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61 | Anything asked will be given | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 202355 | ||
Excellent post, Brother! Thank you WOS. So often, too often, it is that, many are confused by false teaching! Picking and choosing what "they" want, selfishly misinterpreting God's Word. I've been guilty of this myself, by the way. too often we think that God could use a little help. :-) God bless standing in His grace, and on His Word! John |
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62 | Should the Bible be free? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 202541 | ||
Correction: God's instructions "always" trump the law of man! | ||||||
63 | Should the Bible be free? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 202552 | ||
Hi Brother Hank: whom, do you know; holds the copyright? Would it be; The Royal Family? | ||||||
64 | What is, "Evangelical Religion" ? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 202619 | ||
"a) The first leading feature of Evangelical Religion is the absolute supremacy it assigns to Holy Scripture, as the only rule of faith and practice … Show us anything plainly written in that Book, and, however trying to flesh and blood, we will receive it, believe it, and submit to it. Show us anything, as religion, which is contrary to that Book, and, however specious, plausible, beautiful, and apparently desirable, we will not have it at any price … Here is rock: all else is sand. b) The second leading feature in Evangelical Religion is the depth and prominence it assigns to the doctrine of human sinfulness and corruption … All men … are not only in a miserable, pitiable, and bankrupt condition, but in a state of guilt, imminent danger, and condemnation before God. They are not only at enmity with their Maker and have no title to heaven, but they have no will to serve their Maker, no love to their Maker, and no meetness for Heaven … Hence we protest with all our heart against formalism, sacramentalism, and every species of mere external or vicarious Christianity. We maintain that all such religion is founded on an inadequate view of man's spiritual need. It requires nothing less than the blood of God the Son applied to the conscience, and the grace of God the Holy Ghost entirely renewing the heart … Next to the Bible, as its foundation, it [i.e. evangelical religion] is based on a clear view of original sin. c) The third leading feature of Evangelical Religion is the paramount importance it attaches to the work and office of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the nature of the salvation which he has wrought out for man … All who believe on Him are, even while they live, completely forgiven and justified from all things – are reckoned completely righteous before God … We hold that an experimental [i.e. experiential] knowledge of Christ crucified and interceding, is the very essence of Christianity, and that in teaching men the Christian religion we can never dwell too much on Christ himself, and can never speak too strongly of the fullness, freeness, presentness, and simplicity of the salvation there is in him for every one that believes … We say that life eternal is to know Christ, believe in Christ, abide in Christ, have daily heart communion with Christ, by simple personal faith, and that everything in religion is useful so far as it helps forward that life of faith, but no further. d) The fourth leading feature in Evangelical Religion is the high place which it assigns to the inward work of the Holy Spirit in the heart of man … We maintain that the things which need most to be pressed on men's attention are those mighty works of the Holy Spirit, inward repentance, inward faith, inward hope, inward hatred of sin, and inward love to God's law … We hold that, as an inward work of the Holy Ghost is a necessary thing to man's salvation, so also it is a thing that must be inwardly felt … there can be n o real conversion to God, no new creation in Christ, no new birth of the Spirit, where there is nothing felt and experienced within … We insist that where there is nothing felt within the heart of a man, there is nothing really possessed. e) The fifth and last leading feature in Evangelical Religion is the importance which it attaches to the outward and visible work of the Holy Ghost in the life of man … The true grace of God is a thing that will always make itself manifest in the conduct, behaviour, tastes, ways, choices and habits of him who has it. It is not a dormant thing … To tell a man he is "born of God," or regenerated, while he is living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion … Where there is the grace of the Spirit there will always be more or less fruit of the Spirit … where there is nothing seen, there is nothing possessed."-- John Charles Ryle (1816 - 1900). |
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65 | God is sovereign: So, why pray ? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 202623 | ||
[Karl Barth, the 20th-century theologian who pounded home the theme of God's sovereignty, saw no contradiction at all in a God who chooses to let prayers affect him.] "He is not deaf, he listens; more than that, he acts. He does not act in the same way whether we pray or not. Prayer exerts an influence upon God's action, even upon his existence. That is what the word 'answer' means. ... The fact that God yields to man's petitions, changing his intentions in response to man's prayer, is not a sign of weakness. He himself, in the glory of his majesty and power, has so willed it.” --Karl Barth (1886-1968) |
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66 | God is sovereign: So, why pray ? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 202637 | ||
Hi Brother BradK: Amen, I wholeheartedly agree! My apologies Sir, though it may seem convoluted when read quickly; when we carefully consider the content of the Karl Barth quote, we can see that the question; (Why pray?) is rhetorical. Sorry if I caused any confusion. :-) God bless John |
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67 | What mother was commended by Paul? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 203087 | ||
