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341 | The Gospel of Christ | Romans | stjohn | 217562 | ||
Dear David, Well said, son... In reading your post, It brings me to thinking of the young Martin Luther, and his struggles with Romans 1:17. The man being embedded in romanist theology had quite a hard time coming to the doctrine of grace, and realizing that righteousness is gained apart from works. Through hard study of Rom 1-3, understanding the true nature of sin and mans total depravity, young Luther just about drove the priest in the confessional crazy with his continuous confessions. He'd no sooner then leave the both and turn around to confess something that he'd forgotten, or even a thought that had perhaps just come into his head that was sinful to his conscience. I'll bet that priest was one man who was very relieved that Luther had embraced his theology of righteousness through faith and not works, like, twenty-five trips to the confessional or fifty hail Mary's for penance! (Rom 5:15) I suppose my point is, a good understanding of Romans can give us so much peace of mind and spirit. Putting aside our tendency to externally legalize our walk with God, gives us the liberty to enjoy God and live out the Gospel in love, peace, contentment of heart and mind, and true, unspeakable joy in the Lord! (Rom 11:29) Thanks again for a good post, David, I really appreciate your contribution to the forum. :-) John |
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342 | Truth and Wisdom | Ps 51:6 | stjohn | 217554 | ||
Dear Momma, Thank you! It's so good to see you are doing well in keeping the faith, and having such strong convictions! It's truly a joy to see you in peace in the face of so much strife. May you, the brethren that are close to you, and your family continue to be abundantly best as your testimony encourages those around you. And us here at SBF too! :-) Thanks again, Sister. Rom 12:2 Shalom and God bless John |
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343 | Un-repented Sin | Heb 6:6 | stjohn | 217552 | ||
Amen, David! And a warm welcome to the forum! John |
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344 | Un-repented Sin | Heb 6:6 | stjohn | 217523 | ||
Vintage.... Read, John 17, pay attention to the last 6 verses. Now remember.... This is Jesus, God of all, our King -in a sense- prying to Himself, desiring for Himself and the Father, perfect unity with all believers. (cf. John 14:13) The Holy Scriptures, when read in context of it's entire counsel, is rife with verse on God's desire to have eternal, perfect unity, with His saints. Please, get the book. It's FREE-!!! John |
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345 | Truth and Wisdom | Ps 51:6 | stjohn | 217518 | ||
Hi Moma... It's always a pleasure to see you here and as always, asking very good and thoughtful questions. I think you're hitting the nail on the head, so to speak, though these things may be a bit subjective, being that they are of the things that are within the heart. But looking at the occasion of this psalm, most will agree that David is acknowledging his sin with Bathsheba and consequent sins -murder being one besides his many others involved- in this most disagreeable blight on the kings record. Reading this verse in context will give us a pretty good idea that it is indeed referring to truth in repentance. David is hiding nothing, and knows full well that God sees the inmost secretes of the heart. This is a wonderful Psalm for those who have a sin that is eating away at them and are looking for peace of heart in knowing the depth of God's wonderful, loving mercy and forgiveness, in the face of even the most awful sins. -from experience- Here's a commentary from John Gill that says it pretty well: Psalms 51:6 --"Ver. 6."Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts," With delight and pleasure, as the word signifies: meaning either Christ, the truth and the life, formed and dwelling in the hearts of his people; or the Gospel, the word of truth, which has a place there; and particularly that branch of it which proclaims pardon to sensible sinners, and is the ground of hope within them: or else a true and hearty confession of sin, which David now made; or rather internal holiness and purity of heart, in opposition to the corruption of nature before acknowledged: this is what is agreeable to the nature of God, is required by his holy law, and is wrought in the hearts of his people in regeneration; and this is "truth", real, and not imaginary, genuine and unfeigned; where it is there is a true sense of sin, a right sight of Christ, unfeigned faith in him, sincere love to him, hope in him without hypocrisy, and a reverential fear of God upon the heart; the inward parts are the seat of all this, and in the exercise of it the Lord takes great delight and pleasure; "and in the hidden [part] thou shall make me to know wisdom;" either Christ, the wisdom of God; or the Gospel, and particularly that part of it which concerns the pardon of sin; or a true knowledge of sin, and of the way of life and salvation by Christ, which is the truest and highest wisdom: and the phrase "hidden" or "secret" may either denote the nature of the wisdom made known, which is hidden wisdom, the wisdom of God in a mystery; or the manner in which it is made known; it is in a hidden way, privately, and secretly, and indiscernibly like the wind, by the Spirit and grace of God; or the seat and subject of it, "the hidden part", as we supply it; the hidden man of the heart. David begins to rise in the exercise of his faith in the grace of God, "thou shall make me to know", etc. unless the words should be rendered as a prayer, as they are by some, "make me to know", etc."-- http://www.freegrace.net/gill/ John |
