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61 | God forgive no matter what | 2 Cor 5:8 | ChristLifer2001 | 44503 | ||
New Creature, Okay, brother. Be blessed in Christ and may you grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord. ChristLifer2001 |
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62 | How to receive God's blessings he gives | 2 Cor 5:8 | ChristLifer2001 | 44497 | ||
ChristianLuv, If you have received Christ, you have already received God's blessings. Everything we need is found in Him. Please consider these verses: Rom 8:32 - He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Eph 1:3 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. Phil 4:19 - And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. 2 Pet 1:3 - seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. Peter makes it clear that knowing Christ in His fullness gives us everything we need for life and godliness. What more could God give you than Himself? ChristLifer2001 |
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63 | God forgive no matter what | 2 Cor 5:8 | ChristLifer2001 | 44494 | ||
New Creature, You've misunderstood what I was saying, my friend. Confession is an attitude that the Holy Spirit fosters in every believer. But confession is not asking for forgiveness. To confess means to "agree with". Even in our court systems, a criminal may confess to a crime and never seek forgiveness or have a contrite spirit about his actions. I was simply stating that it is not our confession of sin that avails us of forgiveness. It is solely in Christ's blood - Heb 9:22. While I respect Dr. Zodhiates work and have his commentaries myself along with the Greek-Hebrew study Bible, commentaries are exactly that - comments from men - and are not inspired the way the scriptures are. I do consult commentaries AFTER I have studied the scriptures, letting scripture interpret scripture, but they are not the standard of truth - God's Word is. Did you consider my questions to you? How many times can you be forgiven and cleansed of ALL sin. "All" in the Greek means "All" :). And, finally, of course OT saints continually asked for forgiveness of sins. The price had not yet been fully paid for our sins by our Savior at Calvary. The OT sacrificial system prevailed until Jerusalem was burned in AD 70. We are, in a sense, better than David and the other OT saints. Not because of anything in ourselves but because we enjoy total forgiveness. Remember how David begged the Lord not to take the Holy Spirit from him after he sinned with Bathsheba? He knew that was a distinct possibility. He knew that God's Spirit left Saul after Saul disobeyed the Lord. We, as NT believers, do not need to pray that prayer. I already cited why in my last post. One final question, New Creature: How many sins had you committed when Christ forgave them on the cross 2000 years ago? Be blessed and rest in the total forgiveness you have in Christ, brother. Please read Heb 10:17,18 when you have time. There is no more sacrifice (shedding of blood) to provide more forgiveness that what Christ's has done. It is truly finished - paid in full! ChristLifer2001 |
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64 | God forgive no matter what | 2 Cor 5:8 | ChristLifer2001 | 44401 | ||
New Creature, Your sins cannot separate you from God. Because He has forgiven them according to His blood shed under the New Covenant, as a barrier between you and God, He remembers them no more - Heb 10:17,18. While Isaiah 59:2 was true under the Old Covenant (that is why the sacrifices had to be made continually), it is not true under the New Covenant where God says He will never leave us nor forsake us. What will separate us from the love of Christ? The Holy Spirit indwells believers forever (even when they sin). This is because of the forgiveness which Christ's precious blood secured on our behalf. The same apostle who wrote 1 John 1:9 also wrote a few verses later in 1 John 2:12, "I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven (past tense - not get forgiven) you for His name's sake." Col 2:13 - "When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us ALL our transgressions." May I ask, how many times can you be forgiven ALL your transgressions? If you keep going back for more forgiveness, then you have only been forgiven SOME of your transgressions, not ALL. Consider again 1 John 1:7, "...and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from ALL sin." May I ask, how many times can you be cleansed of ALL sin? If you go back for more cleansing, then you have only been cleansed of SOME of you sin, not ALL. Heb 9:22 makes it clear that if you require more forgiveness than what Christ provided 2000 years ago at Calvary, He would have to come and shed more blood. He is not going to do that. He did it once and it was sufficient to take away the sins of the world. Also please consider in 1 John 1:3 that John states that "indeed (surely, without a doubt ) our fellowship IS with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. John was not sinless and this point and if he truly held to the "bouncing" fellowship view, he would have said, "Sometimes I'm in fellowship with God, and sometimes I'm not - it depends on if I have unconfessed sin or not. To the contrary, John makes it clear that the condition for fellowship is accepting the gospel that he was proclaiming - 1 John 1:1-3. Praying that you will rest in the finished work of our Lord. ChristLifer2001 |
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65 | Where are the "Seven Thunders"? | Mark 9:1 | ChristLifer2001 | 44374 | ||
