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41 | Prophet - is it learned or a gift? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92370 | ||
"Compare the lists (Eph 4:11...1 Cor 12) is both places ... for example, is a prophet something that is learned or is it a gift?" Well, in the OT they had a school for prophets. I guess one went to Prophet College or something. Obviously it had to do with discerning the times and making predictions based on the history of God doing the things He did and then drawing concusions from those experiences. One who prophecies isn't necessarilly a prophet by "trade" in the Bible. God spoke through Balaams donkey, remember. So if one is yielded to the Holy Spirit at the appointed time he/she will be used by God to bring forth a prophecy. I can't be more specific than that in a hypothetical way here. I just know it happens. It has happened to me. |
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42 | What is the context? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92248 | ||
"You said, "The word says let everything be confirmed by two or three witnesses" ... what is the passage ... any of the above? What is the context of the passage ... is it about discipline? What is the context of "He won't give you a stone if asking for a loaf"? --------------------------- Matt 18.16 But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.' Matt 7.9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? --------------------------------- I'd line to know where you see "private prayer time" and speaking in tongues? ------------------------------------- Do you pray? Is it private or always in public? As to tongues, that's between you and the Lord and how critical it all seems to you. But Pauls says this: 1 Corth 12.31 But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way. 13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. Now don't tell me at this point that tongues isn't a greater gift since it is a language of/by the Holy Spirit. That tongues and intimacy are intrinsically linked is a given to those who practice their gift in earnest and love. 1 Corth.13. comes alive to those who do so beyond just speaking. |
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43 | Sleep speaking in tongues? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92182 | ||
Dave, if you are truly into the things of God He isn't going to hide Himself from you regardless of the the present issue. It's important to remember He is not the author of confusion. If something of the nature you mentioned is happening to you I would be in much prayer about it anticipating a confirmation of it's validity. The word says let everything be confirmed by two or three witnesses, however in your private prayer time with Him I would not have a problem trusting what is impressed upon me since I am praying in His name. God is Trustworthy. God is faithful. He won't give you a stone if asking for a loaf. Try the Spirits to see if they be of the Lord. If there is a sense of fear or darkness associated in any of what you experience, resist it in the name of Jesus. As to tongues, let them flow out if you are impressed to speak.. We're not going to speak English in Heaven anyway. | ||||||
44 | Joshus had a father, but no mother? | Josh 24:15 | Ken hepting | 92167 | ||
When I refuse to answer questions, I jest?? You press too hard. I said I was joking about Joshua. Please Leave it at that. |
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45 | How was Joshua born? | Josh 24:15 | Ken hepting | 92136 | ||
Well, the scriptures say he was the son of nun. | ||||||
46 | Ken, The Chrurch differs from Israel? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92135 | ||
'Where does the Bible say "worship Him in adoration/praise and thanksgiving with the mind and with tongues" Why wouldn't you want to, but did I say "tongues"? Did I say the mind, for that matter. |
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47 | Was Joshua son of nun married | Josh 24:15 | Ken hepting | 92120 | ||
Joshua didn't have a mother! | ||||||
48 | Does speaking in tongues come naturally? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92117 | ||
What happened in the room where the 120 twenty met? Did they have Bibles? What were they doing? Shouldn't we do the same yet you'll be hard pressed to see that atmosphere of praise and worship in most churches today must less be taught as something we should be about. | ||||||
49 | Searching for the truth | Acts | Ken hepting | 92012 | ||
No Robert, it isn't. Assumimg I'm correct, what does that say about the condition of your spirit when Christ returns and what should you do about it if you are given to believe you fall short? | ||||||
50 | Does He pray thru us, or us thru Him? | Acts | Ken hepting | 91983 | ||
Ken hepting, Why does it have to benefit your mind? Then when does pray ... it is a mindless activity". ---------------------------------- A Spiritual thing to be sure with your mind not getting in the way. Haven't you ever attempted to pray with your mind/your understanding about a given matter and for some reason get bombarded with all sorts of stuff totally unrelated, some of it filth? That's Satan. That's how he is able to get to us. Of course he needs to be resisted but when praying in the Spirit he can't go there. He's not allowed. He also has no idea what'a being prayed to the Father since it is a Holy Ghost activity within you taking place. You could assume he doesn't know the language either. Satan can only act upon what we give him access to through our 5 senses. Speaking in tongues is not of them. "Where does The Bible say "the Holy Spirit is praying through you"? Contextually the The NT says so. --Jn 17, "that they be one as we are one". When Paul says I pray with the understanding and with the Spirit also. He speaking of tongues when he says this or else he can't mean Spirit because his mind and understanding would still be active. Isa.28.9-12 "Who is it he is trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his message? To children weaned from their milk, to those just taken from the breast? For it is: Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule ; a little here, a little there." Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues God will speak to this people, to whom he said, "This is the resting place, let the weary rest"; and, "This is the place of repose"-- but they would not listen...NIV. Joel 2.28,29 'And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit 'in those days'. "In those days" is here, is now. Is it happening where you are? If not are you one of them who make excuses? Never forget that we who born again and have had our Pentecostal experience are conduits through which the Holy Spirit 'should' function. That's what Pentecost was all about. |
