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61 | helping a friend | John 16:8 | bowler | 206647 | ||
BLESSED 136 Couple of things here. There are times, as I have seen in other churches than my own, where a preacher feels they are hearing from God that someone needs salvation pariticularly, as if some needed it more than others who also did not respond. In my humble opinion this is a bit sensational and does nothing to actualy prompt the lost to come forward as your friend is showing it does not. The Holy Spirit does all the work, the preacher just gives the call. Singling someone out just embarrasses them and does not help them to believe in Jesus. Why should your friend listen to these preachers? If your friend knows they can't believe yet going forward without believing won't help at all, it might result in a false confession, but not in salvation. When your friend asks what it means that they were singled out, it might be more profitable to explain what the call of salvation is for - to come forward because of seeing that they are a sinner who needs salvation. That is what the altar call is for, to recognize that you are a sinner and go forward to acknowledge that you are ready to ask Jesus for forgivness of sins, or that you did at home, or in the pew - you are answering the call to salvation. Praying with your friend that salvation will come some day? That would be something to do on your own for your friend. Question - why is your friend praying for salvation to come if they don't actualy come to Jesus? Salvation is a choice to make on the part of the sinner who wants to be saved. Either they are sure they don't want to be saved, or they are sure they do want to be saved, there is no such thing as a gray area. You need to ask your friend what is in the way of them taking the free gift. Is it impossible to believe Jesus died and rose again? Is it impossible to believe that Jesus is God? Is it impossible to believe that Jesus forgives sins? Is it impossible to stop arguing with God that the sins they, or someone else committed are realy wrong so they can't ask for forgivness? There has got to be a reason why this friend of yours is not taking the gift, and it has nothing to do with the altar call, and nothing to do with why the preachers keep aksing them to come forward. It has everything to do with them and God and whether or not they can accept God period. What is happening to your friend is that they are either on the fence and believe that Jesus forgives sins and is God and that they are a sinner, but have problems with God and what God will do to unrepentant sinnners, or they do not believe any of it anyway and and either wish they could or will never believe because they want to believe something else. The focus is not on the church, the preacher, or what does or does not happen with those two things, the focus is on your friend and whether or not they believe or not in Jesus, and then whether they are refusing to take salvation because they are fighting with God. The phone calls, the prayers, the going to church, the talking and talking about it all are a diversion from the truth of their true relationship with God. I would pray alone and take them to church and maybe offer to pray with them for Jesus to reveal Himself to them. You don't get saved without a revelation from Christ that He is God, there is no other way. It is not an understanding, it is not a feeling, it is not a conversation, it is very God and them. blessings abound, bowler |
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62 | Paul's circumstances writing Rom 8:31-39 | Rom 16:23 | bowler | 206617 | ||
nps50 Paul was likely writing from Corininth when he had Terius write the letter to Rome - Romans 16:22 I, Tertius, who write this letter, greet you in the Lord. It was about the year 56 to 57 AD and Paul was in his third missionary journey near the end. Paul was probably at Corinth - Romans 16:23 Gaius, host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer greets you, and Quartus, the brother. Pheobe probably was the one delivering the letter - Romans 16:1 I commend to you our sister Phoebe, how is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea. Paul intended to come for two reasons to Rome - 1)To allow the church at Rome to take part in a collection while on his journey to Spain - Romans 1:24 going to Spain, hoping to be helped on my way by you. 2)Paul intended to come to Rome to preach the gospel - Romans 1:14, 15 I am under obligation to both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. So, for my part, I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. There is something interesting here - the church at Rome was Jewish and Gentile, but Paul does not mention here his desire to preach to the Jews and to the Gentiles, he mentions preaching to the Gentiles and the Barbarians, the wise and the foolish. This is a play on words Greeks were considered to be wise and Barbarians were considered to be fooish. And these two groups are who he wants to preach to, but why? Rome was a very cosmopolitan city, sophisticated, and full of intellectuals and educated people. In verse 13 Paul writes that he does not want them to be unaware that he has