Jude 1:20 | Hank | 112931 | ||
Ken John: I believe Jude gives insight into the meaning of v. 20 by the theme he develops throughout his short book, especially in vss. 17-19. Note particularly what he says in v. 19, speaking of those "who walk after their own ungodly lusts" (v.18), he continues (v.19) "These are they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit." Doesn't this introductory of Jude's lead to a clearer understanding of what he means when he talks about praying in the Holy Spirit? It is not some sort of ecstatic form of prayer that Jude is referring to, but a call simply to pray in the will and power of the Holy Spirit who indwells the life of the believer. See Paul's use of the same term in Ephesians 6:18. --Hank | ||||||
2248 | CHURCH OF SARDIS | Revelation | Hank | 18871 | ||
UNORWOOD, what's your question, please? --Hank | ||||||
2249 | 7 Churches | Revelation | Hank | 45824 | ||
The seven churches of Revelation 2:1-3:22 were actual, historical churches in Asia Minor. They represent the types of churches that have existed and continue to exist; therefore, the things that Christ says to these historical churches apply to churches in every age. --Hank | ||||||
2250 | where are we in Bible prophecy? | Revelation | Hank | 51775 | ||
Andrew, if you mean where are we chronologically, we are in the 'last days' or 'end times' and that is the period between the first and second Advents of our Lord. We know that we are some 2,000 years away from the first; we do not know how long we are from the second. It could be one minute or one millenium, more or less. --Hank | ||||||
2251 | How do I understand Revelations? | Revelation | Hank | 69282 | ||
1Dove: For starters -- and please pardon my playing the pedant -- let's get our term right: it's Revelation, singular, and it is not the Revelation of John but the Revelation of Jesus Christ to John. It is a book that promises a blessing to the reader [Rev. 1:3]..... So how does one approach this book? In prayer, of course, as with any other portion of Scripture. But I should think one would be ill advised, having no real knowledge of the Revelation, to open to it in a difficult translation such as the King James and merely begin to read without any additional study aids. I would choose a good modern translation, such as the NASB or ESV (English Standard Version) and read through the book several times. Then I would take it in small doses, a paragraph or so at a time, and study it more minutely, using various study aids and references, among which I could recommend the NASB Study Bible notes, MacArthur, Ryrie, and the Believer's Study Bible and the King James Study Bible (both published by Nelson).... And, finally, I would avoid like the plague any sensational commentaries that would have you to believe that whoever the world-class bad guy happens to be at the moment is probably the anti-christ or that the tragic events of September 11 last year are specifically described in this Apocalypse. Chances are good that you will not arrive at a complete knowledge and understanding by the method I've outlined or by any other method, but the chances are excellent that you will have learned a great deal by your prayerful study, and that you will feel your time has been well spent. --Hank | ||||||
2252 | What are the implications of Christ resu | Revelation | Hank | 84953 | ||
The Bible does not teach that people die and stay dead! Read 1 Corinthians 15, the "resurrection chapter," to increase your understanding of the foundational teaching on the significance of Christ's resurrection. --Hank | ||||||
2253 | A New Reformation? | Revelation | Hank | 95698 | ||
New Creature - Well, of course, it is always a time for reformation and renewal, both of the church and of the Christian believers who constitute it. In the days of my youth it was commonplace for congregations to hold what was known in those days as a "sawdust revival." In summer the church would rent a tent, sprinkle sawdust on the floor, bring in a traveling evangelist and hold themselves a week-long revival, meeting every night during the week and handing out paper fans on a stick that were always supplied by the local funeral parlor. Those days are long gone, I'm afraid. ..... But I gather that what your question encompasses a sweeping national or world reformation of the church and its people, so vast that it will bring millions to a saving knowledge of Christ. From my limited point of view, it appears as though it is long overdue. But nothing of the sort can or will happen unless God elects to pour out His Spirit upon the people of the world, convict them of sin, and draw them to Christ. God alone is sovereign. As He works in believers "to will and to do of His good pleasure" (Phil. 2:13) so does He, I firmly believe, will and do of His good pleasure" as he works His purpose out in the world of His creation. .... By the way, New Creature, what's the source of your quote? --Hank | ||||||
2254 | WHO DID CHRIST DIE FOR ?????? | Revelation | Hank | 96390 | ||
humpy, what shall we call you, "one verse" humpy? :-) You singled out a lone verse in Revelation to introduce us to your Preterist theory of eschatology and now you zero in on a lone verse in John to introduce us to your Limited Atonement theory of soteriology. ...... But, humpy, spare us the agony of suffering through another debate of this "L" (Limited Atonement) petal, the most controversial of the TULIP petals of Calvinism. Calvinism and its counterpart, Arminianism, have been debated to death on this forum and have caused more friction and disruption than any other topics that have ever hit the pages of this forum. If you have about a month to spare and wish to read what has been posted on Calvinism/Arminianism: free-will and election, total depravity of man, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, or perseverence of the saints, go to Search and type in any combination of these key words. But please do not push this issue further. To do so will engender debate and result in disruption of this forum. Please believe me that it is in your own best interests to proceed no further on this subject. It is most unlikely that you will be able to produce any verse of Scripture or add any supplementary exposition that has not been covered many times on this forum. You will succeed only in plowing old ground that has already been plowed many times over and had no measurable effect in changing anyone's mind. So please, I appeal to you, end this now while you still have the option. --Hank | ||||||