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51 | Tares/wheat | John 3:3 | Ken hepting | 91511 | ||
"Have you found any scripture yet for your contention that one can be saved but not born again?" Study this awhile and see what it says to you: Mal 3. 15-17 But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly the evildoers prosper, and even those who challenge God escape. Then those who feared the LORD talked with each other, and the LORD listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the LORD and honored his name. "They will be mine," says the LORD Almighty, "in the day when I make up my treasured possession. I will spare them, [JUST AS] in compassion a man spares his son who serves him.".....Rev.20.12 "And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books". Do you think there might be a connection here, 4gvn? Ken |
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52 | Tares/wheat | John 3:3 | Ken hepting | 91469 | ||
Who are you and where do I find you in the "tree"? I don't think I should have to look for 'wheat and tares' to find a name to answer to. Or do I just call you 'Wheat and Tares'? |
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53 | It's hard to understand | John 3:3 | Ken hepting | 91328 | ||
Thank you for the kind reply. I am, however, having some diffuculty understanding where you're coming from. I guess it's the way you ask questions or something, I'm not quite sure, but you have sparked some curiosity because I have sensed for a long time that the enemy has lulled many Christians into a stupor and we have dozed off on the job, so to speak. (Is this close to what you are saying as one of your points?) Thank you for your graciousness and yes it is partly as you say and more. The church doesn't teach the kingdom. Every Sunday it's the same message of Salvation. Most everyones re-dedicator is worn out. ------------------------------- As far as Jesus going "straight to the cross", I don't understand why you are asking this. My understanding is that it was in "the fullness of time", and because God is perfect, it is a perfect plan. Yes, but what does the "fullness of time" represent except that God had more in mind then man's redemption? Right? Otherwise Baby Jesus was that perfect, pure, sinless little Lamb of God that would have satisfied that part of God's plan for redeeming man. ------------------------------------- Are you questioning God from a standpoint of child-like curiosity, or from a standpoint of judgment as to why He did the things He did - the WAY He did them? neither. I'm making an honest observation based on the scriptures. -------------------------------- I also did not understand, as you said, placing myself IN Jesus, and then saying "but I don't know God's will perfectly". Don't you place yourself in Jesus, abide in Him as He declares you must in order to live a life acceptable to Him? You must! Think of Jesus Christ as a Kingdom of one, then live there and make it a kingdom of two. Jesus did know God's will. Can you point out where I said this: "but I don't know God's will perfectly". --------------------------------- Jesus is the "fullness of the Godhead bodily". As God incarnate, He MUST have known God's will perfectly, because God the Father said that Jesus pleased Him well. Don't get the time of Jesus as a man, being on earth, and Him being the fulness of the Godhead, to closely wrapped together except as a 'reality' fact and not yet an 'actuality' fact though in the Father's mind it was a done deal and it was infact a fact. Didgah git all that? |
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54 | Saved, but not born again? | John 3:3 | Ken hepting | 91326 | ||
That's my dilemna. I'm not sure I can. Oh there's plenty there but I need to be satisfied I'm correct in applying the scripture.. However the fact that I might me correct is enough to challenge me. I witness an awful lot on Sunday to make me wonder and conclude I am correct because there can be no other answer to the thing I witness and the resentment I receive when enaging most in conversation concerning the things of God. I know God Grace is great and all thos epeople aren't damned but I can't see the witness for the Kingdom of God anywhere in the church. |
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55 | What did you choose to assume? | John 3:3 | Ken hepting | 91324 | ||
You were very incomplete and disconnected in your post. Very little of your post made connections with me to satisfy the issue of how you think salvation relates to discipleship. For that reason it only got a cursory look from me. It was way too much to respond to. I'm sorry for that. |
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56 | Supposed to "DO" something? | John 3:3 | Ken hepting | 91322 | ||