been planning to come and has been prevented from coming. The implication is there that he is answering to a charge that he has been unwilling to come. Then in verse 14 he speaks of intending to preach to the wise and the foolish. He is letting them know he intends to preach to the wise, that he is not reluctant to come do so, perhaps there has been a charge that he is reluctant to preach to those who are his intellectual superiors at Rome. He says in verse 16 that he is not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of salvation to the believers, first to the Jews and then to the Gentiles. Romans 8:31-39 cannot be divorced as "circumstances surrounding Paul when he wrote 8:31-19", from the circumstances surrounding Paul when he wrote the whole letter. There was one circumstance, one occaission, he was settig forth his entire theology to the church at Rome before his arrival there to prepare them for his preaching that he intended to do. Romans chapter 8 is part of a much broader stroke of the pen - it is part of the chapters on sanctification and deals with the aspect of sanctification called Christian perseverance. Romans is broken down into parts - Romans 1:1-7 Greetings Romans 1:8-15 Introduction Romans 1:16, 17 The Theme Romans 1:18-3:20 Need for the gospel Romans 3:21-5:21 Justification Romans 6-8 Sanctification Romans 9-11 Israel Romans 12-16 Application It is unclear from your question if you meant what were Paul's reasons and occaission for writing the passage, or what was he doing in his life apart from writing it when he wrote it? The first answer would be that he was preparing the church at Rome to hear him preach. The second answer would be that Paul was near the end of his third missionary journey and was writting from Corinth. blessings abound, bowler |
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63 | Lead us not | Matt 6:13 | bowler | 206585 | ||
thaylon Where it says in Mathew 6:13 the words "lead us not into tempatation" there are three ways to translate the Greek word that means tempation. In Acts 20:19 Paul uses the same Greek word as "trials" - in effect saying how he served the Lord and endured "trials", the same word as "temptation". Then there is Hebrwes 3:8 - Israel provoked God in the time of their "trials". The most interesting though it James 1:2, and 1:12 - some bibles say that "consider it all joy when you encounter various "trials". And then "blessed is the man who persevers under trial". Other Bibles say "consider it all joy when you encounter various "temptations"", and then "blessed is a man who persevers in "temptation". The word "temptation" in Mathew 6:13 can actually be "trials", or "proving", according to the Strong's Concordance. That would render this verse "and do not lead us into "testing, or trials, or prooving", but deliver us from evil. Remember that God is capable of temtpting no one as He has absolutely no guile, no deceit? Then this verse can't be talking about God "leading, or not leading into tempatation", only the devil leads anyone "into temptation". This part of the prayer is about asking God not to lead us into trials and testings and proovings. According to other parts of the NT we will be led into testing and prooving and through trials and it will be for our good, to improve our character. But Jesus is plainly telling us to ask not to be led by God into these things, but to deliver us from evil. We get tested and tried by evil circumstances that are allowed by God to happen to us, and these are places where we can stand or fall in the faith. What Jesus is asking is of wisdom, to ask not to be led to places where we might fail the test of faith by God. Another thing to note is that this is part of the body of the prayer - The prayer as a model starts with worship of God, then moves to asking for His kingdom to come, which is praying in accordance with His will, then the prayer moves to things we need. Notice the simplicity of the needs, the need for daily food, the need to forgive and thereby be forgiven, and then a plea not to be led to place where our faith will stumble. Then the end where there is more worship. I admire what you are doing, you are obviously taking years to prayer through one portion of scripture and living it out. How many of us really do that? Scripture should be prayed through and lived out, not just studied for fun. blessings abound, bowler |
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64 | old versus new testament | Rom 3:1 | bowler | 206576 | ||
Hennie It has come to my attention that I posted you and stated that the first time around you asked this question that "doclinda2" posted it instead of you. No harm, no foul. Interesting though, that you choose to post it again? God Bless You. blessings abound, bowler |
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65 | old versus new testament | Rom 3:1 | bowler | 206568 | ||