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346 | Call from God! | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 217491 | ||
Amen. | ||||||
347 | By What Law | Rom 3:23 | stjohn | 217465 | ||
Hi MJH, The book is called: "How to read the Bible for all it's worth" by Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart. It's less then 300 pages and an easy read. I hope you read it. If and when you do, let us know what you think. John |
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348 | Why is the Christian Church so divided? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 217341 | ||
Please get the book. | ||||||
349 | Why is the Christian Church so divided? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 217338 | ||
Vintage... It's pretty plane to see that this is for all ages. The word of God is active and present in the Scriptures today, just as much as it was alive to those who heard Him speak the words in person two thousand years ago but were spiritually blind and deaf. Plenty of folks today can read the same word of God and not see though they see and not hear though we can read it to them. The Scriptures do not say it was only for that generation, but I think common sense would dictate only that it applied to them at that time. Most of the world at large is spiritually blind and deaf to God's word as we speak... Are you sure you don't want that book? John |
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350 | By What Law | Rom 3:23 | stjohn | 217334 | ||
Dear Vintage, Though not all Scripture is written to us, and words spokin are not all spoken to us, it is all still for us. 2 Tim 3:16 "All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;" Vintage, are you sure you don't want that free book offer from Doc? Brother, you sure could use it! John |
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351 | Why is the Christian Church so divided? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 217298 | ||
Hi Hoppy, Thank you, sir! And I'm very glad to see your ears are still working fine. John 10:27 :-) John |
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352 | abide | 1 John 2:3 | stjohn | 217297 | ||
Hi MJH, Peace and grace to you, my friend. I'd like to say again that I very much appreciate your grace and respectfulness. In it is a lesson and an honorable example to follow for all of us here at SBF. I take my hat off to you, sir. Lets first clarify once again that, when we are speaking of the 'law', in regard to this discussion, we are speaking of that part of the Mosaic Law that is 'temporal', and not, spiritual. In other words, the ceremonial law, (i.e. dietary restrictions, Feast Days, New Moons, ‘temporal’ Sabbath keeping, etc.) and not at all speaking of the ‘moral law’ given to Israel, by God, through Moses, (i.e. Mosaic Law) which part is the unchanging eternal law of God. Moses, ‘in no way’ established this part of the law, (i.e. moral law) by giving it to Israel. This part of the law (i.e. moral law) has been part of God's 'unchanging' character throughout eternity, i.e. 'do' love God, love thy neighbor, 'do not' murder, bear false witness, cheat, take things you have no right to, commit adultery, covetousness, etc. You wrote: -“Therefore, since you were called to live a special kind of life within God’s Kingdom, stop judging one another on disputable matters.”- I couldn’t agree more! Just imagine if we as Christians just kept all of the moral law! What kind of a witness would that be? Instead of the kind of debauchery and lawlessness we see coming from individuals in the Church today. You also wrote: -“One follows the Sabbath and one does not. Live in unity and remain in Jesus, but by all means stay away from those empty teachings based on human dogma.”- Again I couldn’t agree more! And that brings us to your questions. You wrote: -“That at least holds God’s teaching found in Deuteronomy with respect, while still providing an option that God’s Law can be divided up into parts, some we follow, and some we do not.”- Well said and I very much appreciate your thoughts and admire the fact you are respecting that part of the law; of course from my/our point of view, also respecting that that part of the law is no longer required for righteousness, justification or sanctification. (Acts 15:1-29, Eph. 2:15) And to say that it is still 'commanded' for us to do, goes against that we should not judge each other in regard to these things. Our words are very important and should be considered very carefully when we teach about the law (i.e. the whole law) and how it effects us today This then takes us back to your first question; you wrote: -“Okay, fine. We stop following those commands. But, (and this is my point), would God ever have His Spirit speak through Paul and say, “That part of the law is based on human tradition and empty philosophies of this world?” Would he ever declare that these parts of the law are “against you?” Or, the same as “the elemental spirits of this world?””- Yes, I believe He would. You see, that part of the law is temporal, not spiritual, and temporal things are indeed “the same as” and in regard to “the elemental spirits of the world” and those who insisted that new believers follow these teachings, were basing there teachings on “human tradition and empty philosophies of this world.” not on that which is spiritual, but temporal and worldly. And have no ‘corporate’ (i.e. the body of Christ as a whole) effect on our eternal soul, eternal security, or spiritual well-being. John |
