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Subject: Is God hand so short that he cannot lead |
Bible Note: Tim Be fair, I haven't glorified any denomination. You justified your use of 'I' and 'me' in your testimony saying Paul did it, so I was asking you if you were placing yourself at Paul's level. Sorry! Yes I see Jesus in you testimony, I also see you telling me how bad you were. We are all sinners! We have all fallen short, none of us are remotely worthy of what God gave us by grace. Any testimony that has more than one 'I' and one 'me' I discard as bragging. I was chief among sinners and Jesus died for me, praise God. There is no sin Jesus' blood will not forgive if we genuinely ask. Why do we need to detail them. Who gets the glory, God or Satan? I have a good friend that has a very successful prison ministry. He stands before the prisioners and declares there is nothing they have done that he hadn't but Jesus set him free. He can detail every sin, crime and unrighteous deed he has ever done but he never has. God forgot them so has he. I see a resentment (approaching an hatred) for denominations in you, that is not normal. I suspect you were hurt by something you feel is related to denominations and I was trying to see if you wanted to talk about it. Appparently not, you would rather call everyone that attends a denominational church deceived, thus winning friends and influencing people. I tried to show you in proverbs a sweet answer is received the sour is rejected. I know your next come back will be look at the prophets they didn't mince any words, your right. However many things have changed since then, not the least of which is the fact, they were talking for God. You however while you may have good intentions are merely striking out at what has hurt you in the past. Denominations in themselves are not bad, what is bad is what people through a lack of Bible knowledge has been allowed to come into the church. The fault falls at the feet of everyone that has a Bible and has not read it from cover to cover at least once a year. Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained, But happy is he who keeps the law. This verse has beeen abused by more Bible teachers than any other. Many use this to be the dictator of the church by claiming God has given them the vision for the church. What this passage really means is without God's word (revelation) the people perish. As long as people refuse to read the Bible for themselves they will perish. EdB |