Hennie It is not clear from your question what verse or passage you are asking about? And your question is not as clear as it could be either? No offense to you, but it makes it harder to answer you when one has to try to figure out what you mean. The church did not start until Acts chapter 2, it did not exist while Jesus was among us, and it did not exist in the Old Testament either. That makes the second half of your question not work because there was no church in the Old Testament "era". There was Judaism in the OLd Testament "era", and it was only for Jews, and "aliens" who chose to convert to Judaism. The church when it started was composed of Jews, Gentiles, Samaritans, and Barbarians. Romans chapters 1 through 3, and 11 talks about the Jews and the Gentiles as both being members of the church as equal partakers of Christ. The Judaism of the Old Testament was only for the Jews. We are called the church, the "ecclesia" because because that is what Jesus told Peter He would build. Jesus tells Peter whose name means "little rock", that He Jesus, will build His church upon this "boulder", meaning Himself. The church is only the building of the body of believers in Jesus Christ, it is built on His body and blood, what He did at the cross. The promises given to the New Testament church are different than the promises given to the Old Testament Jews. The Old Testament Jews were promised a promise land, inheritance to the eternal throne of God in the form of a man, the Messiah to come save Israel from oppression, and the Son of God come to heal and to free the captives from bondage. The New Testament church is promised the removal of the eternal damnation for sins and eternal life with God, is promised a priest who intercedes eternally to remove sins, is promised a king to rule over the elect of God who are saved, is promised a prophet who fulfills all the requirements listed by Moses in Exodus chapter 18 to lead the people to God. The New Testament has better promises to us than the Old Testament did to the Jews. Why then, live according to the Old Testament? I similar question got asked by doclinda2, go to "primary", click on the question, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the branches down there. blessings abound, bowler |
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66 | why must we been baptize | Acts 2:38 | bowler | 206557 | ||
Hennie Peter was preaching the gospel of the salvation of Jesus Christ to the Jews and then they asked him the following - Acts 2:37, 38 Now when they heard this they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brethren, what shall we do? Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Once they heard the gospel message they were convicted of sin and it grieved them so they asked what they should do about it. Peter tells them to repent of sins and be baptized. Jesus told the disciples to go out and baptized disciples - Mathew 28:19, 20 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I command you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. It is a command of Jesus that disciples of Christ, those who come to believe in Him and repent of sin, that they get baptized. Baptism is a symbol of going down into the death and grave of Jesus Christ because He died for your sins by going down into the water and you dying to sin, and coming up out of the water, out of the grave and of death and of your sin, to the resurrection of life in Jesus Christ as a symbol of His resurrection from the dead erasing our sins. Because Jesus was resurrected we too will be resurrected. Baptism is a public declaration of what you have done in Jesus, repented and been born again into eternal life by Him. If you have been saved, you should obey Jesus and be baptized by a body of believers and join a body of believers and learn more about Christ by fellow shipping with them. blessings abound, bowler |
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67 | difrence between old and new testament | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 206555 | ||
Hennie That is a very big question. The Old Testament is a lot of things. It is the whole history of the begnning of mankind with God. It is the history of the begnning of the fall of man. It is the history of the first Gentiles, the first Israelites, the first Hebrews, and the first Jews, which last three are not quite all the same thing, although each flows from the other. It is the history of the Gentiles, the first Israelite Patriarchs, the Iraelites as captives and freed, as wandering and finding the promised land, as under Judges then under kings, as both faithful to God and as rebellious. It is the history of the genealogy of Jesus. It is the history of the Law and the Prophets. It is the history of the major prophets and the minor prophets. It is the history of God revealing Himself in creation and by miraculous revelation so that everyone would choose to worship Him and be saved by faith. It is the history of the Jews and their relationship with God. The New Testament is the history of Jesus Christ and the Genitile and Jewish world receiving the offer of salvation. It is the history of the birth and life of the first century church. It is the revelaion of Jesus Christ as God. It is the revelation of the meaning of history from the time of Jesus to the the end times of the earth. It is the fulfillment of OT prophecy of the coming and work of Jesus Christ. It is the history of the change from the old covenants in the OT to the one new covenant in the NT of salvation