My dear young lady: After looking at your profile, and reading through some 29 questions; it is quite obvious that they are indeed homework questions. These are not the kind of questions that a Bible student would commonly ask oneself. I don't no quite who's eyes you are trying to pull the wool over my dear young lady, but, though some of us here were born at night,... it was not last night ! So, please read your Bible, AND DO YOUR HOMEWORK-!! God bless John |
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68 | Before, during, or after? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 203114 | ||
It's an allemetaphorvenulatenovatedly temple. :-) Not making fun of you, dear Sister, but this is a very difficult, if not the most difficult part of the whole of God's Holy Word. Many commentary writers refer to it (Ezek. 40-48) as such. Indeed many writers have past over it completely, while those that do chose to write of it warn us of it's difficulty. The Jews, traditionally, have not let any man of them read it till the age of thirty and have shown a knowledge of the whole of scripture. I think we should suffice it to say that 'He' is our temple, and 'we believers' dwell in 'Him'; and will forever! The following, dear Sister, Cheri, is most definitely my favorite part of all His wonderful Word. "But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me; and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them."-- John 17:13-26 ("that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.") More profoundly beautiful words, surly have never yet nor before been spoken! God bless John |
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69 | Does it Really matter? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 203443 | ||
Dear Sister, Cheri: Please read the following. From: http://www.thegracetabernacle.org/studies/gtsn_sabbath.html The Sabbath was a command given specifically to Israel. There is no biblical record whatsoever of anybody keeping the Sabbath prior to Exodus 16 (Neh. 9:13-14). Even after they received the full-blown Sabbath command (Ex. 20:8-11), Israel who often condemned the sins of her pagan neighbors, never criticized their violation of the Sabbath. The Sabbath was part of God’s ceremonial law and not grounded in His unchanging character. The Sabbath was a ceremonial law given specifically to Israel, not grounded in God’s unchanging nature. Similar to the entire old covenant, it has been fulfilled and brought to completion in Christ (Mt. 5:17). If David had a right to make an exception in the ceremonial law, Jesus had more (Mt. 12:1-8; c.f 5:21-48). Even Jesus said," The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath" (Mk. 2:27). Moreover, He called Himself the "Lord of the Sabbath" (Lk. 6:5). The Sabbath was the sign of the Old Covenant (Ex. 31:16-17; Neh. 9:14; Eze. 20:12). Because we are now under the New Covenant we are no longer under obligation to keep the Old Covenant, particularly the sign of the Old Covenant. The writer to the Hebrews remarked, "When He said, ‘A new covenant,’ He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear" (Heb. 8:13). The New Testament nowhere commands Christians to observe the Sabbath. The church is warned of many sins in the New Testament, but breaking (or observing) the Sabbath is never mentioned. The book of Acts mentions the Sabbath nine times, never once as a day of worship for Christians. If anything, the Apostle Paul rebuked the Galatians for attempting to add the observance of days to the sufficiency of Christ’s work for salvation (Gal. 4:9-11). The church even changed their day of worship from Saturday (the Jewish Sabbath) to Sunday (the Lord’s Day) (Ac. 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:2) to show that a new order had been erected with the resurrection of Christ (Jn. 20:1, 19). Jesus Christ through His redemptive work regained the Sabbath that Adam lost. Jesus Christ came to complete a redemptive work (Jn. 4:34; 5:36) by restoring the rest that was forfeited in the Garden. In following the same pattern for the first creation, Jesus Christ began the work spoken of in Genesis 3:15 (c.f. Gen. 1:3). He completed the work on the cross (Jn. 17:4; 19:30; c.f. Gen. 1:5). The work was met with God’s satisfaction by the resurrection and ascension of Christ (Rom. 1:3-4; Gen. 1:4) leading again to divine rest (Heb. 10:11-12; c.f. Gen. 2:1-3). The Sabbath was a sign that pointed to something greater. Like much of the Old Testament, the Sabbath pointed to Jesus Christ. The Old Testament Sabbath preached the gospel when it called for faith and a cessation of work (Rom. 4:4-5). We dishonor our Savior when the signs still receive the preeminence that He alone deserves. Now that Jesus is here, the signs have become obsolete (Heb. 8:13). The Apostle Paul said, "Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day--things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ" (Col. 2:16-17). Jesus is the new Joshua that leads God’s children to a greater Promised Land of rest (Mt. 1:21). Jesus is the new Sabbatical Jubilee (Lev. 25:8-10) that provides a greater cancellation of debts (Lk. 4:18-19). Jesus Christ has now become the Sabbath rest for Christians under the New Covenant. God has completed His work of the new creation. Christians are the first fruits of that creation (2 Cor.. 5:17; Gal. 6:15). Our rest, as it was enjoyed by Adam everyday, has again been restored. During this life we still deal with some remnants of the curse, but we recognize our rest in Christ (from meritorious works) through faith and daily worship (Col. 3:17). Due to His redemptive work, He has become our Sabbath rest. Jesus said, "Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light" (Mt. 11:28-30; c.f. Heb. 4:1-11). The Christian’s ultimate Sabbath rest will be enjoyed in heaven (Rev. 14:13; c.f. 14:11). Though we currently rest in Jesus Christ under the New Covenant, our supreme Sabbatical rest will be realized in heaven where we will enjoy the ultimate rest in the culmination of God’s new creation (Rev. 21:4; 22:1-2) away from the curse in the direct presence of the Lamb (Rev. 22:3). also: http://ldolphin.org/sabbathrest.html I hope this will help you with your understanding of the rest we have in Christ, who is our sabbath rest. We are in Christ and He is our rest, forever in Christ! God bless and Shalom John |