Searcher56, The seven peals of thunder are found in Rev 10:2-4. However, John was not allowed to write about them. Curiouser and curiouser, huh? ChristLifer2001 |
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66 | God forgive no matter what | 2 Cor 5:8 | ChristLifer2001 | 44364 | ||
ChristianLuv, There is only one thing in this universe that provides the forgiveness of sins - the blood of Jesus Christ - Heb 9:22. Repentance does not obtain forgiveness, confession does not obtain forgiveness, asking God to forgive does not obtain forgiveness. Sounds heretical doesn't it? As Christians, we receive the forgiveness provided by Christ's blood when we accept Him as our Savior. The problem lies with folks misunderstanding of what repentance is and what provides forgiveness. Repentance means changing your mind about God and how you can have a relationship with Him. It does not mean "to stop sinning." If repentance meant the cessation of sin, none of us have ever or could ever truly repent down here on earth because we all still do sin. There are basically two ways people try to get to God. For Gentiles, if they are even concious of God, they try to get to Him by being good i.e. religion. For Jews, they try to get to God by keeping the Law. Neither way will suffice. Christ alone is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to God (or stays in a relationship with God) except through Him and what He has done. So any other way of getting to God needs to be repented of. We need to change our minds about how a sinful man can be justified before a holy God. There is only one way. And, as I said, it is the blood of Christ alone that provides the forgiveness of sins. Period. It is our faith in that blood - not our actions - that avails us of that forgiveness when we receive Christ. Therefore, the issue really is, not will God forgive, but has the person who keeps on practicing his sins really placed his faith in Christ? Only God and that person knows the heart. But if a person continues to enjoy sinning and persisting in that life-style, then there is serious reason to question what they understood the gospel to be. The Holy Spirit indwells all true believers and sin grieves Him. It is inconsistent with His nature and it is inconsistent with our new natures as Christians. A true Christian who continues to willfully sin will be miserable in doing so. It goes against the new creation that he is in Christ (2 Cor 5:17) and he will reap consequences of his sin (or he will hurt others with it). So it is not a question of repentance or forgiveness, it is a question of does this person understand what happened to him when he received Christ? Christ's presence in us will set us free from sin's power as we realize that we died to it - Rom 6. But most Christians only know of Christ's death only. They don't know that they were crucified, buried, and risen with Christ. They don't know that they are now seated in heavenly places with Him. They think that the gospel is a self-improvement program when it is really a self-denial program so that Christ may be all-in-all. Hope this helps. ChristLifer2001 |
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67 | Is the Sabbath to be kept holy? | Ex 31:14 | ChristLifer2001 | 44348 | ||
Terri, No, the Sabbath is not relevant today. Why? 1. It was given to the OT Jews. 2. It was part of the Law which we, as believers, are no longer under. 3. We have entered a permanent Sabbath rest (Heb 4:1) where every day is a day of resting in Christ's completed work. Colossians 2:16 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-- Hope this helps. ChristLifer2001 |
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68 | holy ghost | 2 Tim 1:14 | ChristLifer2001 | 44339 | ||
Elder, Searcher has given a couple of good references. Here are a couple more: 1 Cor 3:16 - Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 1 Cor 6:19 - Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? Technically, He dwells in the spirit part of you which has been created in righteousness and holiness at your new birth. Hope this helps. ChristLifer2001 |
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69 | how many times should we repent. | 2 Pet 3:9 | ChristLifer2001 | 44334 | ||
Dear Elder, To repent, in the simplest definition, means to change your mind about something. Most of the time in the OT, repentance was changing the mind about sin. This was the purpose of the Law, to show people that they were sinners and not holy like God. In the gospels, John the Baptist's message of repentance was to change your mind about how you were justified by God i.e. turn from trying to keep the Law to accepting the Lamb of God as your justification. After Christ's death and resurrection, repentance is often associated with how we (sinful men) can get to a holy God. There is only one way - through Christ. So in that sense, there is only one repentance - turning from whatever system or religion we use to get to God to God's only provision - Christ - 2 Pet 3:9. There is also a repentance in the way of changing your mind about sins. This can be a daily thing but it is not a prerogrative for coming to God. God, in Christ, has forgiven all of our sins so they no longer stand in the way between us and Him. They do, however, still have consequences that we can suffer and they can grieve and quench the Holy Spirit's working in our lives. But while we are in these bodies of flesh, we will never perfectly repent of every sin. If we could, we would have no need of a Savior. Hope this helps. |
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