by Jesus blood. It is the final revelation as sctipture from God to bring people everywhere to salvation in Jesus Christ. We live according to the NT because it contains the message of salvation and a model of how to live in that new salvation and we live according to the specifications in the the new covenant not according to the specifications of the old covenants. The old covenants required the ability to uphold every part of the law, which man could not do. If you are guilty of one law, you are quilty of all law, therefore you cannot be saved by the law. You are saved apart from the law by faith alone, by grace alone, and not by any works. Read Romans 3 through 8 to understand this part about how we are saved. Read Hebrews 11 to understand that no one ever got saved in the OT or the NT without faith, it was always by faith, that did not happen only in the NT. But as Hebrews 11 says, we have obtained what promises those in the OT did not receive. They were promised better things than what they received, yet we have received what they were promised - they received approval by faith, but we have been given better promises. They did not have Jesus as their advocate in heaven interceding for them for every sin as a high priest. They did not have Jesus as their king and enter directly into His kingdom at the moment of belief. They did not have Jesus as their prophet and receive the promises He prohesied that we receive. They are still saved, but we have been saved under a better more effective covenant and that is why we live by the NT and not the OT. Why go backwards to attain that which has not the power to save and to justify and to sanctify and glorify as what Jesus has given us? There is no longer any need to live as if we were under old covenants which do not have the power to save, or to justify, or to sanctify, or to glorify. We are free indeed, free in Christ, we have the liberty of Christ and no longer have the condemnation of the law, we are no longer waiting for the prophecies of salvation to come true, they are here. Live according to Christ Jesus, purpose to know nothing eccept Christ and Him crucified. You need nothing else, the old has passed away, the new is here, drink it, eat it, here is His body and blood. Take the new covenant and leave off the old. blessings abound, bowler |
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68 | What is holines | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 206549 | ||
flow Saint are "called out ones", we are called out of the evil world and the Holy Spirit works on us and makes us holy. Ephesians 5:26 so that He might sanctify her, having washed her by the washing of the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. God is busy washing us with the word, His holy word, and this cleans us up, by the power of the Holy Spirit. If you want to be holy, be washed clean by studying and applying the word of God to your life with much prayer and God will complete a good work, which He started in you to make you holy in His sight. blessings abound, bowler |
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69 | am i a truly converted ? | 1 Cor 9:27 | bowler | 206548 | ||
docanlinda2 This verse is about runnig the race of faith as if to win the race. Here is a brain teaser for you about what Paul is saying here about not wanting to be disqualied that my pastor once told us in an illustration of what this verse really means - Can you run a race, be on a team with others in that race and lose the race, but still be part of the team? Why yes you can! And this is what Paul is talking about here, being on the team, but winning or losing the fight, the race, not getting the prize! Look at the preceding verse - 1 Corinthians 9:24-26 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receive the prize? Run in such a way that you man win. Everyone who competes in the games exerts self-control in all things. They then do it to recieve a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. This is talking about running the race of faith to get the rewards of that faith, not losing salvation! Paul is using the anology of being an athelete who competes for a prize, a wreath, the winners crown. We have been promised rewards for our work, for our walk, for our "running the race as if to win". Here - 1 Corinthians 3:12 Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work. If any man's work remains, he will recieve a reward. If any man's work is burnt up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet as through fire. Do you see what is says there - if your work as a Christians is burnt up you will still be saved? This is what Paul means by "but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified". Paul is talking about being a holy person by doing Romans 12:1 - to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual sercive of worship - so that his preaching, his good works, will not be "disqualified" by bad deeds done in his body. So this verse does not have anything to do with losing or keeping salvation, it has what to do with "running the race in such a way as to reap eternal rewards and not be disqualified from receiving them". blessings abound, bowler |
