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4321 | Release and Faith Question | Rev 22:18 | Hank | 91400 | ||
Dear John: Quoting a fine line from your post: "I believe that God is at the center." And so do I, so do I! ...... God-centered theology, how sweet it is! ..... Hardly a day passes that one doesn't see ample evidence of how far so many professing Christians have strayed from the precept that God and God alone is the potter and we are the clay. Faith in faith is futile; faith in God is the only faith worth having. "Speak it and it will come to pass" is a ridiculous statement coming from human lips. Only God can do that! Multitudes today possess a 'name-it-and-claim-it' mentality, as though God actually owed them a debt. Through grace alone, not through any merit or claim that man possesses or will ever possess, and not because He owed us anything, Jesus Christ has already paid the debt for man's sin by His suffering and death on the cross! He does not owe man the guarantee of physcial health and financial prosperity in this life! Has the church lost track of who is the potter and who is the clay? How sad it is to see questions being posed here and elsewhere that ask, Why did God do this or that, or why didn't God do this or that? "But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, 'Why have you made me like this?' Does not the potter have power over the clay?" Will man never learn to stop trying to create God in his own image? Will he never learn who's the boss? --Hank | ||||||
4322 | Release and Faith Question | Rev 22:18 | Hank | 91402 | ||
Radioman, this "faith in faith" mania that is pervading so many churches assumes that faith itself is the supreme source of power -- "believe it and speak it and you will have it." Therefore, proceeding on this utterly false permise that faith is the ultimate source of power, would not one need to follow it to its inevitable conclusion that even God in order to retain His power must necessarily have faith too? These off-the-wall heresies have a way of leading down bizarre and slippery paths. Sometimes it makes one wonder whatever happened to orthodox Christianity. --Hank | ||||||
4323 | Release and Faith Question | Rev 22:18 | Hank | 91464 | ||
Like art museums don't attract as many visitors as circuses and carnivals? Or classical music as rock? Or Shakespeare as comic books? Or biblical expositional preachers as Kenny Copeland or Benny the Hinn? --Hank | ||||||
4324 | Release and Faith Question | Rev 22:18 | Hank | 91735 | ||
No, angel, I'm not an artist. But I know the Artist of heaven and earth -- the Potter -- and I'm grateful to be a small piece of His clay! May my prayer -- and yours -- ever be, "Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Thou art the Potter; I am the clay. Mold me and make after Thy will, while I am waiting, yielded and still." --Hank | ||||||
4325 | Does God speak to us in dreams today? | Rev 22:18 | Hank | 158739 | ||
Serras, hello. One does in no wise "weaken the faith of the brethern" by "always being ready to make a defense to everyone you asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you" (see 1 Peter 3:15). ..... It has long been a mystery to me why God would have gone to the trouble to inspire 66 books that progressively reveal Himself to mankind and lay down in terms that he who runs may understand His plan of redemption when, as some claim, He reveals Himself to them individually through dreams and visions. Is God being redundant? Does Scripture need a supplement? Or is Scripture wrong when it says, "All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work" (2 Timothy 3:16,17). ...... Much has been written on these Forum pages about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, as if this were an optional post-salvific event that was visited only upon those who prayed earnestly for it. Scripture teaches that the Holy Spirit is the supernatural and sovereign agent in regeneration, baptizing ALL believers into the body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:13). The Holy Spirit also indwells, sanctifies, instructs and empowers them for service and seals them unto the day of redemption (Romans 8:9-11; 2 Cor. 3:6; Ephesians 1:13). ...... Finally, as others have pointed out, this web site is called Study Bible Forum. Relating personal experiences of dreams and visions, real or imagined; stating beliefs in personal revelation, real or imagined; and posting all this based on nothing but narration of one's experiences, uncorroborated and undocumented by Scripture, not only strains the credulity of the readers of this Forum but departs far afield of the aims and purposes of this Forum. As Doc has so aptly and accurately stated it, "This is a Bible Study Forum, not an Experience Study Forum." ..... A postscript ... How much easier it is to dream and have visions than to learn God's will through a diligent, sustained and prayerful study of His precious word. But to sit back and wait for the visions to come is not what the Bereans did and it is not what Paul told Timothy to do in 2 Timothy 2:15. Good day. --Hank | ||||||
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