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NASB | 1 John 3:22 and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 John 3:22 and we receive from Him whatever we ask because we [carefully and consistently] keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight [habitually seeking to follow His plan for us]. |
Subject: Hereing from God |
Bible Note: Thank you, fwiaskycap. If someone has some kind of mystical experience, if it contradicts Scripture it is false. Period. If it agrees with Scripture, then it is superfluous. Scripture is our ultimate authority, it needs no external augmentation -- if it did, then that other thing would be of greater authority! Therefore, God forbid that we leave anyone with any differing conclusions, that would be as the sin of the serpent in the garden (Genesis 3:1). This really shouldn't surprise us. The human heart is puffed up with so much pride, they will invent all kinds of ways to elevate themselves before men. They'll even go so far as to declare that God has spoken directly through them (Jude 12-13). We should further expect it when the Bible explicitly states this (1 Timothy 4:1-2). The problem gets even compounded when they take passages like those in 1 Corinthians, twisting them to suit their outward show of piety. That is a practice as old as the church. Peter said as much. "...just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness, but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." (2 Peter 3:15b-18a NASB) May God grant them forgiveness, and grant us mercy that we be not one of their number. Anyway, thanks for being willing to join us in keeping our eyes steadfastly on Word. In Him, Doc |