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70 | will most people go to hell? | Matt 7:14 | bowler | 206547 | ||
docandlinda2 Doc makes a good point there in that commentary that the road to destruction is an easier trek, sin feels good or no one would be doign it, and it entangles the lost on the broad road to hell. The call to be saved goes out to many, but one few get in because only a few get called out of sin. We can't get out of sin on our own steam, we need help to even choose to get out. Mathew 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen. This is another indicator that most people will not go to heaven, not only as in your verse, where the majority trod the broad road on their own choice to hell, but only a few will get called off the road and be placed on the narrow path to heaven. blessings abound, bowler |
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71 | do some Christians not make heaven? | Matt 7:21 | bowler | 206546 | ||
docandlinda2 As your verse indicates those who do the will of the Father make into heaven. Look what John says - 1 John 3:6 No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. That is one side of the coin. Here is another side of the coin from the same book - 1 John 2:2 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous. Those two verses together mean you are not of God if you "continually" sin, but if you do sin, turn around and ask the "Advocate" for forgiveness and stop sinning. Here is another coin - First side - Romans 7:19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. Second side - Romans 8:1 - 4 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us; who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Here is a principle - Romans 3:28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law. Nothing else is required to be saved other than faith in Jesus Christ that He died and rose again for our sins and that He is Lord, by this we are saved. But here is the opposite side of that same coin of a qualifying faith. James 2:18 But someone may will say, You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works. This sounds on the surface as that true faith in Jesus is faith by works. Now, the principle in this James passage is not that faith is gained by works, but that, faith is evidenced by good works as fruit of that faith being genuine faith. Jesus said, by their fruits you will know them; the bad tree has bad fruit and the good tree has good fruit, and only those who do the works of My Father will enter heaven. It is not true that if you are converted and believe in Jesus that you will just have a full understandig of the will of the Father. That takes a life time of prayer, study, worship, and praise to understand the will of the Father and to be able to do it. The Holy Spirit sanctifies us to do the will of the Father, understand the will of the Father in order to do it. Sanctification is a life time work of the Holy Spirit in the believer - Read Romans chapter 6, which is about sanctification, and chapter 8, which is about christian perseverance in the faith. To directly answer your question all "true" Christians make it to heaven - once saved always saved, by faith alone, by grace alone. There are going to be "false brethren" who say that they believe, but do not and will not. But you and I cannot say with any certainty at all who these are, only God knows. There will be some very "pious Christians" who appear to have the right goods who merely walk through life doing "good works" who will not make it in because they never repented and took Jesus as Lord. They went to church all their lives and think they are saved and work in the church doing all kinds of things. There are others who do not appear from their behavior or life to be "true" Christians, they seem to be always messing up big time, but God knows who are really His, and these "mess ups" will indeed go to heaven based on faith alone, by grace alone. These "mess ups" keep on asking for forgiveness of sins all the time and truly have salvation, but they are not all the way cleaned up by the Holy Spirit. Their character needs work, their very lives need work, and the devil is fighting hard to keep them out of heaven, and the devil may win a whole lot of battle, over these folks, but God will win the war. What we are called to do is to look to our own salvation with great fear and trembling and to examine ourselves to see if indeed we ourselves are in the faith. What we are not called to do is to examine others to see if they are in the faith and look to whether or not they are truly saved, that is God's business. We are suppossed to love our brethren and our enemies as well. There is a verse that says that those who jduge others have become judges of the law and not doers of the law. This is no accusation of your motives in asking this question though, please don't be offended by what I have written. blessings abound, bowler |
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72 | What | Job 42:5 | bowler | 206535 | ||
