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401 | speaking in tounges | 1 Cor 12:30 | stjohn | 215204 | ||
Dear Mike, I'm sure that many will be praying for your Grandma, Francis J. Roberts, she has touched the hearts of millions of readers with her truly inspirational devotional, Come Away My Beloved. John |
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402 | Remember the price | John 19:1 | stjohn | 215203 | ||
Dear Azure, I will pray for your Church, and I hope others who read this will pray as well. Shalom and God bless John |
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403 | speaking in tounges | 1 Cor 12:30 | stjohn | 215198 | ||
Hey Mike, would you please fill out your user profile so we can get to know you a little better? This is purely voluntary and there is not need to feel pressured to do so. We all understand that many are very protective about their anonymity. Thanks John |
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404 | speaking in tounges | 1 Cor 12:30 | stjohn | 215197 | ||
Dear Mike, You are correct, the "useless wranglings" when read in context can surly be seen as you have stated, but just as v16 it also can and should be taken with a much broader application. We should indeed, in all cases, be diligent to study and know the Scriptures, and it is never a good thing to wrangle about semantics or be too pedantic about our views. I have to say though, I haven't seen occasion to admonish you about your "attitude", thus far, and though you don't necessarily agree with all other views, you have shown to be quite graceful and respectful, at least as far as I can see. Although, that may not be very far, but I do try. :-) John |
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405 | Remember the price | John 19:1 | stjohn | 215191 | ||
Brethren, on this day, Resurrection Sunday, let us remember the price that was paid for our wretched souls. "Pilate then took Jesus and scourged Him. And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him; and they began to come up to Him and say, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and to give Him slaps in the face." John 19:1-3 " Having all his life long carried their sicknesses and sorrows, he bore the burden of sin to the place of its annihilation, and by his death he made an end of it. Apart from the atonement, the chosen of God, like other men, lay under sin; the black cloud was over all the race, but Jesus took the dense mass of all the transgressions of his people, past, present, and to come, and obliterated the whole, even as a cloud is blotted out from the face of heaven. Jesus took the whole incalculably ponderous load, all charged with tempest as it was, and bore it all upon those shoulders, which must have been crushed to the earth had they not been divine: on the tree he bore that sin and the wrath which was due to it, feeling all its crowded tempests in his own soul, until in that moment when he had borne all, and ended all, he sent up the victorious shout of "It is finished." Then shone forth the unclouded glory of boundless love; then was gone forever the threatened storm; then righteousness sprang out of the earth, and peace looked down from heaven, and the reconciled ones might well exclaim, "Sing, O heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel." Sin was put away, transgression was cast into the depths of the sea, and loud o'er all rang out the jubilant challenge—"Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? Who is he that condemneth, now that Christ hath died?" I scarcely need to sketch that experience, for, my brethren, you know it well. Oh, the blackness of the darkness above; oh, the horror of the tempest within, in the dreadful hour of conviction of sin, when my weary soul longed for nothingness, that it might escape from its own hell. Oh the dread of the wrath to come. I saw all God's indignation gathering up to spend itself upon me, but glory be to God it spent itself elsewhere! ... C. H. Spurgeon "The tempest's awful voice was heard; O Christ, it broke on thee! Thy open bosom was my ward, It braved the storm for me. Thy form was scarred, thy visage marred, Now cloudless peace for me." C. H. Spurgeon |
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406 | Rev 3:15-16 | Revelation | stjohn | 215189 | ||
Mike, I think you did a good job of explaining his position, and I think right along the same lines as you do. A lot of times we get a good teacher, who is teaching truth, but uses Scripture and analogy that just doesn't fit the situation. Thats why it is so important to teach expositionaly and not topically. When we teach expositionaly, we teach what the Scripture is showing us, i.e. we let Scripture interpret Scripture. When we teach topically, we have a position, and then we look for Scripture that backs it up. The problem with that is, we then use Scripture out of context and, the meaning gets twisted and, then we lose the intended meaning of said Scripture. Another thing is, we then don't really learn anything form Scripture, that we didn't think we already knew. John |
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407 | speaking in tounges | 1 Cor 12:30 | stjohn | 215187 | ||
Mike, many a time it has been that I wished I could have back something that was gone, flying off into cyberspace and landing on the pages of the forum, before I had done a good enough job of editing it. Though I still mess up quite a bit, I am learning to proofread my posts a little better with time. :-) | ||||||
408 | speaking in tounges | 1 Cor 12:30 | stjohn | 215179 | ||