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70 | Gift of Wisdom and gift of Knowledge? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 203947 | ||
Hi Tamara: You are welcome "a bunch" :-) and a belated warm welcome to the forum! Ah, I see where you are, (I think) what I covered in my previous post of course was wisdom and knowledge as is listed as gifts of the spirit. But, in, (I Cor 2:1-8) I would suppose, Paul means that God Himself has the wisdom to know that we have nothing in us to pull ourselves up and out of the mire of sin, so, Jesus Christ, and Him crucified, is our only answer and hope for salvation. also I would say, the wisdom of God, as I take it, is, in His plain for us to know Jesus is the one and only way for us to "really" know God, and to know how wonderful and loving He really is. I don't really know if one would have any bearing on the other, but I suppose they do. The wisdom of God, in (1Cor 2) to me however, is, Divine Wisdom, indeed: What a wonderful kind and gracious God we have in Jesus Christ, our Lord and master! Just my two cents. :-) God bless John |
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71 | How do these accounts reconcile? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 204368 | ||
Dear Tam: I do hope this doesn't offend you, but I'm really not interested at all in a speculative discussion on this, or any other part of Scripture. First of all it's not what I said, please note that it was from gotquestions.org What I am concerned with is, the overall message of the Gospel. Jesus Christ was born, He lived a sinless life, He was crucified and died for our sins, He has risen from the dead, He commanded us, as believers, to go and preach His massage of salvation to the lost world, and He now sits at the Fathers right hand in glory. Speculation plus whatever else you put next to it adds up to nothing. Sola Scriptura! 1 Cor 2:2 For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. Shalom and God bless John |
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72 | How do these accounts reconcile? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 204398 | ||
Thanks for the lesson,... Tam. But I thought we were focussed on a specific part of Scripture, and was mostly referring to that. Although what I posted is the underling message of the Bible; Your question was about particular Scriptures in the 4 Gospels, and my answer by sending you an excerpt from gotquestions.org was in hope that it would put your questions about reconciling them to rest. And, what I subsequently posted, also is what I feel "very strongly" is "important" about the 4 Gospel accounts of His death and resurrection, in hope that it would help you focus on that, and not on superfluous details like the unbelievers do. Sheech! Shalom and God bless John |
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73 | Why did Jesus not want the evil spirits | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 204970 | ||
Tam: I agree that does seem to be a good explanation, but, (Is 55:8-9) Though I would be hard put indeed, to argue with explanation. Just a thought :-) Shalom and God bless John |
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74 | Why did satan dispute over moses body | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 205309 | ||
Hi Searcher: That is an interesting thread, and I believe a pretty good explanation, plus the example shown in Zechariah 3:1-3, and, Jude 1:9 in how not to act by ranting or railing, and 2 Kin 18:4 seems to make a connection as well. Thanks, Searcher, that was one explanation that makes a lot of sense. I've heard some pretty weird and wild explanations for this, including one that satin wanted to re-animate the body of Moses like some kind of zombie! God bless John |
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75 | is it's possible to stop the will of God | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 205431 | ||
Hi Cheri: And isn't it just like a Father, to speak to His bride that way about the children, when His is wroth with them? Your Children-!! Theres that old "bride" thing again. ;-) Shalom |
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76 | Idiom? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 205644 | ||
Dear Sister, Cheri: Two very well written and well done posts. Food for thought for sure! Thanks Sis. You must be really enjoying your studies. I especially liked your choice in exit.-- "The main thing though IS that He DID die and rise again and ascended to the right hand of the Father to ever intercede for me and you and all of us."-- Amen to that, Sister to me! :-) Shalom John |
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77 | Creeds and Confessions Needful? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 205884 | ||
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78 | APOLOGY ! ! ! ! | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 206218 | ||
Dear Searcher: Thank you Sir, I appreciate the encouragement very much my friend. (1 Cor 6:7), (2 Tim 2:24). God bless John |
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79 | Why is the Christian Church so divided? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 206380 | ||
Excellent post, Brother, Hoppy! And I thought you said, your eyes were not to good? As far as I can see, you see quite well! :-) "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; John 10:27 Shalom and God bless John |
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80 | What is considered work on the Sabbath? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 206711 | ||
Dear Bowler: I would like to extend my appreciation to you, for your support of the truth of God's Word, your contribution to the forum, and the scriptural support you give for you answers and notes. Thank you, Bowler. 1 Pet 1:2-3 Shalom John |
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