swcn Job starts out as God allowing Satan to test Job to see if Job would curse God it the protective hedge that God put around Job were to be removed. The story moves on with Satan being allowed to kill Job's offspring and afflict Job physically until Job despaired unto death. Then there is a very long part of Job where Job's friends all have their say to Job for 7 years as to what he must have done to deserve this punishment from God and about the character of God. Then Job stops listening to his friends and starts talking to God about despairing of life and asks, being a righteous man, and asks for death telling God this is not right. God starts talking back to Job and tells Job he cannot question the judgment of God and describes Himself as the great and mighty creator and asks Job if Job still thinks he can question His maker. Job repents in dust and ashes and God restores everything to Job even better than before and tells Job to pray for his friends because they spoke wrong. Job prayed for his friends. Satan lost the bet he made with God that Job would curse God and God used the faith of Job to win the bet. blessings abound, bowler |
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73 | who said if I perish I perish and who di | Esth 4:16 | bowler | 206534 | ||
steeler David had Uriah the Hitite killed because Uriah's wife was pregnant with David's baby and Davind desired to keep Bathsheba- 2 Samuel 11:3 - 26, 12:9, 10. No harm no foul, next time try splitting this type of thing into two different questions? blessings abound, bowler |
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74 | who said if I perish I perish and who di | Esth 4:16 | bowler | 206532 | ||
steeler This is from Esther "Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens also will fast in the same way. And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish." blessings abound, bowler |
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75 | Compare Christ and Melchizedek | Hebrews | bowler | 206519 | ||
Junikkits I woould say that there are actually more similarities between them then differences! Hebrews chapter 7 speaks at length about how Mechizedek'a priesthood and Christs priesthood - Here are some interesting facts - They are both of the same priesthood. Christ's priesthood arose from Melchizedek's. Melchizedek had no anscestors' no genealogy, no beginning and no end and remains a priest perpetually like Jesus. Both were high priests. The both bear the name, "king of righteousness" and "king of Salem". Some say Melchezidek was Jesus come early in a theophany because no one could possibly be without beginning or end and be a perpetual priest except Jesus. Differences - Melchizedek mysteriously appeared from nowhere and dissappeared to nowhere, but Jesus was born and died and rose again. Melchizedek accepted tithes which Jesus did not do. You see only two differences and five similarities there, so they were more alike then not. blessings abound, bowler |
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76 | could this be a sign from above? | Matt 12:39 | bowler | 206459 | ||
maroon72 I mean you no harm or ill will, please be careful about seeing "signs" in things as to thinking that God is working in your life. The devil can perform "signs" and decieve you, you cannot be sure that what you see is good, or right, or from God. This is not meant to hurt you, this is just a verse about those who were seeking for signs in Jesus' day - Mathew 12:39 But He answered and said to them, "An evil and adulteress generation craves for a sign; and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet." This was about the Jews seeking a sign from Jesus perhaps to see if He was the promised one, the Messiah. You are not after the same thing, but the principle of not seeking for a sign is there. You really have to get to know a person very well before you think that they are the one for you. That takes prayer and knowing that this is what God wants for your life becuase you take the time to see what the person is about and God confirming to you in one way or another that this is the one for you. blessings abound, bowler |
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77 | Honoring your Father | Gen 29:19 | bowler | 206438 | ||
krystyk We have a few instances in the Bible of the father of the bride literaly giving the bride away to the groom by way of making an agreement with the groom or the groom's father to do so and according to Deuteronomy included a dowery. A woman was property of her husband and was being given as property by her father to her future husband to become his property. But of course we do not see women as "property being given away as property" anymore. We see a happy father "giving away" a happy bride to a happy groom as being a father's right to give his blessing to the prospective groom that the fahter is entrusting the bride to the groom and for the bride as that her father has blessed her to have his permission (the traditional view) to go be married to the groom. That may very well be what also happened in Biblcial times. What we don't have is a lot of records of how ceremonies were conducted by families to marry their children and how that was conducted in the OT or the NT, IN THE BIBLE. I have seen mothers giving away daughters when the father was either absent from the family, or dead. I have seen the grandfather take the dead