I have started looking for your replies throughout this thread and I must say you have some very interesting thoughts. Are you saying that we must EARN our salvation? No, I am not. ----------------------------------- My take on this passage is that anyone who is saved will automatically walk in the good works prepared beforehand, with the understanding that we are "God's workmanship". Therefore if WE are HIS work, then that supports what He also said about HIM being "faithful to complete the good work He began" in us. But that work begins when and if we live by the FAITH of Christ; an impartation of Himself that enables us with vision, purpose and power to accomplish God's plan for us, which is to become a son. ----------------------------- Also, our salvation comes by faith through grace, not of ourselves, "not of works". It is God's "GIFT". True but that's our faith you speak of and not the faith of Christ. My part in the thing is to keep my faith IN Him. By I don't live by my faith, I live by His. His faith is the only FAITH that pleases God and produces the good works that testify to His Character.. My faith comes from hearing His word and takes me to Him for salvation then His Faith comes into me for kingdom living and becoming someone Father can be proud of.. --------------------------------------- The very idea of a "gift" is that it is received. Now if we receive that gift, then what is there to do besides that, because if there is anything ELSE to do it no longer becomes a "gift", and it becomes something else. The example I like to use is the woman withthe issue of Blood who had HER faith developed to the point where she believed Jesus could/would heal her. In her desperation she sought Him out and He did. He said "YOUR faith has made you whole". What He really said was "Your faith brought you to me and was rewarded by me for your healing". We don't knpw what happened after that but her being made whole typifies the way man gets the "free gift"....by coming in faith, believing He will save me. |
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57 | Supposed to "DO" something? | John 3:3 | Ken hepting | 91316 | ||
Earning salvation can't be done, so rest easy. I'm not saying that. I never have in this forum. By faith, my faith in Him, I am saved. BTW, that's the exstent of my faith. Now something happens: The righteousness of Christ for salvation is gifted, IMPUTED to me, that saves me. He saved me in the condition He found me but having said that He doesn't want to leave me that way. Now I have choice to make; to be born again and embrace the Great commandment or give so much lip service to Christ on Sunday and stay in 'self'. To begin to know God as Father or, just God. If I begin my walk in Grace and learn to live by THE FAITH of CHRIST and not my own, He IMPARTS, no gift here, to me His righteousness which reveals the MIND of the Father to me that brings me to "sonship" with the Father. Now that I am "in the WAY" I am enabled to see His kingdom and view the world from His perspective. If you need scripture for this c'mon back. |
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58 | Please explain | John 3:3 | Ken hepting | 91198 | ||
"Romans 12:2 says that the will of God is "good, and acceptable, and perfect". It was the will of the Father for Jesus to live the life He lived. Jesus said that he did not speak His Own words, but only what the Father gave Him." This all is so as you have presented it. Now place yourself IN Jesus and the whole thing becomes you. You say, "but I don't know God's will perfectly". Let me explain. His perfect will for us, as the redeemed of the Lord, is to become as Jesus, the MAN. We should all be saying as Jesus, the BOY, "I must be about my Father's business". The "process" of becoming is what we all should be about and that's what a good Spirit filled church should about doing.i.e, caring as a mother to bring about those son's and daughter's God is after to fill His kingdom for Jesus' sake. Where we are individually in the process is not the issue, however to encourage for one another should be one. The "kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent TAKE IT by FORCE". In others words it is a warfare, one that is mostly with our "self" that doesn't like hanging on a cross and dying. All that I just posted isn't for evangelizing except Jesus said "make disciples of all nations". We Christians, by and large, haven't done that. We don't know much about that part of it. We drop them off at the cross and leave them there with "12 twelve self-improvement" program and say 'find a church and get involved'. Then the church burns them out with their social activities all supposedly "Holy Spirit" inspired.. "I am curious as to what prompted your reasoning here. Your knowledge of the scriptures includes, I'm sure, that Christ had to keep the law for our sakes because of our inabaility to do so. It was the Father's plan for Him" He kept God's intended law that the Jews distorted. But that I believe you understand. So we can rightly say He didn't ever break God's Law. I agree. But now that is something we must be about also, don't you think? The priviledge for us however, is that God's law is now found in Christ. Keep Christ and you keep God's law "for there is no condemnation for those who are in Him". If we fail and sin we have an advocate with the Father, Christ Jesus. This without the need to shed blood as the Jews must/needed to do. His perfect blood, the "Perfect Lamb of God" was shed once and for all. Now we can enter in, receive from Him, and get on with becoming unto Him a vast family as He purposed for to become. "When you say "go straight to the cross", are you inplying that as an infant, Christ could have suffered and died, or are you saying that He didn't even need to be born? What are you saying?" Let me ask you: If perfect blood was all it was about for the remission of our sins, which it was, then why didn't Jesus go straight to the cross? He was that perfect blood sacrifice from the beginning. The word "Lamd" connotes innocence, purit, and YOUTH/BABY. For that matter you could ask why did God wait so long in sending Him to be that sacrifice? Why didn't He do it right after Adam sinned? Obviously there is more to it than redemption. Jesus tells us in His word through the Gospels that Paul is given to explain in more detail. Jesus said He/God would send another comforter who would take the things of the Father and reveal them to us as the Father revealed them to Jesus, the man..That other comforter being the Holy Spirit. Great questions, 4givn. I hope I've helped with what I've posted....Ken |
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59 | Truthfinder: Is Jesus God? | John 1:1 | Ken hepting | 90989 | ||
That's an intense question, Hank, that I believe requires an intense answer. But then I'm not the "truth finder"....Ken | ||||||
60 | Truthfinder: Is Jesus God? | John 1:1 | Ken hepting | 90988 | ||
That's an intense question, Hank, that I believe requires an intense answer. But then I'm not the "truth finder"....Ken | ||||||
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