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NASB | Luke 16:18 ¶ "Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 16:18 ¶ "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries one who is divorced from her husband commits adultery. [Matt 5:31, 32] |
Subject: Born into the Kingdom of God? |
Bible Note: "Ken, I've been thinking about this one all night long, I'm wondering if you wouldn't mind telling me the REAL ISSUE of why Jesus came to earth...other than just get people saved." Thanks for this question, Curtman. If we can grasp what some of our older scholars of the word have said I believe the church can be truly renewed/ I like what Oswald Chambers says here: November 12th. My Utmost for His Highest THE TRANSFIGURED LIFE "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." 2 Corinthians 5:17 What idea have you of the salvation of your soul? The experience of salvation means that in your actual life things are really altered, you no longer look at things as you used to; your desires are new, old things have lost their power. One of the touchstones of experience is - Has God altered the thing that matters? If you still hanker after the old things, it is absurd to talk about being born from above, you are juggling with yourself. If you are born again, the Spirit of God makes the alteration manifest in your actual life and reasoning, and when the crisis comes you are the most amazed person on earth at the wonderful difference there is in you. There is no possibility of imagining that you did it. It is this complete and amazing alteration that is the evidence that you are a saved soul. What difference has my salvation and sanctification made? For instance, can I stand in the light of 1 Corinthians 13, or do I have to shuffle? The salvation that is worked out in me by the Holy Ghost emancipates me entirely, and as long as I walk in the light as God is in the light, He sees nothing to censure because His life is working out in every particular, not to my consciousness, but deeper than my consciousness. ------------------------------------------ There certainly is a "Plumline" we are placed against when we seek to follow and experience Christ in our lives. Certain of these "feelings" given us to convict us SHOULD lead us to the cross the we might see our error, ask for forgiveness, and then get on with becoming a son God desires to bring into His Glory. This is why Jesus, the man, had to prove Himself and what the scripture means when it says: Hebrews 5:8 Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. Ephes. 4:20-22 But ye have not so learned Christ; [21] If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: [22] That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; Philip. 4:9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you. These ARE the works we must be about. I hope I've been a help |