father's place as head of the family. I have seen the step-father taking place of the estranged father. I have seen the Uncle from the mother's or father's side take the place of the absent or dead father. I have seen the bride walk the aisle alone. I have seen the brother of the bride walk the bride. Everyone today considers it an honor to be walking the bride down the aisle no matter who gets to do it, although most prefer to see the father honored by being the one to be asked or expected to do it. We can say this about it all in Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you. To be obedient to the Lord your God and get the blessing, why not honor your father in this and receive the promise of a prolonged life. I would say however that the verse applies to a life long commitment to honor your parents and no one should make empty gestures out of tradition at the last minute. You only have one father though no matter how it went, God gave you only one to honor as your father. blessings to you if you are getting married, if you believe just make sure it is to a believer as the Bible says to do, it will go better. blessings abound, bowler |
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78 | Following Jesus | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 206433 | ||
NightJay0044 First things first as they say! You need a church home first, because you repented of your sins and took the salvation of Jesus Christ. This is your Minnesota Yellow Pages on line, you will find your county in here and start searching for a church - http://www.superpages.com/yellowpages/C-Churches/S-MN/ The Bible says in Hebrews 10:25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near. The church is a body of believers and each believer has a function as a member of the body of Christ - there is the pastor teacher who is there to teach you about Christ and the Bible and to lead you as a member of the body. The Bible says in 2 Timothy 2:5 that the believer is like an athelete who must compete according to the rules. You have to start from the beginning in your walk of faith in obedience to the rules Jesus and the aposltes have laid down in the Bible. Acts 2:38 says repent and be baptized. Baptism is a symbol of your dying to sin and rising to be a new man in Christ - being reborn, a symbol of that you were born again. You go down into the water as a symbol of Christ's death and going down into the grave, and you come up out of the water as a symbol of Christ rising from the dead to erase your sins. That is why it is a symbol, very important. There are churches that do not believe it is just a symbol, they believe that it is the actual taking away of sins by getting baptized in the water. I would say based on this that you should be baptized again and would like you to think about what baptism means and decide for yourself, now that you are a grown man, if being sprinkled with water as an infant qualifies as the symbol of going down into Jesus death and coming back up as the symbol of being born again. Baptism is not a requirement of being saved, but it is a requirement of being true to the commands for a believer in the Bible. But you have to be in a church as a prospective member intending to remain with them in order to do so. You can witness the simple gospel of salvation to anyone, anytime - we are all called to do this. Try memorizing Romans 10:9, 10 as part of your witnessing in order to give the lost the most basic information about how to get saved after you tell them why they need to be saved, that they are sinners. You may find that this is something you will have to do on your own, not all churches are busy going out in groups doing this, although some do. The expectation is that everyone will do this in their everyday lives when they meet or talk to people, strangers or those you know, doesn't matter. If this is very important to you, it might be a consideration in choosing a church home. You asked what Jesus wants you to do? I think He is already leading you as you seem to be thinking about getting a church home and of spreading His word, doing His work. Jesus wants us all to do lots of things the best way to find out what is to read the whole New Testament and as you go through make a list of the things you see Jesus and the apostles telling every believer to do. I will help you out here, but don't take this as a short cut okay? You have to be held responsible for having a personal relationship with Christ from your side through prayer, fellowship, worship, and study. You can continue that right now by studying. John 15:12, Mathew 22:37-40, 1 John 3:16-19, 1, John 2:15-17, James 1:5-13, Titus 2:1-15, 2 Timothy 2:15, 2 Timothy 3:16, 17, 2 Thessaolonians 3:6-13, 1 Thessalonians 5:12-21, 2 Corinthians 13:5-8, Mathew 28:19, 20 There is so much more there about what to be doing to follow Christ, but it is up to you to go study and to go to a permanent church to learn what it all is, to follow Christ. That is a life time's worth of study and Christian growth my brother, you will never stop finding out what Jesus requires of you by living out His words. Here is another one for you to ponder about what the disciples of Jesus did or did not do about