2255 | Where is Hell | Revelation | Hank | 206691 | ||
Hello, Charlie :: It looks as though the visiting preacher with his imaginative explanation of global warming is giving Al Gore some competition. :-) But the preacher may have as tough a time of proving his theory scripturally as Gore has of proving his scientifically. The followers of Christ are not to accept any teaching from anyone -- not from preacher or priest, prince or pauper -- that is not based solidly on the word of God. Christians are commanded to "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good" (1 Thess. 5:21). Your visiting preacher will have a tough time proving by Scripture that global warming is caused by an "expanding hell," whatever that means. If you ever run into him again, though, you really ought to challenge him to back up his theories with Scripture. And of course he won't be able to. --Hank | ||||||
2256 | Christ Jesus testimony / Red writing | Rev 1:1 | Hank | 141910 | ||
Years ago I came to the conclusion that any effort to separate the Scriptures into essential parts and non-essential parts is futile, fatuous and inane. It's as pointless as trying to assign different values to links in a chain. God inspired all Scripture (2 Timothy 3:16), and the product of His inspiration is a divinely woven fabric, complete and perfect, that does not lend itself well at all to the severely limited and bumbling efforts of human beings to make a "qualitative analysis" of the relative importance of various passages of Scripture. Better by far to read and study all of God's word as it is written and forget about what's important and what's not: All of it is important God inspired it all and therefore all of it is important. Since all of it is the word of God, all of it is likewise essential. Who are we to suggest otherwise or assign degrees of importance to God's holy book? Black, red, green or blue, it's the words that count, not their hue! --Hank | ||||||
2257 | what are the 7 churches | Rev 1:4 | Hank | 93453 | ||
jshaw, if you are asking about the "seven churches which are in Asia" (Revelation 1:4), they are all named in the first 3 chapters of the Book of Revelaton. --Hank | ||||||
2258 | Jesus took keys from Satan for hell | Rev 1:18 | Hank | 167153 | ||
justolneetor: Two trustworthy colleagues, Kalos and BradK, gave you fine answers to your question. In this short post I wish merely to point out that your question itself is what we might call 'loaded' -- that is, it is freighted with two major assumptions, both of which are wrong if we are to use the Bible as the sole standard upon which we are to base our faith. And that, by the way, is exactly what we do on SBF: we measure everything by the yardstick of Scripture. ...... ERROR ONE: Jesus went to hell. .... Consult any good Bible dictionary for the distinction between hell and Hades in the New Testament and hell and Sheol in the Old. ERROR TWO: Jesus took from Satan the keys to death, hell and the grave. ..... Keys are symbolic of authority and control in Scripture. Matter of fact, they still are. So if Satan indeed had authority over, and control of, death, hell and the grave, as you say, then pray tell me how he got it, when he got it, why he got it, and who gave it to him. This is an important question, friend, and I am not prepared to accept any answers to it from you or anyone else unless those answers are thoroughly documented with Scriptures that fully support the premise and leave no room for doubt. ..... I agree with my Christian brother, BradK, who suggested that perhaps you have been watching too much Word-of-Faith nonsense on TBN. In my economy, ANY exposure to these spreaders of false doctrine is too much! Much of what they say and teach is is laughable and would comedic if it weren't so damagingly heretical and even at times blasphemous. ...... Read and study God's pure word for yourself; be careful to choose your spiritual mentors; avoid false teachers like the plague; and please don't accept the polluted versions of the Gospel being bruited about by charlatans who infest your home like gnats and grub worms via TV and the Net, lead the gullible into egregious error, and infuscate the Gospel light like a total eclipse darkens the noon-day sun. --Hank | ||||||
2259 | Where is the Key of David in his story? | Rev 3:7 | Hank | 54632 | ||
The phrase 'key of David' appears in Isaiah 22:22, is metaphoric, and means the authority entrusted to the king's servant Eliakim to admit or forbid admittance into the king's presence. In Rev. 3:7 Jesus applied the term to Himself as one who could determine who would enter his future Davidic kingdom. You asked why it appears in Isaiah and Revelation. Would "Because it does" be o.k.? :-) --Hank | ||||||
2260 | Significance of emerald in Bible? | Rev 4:3 | Hank | 82644 | ||
Andy, the Apostle in Revelation 4:3 takes us back to references of the Old Testament rainbow. See Ezek.1:28 and Gen.9:12-17. There is no reason to believe that the rainbow that surrounded the throne, in this instance dominated by emerald-green hues, is any less symbolic of God's fidelity to His Word, His promises, and His covenants than it was in the days of Noah. --Hank | ||||||
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