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353 | abide | 1 John 2:3 | stjohn | 217261 | ||
Hi MJH, I do appreciate the time you spent in your response, and always appreciate the fact you're gracious and polite in your responses to everyone. I thought it was understood that those from our camp are never ever saying that God's law concerning the moral law(s) is/are absolutely still in effect and always will be. That was never nailed to the Cross. We are not forcing the moral law into the text at all. you are reading that into what we are saying. We are always speaking of the ceremonial law when discussing this subject. Never do we say that we should live like heathens, living in lawlessness, or that Paul taught that, as I believe your explanation implies we are saying. I hope that clarifies my/our position a bit. John |
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354 | abide | 1 John 2:3 | stjohn | 217256 | ||
Hi MJH, That's exactly my point. When someone looks long and hard enough for something, that doesn't exist, they can find an argument that will favor the theory being promulgated. The text clearly and plainly says, "kill and eat" and God's word repeats this three times, so there would be no mistaking what was being said. There is nothing whatsoever ambiguous about that. Peter would have found it quite objectionable to go to the gentiles and eat with them if he would have to share in the kind of foods they ate. That is without God showing him that it was okay to eat these things. You know, MJH, I'm convicted by the Holy Spirit most every day, and quite often several times a day, for not doing things in a godly way. I d have to say in my case it usually has something to do with pride. I know many, very Godly men and women, that can attest to the same thing. They can barley get through a day, without the Spirits conviction. But I nor they ever felt even a twinge of guilt, for eating a pork chop, or perhaps some sweet, succulent scampi. And even though that's not found in the Scriptures, so it really doesn't hold much water around here, nonetheless, I find it rather convincing. Thanks again for your time. John |
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355 | abide | 1 John 2:3 | stjohn | 217242 | ||
Hi MJH, Concerning Acts 10. Can you tell me why God, would tell Petter to, "kill and eat" if He didn't mean, "kill and eat"? Wouldn't you think God could or would say what He means, without being so ambiguous? If He only intended to let Petter know He was just talking about the Gentiles being made clean, then He is more then capable of doing so. Don't you think? I mean, if it takes as much explaining as those of your persuasion go through; and I really don't mean to be offensive, but, well, MJH, to be honest, it seems a little silly, really. I think if thats all that God intended to say, He would have been much more clear about it, instead of causing so much confusion. John |
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356 | abide | 1 John 2:3 | stjohn | 217241 | ||
Hi MJH, Yes, my mistake, you're correct. I see that Doc has answered for me. (Thanks Doc) The only thing I would add to his post is to read Acts 15, through to verse 29. John |
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357 | abide | 1 John 2:3 | stjohn | 217240 | ||
Hi MJH, Since most orthodox Christians believe the law concerning keeping of the Sabbath day and feast days and dietary restrictions, has been done away with and, nailed to the Cross, just like circumcision; option 4) all of the above. If you want to keep doing these things, thats fine, just don't try to tell others they should do it too. Because of course that would by implication be judging them. Thanks for your time. John |
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358 | Define the true church. | Heb 12:23 | stjohn | 217197 | ||
Hi Rakpak, I'd just gone out to watch some fireworks. Didn't mean to run out on you but I remembered at the last minute our Church was putting on a show. So then we'd probably call the NAS, KJV, NKJV, HVS, ASV, NASB, NLT, ESV, YLT, RSV, etc. ect. all mistranslations. Is that right? Did William Tyndale, the translator and writer of the first printed English Bible, really translate and write the way he did for traditions sake, and or, Bible sales? I've read an abridged biography of Tyndale, and I don't remember seeing that in there. Do you suppose it's in the long version of his Biography? Why don't you just use the Hebrew Names Version? Why write a whole new translation? John p.s. I don't really hang a denominational name on myself, though I do belong to a Baptist congregation. |
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359 | Define the true church. | Heb 12:23 | stjohn | 217194 | ||
Dear rakpak, Am I to presume that all the modern translations have words that have been added? Pray tell, what words have been added that the translators somehow all missed? Could they really all have been wrong? Did the Holy Spirit show you these, 'words' or did you figurer it out all on your own? John p.s. By the way, my name is John, you don't have to call me stjohn, you may, however, call me John the baptist, i.e. southern baptist. :-) |
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360 | Define the true church. | Heb 12:23 | stjohn | 217187 | ||
That's incredible. Have you made other changes as well? Fill us in please. | ||||||
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