gathering together and going to "church" - try studying the Bible to find out when the church started and what they did or did not do about gathering togther, as what they did is the model for why there is a church and why we go there. Here is a clue for you to help you out - go get a Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, which you can get at any major books store for 20 dollars (its huge and its worth the expense) and start looking up single words about that last issue I mentioned, like disciple, gathered, church, house, temple, preached, teaching, laid hands on. This tool works by showing you every verse of the Bible where the word appears. See what you find out about what was really going on about evangelizing and going to "church". Amen brother, welcome to the body of Christ! blessings abound, bowler |
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79 | why did god choose levites | Ex 32:29 | bowler | 206431 | ||
son of god Aaron himself was a Levite - Exodus 4:14 The the anger of the Lord burned against Moses, and He said, "Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite?" Moses and Aaron were both Levites, they were brothers. Aaron, in fact not only made the golden calf with his own hands, but ordered a feast be made for the next day, and may have offered peace offerings to it as Israels' priest. But when Moses came back down the mountain he lied to Moses and told Moses that the people entreated Aaoron to make them a golden calf and that Aaron merely told them to give him their gold, but that the golden calf jumped out of the fire by itself fully made for the people to worshiip. Then Moses says, whoever is for the Lord, come to me! And the Levites came, so it seems that unlike Aaron the Levite the rest of the Levites may have had nothing to do with the whole affair. In Exodus you have the Levites being appointed by God to work in the tabernacle and take it down and set it up in Exodus 1:49-51. Then there is in Exodus 2:5, 6 the Lord telling Moses to bring the Levites near and to set them before Aaron the priest to serve him, and to perform the duties for him and the whole congregation to do the service of the tabernacle. This is the second time that that service of any Levites is mentioned by the Lord as priests other than Aaron. The first time after just Aaron is in Exodus 29:9, 10, the Lord tells Moses to gird Aaron and his sons and bind caps on them and they shall have the priesthood. God foreordains everything, and everything is in His plan, He chose the Levites before they were born in that sense. It seems like at first the Levites choosen, being Moses and Aaron is because of Moses heart is toward the salvation of Israel from Egypt and Aaron is chosen as Moses mouth piece. Later it seems as if, as you say, the Levites as a group appear to be for the Lord, and apparently, although we can't be sure, did not worship the gloden calf, even though Aaron played a part there. I would be hard put to make a parellel between a holy Jesus who drank no wine and Aaron who made a golden calf, ordered a feast for worshipping it, and then may have done the offerings for it as Israel's priest. Since men are all sinners it would seem more likely that the Lord chose some to be holy and be His priests, rather than that they did not sin. Genesis 49:5-7, states that the Levi and Simeon were bloody and that their soul would not enter Israel's council, not their glory be in the assembly, and cursed be their anger, and scatter them in Israel. It seems very unlikely that this is any prophecy about the whole tribe of Levi, it seems more about Levi himself and says nothing about being priests. The only thing that could be said that relates to the whole tribe of Israel would be that the sons of Levi would have no inheritance in Israel because of Levi's sin. Over and over we have that the Lord gives the sons of Levi no inheritance because they are priests and their inheritance has to come from the gifts to them as their inheritance. They were appointed cities and land surrouding cities to graze their flocks and were appointed rulers over cities of refuge with land around those. blessinsg abound, bowler |
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80 | Betryed by Friend | John 14:6 | bowler | 206413 | ||
CharlieH As it is true that God will use whomever He wants to draw a child of God to His throne of grace how ever He chooses to we cannot say that God would have or could have used someone better or different because it all didn't work out later. God only has a first plan to especially save each one of us, there is not a second plan to how we come to His grace. We can't really give advice here, but if your wife is a believer then perhaps you might be able to guide her to an understanding of at least how you feel about her safety. Ephesians 5:28, 29 - we are to love our wives as ourselves and that includes protecting them. As spouses we can't change the past and redo what got done, the good parts, or the bad parts, but we can let it go and walk in unity as one person. Ephesians 4:3 being diligent to perserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. blessings abound, bowler |
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