Hi Mike, Sorry, Mike, but I just had to step in here, I hope you don't mind. I agree with what you said, but I had a problem with the first line, where you said: "I absolutely agree with Acts 2:38. It is not necessary to be saved or to receive the Holy Spirit!" I think you may want to rephrase that? It kinda leaves you hanging out there without coming to a conclusion, like it isn't necessary at all, and It looks like you may even be saying, you don't need to be saved to receive the Holy Spirit. I know you don't really mean that it isn't necessary at all, or, an unsaved person can receive the Holly Spirit, but the way you phrased it, it kinda looks that way. At least to me it does. Sorry, I know the rest of your post clarifies it, but it does look kinda odd. Again, sorry for splitting hairs, but to these old tired eyes, it sure looked funny till I read it a few times. :-) I hope you are enjoying the forum. John |
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409 | speaking in tounges | 1 Cor 12:30 | stjohn | 215177 | ||
Sir, it has been my observance since your arrival to this forum that, you have taken and twisted the Scriptures for your own prepossess, and yet you have the gall to accuse and condemn others of that which is your own folly. No one is right all the time, including, myself, and including, yourself. Comparing Dr. MacArthur with Copeland is like comparing the devil himself to Pollyanna. Sheesh! | ||||||
410 | speaking in tounges | 1 Cor 12:30 | stjohn | 215174 | ||
Ps 33:17, Ps 33:18, Prov 29:20, Eccl 9:4 | ||||||
411 | speaking in tounges | 1 Cor 12:30 | stjohn | 215170 | ||
Hope springs eternal! :-) | ||||||
412 | speaking in tounges | 1 Cor 12:30 | stjohn | 215168 | ||
:-) Welcome to the forum! By the way... |
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413 | speaking in tounges | 1 Cor 12:30 | stjohn | 215167 | ||
A ringing endorsement of sound exegesis, form one who holds such high esteem, the teachings of worldly teachers as Aristotle and Anatole France. Perhaps I should read more of what they have to say. It has been said and, it is quite interesting that, one who thinks so highly, what the Holy Spirit has taught to himself, should think so little of what He has taught to others. If you are of such a mind, pray, remain so, it's not worth the time to try to convince you otherwise. |
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414 | speaking in tounges | 1 Cor 12:30 | stjohn | 215161 | ||
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415 | speaking in tounges | 1 Cor 12:30 | stjohn | 215159 | ||
Hi Mike, I'm glad you can see some humor, thats very encouraging! :-) We should never take ourselves too seriously. May I ask, Mike, how many people you have seen lead to Christ by speaking in tongues? I have never seen this, nor have I heard of any genuine conversion by doing so. I have though, heard of and seen, many, by preaching the word of God in intelligible words, and there are many, many thousands, no, millions, that have been lead to Christ by, simply giving out His Word in a clear, understandable way; and the power of the Holy Spirit works miraculously through His Word to effect conviction of sin and, faith in the heart of the unbeliever, destined for hell without having heard God's all redeeming Word of truth; spoken in clear, understandable words. By the way, Paul never encourages anyone to speak in tongues. In fact, he does a very good job of discouraging it. In fact, though he may say he wished all would, (and though he doesn't condemn it, though I'd say he comes pretty close and as so many take out of context that he wishes all would) he goes on to say: he would rather speak five intelligible words, that edify, then five thousand in tongues. He not only discourages tongues, but also urges them to grow up and seek higher gifts. So I would contend that speaking in tongues is not for a, mature Christian, but, for an immature one, who's faith is weak and needs some kind of sign to build up their faith. I urge you to take Paul's advice. On that note, I think this thread has run it's course and, will respectfully bow out. If you feel you need the last word, please feel free, you may do so. An added note: The 'Hammer' my friend, Mike, is, Christ, preached in understandable words, and Him crucified, preached in understandable words. Not, tongues. Shalom and God bless John p.s. I've really enjoyed our discussion, Mike, you've been very graceful. Thank you. |
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416 | speaking in tounges | 1 Cor 12:30 | stjohn | 215157 | ||
Dear Mike, I don't see how you can say that speaking in tongues can lead anyone to Christ when, it is written: "Therefore if the whole church assembles together and all speak in tongues, and ungifted men or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad?" 1 Cor 14:23 How does that glorify Christ? Thats not a hammer... it's a nut. John |
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417 | speaking in tounges | 1 Cor 12:30 | stjohn | 215155 | ||
By the way Mike, Paul makes it very clear that this gift you speak of is, not for edifying the Church, but only edifies the individual. So you are misinterpreting and misrepresenting what the Scriptures clearly teach by, saying it is for edifying the Church. And God has no need to confirm what is already given to us in the written word. John |
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418 | speaking in tounges | 1 Cor 12:30 | stjohn | 215154 | ||
Oh, okay Searcher, I'm sorry I missed that point. :-( Thank you for clarifying that for me. :-) John |
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419 | speaking in tounges | 1 Cor 12:30 | stjohn | 215153 | ||
Dear Mike, God has never stopped confirming His Word, but the confirmation of God's word is the Word itself -the Holy Scriptures- not speaking in tongues. I would urge you to stop focusing on the one gift and, focus on higher things, like preaching Christ and Him crucified. 1 Cor 2:1-2 John |
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420 | speaking in tounges | 1 Cor 12:30 | stjohn | 215149 | ||
Amen! | ||||||
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